>> well, there it is. welcome back to "hardball." that was the voice of fred thompson, later u.s. senator, but then republican counsel of the nixon committee questioning alexander butterfield. yesterday president trump claimed the white house possesses a word for word exact transcript of the july 25th phone call conversation that's at the center of the impeachment inquiry right now. >> not only were many people on the phone, we had stenographers on the phone taking it down word for word. they didn't know that i had a transcript done by very, very talented people, word for word, comma for comma done by people who do it for a living. we had the exact trapt. >> so where's the exact transcript right now? it's certainly not the one the white house released of that conversation. on the first page of that memo it was released and there's a disclaimer saying not a verbatim transcript, that's what it says