(CNN) The House Judiciary Committee played to an empty chair on Thursday with a hearing where its witness, Attorney General William Barr, did not appear. "Chicken Barr should have shown up today and answered questions," he told reporters while holding the ceramic chicken. Barr's absence stemmed from a dispute over whether staff attorneys would be able to question the attorney general in a 30-minute block. After the committee voted to allow it on Wednesday, over Republican objections, the Justice Department told Nadler that Barr would not attend. While the empty-chair hearing featured plenty of theatrics, the real fight between Barr and Nadler is over the Mueller report.

Source: CNN May 02, 2019 13:44 UTC