The chairman also lambasted the White House for purportedly leaking its letter to Politico and the timing of said leak. The White House sent its letter to Jordan at 4:34 a.m. on December 29. Politico published a story about the letter 26 minutes later, at 5:00 a.m., and reached out to the Judiciary Committee for comment on it after the story was published, per a statement the committee made at the time. That chain of events “severely undercut[s]” the White House’s pledge to work in “good faith” with the committee, Jordan wrote.