Breaking WH releases transcript, now reneges on WB Complaint

[Dennis Donovan]

Breaking on MSNBC

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local):

10 a.m.

President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden. That’s according to a five-page memo summarizing the July 25 call.

The White House released the memo Wednesday.

The conversation between Trump and Ukraine’s president is just one piece of a whistleblower’s complaint made in mid-August.

The complaint is central to the impeachment inquiry announced Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Trump told the Ukrainian president “If you can look into it ... it sounds horrible to me.” Trump was talking about unsubstantiated allegations that Biden sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor’s investigation of his son, Hunter.

Trump also confirmed that he ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before the call.

The president says he did nothing wrong.

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9:45 a.m.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is demanding that Attorney General William Barr produce the legal basis for withholding a whistleblower’s complaint against President Donald Trump.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California said Wednesday in a letter to Barr that the refusal to turn over the complaint risks raising “the specter that the department has participated in a dangerous cover-up to protect the president.”

Schiff says the statute “makes no provision” for withholding the information from Congress. He wants the Office of Legal Counsel’s reasoning.

The administration is considering whether to release the complaint, which is based in part on Trump’s conversation to the Ukraine president that reportedly involved digging up dirt on rival Joe Biden.

But Schiff told reporters the administration has communicated “nothing” about its intentions.

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[spanone]

1. I"m SHOCKED!!! NOT

[EleanorR]

2. We need to stop calling it a transcript

It's more of a summary based on notes taken and then edited for reasons of national security.

[Takket]

5. This is the same shit the pulled with the Mueller report

[safeinOhio]

3. You'd think Barr would know

the cover up is always worse than the crime.

[Gothmog]

4. Not a transcript

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

7. +1. Redacted and edited by the Attorney General

for the Protection of the President

[dalton99a]

6. "You have seen the TRANSCRIPT which is the WHOLE TRUTH. You don't need anything else!!!"