>> Reporter: BILL BARR DIDN'T
THINK DONALD TRUMP HAD BEEN THE
PERFECT PRESIDENT.
BUT HEADING INTO THE
2020 ELECTION, HE STILL
SUPPORTED HIM.
>> THERE WERE SO MANY SITUATIONS
YOU FOUND YOURSELF IN.
YOUR NAME BROUGHT UP IN THE
INFAMOUS UKRAINE CALL?
THE LAFAYETTE PARK, THE
PRESIDENT ASKING YOU TO GO AFTER
HIS -- HIS ENEMIES
>> THE TWEETS.
WHY DIDN'T YOU REACH A POINT
WHERE YOU SAY, "I QUIT"?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, AFTER -- HE
TWEETED AND I SAID HE WAS MAKING
MY JOB IMPOSSIBLE.
I GAVE IT CONSIDERATION.
>> YOU DID THINK ABOUT QUITTING?
>> YEAH.
BUT I JUST DIDN'T THINK IT WAS
FAIR FOR ME TO DO IN AN ELECTION
YEAR, SO I DECIDED I WOULD JUST
STAY THROUGH
>> WERE YOU NOT WORRIED ABOUT
THIS GUY BECOMING PRESIDENT
AGAIN?
>> IN THIS CASE, IN MY MIND, IT
WAS A QUESTION OF WHO WAS THE
LEAST OBJECTIONABLE CANDIDATE.
AND I FELT THAT EVEN WITH SOME
OF HIS FAULTS, TRUMP POLICIES
WERE GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.
>> Reporter: ON ELECTION NIGHT,
BARR WAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
WATCH PARTY.
>> WHAT WAS THE MOOD THERE
>> I THINK PEOPLE WERE GENERALLY
OPTIMISTIC BECAUSE OF THE SIZE
OF THE CROWDS AT THE END
THERE WAS A FEELING THAT HE HAD
CLOSED STRONG.
>> Reporter: BUT IN THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS, THE MOOD TURNED,
JOE BIDEN HAD TAKEN THE LEAD,
AND THE PRESIDENT WENT IN FRONT
OF THE CAMERAS TO CRY FOUL
>> WE WERE GETTING READY TO WIN
THIS ELECTION.
FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS
ELECTION
>> YOU DOUBTED THAT THE
PRESIDENT WOULD EVER ADMIT HE
LOST
YOU WRITE, "IN HIS COSMOS, A
LOSER WAS THE LOWEST FORM OF
LIFE."
YOU PREDICTED THE LOSS
DID YOU PREDICT THAT HE WOULD
NOT ACCEPT THE LOSS?
>> YEAH, I -- I DIDN'T FEEL HE
WOULD EVER ACCEPT IT
>> Reporter: INSTEAD BARR SAYS,
THE PRESIDENT LATCHED ON TO ALL
KINDS OF THEORIES ABOUT A STOLEN
ELECTION, STUFFED BALLOT BOXES,
RIGGED VOTING MACHINES
BARR AUTHORIZED THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE TO INVESTIGATE THE
CLAIMS, ONCE AGAIN RAISING
QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS MOTIVES,
WHETHER HE WAS USING THE
DEPARTMENT TO DO THE PRESIDENT'S
DIRTY WORK
BARR SAYS FAR FROM IT.
HE JUST WANTED ANSWERS
>> I QUICKLY CAME TO THE
CONCLUSION THAT THE INITIAL
STUFF THAT WAS POINTED TO, LIKE
THE DOMINION MACHINES AND ALL
THESE OTHER CONSPIRACY THEORIES,
WERE NONSENSE.
THIS IDEA OF SOME INNER CITY
BOILER ROOM, WHERE PEOPLE ARE
CRANKING OUT FALSE BALLOTS IS A
FANTASY.
>> YOU LOOKED AT ALL THESE
>> WE LOOKED -- YES.
IT'S A FANTASY
>> Reporter: WHAT IS TRUE, HE
SAYS, IS THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT
DONALD TRUMP LOST THE ELECTION
>> WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE
VOTE, THERE'S NO MYSTERY WHY HE
LOST
IN WISCONSIN, HE RAN
50,000 VOTES BEHIND THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD A GOOD DAY
IN WISCONSIN
HE WAS THE WEAK SISTER ON THE
BALLOT
>> Reporter: BUT TRUMP AND HIS
LAWYERS WENT ON THE OFFENSIVE,
SPREADING CLAIMS OF FRAUD.
>> THEY CONDUCTED THEMSELVES IN
A WAY THAT SUGGESTS THAT THERE
WAS FRAUD.
>> PRESIDENT TRUMP WON BY A
LANDSLIDE.
>> Reporter: AND RALLYING THEIR
BASE TO BELIEVE THE BIG LIE.
>> LET ME TELL YOU, THIS
ELECTION WAS RIGGED.
>> Reporter: A MONTH AFTER THE
ELECTION, ON THE LAST SUNDAY OF
NOVEMBER, DONALD TRUMP PHONED IN
TO FOX NEWS AND TOOK AIM AT
BILL BARR'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
"YOU WOULD THINK IF YOU'RE IN
THE FBI OR DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, THIS IS THE BIGGEST
THING YOU COULD BE LOOKING AT.
>> HE WENT ON MARIA BARTIROMO'S
SHOW AND HE TRIED TO SAY THAT
THE REASON PEOPLE CAN'T COME UP
WITH EVIDENCE OF FRAUD IS
BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT INTO
LOOKING FOR IT
>> WHERE ARE THEY?
