How Bill Barr became the January 6 committee's star witness

If the January 6 committee could have built a perfect witness in a lab, that witness would have looked and sounded a lot like Bill Barr.

The former attorney general has been all over the first two public hearings of the committee, delivering quotable line after quotable line for public consumption.

"Bullshit," Barr told the committee of former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims.

"Right out of the box on election night, the President claimed that there was major fraud underway," Barr said. "I mean, this happened, as far as I could tell, before there was actually any potential of looking at evidence."

The Justice Department "doesn't take sides in the election, and the department is not an extension of your legal team," Barr said he told Trump in a meeting in November 2020.

"There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were." Barr said of his post-election interactions with Trump.

Again and again (and again), Barr's quotes were the ones the committee leaned on as it sought to make its case against the former President. And, again and again, Barr quotes were the ones leading the cable news broadcasts and newspaper stories about the hearings.