Attorney General William Barr is set to testify before Congress that «violent rioters and anarchists» have «hijacked» the protests over George Floyd’s death.
Attorney General William Barr is set Tuesday to testify before Congress that «violent rioters and anarchists» have «hijacked» the protests over George Floyd’s death «to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims.»
Barr will also offer a full-throated defense of his much-criticized conduct in the federal probe of Russian election interference, slamming the «bogus ‘Russiagate’ scandal» and asserting President Donald Trump has not acted inappropriately.
Barr was set to deliver the opening statement before the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee, marking his first-ever appearance before that panel during his tenure in the Trump administration and his first session before Congress in over a year.
The hearing was originally set for 10 a.m. ET, but was delayed until around 10:45 a.m. following a «minor accident,» a spokesman for the committee told CNBC.
The hearing comes more than a month after Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N. Y., threatened to subpoena Barr to testify following the firing of Geoffrey Berman as U.
