The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday subpoenaed Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, confirmed to NBC News.

The move comes a day after Cohen delayed his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee over alleged "ongoing threats against his family from President Trump" and members of his legal team, Davis said in a statement Wednesday.

 The Senate Intelligence Committee's vice chairman, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner, told reporters on Thursday, “Mr. Cohen was someone who lied to the committee; that got him into the legal jeopardy he started with. He has an enormous number of unanswered questions about Trump Tower and a variety of other items that we need answers to.”

The committee's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., declined to comment.

A source with direct knowledge of Cohen's thinking criticized the Senate panel's move as lacking "compassion."

“God bless Elijah Cummings, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler for their compassion for Cohen and his family during these crazy times," the source said, referring to the Democratic leaders of key committees in the House. "The Senate Select Intelligence Committee subpoena of Cohen lacks any compassion and exemplifies partisanship and ignores the issue that dominated yesterdays news which was Cohen’s concern and fear for the safety of his family.”

In December, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for what a Manhattan federal court judge called a "veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including making false statements to Congress about the scope and status of a proposed Trump Tower Moscow project. Prosecutors said Cohen provided the Senate Intelligence Committee inaccurate information about the project to minimize links between the president and efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and to give the false impression that the project had ended before the Iowa caucuses in February 2016.

Davis said on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" Thursday that Cohen “has to comply with subpoenas" and will have "reasonable conversations" with lawmakers. Davis also said Cohen is more than willing to testify before the House committee but remains concerned about threats to his family.

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