 By Rich Lowry After three years, we're still on the Russia story.
To be sure, the locus has shifted 500 miles west from Moscow to Kiev, and now we are consumed with the Ukraine controversy rather than the Russia investigation, although it's essentially the same thing — a battle over President Donald Trump's legitimacy fought out with allegations of foreign interference.
The effort to widen out the Ukraine controversy, from the core of it — Trump's mention of the Bidens on his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — to his urging Ukraine, Australia and others to cooperate with Bill Barr's investigation of the origins of the Russia probe, illustrates the point nicely.
There's nothing wrong or unusual about a United States president asking foreign leaders to provide information useful to his attorney general in a duly constituted investigation.
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