Agree to disagree on the humanizing part.
Here's a easy to read telcon of the Ukraine call if anyone hasn't read it yet!
https://i.redd.it/mla2o0yzeqv31.png
Here's the video of Biden that Trump was referring to in the telcon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xXx0yUvSw
Here's CNN calling it a conspiracy theory:
https://i.imgur.com/VqLoJ65.jpg
Lefties will have a problem with this though because it's not a "transcript."
A telcon isn't a verbatim transcript of a discussion. The text in the documents 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. In other words Presidents stopped taping conversations a long time ago so only notes are taken. These transcriptions are handled by professionals. Think of court transcribers who can type everything word for word in real time. They won't type all of the "Uhhh, ahhh ,ummms" but its done in real time so some words may be missed or minor errors. There isn't going to be a longer version than this telcon lol.
Here's the transcript people are having a fuss over:
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"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. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… the server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you and your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you said yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible."
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Here is what Schiff said:
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"And what is the President’s response — well it reads like a classic organized crime shake down. In essence, what the President Trump communicates is this: We’ve been very good to your country. Very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what, I don’t see much reciprocity here. You know what I mean? I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you though. And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of dirt, on this and on that. I’m going to put you in touch with people, and not just any people. I’m going to put you in touch with the Attorney General of the United States — my Attorney General, Bill Barr — he’s got the whole weight of American law enforcement behind him. And I’m going to put you in touch with Rudy, you’re going to love him. Trust me. You know what I’m asking, so I’m only going to say this a few more times, in a few more ways. And don’t call me again. I’ll call you when you’ve done what I asked."
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Later during the hearing Schiff said:
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“My summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least part in parody,” Schiff tried to clarify. “Of course the president never said if I — if you don’t understand me, I’ll say it seven more times.”
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Here’s the transcript has reported by CNN:
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“I would like you to do us a favor… There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.”
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MSNBC’s Katy Tur:
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“Will you do me a favor and investigate Vice President Biden’s son? Will you do me a favor and get involved in the 2020 election? Vice President Biden is my chief political opponent,”
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The whole Ukraine thing is just more Russia Russia Russia nonsense. In other words fake news doing more fake news!