Quote of the day from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler:

“The witness is not going to tell the committee how to conduct its hearing, period.”

That was in response to the latest from the A.G., who is scheduled to appear before the Judiciary Committee this week. Barr says he’ll refuse to appear if a staff member is allowed to question him.

“Nadler, wants to allow all members of his panel at Thursday’s hearing to have one round of questioning of five minutes each, according to the source. He also wants to allow for a subsequent round of questioning of 30 minutes for each side, allowing both parties’ committee counsels to also engage in questioning during their respective turns — which has turned into a key sticking point for the Justice Department.”

“This is part of this massive resistance by the Trump administration,” Norman J. Ornstein, an expert on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, said Sunday. “It’s basically a middle finger to Congress and its powers, and we’re going to see what Congress does about it.”