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Barrel of a contempt citation, because that's what the republican members of congress, at least some of them, are saying needs to be done. but i think part of the issue here is that members of congress have an expectation that they are -- they're frankly moving the goalpost, right? they have produced, as manu pointed out, 880,000 pages of documents. a hundred staffers are working as hard as they can, according to the justice department, to produce these documents. and every time they meet a certain requirement, the documents that they've asked for, the republicans come back with some new reque...

Rosenstein. >> that's correct, and my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. >> i think the house of representative s is going to say otherwise. >> your use of this to attack me personally -- >> it's not personal -- >> reporter: rosenstein and fbi director writes to have wray both defended their response to an onslaught of requests from republicans to turn over records about the 2016 clinton e-mail investigation and russia probe. and the fbi director revealing a staggering number. 880,000 documents had been produced to congress. >> in just the past week, for exampl...

Henderson, and evan perez, cnn's justice correspondent. evan, i just sent this out as we were watching this whole thing play, there is not even a pretense of decorum anymore. it is straight up hostile between -- just look at jim jordan and the deputy attorney general. i know jim jordan said it wasn't personal but it is hard to think it wasn't. >> you cannot help but think it is personal because here we have the deputy attorney general who is a republican, who is life long republican, who is appointed by president trump, he's, you know, someone who is according to him, trying his best to addres...

>> i don't want to comment on anyone posing resolutions. if anybody was voting on me, though, you would think they wanted to know the truth before they voted. and if you wanted to know about all the things we're doing to comply with congressional subpoenas and document requests and all the many inquiries we get, you wouldn't want to talk to just me, you would have to talk to the dozens of folks who are working diligently every day trying to comply with these requests. i'm happy to take whatever blame you want to assess, that's one of my jobs, but if you want a true understanding of what we're ...

Wiser. the fbi is entrusted with a lot of authority, and our actions are appropriately therefore subject to close oversight. that oversight can make the fbi stronger and the public safer. part of that oversight includes responses to legitimate oversight requests for documents and information. for months we have been working with your committees to make witnesses available, answer questions, and produce or make available to you and your staff over now 880,000 pages. although we have now substantially complied with a majority of the committee's subpoena, we are determined to get through the outs...