Dem lawmaker says KFC chicken he ate at hearing to mock Barr 'wasn't wonderful'

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Dem lawmaker says KFC chicken he ate at hearing to mock Barr 'wasn't wonderful'
By Zack Budryk - 05/05/19 05:14 PM EDT

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told MSNBC on Sunday that the Kentucky Fried Chicken he brought to a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week “wasn’t wonderful.”

Cohen ate the chicken at the Thursday committee hearing and also presented a chicken statuette, saying the props were intended to call out Attorney General William Barr’s refusal to testify before the committee under the Democratic-controlled House’s terms.

“It was humor, the New York Times referred to it as levity [and] that’s what I intended,” Cohen told MSNBC. He also clarified, contrary to a quip by “Saturday Night Live”’s Colin Jost that he had sent an intern “out at dawn” to order the chicken, that it had been procured the night before.

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