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(CNN) Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to testify Wednesday in the Senate and on Thursday in the House, though CNN reported he is balking at the format on the Democratic-controlled House side and threatening not to appear. (Apparently the threat of follow-up questioning by congressional aides is too much for the nation's top prosecutor to withstand.) When Barr testifies in Congress this week -- even if he boycotts the House and only appears in the Senate -- he finally will face a fair fight.

Elie Honig

During his nearly monthlong campaign to pre-emptively distort the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, Barr had a distinct advantage over Congress, the media and the American public: He had seen the report, but virtually nobody else had (except Trump's lawyers, who got a special sneak peek of the redacted version, courtesy of Barr). But now the whole world has seen the redacted version of Mueller's report -- and Barr's got nowhere to hide.

Thus far, Barr has given us a disingenuous and inaccurate spin on Mueller's report. Now it's time for Barr to get called out publicly on his most important misstatements and his overt political pandering. Here are five key questions Congress should ask the attorney general this week:

1) Mueller details multiple "potentially obstructive" acts by Trump." Do you believe that none of these actions violated the law? And that all of Trump's actions cited by Mueller were lawful?

Barr brushes aside Mueller's entire obstruction investigation with one conclusory sentence in his four-page letter . In Barr's view, "the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense." However, it is difficult to justify Barr's sweeping no-obstruction conclusion when examined against each of the specific instances of potential obstruction described in detail by Mueller.

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