PP can defend itself without the ham handed White House lifting a finger. What with all those gazillions from even foreign sources and cheerfully collected under SOS Hillary Clinton, who needs the White House to do anything but parrot what PP releases.
The White House is just buying time, until it’s VETO pen is ready, waiting patiently to quash any resistance from Congress against PP.
The most PP will get out of Boehner, Mc Connell et. al is another one of those endless and useless "investigations."