>> reporter: many people look at that memo as an audition for the job of attorney general look at this this is how i lean >> well, first, i wasn't interested in being attorney general. and second, you know, if i wanted to be attorney general, there are much more direct ways of auditioning for it >> some thought the memo was a signal to the president that barr was ready to make the russia investigation go away. your mind sounds like it was clearly made up before we even got to this point on the russia investigation that it was a phony investigation. >> no, it wasn't made up i was as i say in my book, suspicious of it it didn't ring true to me >> months after barr wrote that memo the president fired attorney general jeff sessions who had refused to intervene in the mueller investigation. the president offered the job to barr. five weeks after his confirmation the mueller report was in his hands. >> this is all we know bob mueller has submitted his report to the attorney