President Donald Trump pressed the Australian prime minister to help Attorney General William Barr gather information for an inquiry that Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, the New York Times reported Monday, citing two American officials. The Times said the White House restricted access to the transcript of a call between Trump and Prime Minister Scott Morrison to a small group of Trump's aides. The handling of the call was similar to that of a July conversation with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into Trump, as the Times notes.
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