the testimony of attorney general bar before this committee. at one point in his deposition, the former attorney general was asked why he authorized the department of justice to investigate fraud at all. why not just follow the regular course of action and let the investigations occur much later in time after january 6. here's what he said. >> i felt the responsible position was to look at if there was fraud. the fact that i put myself in the position that i could say that we had looked at this and didn't think that there was fraud was really important to moving things forward. i sort of shutter to think what the situation would have been if the the position of the department was we're not even look at this in until biden is in office. i'm not sure if we would have had a transition at all.