in all of this, mr. president? >> missing in action. >> this got under my skin, but i also felt it was time for me to say something. so i set up a lunch with the ap reporter, mike bolsamo. and i told him to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. >> reporter: a heated trump/barr meeting followed and barr got another opportunity to debunk the lies. among the claims he focused on were the ones about dominion voting machines. >> with the turn of a dial, with the change of a chip, you can press a button for trump and the vote goes to biden. >> i told him the stuff his people were shoveling out to the people was bullshit. i specifically raised the dominion voting machines. i saw zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people. >> reporter: before the end of december, barr had quit. his replacement, acting attorney