Former Attorney General Bill Barr is pushing back on remarks that House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made this week claiming that Barr had shut down an investigation into a document from an FBI confidential source that alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme.

“It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” Barr said in an interview. “On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”

Barr’s remarks came in response Raskin claiming on Monday that Barr ended an investigation into an FBI document that allegedly claims that Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from an adversarial country.

“What I know is that the FBI, Department of Justice team under William Barr and Scott Brady, in the Western District of Pennsylvania terminated the investigation, they said there were no grounds for further investigative steps,” Raskin claimed after viewing the document with Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). “So they ended that.”

Comer told reporters after viewing the document that he would hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after the bureau refused to hand over the document. The FBI is now reportedly willing to let the entire Committee view the document as early as Wednesday, CNN reported.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that if Wray shows the entire Committee the document, Republicans will drop their efforts to hold Wray in contempt.

“All he has to do is follow through and allow everybody on the committee” to view it, McCarthy said. “If he would supply that to them, there wouldn’t be a contempt [vote]. That’s all we’re asking him to do. It’s rational. It’s sensible. It’s what his responsibility is to do. If he won’t follow through on the most basic things, then he’ll be held in contempt.”

Comer also told reporters on Monday that “FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven, and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation.”

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“The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme, is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years, and has been paid over six figures,” he added.

Fox News accused former primetime host Tucker Carlson of breach of contract on Tuesday after Carlson posted a 10-minute monologue to Twitter billed as the first episode of his new show.

Carlson is still under contract with the network. He was pulled from the air suddenly in April, though his contract runs until 2025. Carlson has accused Fox News of fraud and breach of contract for canceling his show.

Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar sent a letter to Carlson’s legal team shortly after the first episode of “Tucker on Twitter” was posted, according to Axios, which obtained a copy of the letter.

“This evening we were made aware of Mr. Tucker Carlson’s appearance on Twitter in a video that lasted over 10 minutes,” Gugar’s letter says. “Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Mr. Carlson’s ‘services shall be completely exclusive to Fox.’”

Carlson’s contract, according to the letter, says the former host is “prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether ‘over the internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital distribution whether now known or hereafter devised.’”

Carlson’s attorneys believe “Tucker on Twitter” does not fall under the Fox News contract controls because Twitter is not a direct competitor with the network, a source familiar with the legal team’s thinking told Axios.

“Fox defends its very existence on freedom of speech grounds. Now they want to take Tucker Carlson’s right to speak freely away from him because he took to social media to share his thoughts on current events,” Carlson lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a statement.

The letter from Fox News is the latest twist in an increasingly bruising legal battle between the network and one of its most popular personalities. After being taken off the air, Carlson accused the network in a letter through his attorneys of making false promises to the host “intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth.” The letter said Fox News executives made “material representations” to Carlson that were later intentionally broken.

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Carlson’s first episode of his new Twitter show gained roughly 90 million impressions by Wednesday evening. An impression does not mean someone watched the 10-minute monologue, but Carlson’s reach on the social media platform is substantial.

In his monologue, Carlson focused on the importance of free speech and voices outside of legacy media.

“In journalism, curiosity is the gravest crime,” Carlson said. “As of today, we’ve come to Twitter, which we hope will be the short-wave radio under the blankets. We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave. But in the meantime, we are grateful to be here.”