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That was a hair brained scheme it was ridiculous. >> in the call trump offered up his attorney general to help facilitate the scheme barr says he had nothing to do with it. the president lumped you in with rudy guiliani as being the points of contact to make this happen >> i was livid >> reporter: four weeks after the election barr's relationship with the president came to a head when he told a reporter there was no widespread election fraud. that trump had simply lost it led to a blow up at the white house. >> i told him that all of this stuf and it was wrong to f was -- [ bleep -- about the ...

Fraud to overturn the election but he goes on and tries to walk that line playing both sides. let look at the timeline and lay it out to help everyone digest this. you have june 2020 before the election barr raised concerns over voting. then you fast forward to september and talking to my colleague wolf blitzer saying mail in voting is quote playing with fire. fast forward to november 9th, 2020, barr authorized federal prosecutors to pursue allegations of voting irregularlators against doj protocol and december 1st, 2020 barr says doj has uncovered no evidence of wide spread voter fraud. fast ...

So, you know -- >> but barr has seen no evidence of that. >> no evidence. again, this goes to his credibility which i think has been at issue for the last many months. >> that's a great point. in fact, that is what we should talk about because many people don't know that they can trust whatever bill barr says because once you read the mueller report how different his summary was. also, john, it's interesting that he says that he saw no evidence of obstruction in the instances that robert mueller laid out because many legal analysts including, we should say, those on fox tv said that that would...

General saying i really want to focus on the genesis of the investigation into the russian attack. >> yes, this is the fundamental month. the one thing everybody seems to agree on about the mueller report is that russia attacked us. that was what the intelligence community and law enforcement was investigating. they uncovered what -- what was alleged, so the genesis of this was real. i mean, the report confirmed it and barr is insinuating somehow that this was untoward. it just doesn't -- you know, barr is doing what the president wanted him to do, he wanted his roy cohen, he wanted the ag to ...

This is basically a legal matter. sort of a legal difference of opinion and mueller went one way and barr is saying that his department, his lawyers, went another way. reminds me of his testimony before the senate when he talked about the report being his baby, right? and so, you know, he's taken that baby back from mueller and spinning it in a way that i think will -- the president will certainly like because that, of course, is his audience. it's the audience of one. in some ways in listening to him i'm reminded of rudy giuliani who was sort of the president's public lawyer, but he's much mo...