Rod Rosenstein clashes with House Republicans amid documents dispute

Published June 28, 2018 7:43pm ET



Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein fended off feisty House Republicans at a Thursday committee hearing, amid the passage of a resolution that puts on the record a demand for a handful of Justice Department documents.

The hearing was a means for the House Judiciary Committee to question Rosenstein about the recent Justice Department’s inspector general report on the FBI’s investigations during the 2016 election — but GOP lawmakers seized the opportunity to chastise the department’s No. 2 for being slow to turn over subpoenaed documents.

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