26 Sep 2019

Trump releases transcripts that prove he violated law

From First Up, 5:08 am on 26 September 2019

Let's begin in the US where the White House has released details of a phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that has triggered an impeachment inquiry. Mr Trump had promised a full, unredacted transcript of the call but the details released were notes of the conversation taken by US officials who listened in. The Trump-Ukraine phone call is part of a whistleblower's complaint but has led to an impeachment investigation announced yesterday by House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi. It shows Mr Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July to investigate Democratic candidate Joe Biden, whose son worked for a Ukrainian gas firm. Our US correspondent Simon Marks is with me now