Finance laws. Bill barr leading the Justice Department saying, nothing to see here. Bill barr who pushed for this letter and transcript to be put out. Thank you, kaitlan. Great reporting. Thank you for being with me. Im poppy harlow in new york. Jim and i will see you in d. C. For special coverage tomorrow morning. My colleague, indicate bolduan continues coverage now. Hello, everyone. Im kait bolduan. As you can see, it has been a morning of Breaking News. The white house released its account of the july phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President zelensky. The first details we have of what led to the whistleblower complaint against the president , the call is only part of the allegations laid out in this complaint. The rest of it we have we do not know. The white house account though does reveal President Trump said the following to the Ukrainian President. If you could look into it, it
sounds horrible to me. Trump there explicitly talking about former Vice President j
where we are by that time. it could be that if there s a military option putin wants to take, maybe this is when he ll take it. mike, let me go to you. jim, stand by a second. one of the things, and we alluded to this just before we listened to john kirby here, the different press segt, one for the white house, jen psaki, saying ukraine, being less dark than does the view from the united states, and the assessment the u.s. made about putin s capabilities and assessment of the threat level here. how are they threading this needle, mike? what has the response been? it s been interesting what the reporting s been from our whole team in ukraine where the move is certainly on alert but less concern. this is because they ve been dealing with the threat of russia for decades. this is not new necessarily for ukrainian allies. but it is interesting as the
he walked into the conversation thinking that was how it would end. it is interesting that the president thought it was going to clear him and make democrats look silly not only for calling for impeachment but especially now that they were launching a formal inquiry and whether or not that changes stand by a second, jeffrey. let me get to capitol hill. cnn s manu raju is there where this impeachment inquiry is unfolding. you just caught up with the top republican in the house, kevin mcarthy. what did he tell you? reporter: well, house republicans are defending the president in the aftermath of the release of this transcript saying it backs up what he says. there are some questions about exactly how they re defending him as well. kevin mccarthy told me this. he talked about biden in the call. how many times did he mention him in the call. he he mentioned him one time. reporter: who brought it up. you watch the president, the president of ukraine brought it
maybe legal problems with that. but that s a more complicated situation but it seems to me that it s a degree that michael flynn is talking about meetings during the trump tower. were they with the president or did jared kushner say oh the president is just my father-in-law just told me, i want you to do this. who knows. we don t know at all. but the number of threads you could pull if that s what he is testifying to. bill, stand by a second. you made a point that michael flynn s statement does not pay homage or reference to the president. interestingly, ty cobb s statement does. let s go to hans nichols who s got a statement now from ty cobb. ty cobb is the president s lawyer on this matter.
caller: no, but i think i m ready for it. i think we may have solved this mystery. and if we did, romney would win the entire state. not by much. a little bit. but it would win. ladies, if can you hold on o with us a for a moment. stand by. candy crowley is standing by at romney headquarters. what are you learning? what we are learning is that there are folks inside the romney campaign who have been told that in fact won by 14 votes. i m trying to pin down who they were told that by. i don t know if you were here but we were inundated with the lots of young staffers who had also heard that. so the number they heard was 14 votes. those higher up in the romney campaign have also heard it and they say that we should expect to hear from the state fairly soon. although it is 2:00. so i don t think anything is fairly soon. but you know what i mean. if the two ladies we were speaking to in clinton county, if their math is correct, that