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Republicans Slam Mueller, FBI And Justice Department Over Charges Of Bias

GOP critics charge Mueller is has run amok, on a biased fishing expedition out to get President Trump. They want a new special counsel, but the Justice Department says its own process is working.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifies during a a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Updated at 1:33 p.m. ET

Republicans pummeled the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday as they continued painting its special counsel, Robert Mueller, as the boss of a partisan fishing expedition rife with Democratic sympathizers out to get President Trump.

But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resisted the fishing expedition narrative — he told the House Judiciary Committee that Mueller was not off inside a locked room hidden from his view, but consulting with him about the directions his team wants to travel.

"I know what he's doing," Rosenstein said. "If I

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