I'VE NOT SEEN ANYTHING.
>> AND I WAS BASICALLY TIRED OF
THIS GAME.
>> Reporter: BARR DECIDED IT WAS
TIME TO SPEAK UP
HE PUBLICLY BROKE WITH THE
PRESIDENT THROWING COLD WATER ON
TRUMP'S ELECTION FRAUD STORY IN
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS.
>> TODAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OWN
ATTORNEY GENERAL SPOKE THE
LONG-KNOWN TRUTH
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF
WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD
>> Reporter: WITHIN HOURS, BARR
WAS SUMMONED TO THAT FATEFUL
MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT
>> THAT'S THE MADDEST I'D EVER
SEE HIM.
>> THIS IS IN REACTION TO WHAT
YOU TOLD THE A.P.?
>> RIGHT, HE ASKED ME IF I SAID
THAT AND I SAID I HAD.
AND HE SAID, "YOU MUST HATE ME
YOU MUST HATE TRUMP.
AN I SAID "I DON'T HATE TRUMP.
AND I TOLD HIM THAT ALL THIS
STUFF WAS [ BLEEP ] ABOUT
ELECTION FRAUD AND IT WAS WRONG
TO BE SHOVELING IT OUT THE WAY
HIS TEAM WAS
AND HE STARTED ASKING ME ABOUT
DIFFERENT THEER REESE AND I HAD
THE ANSWERS.
FOR EXAMPLE, HE SAID BOXES WERE
APPEARING IN DETROIT AT THIS
BUILDING, EVEN INTO THE EARLY
HOURS OF THE MORNING
I SAID THAT'S BECAUSE DETROIT
HAS OVER 6 HUT PRECINCTS AND
THEY CENTRALLY COUNT THEM.
>> Reporter: THE PRESIDENT WAS
UNCONVINCED.
IN FACT, BARR SAYS, HE RAISED
THE POSSIBILITY OF SEIZING
VOTING MACHINES.
>> HE SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I
HEAR ABOUT THESE DOMINION
MACHINES IN MICHIGAN
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY
SHOULD BE SEIZED."
AND I SAID, "THERE'S NO WAY THE
DEPARTMENT IS GONNA SEIZE THOSE
MACHINES
THERE'S SIMPLY NOT PROBABLE
CAUSE.
>> Reporter: HE ALSO TOLD TRUMP
WHAT HE THOUGHT OF HIS LEGAL
TEAM, NOT A LOT.
>> I SAID, THE REASON YOU ARE
WHERE YOU ARE IS BECAUSE YOU
WHEELED OUT A CLOWN SHOW OF
LAWYERS.
>> A CLOWN SHOW?
>> YEAH.
CLOWN CAR, OR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT
JUST A BUNCH OF CLOWNS.
>> WHO WERE YOU REFERRING TO
>> HIS CRACKER JACK LEGAL TEAM.
>> RUDY GIULIANI
>> AMONG OTHERS.
>> Reporter: BARR SAYS THE
PRESIDENT SHOT BACK, LISTING THE
WAYS HE SAID BARR HAD FAILED
HIM, AND RETURNING TO HIS OLD
GRIPE ABOUT NOT INDICTING FBI
DIRECTOR, JAMES COMEY.
THAT'S WHEN BARR SAYS HE OFFERED
UP HIS RESIGNATION
>> HE SLAPPED THE DESK AND SAID,
"ACCEPTED.
ACCEPTED
GO HOME.
YOU'RE DONE.
>> Reporter: BARR WALKED OUT OF
THE WHITE HOUSE TO HIS WAITING
CAR.
>> AND MY FBI DETAIL WAS THERE
AND THEY SAID, "WHERE TO, BOSS?"
I SAID, "THE DEPARTMENT.
MY LAST ACT OF REBELLION
>> BECAUSE HE SAID "GO HOME"
>> YEAH.
SO -- AND WE'RE STARTING TO EASE
DOWN THE -- IT WAS A RAINY, DARK
NIGHT.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, BOOM, BOOM,
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM
POUNDING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
ARMORED SUBURBAN AND EVERYONE
INCLUDING THE FBI SORT OF
JUMPED
>> Reporter: IT WAS THE
WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL AND ANOTHER
WHITE HOUSE LAWYER
>> AND THEY SAID, THE PRESIDENT
TOLD US TO NOT LET YOU LEAVE THE
BUILDING, TO COME BACK IN.
HE'S NOT GONNA FIRE YOU.
AND I SAID, WELL, I'M NOT GOING
BACK IN TONIGHT.
>> Reporter: TWO WEEKS LATER,
BARR RESIGNED.
HE HASN'T SPOKEN TO TRUMP SINCE.
WHEN WE ASKED THE FORMER
PRESIDENT ABOUT THIS MEETING, HE
DISPUTED BARR'S ACCOUNT, SAYING
HE DEMANDED BARR'S RESIGNATION
FOR FAILING TO DO HIS JOB,
INCLUDING NOT PROPERLY
INVESTIGATING TRUMP'S CLAIMS OF
ELECTION FRAUD
>> DO YOU THINK HE BELIEVES THAT
HE TRULY WON THE ELECTION?
>> I THINK HIS ATTITUDE PROBABLY
IS, WELL, EITHER WAY, IT EITHER