‚He is trying to blackmail the committee.‘ Attorney General William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he will not return to…
‚He is trying to blackmail the committee.‘
Attorney General William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he will not return to the Capitol on Thursday for a scheduled hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, USA Today is reporting.
Following a contentious day of questions during which he was asked to resign, repeatedly accused of lying, and repeatedly accused of covering up for Donald Trump, Barr told Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, that he won’t be back Thursday.
Barr’s specific complaint concerns how he was going to be questioned on Thursday. Barr had wanted only to be questioned by actual members of Congress. However, Nadler wants the hearing to also include questions by committee members, some of whom are lawyers. Barr’s Republican allies in Congress, however, complained that such a move would have been unprecedented, ultimately calling the proposed series of questions an “interrogation.
