From The New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the White House releases a reconstruction of President Trump's phone call

to the leader of Ukraine. In it, Trump says, quote,

I would like you to do us a favor. It's Thursday, September 26th.

Mike Schmidt, tell us about this document that was released on Wednesday morning.

So since this story began, we've all been trying to get a transcript of a July call between Trump

and Bolotomir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who had just come into office.

And today, we got the closest thing to that, but not exactly that.

It's actually not a transcript. It's based on notes and voice recognition software that was

apparently listening in. And it does sort of read like a transcript, but the White House says

cannot be treated as such. Okay, so it's transcript like correct. I have this feeling that this

document, this not quite a transcript, is going to be the subject of enormous debate and scrutiny

in the coming weeks and months. So I think that you and I should just read some of it, not all of it,

but a lot of it. I'm going to start at the top and ask that you read Trump and I will read Zelensky.

Why do you get to choose? Most. I'm going to give you a copy. Okay. So at the top of the document,

it begins unclassified and then struck out, are the words, eyes only do not copy. Memorandum of

telephone conversation, subject, telephone conversation with president Zelensky of Ukraine, date time, July 25th, 2019,

903 to 933 AM Eastern time. And then the president begins. So glad Mike.

Congratulations on a great victory. We all watched from the United States and you did a terrific job.

The way you came from behind, somebody who wasn't given much of a chance and you ended up winning

easily. It's a fantastic achievement. Congratulations. You were absolutely right, Mr. President.

We did win big and we worked hard for this. We worked a lot, but I would like to confess to you

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