If there is no question as to the legitimacy and legality of their operation, then everything ought to be on the table for the media and anyone else to look at.

He himself ought to make a statement and come to the forefront and talk to you in person or with any of the media and say here's our books, they're open, they're on the table. You guys can peruse the books and examine them for whatever you think there is there. There's nothing to hide. Here they are.

But they can notify the user so he can question the legitimacy of the subpoena.

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report.

He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.

I don't think he's going in there with the attitude of an old-school politician. I think he's getting advice that this isn't the job it used to be.