Trump urged Ukraine's president to investigate the Bidens with Attorney General William Barr, transcript reveals

William Barr and Donald Trump.
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President Trump urged Ukraine's president to investigate the Bidens with Attorney General William Barr and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a rough transcript of a call between the two leaders released Wednesday reveals.

After a whistleblower reported Trump had created a threat to national security, news reports quickly revealed it had to do with a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asked Zelensky to investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. That was all confirmed in the transcript released Wednesday by the White House.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.