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It's Wednesday, July 29th.

Today, what we learned from bars testimony to Congress, what Tasmanian poppies have to do with the US opioid crisis, and a new kind of concert.

This week Attorney General William Barr testified for the first time in his tenure in front of the Democratic controlled house.

Judiciary Committee. Good morning.

Chairman ranking member Jordan.

Pleased to be here this morning.

And it came at a time when he's facing a ton of questions about how he has led the Justice Department under Trump.

Critics alleged, you know, he's helping Trump politically in ways ranging from policing in cities that match up with present Trump's campaign message to

intervening in criminal investigations of Trump friends and questioning mail and voting in a way that Trump

has an election experts have not.

I'm Amber Phillips.

I analyze politics for the fixed blog at the Washington Post.

And how would you describe the tone and tenor of the way that Attorney General Barr was interacting with these members of Congress?

Barr came in ready to rumble.

He was pretty contemptuous almost of members of Congress.

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