Last week, we learned that a whistleblower had made a complaint against President Trump that involved a call with a foreign leader. But although House Democrats continued to ask to see the complaint, the White House wouldn’t release a copy of it.
On Wednesday, the administration did provide a rought transcript of the phone call Trump had on July 25 with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which only raised more questions and caused speaker Nancy Pelosi to announce Tuesday that the House would launch an impeachment inquiry into Trump’s presidency.
Then on Thursday morning, an unclassified but partially redacted version of the whistleblower complaint was made public.
Andrew Prokop, Vox senior political correspondent, returned to Today, Explained for the fourth day in a row to explain what’s inside the complaint.
“In addition to describing what happened on the now-infamous July 25th phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky, the whistleblower also describes an alleged White House effort to cover up or hide documents related to what happened on that call,” Prokop told host