Here's a bit of interesting information regarding the "transcript":

[Arkansas Granny]

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Lisa Desjardins
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Memorandum of Phone Conversation: call was 9:03 - 9:33

Estimated time it would take to say all of the words released in the memo: 11 minutes.

Checked by the great @mike_melia in our broadcast software (time of spoken words matters a lot on TV) from @NewsHour

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[dalton99a]

1. Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate Biden's Son

Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate Biden’s Son
President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden ’s son, according to people familiar with the matter, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani on a probe that could hamper Mr. Trump’s potential 2020 opponent.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176

[dlk]

2. It's a given the transcript was heavily edited

What more serious evidence is being covered up?

[paulkienitz]

21. remember to allow time for translators and other back-chatter at each end

[CharleyDog]

24. actually, it's NOT a transcript.

from Mark Sumner, Daily Kos:

In the case of Trump’s call to Zelensky, there is absolutely no reason to trust anything that Trump puts forward as a transcript. In fact, there are many reasons not to trust the document as offered. The biggest reason is that, as Reuters reports, no one made a transcript in the first place. No one is apparently pulling up a recording. No one was taking shorthand on the day. What’s being handed over is supposedly produced by stitching together “written notes by U.S. officials who listen in.”

[dlk]

27. You are absolutely right

Unless it’s a certified transcript, it’s just someone’s notes, no doubt highly edited notes. If Trump is willing to release even this much damaging information, imagine how much he is still hiding.

[AtheistCrusader]

30. Not edited. Fabricated after the fact.

[GusBob]

3. I was just thinking about this

I'm a speed reader so

But Trump is a speed talker. 30 mins is a long time

Also as pointed out above no "8 times"

I feel sorry for the people of the Ukraine, their prez is a real toady. He was tossing Trumps salad telling him what he wanted to hear

[Iliyah]

4. Notes that were not included . .

Anywho as damaging this is, the WBer's Complaint is the prize alongwith the testimony.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. There's a possibility that translation took up some of the time.

Link to tweet

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Lisa Desjardins
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Memorandum of Phone Conversation: call was 9:03 - 9:33

Estimated time it would take to say all of the words released in the memo: 11 minutes.

Checked by the great @mike_melia in our broadcast software (time of spoken words matters a lot on TV) from @NewsHour


Lisa Desjardins
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UKRAINE CALL TIMING more: Translation absolutely could account for some of this. Though I’m not sure all.

We are trying to find out if it was sumultaneous translation or not.

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[Hoyt]

6. What was released is plenty damning.

[Politicub]

7. That's evidence of a coverup. And has a recording been released?

I want to hear the tone of his decrepit voice when he asks the question.

[MineralMan]

8. If two-language translation was going on, that would explain it.

I know nothing about the Ukrainian's language skills in English, but Trump doesn't even have English to fall back on.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. She acknowledged that possibility in a later tweet.

[MineralMan]

12. OK...

[Behind the Aegis]

18. Apparently Volodymyr Zelensky is fluent in English.

However, this is doesn't exclude the fact some translation may have needed to transpire given the POS in the WH inability to speak descent, intelligible English. Also, natural pauses occur. I am not sure how fluent Zelensky is, so there may also be natural pauses in his speech due to English being a second (third) language. However, I would guess there is probably a few things missing, maybe just not as much as some may be thinking.

[MineralMan]

19. I don't know how that call was handled.

However, it's not uncommon for calls between heads of states to include translation services. Even if one or both of the speakers is fluent in the other language, often each speaks in his or her primary language and a translation is made. That's for accuracy purposes. But, I don't know what was going on in that particular phone call.

[Behind the Aegis]

35. Oh, I agree.

I was just pointing out that Zelensky was fluent, so the translation issue may not be as big a factor. Then again, looking at the "transcript", I have to wonder how many non-English speaking people actually know the word "swamp". I speak a number of languages and I don't know that word in any of them. So, IMO, there was likely some translating happening, which would slow the process, we also don't know what Zelensky's natural speaking cadence is. But, I still feel there is likely parts missing.

[JPK]

9. Where are the missing 20 minutes?

That should be the meme! Where are the missing 20 minutes? President Zelensky, if you are listening, if you can find the missing 20 minutes of dialog I think you will be greatly rewarded by the media.

[eleny]

10. Shades of the missing minutes of the Nixon tapes

[librechik]

13. I know the great Mike Melia, and he is great! NewsHour facts checkers are the best!

That is to say, everybody who works at the NewsHour. FACTS! checked there.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Agree. They are my main source for news.

[librechik]

15. Before I retired I worked at NH for 15 years, here at the Denver Office

I felt honored every day by the quality of the product. Beloved for good reasons!

[Liberal In Texas]

16. And this isn't a TRANSCRIPT

It's selected copies of notes taken at the time.

A transcript is:
a written, typewritten, or printed copy; something transcribed or made by transcribing.
an exact copy or reproduction, especially one having an official status.

The audio tape should be released. This is a sham.

[bigbrother05]

23. Agree, a true transcript would note translation pauses

[thesquanderer]

26. According to NPR, there is no recording, there have been no WH recordings since 1974.

There's only the contemporaneous notes and manual transcriptions.

The note released with the document today says this:

CAUTION: A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. 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 number 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 indicate portions of a conversation that the notetaker was unable to hear.

[Liberal In Texas]

34. May not be WH recordings, but I'll bet the NSA has one.

They don't do it to spy on Americans like the president still is, but they record conversations with foreign persons of interest, like the president of the Ukraine. Problem is, of course, is would they admit it. And it's unlikely they'd want to release it. They're really secretive.

[ffr]

17. Transcript Word Search: Barr count 2. VP Mike Pence 0.

Link to tweet

Hmmm. That's strange, because we know Mike Pence had calls with UKR prez, yet no mention in "official" transcript. Instead, we get the revelation that Barr was working with UKR. Really??????????

[hibbing]

20. Glad you put transcript in quotes, it is not a transcript n/t

[Duppers]

22. Caught in LIES yet again.

What was said in those 20 mins?

[W T F]

25. So there's a gap in the tape???

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[Stuart G]

32. Some don't know what this is or means...It is how Nixon tried to explain the 15 minute gap in the...

Watergate Tape. I think that is a picture of Nixon's secretary trying to show that she made a mistake and somehow there was a gap in the tape. Note: the 70s top of line push button phone, the very high grade IBM Typewriter. and so on...I don't know if it is real or a fake picture. But it is a great picture and an outstanding post...K and R. your picture of the secretary..

[George II]

28. Keep in mind there were translators both ways, so I'd guess it took 25 minutes or so at the least.

[oswaldactedalone]

31. From watching a former "transcriptionist" on MSNBC last night

Apparently, there are three transcribers listening to the call and typing the back and forth as quickly as they can. When the call is complete, the three compare their typed copies to clear up any possible misconceptions of the conversation on the part of the transcribers. When they are comfortable that they have the wording and intent correct, they then release the "readout."

[DetlefK]

29. Found an old interview with Zelensky. He speaks a little bit of english, but not fluent.

So it could be from translators, but 11 minutes of dialogue vs 19 minutes of translation is still A LOT.

[Lucky Luciano]

33. Let's say 12 minutes instead of 11...then ask for the missing 18 minutes.