I look at this whole story like the one where the republicans got caught handing out K street checks on the house floor. The democrats called a press conference to attack the republicans, one of the reports asked the democrats if they had ever handed out K street checks on the house floor. The press meeting ended rather shortly.
Both side play this silly game of block the subpoena, but keep digging sooner are later you will find some republicans that got country wide loans as well.