Rep. Steve Womack Stephen (Steve) Allen WomackEx-CBO director calls for more than trillion in coronavirus stimulus spending Overnight Defense: Lawmakers tear into Pentagon over .8B for border wall | Dems offer bill to reverse Trump on wall funding | Senators urge UN to restore Iran sanctions Lawmakers trade insults over Trump budget cuts MORE (R-Ark.) was confronted by a town hall audience Tuesday who did not buy his explanation for why he doesn't want to investigate President Trump.

Pressed with calls for a probe into Trump, Womack responded in a frustrated tone, "You guys just want to investigate everybody."

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The room erupted into jeers and shouts of "what about Benghazi?" in reference to the series of exhaustive GOP investigations of the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead. Critics have charged that the Republican focus on the Benghazi attack was just an excuse to rake 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillicon Valley: FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden | Treasury Dept. sanctions Iranian government-backed hackers The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden MORE over the coals.

"You guys wasted a lot of money on Benghazi, waste a little on Trump!" one man can be heard on tape exclaiming at Womack.