"The Independent newspaper reports that Attorney General William Barr showed up in London with requests that one British official said "is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services." Barr and Trump want to find evidence that the CIA and FBI were wrong about Russian hacking of the 2016 election. As the impeachment hearings get more and more alarming for Donald Trump, with damning new evidence emerging every day, there appears to be increasing urgency in the parallel counteroffensives under way by the president’s team in an attempt to defend him."