Politics & Government
Read: Contents Of Trump Call With Ukrainian President
The White House released a memo of Trump's call with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

WASHINGTON, DC — The White House has released a memo which recreates President Donald Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the conversation at the center of a whistleblower complaint and the contents of which finally pushed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call for a formal impeachment inquiry.
The White House released a memo of the transcript but the document is not a verbatim transcript of the dicussion, the document says. According to NPR, Trump told Zelensky that "a lot of people want to find out" about former vice president and current leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. NPR reported that Trump asked Zelensky to get in touch with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and his attorney general, William Barr.
"I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it," Trump says in the call, according to the memo.
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Here's how the accuracy of the call's contents are explained in the document:
The text in this document records the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty
Officers and NSC policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place. A numper of factors can affect the accuracy of the record, including poor telecommunications connections and variations in accent and/or interpretation. The word "inaudible" is used to indifate portions of a conversation that the notetaker was unable to hear.
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Editor's note: A previous version of this story referred to the document released by the White House as a transcript, which the president said he would release in full. The story has been updated to reflect that the document was a reconstruction of the conversation and not a full, verbatim discussion that took place.
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