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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jody Hice (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, today spoke with Melissa Francis on Fox News’ Outnumbered Overtime to discuss the recent Inspector General report examining the actions of the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Highlights:

“We’ve had stonewalling for a year and a half with the documents and the information. We need to do our oversight, and Rosenstein has been right in the middle of that. He has shown a pattern of stonewalling without responding to subpoenas, without giving documents, even earlier this month, threatening staffers. We’ve got to get to the bottom of this and find out what really took place.”

“There are three things we know from the I.G. report that came out a couple weeks ago: We know that in the Hillary investigation, there were FBI agents who were extremely biased against the president. Text after text, email after email clarifies that. Secondly, we know that many of these people not only were infected by their own bias, but they were willing to use their status and their position in the FBI to try to influence the election. We also know that many of them went to the Mueller probe, and they were involved. So we've got to get to the bottom of this.”

“No American citizen should have the scales stacked against them when there's an investigation taking place. Here we know there was extreme bias against the president; they were willing to even try to alter the election when many of them were put on this Mueller investigation probe. So, we need to find out the list of who they are so that we can do our job of oversight to ensure that a fair investigation is taking place and that this is not a witch hunt.”

“The American people now are familiar with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and they are becoming familiar with the name Kevin Clinesmith, but we know from the IG report that there were at least two more involved. We also know they were already part of the Mueller probe and that there were at least eight attorneys who have been strong supporters of the Democrat party, so we want to know who else is involved in this thing. We’ve got to have that list of names to vet it.”

Watch the full interview here.

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