Garland advised Biden that the committee's needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations.
Uriarte urged lawmakers not to proceed with the contempt effort, as it is the executive branch's longstanding position that an official who asserts the president's executive privilege claim cannot be held in contempt of Congress.
White House Counsel stated lawmakers' effort to obtain the recording lacked a legitimate purpose and could be used for partisan political goals, revealing concerns about negative portrayals affecting an election year.
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