The summary released of the phone call President Trump made to Ukrainian President Zelenskiy in July is likely not verbatim. Evelyn Farkas, a deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Obama, tells host Marco Werman that several notetakers are usually on hand, but they are unlikely to capture all the nuance of a conversation.
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