Blanche Responds to Thune and Cotton’s Alleged Refusal to Hand Over Brennan Transcripts – But Questions Remain

John Solomon from Just the News broke the news on Wednesday that Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton are blocking DOJ investigator Joe DiGenova from obtaining the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.

This is holding up the investigation into Brennan and his role in the deep state coup to take down President Trump in 2016.

According to Solomon, the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refuses to authorize a subpoena to the US Senate to obtain the documents.

Solomon made the accusations on The War Room with Steve Bannon.

On Thursday Todd Blanche responded to the accusations.

Blanche says there is no daylight between him and Leader Thune and Chairman Cotton.

If that is correct, then why has investigator Joe DiGenova not received the information?

Will Blanche make sure DiGenova has the information he requested?

Is Blanche saying this was a made-up scandal?

Is Thune helping the investigators into the ‘Oxferd C0mma’ scandal?

What is going on???

We appreciate the cooperative relationship we have with Leader Thune and Chairman Cotton, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. There is no daylight here, and suggestions to the contrary are ill-informed. We look forward to continue working productively together. https://t.co/KDTTcPEuTr

— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) August 6, 2026

Here is what John Solomon told The War Room on Wednesday.

John Solomon: I’m going to go back to being a reporter for a second. I do not know this information from anything I’ve gained in government. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Republicans are obstructing the investigation into weaponization. There are two Republicans I can name by name, Senator John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton. They have refused for months, four months now.

The first request came in late January, early February. They are refusing thus far to provide to Joe DiGenova, to the prosecutors in Florida, to the Miami U.S. Attorney, to the Justice Department, the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary— Senate Intelligence Committee.

They have refused to do so. I’m gonna call out a third name because I don’t understand the Justice Department’s behavior. When a body that’s separate of the executive branch doesn’t comply, Every other time in American history, go back to Iran-Contra, go back to Watergate, the Justice Department subpoenas the Congress.

For some reason, the acting Attorney General, who wants to be the permanent Attorney General, has not authorized a subpoena to the United States Senate to get those documents.

Those documents will allow the prosecutors in Miami to decide whether the charges are warranted against John Brennan.

The idea that Republican senators will not cooperate with the Republican administration is ridiculous politically, but it’s illegal. It’s obstruction. There ought to be a grand jury subpoena sitting in the Senate clerk’s office, and there ought to be a court case yesterday compelling this because the Justice Department has been delayed by 8 months by 2 Republican senators who have the responsibility and the ability to deliver this.

You want to get to the grand conspiracy case, you need the missing evidence, and the Senate possesses it. And as of this date, I can find no evidence they’ve turned it over, and there is no grand jury subpoena because the clerk of the Senate would have to report it publicly. I just checked the Congressional Record again today. So Todd Blanche, Tom Cotton, John Thune, you got some explaining to do to the War Room posse.

JOHN SOLOMON: John Thune and Tom Cotton Are Blocking the DOJ From Obtaining the Brennan Transcripts, and Todd Blanche Has Failed to Force Their Release.@jsolomonReports pic.twitter.com/ft5CHSUmMh

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) August 5, 2026