1. Another troubling phone call emerged.

President Trump recently pushed the Australian prime minister to help Attorney General William Barr discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two officials with knowledge of the call. Above, Mr. Trump today in the Oval Office.

The White House restricted access to the transcript to a small group of aides, similar to the handling of the July call with the Ukrainian president at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

The discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, our reporters write, “shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests” as well as the extent to which “he sees the Justice Department as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.”