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
other thing, there s a lot of talk about biden s son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. when you hear that, what is your reaction? look, i don t think anything has changed with the release of this memorandum from the white house. i think that it is extremely concerning that we have a president that s using the power of his office to put pressure on a foreign leader to try to get information on his political opponent. i have heard some comments from some of my colleagues in the minority party, the republican party, who are trying to politicize this and turn it around. i think that this cannot be a political issue. we have to protect the constitution. we have to protect the stun institutions that make this country a democratic and