Barr said on Wednesday he would not attend the hearing of the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee in a dispute with Chairman Jerrold Nadler about the questioning format
U.S. Attorney-General William Barr’s refusal to testify at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday is set to escalate tensions with Democrats probing his role in the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.Nadler told reporters the hearing would go ahead in the hope that Barr would reconsider his position overnight. Committee Democrats have vowed to issue a subpoena in an effort to force Barr to testify if he fails to show up.
Barr has come under fire for his characterization of the report in a summary he issued on March 24, several weeks before the report was released, which Trump seized on to declare he had been fully exonerated. Barr’s decision surfaced hours after the committee adopted a more aggressive format that would subject the attorney-general to an extra hour of questions from committee lawyers, in addition to questions from Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the panel.
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