WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday released the transcript of an interview with a Justice Department official linked to the early days of the Russia investigation, renewing their efforts to raise questions about the origins of the special counsel’s probe.

Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, released the transcript of a private interview with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who was in contact with a former British spy hired to investigate potential ties between Trump and Russia as the investigation got its start in 2016.

Collins said there would be more transcripts to come — though didn’t specify which ones — as special counsel Robert Mueller begins to wrap up the Russia probe.

Collins said Republicans are going to tell the story “on how we got here,” adding that “if you ever lose context of where you come from, you lose context of what the answer may be.”

The move is an example of Republicans’ pushing back against the investigations Trump has called “presidential harassment.”

The Democratic chairman of the Judiciary panel, New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, announced Monday that the committee was sending 81 document requests to people linked to Trump and that the panel would launch a broad investigation of the president’s political, business and personal dealings. That followed announcements of similar investigations from the House intelligence committee and its oversight panel.

Republicans have slammed the Democrats’ new probes, saying they are overreach and a continuation of what they say was anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department. Mueller took over the probe in May 2017.

Ohr was a key figure in an investigation launched by Republicans in 2017 that looked at whether officials in the Justice Department were biased or conspired against Trump as he campaigned for the presidency.

Ohr is a Justice Department official who attracted scrutiny in part because of his wife’s job at a political research firm that hired a former British spy, Christopher Steele, to investigate Trump’s Russian ties.

Ohr was a longtime contact of Steele and told members of Congress that he passed along certain information that Steele gave to FBI and Justice Department officials who, in 2016, were investigating Russia’s efforts to influence the election.