Rosenstein Clashes With GOP Lawmakers Amid Fallout Over 2016 Election Probes

FBI Director Christopher Wray is due to join Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in Congress on Thursday. The hearing may prove contentious

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Updated at 3:28 p.m. ET

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein clashed with Republican lawmakers in a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday as he challenged allegations that the Justice Department is hiding information from Congress.

House Republicans accuse Rosenstein — a Donald Trump appointee who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia’s attack on the 2016 election — of denying congressional requests for documents related to the Russia probe and the Hillary Clinton email investigation.