WASHINGTON—A White House official sought to restrict access to a rough transcript of a July call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart because the official feared that a leak of the conversation could be politically damaging, according to the official’s testimony to House impeachment investigators. Timothy Morrison, who until recently served as a senior national-security official in the Trump administration, said he approached White House lawyers after the call ended to ask whether the rough transcript should...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 16, 2019 22:07 UTC