with anyone in the trump administration. and now william barr could be as deeply implicated in what nancy pelosi called the trump coverup as nixon's attorney general was in the nixon coverup. "the new york times" broke the story today that william barr convinced president trump to call the prime minister of australia to get australia's help in the trump re-election campaign by asking him to help william barr undermine the mueller investigation. "the new york times" reports in making the request, one of many at mr. barr's behest, mr. trump was in effect asking the australian government to investigate itself. fbi counterintelligence investigators began examining any trump ties to russia's 2016 election interference after australian officials told the bureau that russian intermediaries made overtures to trump advisers about releasing political damaging information about hillary clinton. australia's top diplomat in britain had met in london in may 2016 with papadopoulos, who