Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said there is a double standard that it is okay for foreign countries to work with special counsel Robert Mueller to get President Trump but it is not okay for Attorney General Bill Barr to communicate with Australia, Italy, and the U.K. in his investigation into a counterintelligence operation targeting Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.



"Barr should be talking to Australia, he should be talking to Italy, the U.K. to find out if their intelligence services worked with our intelligence services improperly to open a counterintelligence investigation of Trump's campaign," Graham said Monday on 'Hannity.' "If he's not doing that, he's not doing his job so I'm going to write a letter to all three countries and asking them to cooperate with Barr. This is a letter sent by my Democratic colleagues in may of 2018 to the Ukraines saying that if you don't cooperate with the Mueller investigation, we are going to stop our aid. Here's what I want the American people to know. It's okay to cooperate with Mueller to get Trump but it's not okay to cooperate with Barr to find out if Trump was a victim of an out of control intelligence operation. We're not going to have a country like that."





"'The New York Times' article is an effort to stop Barr from looking at how this whole thing began in 2016 regarding the Trump campaign," Graham said. "What are they afraid of? This really bothers me a lot that the left is going to try to say there's something wrong with Barr talking to Australia, Italy, and the United Kingdom."



"If you're worried about foreign people being involved in our election, you are to be worried about Christopher Steele being hired by the Democratic party and here's my question. Is this whistleblower, whoever he or she may be, do they have any connection to the intelligence community, the old intelligence community that was corrupt as hell?" Graham asked.



"The CIA agents out there risking them lives but Brennan and Clapper, I am hoping and praying that somebody will look at the way the intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign began," Graham added.