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Committee that it is, quote, nearly 100% accurate but there is one word discrepancy. whether thats the case or not well find out possibly today. i dont know what that word is but a lot of it has been centered on who said the word burisma. remember jennifer williams initially testified president trump brought up the word but then she went back and amended her testimony saying that president zelensky was the one who mentioned that. >> activity in the hearing room. youre watching on. this will be t...

According to the "new york times," the memorandum of the call shows the two men praising each other predicting a warm era between the u.s. and ukraine with no mention of investigating his political rivals. however, in a white house read-out of the call in april, provided to reporters after the call took place, the administration says a promise to work with zlenski to increase democracy and increase prosperity and root out corruption. >> the discrepancy was blamed on the top expert of ukraine ale...

Taylor revealed during his opening testimony. >> president trump released a rough triplanscript of the phon call. that differs from a summary of the call released by the white house months ago. the memorandum of the call shows the two men praising political acumen, predicting an era of warm relations between the u.s. and ukraine with no mention of trumps determination to have the ukraines government investigate political rivals. however the administration said some promise to work with zelensky ...

This unfolded saturday afternoon where the white house pool who travel anywhere with the president when he leaves these grounds were notified that there would be travel to an undisclosed location, they traveled at about 2:00 p.m. on saturday, got to the walter reed national military medical center in bethesda, maryland, they were there for about two hours. typically an annual physical is longer than that. so thats another discrepancy. again, the white house is saying the president is fine, that ...

The transcript of the first call. which devin nunes read. >> when youre settled in and ready. id like to invite to you the white house. well have a lot of things to talk about. >> reporter: the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corruption. that convicts a readout published by the white house months ago which claims the two leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call. the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary re...

You as important, there was no mention of it? >> well, yeah. i mean, if it was in the readout, and its not in the transcript, it would help the president if they found the rest of the transcript and it was in there. also theres no mention of him pressuring zelensky for any kind of political favors. and the white house also wanted to put it out to force more conversation about them trying to be transparent about the presidents conversations with zelensky. there were good reasons to put it out, bu...

The white house said that mr. trump told the ukrainian president that he wanted to "root out corruption," but those words are not anywhere in the summary. tonight, the white house is blaming the discrepancy on lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security councils ukraine expert. a source tells cbs news vindman signed off on that language before the president actually made the call. today, vindman is not commenting, but, norah, he is set to testify in public next week. >> odonnell:...

Now, theres no mention of corruption in that conversation, which undermines the white house key defense. >> committee will come to order. >> as marie novembyovanovitchs hearing was gavelled many, the white house the white house released the first phone call which nunes read live on television. >> when youre settled in and ready, id like to invite you to the white house. well have a lot of things to talk about. >> the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corrupti...

Had the right to speak up. >> i dont think so at all. ill tell you what tampering is, its when a guy like shifty schiff doesnt let us have lawyers or witnesses. >> now jake the white house just got back to us on the discrepancy because the call readout and transcript we got today. they say its standard operating proceed yur. they say this one was handled by the top ukraine expert who is alex vinman, the lieutenant colonel who testifyinged on his concern over the presidents second call with the u...

Corruption and nowhere in the three-page transcript is there any mention of corruption which is also notable because a big white house talking point was that president was so concerned about corruption and ukraine and that was one big reason why he withheld aid so that does raise the question of why that wasnt raised in this call and it appears that either the white house made up some details of this call in the initial readout by saying the two talked about corruption or that part was simply ta...