A foreign lead er soft take the dozen white house officials and the people around pompeo that knew about it, the people around bar that knew about this, the people around the white house that knew about this. The people around zolinski that knew about this. Suddenly this little conspiracy expands. And it is something that cannot be contained and barr knows he is on the hot seat now. He can play it cool if he wants to, but a 30,000 Christmas Party at the trump appropriate is not going to protect him, zolinski will have to explain this as well. The you trainians are saying we knew if we didnt play ball that we were not going to get military equipment. This is something that the white house cannot tamp down. The one thing they find intriguing here is the electronic tape of the conversation used to get this transcript was to they destroyed the transcription. Do we have somewhere is there somewhere in president ial recordings this recording of this conversation because i think in the end th
if the democrats are intent on that, be my guest. i yield back? obviously, yesterday the white house released the transcript of that july 25th conversation between president trump and president zolinski. we now know that this phone call was indeed a part of the whistle-blower complaint. yesterday st chair at the press conference that characterizes the conversation in that call is a shakedown of the ukrainian leader.
a foreign lead er soft take the dozen white house officials and the people around pompeo that knew about it, the people around bar that knew about this, the people around the white house that knew about this. the people around zolinski that knew about this. suddenly this little conspiracy expands. and it is something that cannot be contained and barr knows he is on the hot seat now. he can play it cool if he wants to, but a $30,000 christmas party at the trump appropriate is not going to protect him, zolinski will have to explain this as well. the you trainians are saying we knew if we didn t play ball that we were not going to get military equipment.
let s talk about the transcripts. you have the president here saying that he wants the transcripts to come out. you have people, biden and other candidates, clambering for them. if the transcripts are released, do you think that there would be some sort of smoking gun if we see the, that conversation of black and white between president trump and a president zolinski? there s nothing to prevent the white house from voluntarily releasing the transcripts. they have done this in the. released transcripts of calls with foreign leaders. the president is able to do that. now according to reports, he made these comments at least eight times in a single phone call with the ukrainian president. there is a little bit of a question of whether or not there was an overt quid pro quo. something that specifically tied that request for essentially dirt on joe biden and dirt on an american citizen, to the e releasing of military aid for ukraine. that would be sort of an