'Did you bring your handcuffs?' AG Barr asked Speaker Pelosi today. She smiled and indicated that the Sergeant at Arms was present should an arrest be necessary.
Attorney General William Barr kidded Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday about an impending vote to find him in contempt of Congress.
Barr approached Pelosi, D-Calif., at a National Peace Officers' Memorial Day event outside the Capitol, shook her hand and said loudly,"Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?" a bystander told NBC News. Pelosi — who will be scheduling the contempt vote against Barr before the full House — smiled, and indicated that the House sergeant-at-arms was present at the ceremony should an arrest be necessary, the bystander said. Barr chuckled and walked away.last week for refusing to comply with a subpoena to provide Congress with an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"This must be a record, of an attorney general being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office," Barr said with a smile.
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