Page 11 - Phone Call Transcript News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

First campaign event in las vegas since the release of the ukraine phone call transcript. our claudia cowan is there with the latest. hi, claudia. >> hi, neil, that's right. his first public campaign ended just a few minutes ago. biden will address a crowd of 200 or so reporters and the media. if the statements are any indication he will continue to blast president trump and brush aside any concerns that he and his son did anything wrong at a pair of fundraisers yesterday in southern california joe biden accused president trump of playing dirty politics. it's a tactic used by this president to...

Without going through rudy giuliani. he is all over the call with zelensky and frankly all over the place in what he is telling us he's been doing. so let's try to dive into what we're learning. with me now are kelly owe do'do, she's cover capitol hill for years, richard engel and peeter baker. kelly, i want to start with you. you had one of the first scoops of the day that seemed to confirm yet another aspect of the whistleblower report, a portion of it at least which is that yes, there is a different more secure server and yes, this phone call transcript if you want to call it that or notes ...

This whistle-blower acknowledges he or she did not have firsthand knowledge of most of what transpired here. does that give you pause? >> and they're right. this was a secondhand account and that's why if you watch the hearing yesterday, i very specifically asked director maguire whether the whistle-blower's complaint as it was written up, how closely it matches up with the phone call transcript, the phone call between the president and the president of ukraine, and in his words he said that the two were aligned. so that really provides a lot of credibility and a solid foundation for the whist...

>> if you think this is dramatic read the transcript from this phone call and tell me if that is dramatic because most american people go what is this about? >> reporter: mcguire is denying the washington post report that he threatened to resign if he could not speak freely to lawmakers and issued this statement, quote, at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. i never quit anything in my life and i'm not going to start now. i'm committed to leading the intelligence community to address diverse and complex threats facing our nation. at 9:00...

To give ukraine. and why it was put on hold, why it was released. did that have anything to do with the offer of help on -- you know, getting dirt on biden? that's a story the white house has put out different versions of. you want the full story there. rudy giuliani, what was his story in all this? was he putting pressure on behalf of the administration? >> he says yes. >> he says yes, but he also says he was doing it at the instigation of the state department. what was that connection? what are the facts there? all of that is worthy of investigation. plus simply just a timeline of what happe...