Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker of the Ring are here with a special

emergency edition of the press box.

And David at this point would it be easier for listeners if we just specify the Trump-related

episodes that are not emergencies?

Is that what we should do?

No, can we just identify every episode by threat level?

Like this is merely a yellow episode, not an orange episode.

Yeah, yellow is like two sports riders yelling at each other.

And you know, the Trump ones are dark red.

This morning definitely qualifies for emergency status because not only do we have the news

that the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump,

but a summary of a July 25th Trump phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the president

of Ukraine, the phone call which has been at the center of this scandal.

And I guess one pedantic thing before we start, which is now all over Twitter, is that

this is not exactly a transcript of this phone call, it's kind of a summary thing.

There are, did you see David's and very intriguing ellipses that appear just as soon as Trump

starts talking about the interesting stuff with Biden?

Yeah.

I don't know what to make of that, but I think, you know, the best way to treat this is

there was really no reason for the administration to release this at all.

And there's especially no reason for the administration to release as clean and incriminating

a transcript as possible.

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