Rep. Pramila Jayapal excoriates AG Barr

Let's hear it for Congressmember Pramila Jayapal for her fiery questioning of US Attorney General Bill Barr during Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Barr was his usual smug self, dodging questions, playing verbal gymnastics,throughout the hearing. Jayapal started out calmly but Barr kept interrupting her questioning when she told him, "I'm starting to lose my temper,"

She blasted Barr's double standard in the treatment of Black Lives Matter demonstrators versus conservative protestors who stormed the Michigan state capitol, threatened the governor and prevented the state legislators from meeting..

"The point I'm trying to make," Jayapal continued. "is that there is a real discrepancy between how you react as the attorney general. When white men with Swastikas storm a government building with guns there is no need for the president to 'activate' you because they're getting the president's personal agenda done. But when black people and people of color protest police brutality, systemic racism, and the president's very own lack of response to those critical issues, then you forcibly remove them with armed federal officers and pepper bombs, because they are considered terrorists by the president."

Before getting elected to the House of Representatives in 2016, the India-born Jayapal spent 20 years working internationally and domestically in global public health and development and as an award-winning national advocate for women's, immigrant civi and human rights.

On Wednesday, she called for the Attorney General's resignation.

"Bill Barr is not acting as the attorney general for the people of the United States," Rep. Jayapal told MSNBC following Barr's House testimony. "Bill Barr is the personal henchman for Donald Trump."