Page 4 - Call Notes News Today

U.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call especially the official word for word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. okay, so does the word for word transcript differ from what the white house released? carol leonnig and "the washington post" are reporting on a bunch of indicators within the document itself that such a thing might exist. and carol leonnig is with me here now. s...

Caution, a memorandum of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. so theres that. theres also good reason to believe there is an actual word for word verbatim transcript based on what the whistle-blower wrote in his complaint. quote, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call especially the official word for word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the whi...

Of the probes into trump targeting biden. this is not a drill. this is a test in real time right now of our constitutional system of government. remember, many thought the test would come during the mueller probe because trump ousted two fbi directors and attempted to obstruct the probe. but heres the thing about why that went down differently. its something that you know as a news viewer about bob mueller. he sticks to the book. he doesnt lean into testing our system of government. he didnt dem...

Whistle-blower was struggling with he or she finally decided to go forward with this whistle-blower complaint. >> you just mentioned the efforts to abet the hiding of this, and the reporting indicates both from the whistle-blower complaint and subsknt reporting that they moved it out of the normal system in which such call notes would reside and be circulated into a highly classified system. theres now reporting thats been done with conversations with mohammed bin salman and vladimir putin. what...

>> a man should take care to see that nothing happens to them. >> its not just democratic critics. you are looking at the cover of the great journalistic institution the new yorker where you see trump and giuliani literally pushing uncle sam off a bridge with his feet in cement. im with author of "all alone on the 68th floor" and robert dietz, former counselor to the cia and former general counsel at the nsa. nice to have both your perspectives. robert, what happens, in the event weavve seen the...

>> he has obstructed the administration of justice. >> is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. >> shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. >> we all know the words. the text. because congress handles this process, congress ultimately decides what that text "high crimes," means. but many also do look to what the founders meant. and tonight, democrats are saying, it is the evidence in trumps own white house record...

That evidence comes directly from the white house, forced to release these incriminating call notes. we have them, and having studied them today, they are something else. we also have a look at why donald trump is dispatching his lawyer, rudy giuliani, to do all of this. were going to get to all of that tonight. i wanted to let you know where were headed. but i begin with what has been such another wild news day, with so much going on. consider the noticeably subdued, at times, even beleaguered ...

May remember of new york, nick ackerman, a watergate special prosecutor, skpand eleanor clif joining us from washington, where shes a correspondent for the daily beast. maya, what is the significance of the white house notes that have now come to the public eye? >> these call notes, i think, as you already stated, ari, make it very clear that donald trump spent most of a call, almost all of the notes focused specifically on asking the ukrainian president to reopen an investigation on joe biden a...