In its most basic and simplest form the President's refusal to produce documents and refusal to allow testimony is a refusal to account for the money Congress provides. That accounting is called an audit.
Congress has the absolute, unconditional right to know exactly what the money they provide the President is producing. How is that money being used? What, exactly, is being done with it? Every document, every decision, every action by the President and his administration is paid for by Congress.
The reality is that there is no so-called "Constitutional Crisis". All Congress has to do is refuse to provide any more money until the President fully accounts for what he has already spent.
Obviously he will refuse. He has to. Otherwise he will undoubtedly will be impeached, possibly convicted and jailed.
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