Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called for the FBI to turn over a document to the House Oversight Committee that Republicans believe raises questions about President Joe Biden and his family.
Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the panel was moving forward with holding FBI director Chris Wray in contempt of Congress for withholding the document, which he says contains evidence of "an alleged criminal scheme," although lawmakers have been cleared to review the document at the bureau's offices.
"Well, it's not good enough for me," Grassley told Fox News. "We asked for the document a month ago, it has been subpoenaed. We're doing the constitutional job of oversight. I have read that document. If he would read it and it is an unclassified document, he admits it exists and we aren't interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president Biden are accurate or not. We are responsible for making sure the FBI does its job, and that's what we want to know."
Grassley declined to characterize the findings but said Republicans would make them public once it was delivered to them, and he dismissed Wray's concerns about releasing the document.
"If he would read it, he would know that all the excuses he is giving us that he wants to protect sources, and that's important to protect sources, but that's not an issue with this document the way I read it," Grassley said. "He ought to come forth. They've got to produce this document. They are up against what the Durham report has said about the shortcomings and political bias of the FBI this is just one more example of them not being forthcoming to the public because the public's business ought to be public. And there is no reason for an unclassified document to be held in secret."
Grassley stopped short of characterizing the evidence as "damning," but said it suggests wrongdoing.
"Let's put it this way, there's accusations in it," he said. "But it's not for me to make a judgment about whether these accusations are accurate or not, it's up to my job to make sure the FBI is doing their job, and that's what this is all about as far as I'm concerned. Public's business ought to be public."