Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have rejected a Republican request to have Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testify in public Wednesday alongside President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Republicans made that request Monday, but Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said inviting him would be outside the “scope and focus” of the hearing.

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