House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) explained that FBI Director Christopher Wray said “he was going to redact” the subpoenaed Biden documents with the condition that the information be viewed in a secure and private manner.

On Wednesday, Comer announced that during a phone call with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Wray, the FBI director confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging a “criminal scheme” involving President Joe Biden, but failed to commit to providing the form to the House Oversight Committee.

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“He offered us the opportunity to look at it in a private ship, but he was going to redact it,” Comer told Hannity. “My experience with getting documents from the FBI when they’re redacted [is] it’s all black lines — they don’t show anything.”

Comer said that Wray only admitted the form existed after he and Grassley said they had already seen a copy of the form.

“The level of confidence that we have with Director Wray only went down and only declined throughout the conversation,” he noted.

The Kentucky congressman added that his confidence in the merit of the allegations contained within the form remain, not only because of the “credibility of the whistleblower,” but because of a “pattern of behavior” seen from the Biden family.

“The reason we find this allegation credible, is not only because of the credibility of the whistleblower, but because we’ve seen a pattern of Joe Biden when he was vice president leaving a country after he talks about foreign aid and foreign policy and his family members start receiving payments from that company through shell companies that are then laundered down to family members,” Comer said. “So there is a pattern of behavior.”

On Wednesday, Grassley warned that Wray has failed to comply with the terms of the subpoena, which “comes with consequences.”

Comer said the House Oversight Committee will continue its contempt of Congress proceedings unless Wray “produces these documents like we asked — these unclassified documents — by Tuesday or Wednesday, whenever we have the markup.”

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In a statement released Tuesday, the FBI accused Comer of escalating the situation, calling the talk of holding Wray in contempt "unnecessary."

“The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith. In a letter to Chairman Comer earlier today, the FBI committed to providing access to information responsive to the Committee’s subpoena in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations," the FBI statement said.