Trump administration officials appearing on two Sunday morning political talk shows said that a transcript of a controversial phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volod…
host Martha Raddatz that “we don’t release transcripts very often. It’s the–it’s the rare case. Those are private conversations between world leaders and it wouldn’t be appropriate to do so except in the most extreme circumstances.”Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the same point on NBC’s“I think it would be highly inappropriate to release a transcript of a call between two world leaders,” Mnuchin said to Meet The Press host Chuck Todd.
Mnuchin said that the president’s calls with foreign leaders are “confidential discussions and that’s a difficult precedent.” Mnuchin added that world leaders “expect that they are kept confidential.”
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