Former AG William Barr Tentatively Agreed To Testify In Front Of January 6 Committee

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

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Former Attorney General William Barr tentatively agreed to testify behind closed doors in front of the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez joins AC360 to discuss what information the committee wants to learn from Barr. Plus, Anastasiya Paraskevova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine back in March because of the constant shelling and bombing by the Russian forces. She recently returned and tells Anderson Cooper how amazing it felt to have her family reunited. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, Pennsylvania's high stakes Republican primary race is still tight as the
0:04.6	vote from Tuesday keeps trickling in.
0:06.7	We'll have more on that shortly, but first there's breaking news in the wake of 2020 and
0:10.7	the insurrection that followed two potentially significant items.
0:13.7	In fact, new signs, the former Attorney General William Barr is ready to testify to the House
0:18.3	January 6th Committee.
0:20.0	And evidence the committee says it has about a tour of the Capitol that Republican Congressman
0:23.9	Barry Lautermilk gave on January 5th.
0:27.4	The contradicts Republican Denials and an ethics complaint about the allegation by
0:31.6	the Congressman himself.
0:33.0	CNN 7 Press starts off on the bar story.
0:35.7	So William Barr has already informally talked to the committee last fall.
0:38.9	They wanted to speak again this time under oath.
0:41.8	How likely is that?
0:43.0	Well, Anderson, they have a tentative agreement for him to appear with the committee to do
0:48.6	this interview under oath.
0:50.6	And so we expect that this is actually going to happen.
0:53.0	One of the interesting things with Bill Barr is that he has spoken a little bit publicly
0:56.9	doubting the committee and whether it's made too much of a big deal about January 6th.
1:02.8	But obviously, there's a lot of information that the committee believes he has from the
1:06.9	period before he left office.
1:08.9	Keep in mind he left office just before the end of December.
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