House Democrats on Thursday blew up their hearing with Attorney General William Barr, turning it into a spectacle with an empty chair after he declined to attend over their insistence that staff lawyers question him.
But the real fight with Barr for House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler isn't over the attorney general's testimony — it's over obtaining the unredacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
While some Democrats wanted the chance to question Barr on Thursday, his testimony was secondary to their effort to pry the unredacted Mueller report and the special counsel's evidence from the Justice Department, as well as to get Mueller in front of their committee to testify, Democrats say. Nadler is now threatening to hold Barr in contempt over refusing to provide the unredacted Mueller report, saying he will make one more"good-faith attempt" to negotiate before moving forward.
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