House rules say that when doing oversight, committee members are given five minutes each to ask questions of any witnesses. Not staff, not Mueller type attorneys but committee members.
Nadler called Barr a coward despite the fact that he spent four hours testifying before a hostile group of disgruntled Democrats who still can’t believe or accept the fact that Donald trump trounced Hillary in the 2016 election. He gave better than he got. No, he’s not the coward, Nadler is.
Sarah Sanders is one tough cookie and she called out the coward Nadler, who apparently is not up to the task of heading a committee.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders ridiculed House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler on Thursday for proposing that House staff attorneys question Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday.
“If he and his committee aren’t capable of actually asking the attorney general questions themselves and need to staff that out, it seems like a pretty pathetic moment for the chairman of that committee,” Sanders told reporters at the White House on Thursday.
Sanders commented on the proposed hearing after Barr declined to attend, citing the unusual step of bringing in staff counsel to grill the attorney general.
”Look, we lost confidence in Jerry Nadler a long time ago, but it is surprising to find out that he actually lost confidence in himself and his capability to do his job,” Sanders added.
She suggested that Nadler resign.
“If he can’t, and he’s not capable of asking the attorney general questions, maybe he should step down and resign and allow somebody else to do it,” Sanders said.