this is false. the mystery of the ellipses. greg brower, assistant director of the fbi and assistant state of nevada. and nia malika henderson. the transcript that the white house did release included the president of ukraine asking for bringing up military aid and trump responding first a favor and then talking about the favor. so that s it right there and they put that out there. but then they take other things out and don t admit it. what is this? yeah. it s a complicated sning thing figure out and they leave the word in favor, that the president is doing something in exchange for something else and he told us publicly after the conversation was released that he was doing. what happened with vindman and what s interested is it s very clear to me that he took notes and he was part of that call and
don t hire a yes man, someone that s going to tell you won t tell you the truth. don t do that because if you do, i believe you ll be impeached. greg, and here we are. he s got a yes man and he does not seem to offer him the basic respect that he should. yeah. this is problematic and look, in washington, sometimes it s better to not be in the loop, but not when you re the chief of staff with respect to an operation like this, and you know, technically, the white house chief of staff is, of course, not in the chain of command when it comes to military operations and that is the president and then the secretary of defense and then the uniformed military leaders, but tradition and common sense would dictate that for something like this, the vice president is in the loop, the white house chief of staff and perhaps the white house counsel and others, and so the fact that he wasn t, it s not good for mick mulvaney
exist and that s why it s awfully curious that the president s spokesperson would be saying that, you know, she s absolutely sure it s a word for word transcription because if an actual verbatim transcript does exist it s going to be awfully easy to fill in those missing records. and nia, here s the thing, okay. when you read the summary as greg writes it it s been shorthanded as, trump is quoted about talking about biden s stop and they stop the prosecution and a let of people want to find out about that, and whatever we do, it continues, blah, blah, blah. the i put the el kwloe in there, that vindman brought up the alleged biden tapes. it is one of three places where ellipses exist in the transcript and everyone noticed this to begin with. the white house was asked and stephanie grisham said the,
i had a transcript done by very, very talented people, word for word, comma for comma. greg, word for word, comma for comma or not, to the extent that someone brings it to the chief counsel to the nsc, whom do you believe? well, erin, this has been a pet peeve of mine since the summary was released and it s just that. the pet peeve i m talking about is that it s not a transcript, and people sort of generically refer to it as a transcript as a longtime litigator that drives me crazy because a transcript is a word-for-word literal transcription of everything that is said during a proceeding. it s what the president just said it was except for it wasn t. exactly. and so to the extent it s just a summary or more than a summary, i guess, but to the extent some words are left out, and it s not a verbatim transcript. presumably, a verbatim transcript or recording does
doesn t necessarily see those folks mick mulvaney as people who have the kind of stature that he would like to see in a factor that he would then, you know, offer respect to that person. john kelly is obviously someone he probably did respect, and mick mulvaney has been acting chief of staff for a very long time and that suggests how the white house feels about him. he is now crucial to this investigation and this impeachment inquiry and of course, made what some thought was an admission at the white house when he said there was a quid pro quo. so we ll see what happens, but listen, the president has all of the top jobs at the white house, right? not only the president. he is the key spokesman. he is also his own chief of staff, and stay or go, i don t think it necessarily matters because mick mulvaney, you know, he s been a bit of a weak chief of staff. so, greg, i want to play again what trump s former chief of staff john kelly said because it s important just to listen to how he p