Let me just recap this whole whistleblower thing real quick, at least since the public's been aware of it.

It was just shy of two weeks ago that we learned that a whistleblower had made it complaint

against the president of the United States. That was it, no details. Democrats wanted the complaint

the administration wouldn't provide it. Nevertheless, towards the end of last week,

the details started to spill out.

The complaint is about a phone call. It involves Ukraine. At the end of last week, more details.

Allegations that President Trump asked President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.

And there may have been hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid on the line.

Democrats continue to demand the complaint itself, but the administration holds.

Instead, yesterday, they release a rough transcript of the phone call.

Finally, towards the end of the day yesterday, the administration gives the whistleblower complaint

to the House Intelligence Committee. And this morning, the unclassified version is released to the public.

Andrew Prokop has been sitting in the today's plain studio at Vox since Monday, covering this with us.

So the first big takeaway is that in addition to describing what happened on the now-infamous

July 25th phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky,

the whistleblower also describes an alleged White House effort to cover up or

hide documents related to what happened on that call.

The second big takeaway is that the whistleblower really makes clear that this is not just about

what happened on one phone call. He or she chronicles a series of events that took place over months

involving Trump that tell a story of a concerted, continuous pressure campaign on the Ukrainian

government to start these investigations that would help Trump politically.

Okay, let's start with number one. How did the White House try to cover up the phone call?

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