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Believes that the thing that distinguishes himself from the most recent examples of impeachment, bill clinton and the proceedings that began against richard nixon. he argues they were both guilty of doing something wrong. certainly democrats believe this president has done things that rise to the level of an impeachable offense. he says no, and he believes part of his proof could be reading the transcript of the call. transcript is a word he uses, one we don't use, because it's a call summary. it's not an exact word for word. >> and, in fact, says so at the top. it says at the top "this is not...

I don't get the strategy of the halfway point? >> it's not a great strategy. because that, that call summary in and of itself was a smoking gun. so to, whatever they left out, either it was really bad and it's actually worse than we're hearing, or they were trying to thinking that it was basically going to set state deep 6. remember part of the issue if they moved something that did not have to be in this deepest darkest server basement of national security secrets, so they may have thought they were hiding it well enough but just to be safe, we'll keep out some of the blatant statements. i do...

Explicitly say there were parts of the conversation that he heard that are not reflected in the official call summary. and that is something that perhaps other witnesses will be able to shed some light on. we've known from the beginning that this was not an exact transcript. it is, to the best of our reporting, there is no tape recording of the call, where you could go back and tribe eveansc every word. it's done in realtime with multiple people in the situation room who are transcribing, to the best of their ability, taking notes to the ability of their ability. and if there were any discrepa...

Over all of these new developments in the impeachment inquiry. we're going to start with nbc's kelly o'donnell at the white house. kelly, what does the president gain by pinning this call on his energy secretary? >> reporter: well, it would appear that one of the things the president would be trying to do, jo, is to look for an alternative reason that was not about seeking any kind of help about a political rival. so the president was on a phone call with house republicans friday, the white house said that call existed, that didn't mention anything to us about this rick perry element, but our ...

In the white house call summary. >> this is an exact word for word transcript of the conversation, right? >> and why kellyanne conway's husband is making the best case yet why donald trump is not fit for office. >> i have the right to do whatever i want as president. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. hold on, it has been quite a day. right now we are in the midst as you might know of an impeachment inquiry into the president of attempting to use the full force to get a foreign country to meddle in our election by manufacturing dirt on his political...