They’ve spent months directing their investigative firepower at the Justice Department, sparring with senior law enforcement officials over documents and raising questions about the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia probes in what Democrats have decried as an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Add James Comey as an interest to stay up to date on the latest James Comey news, video, and analysis from ABC News.Now, as they prepare to turn control of the House over to Democrats, Republicans on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees questioned former FBI director James Comey Friday after subpoenaing him and they want to question former Attorney General Loretta Lynch as well.
After a full day behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Comey emerged exasperated but committed to returning for yet another round.
“When you read the transcript, you will see that we are talking again about Hillary Clinton's e-mails, for heaven's sake, so I'm not sure we need to do this at all,” Comey told reporters, adding “a whole lot of Hillary Clinton’s emails, which will bore you.”
Comey is set to return for even more questioning the week after next. A transcript is supposed to be released in the coming days.
While several Republican committee members were frustrated that Comey declined to comment on certain lines of questioning because of special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation, Comey said those areas were “a very teeny part of what we talked about today.”
Earlier, Comey, who has been highly critical of President Donald Trump since his firing last year and spoken repeatedly to other congressional committees and news outlets about his experience, scrapped a legal challenge to the GOP subpoena.
He reached an agreement with Republicans to appear provided they release a transcript of the interview within 24 hours and allow him to speak publicly about the session after meeting with lawmakers.
“Part of my questioning will focus on the early days of [the Russia investigation] and what decisions were made by the FBI, what was known by the FBI and what was known or ignored,” Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, told ABC News beforehand.
Meadows said he didn't plan to focus “on the Clinton server issues as much as the ambiguities of the early days of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.”