The North Carolina senator was on Fort Bragg for a town hall meeting Friday.

North Carolina’s junior senator said Friday that he’s not bothered by a rough transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president.

The release of the transcript by the White House on Wednesday prompted Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to start an inquiry into impeaching the president. The document shows that Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to “look into” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to the Associated Press.

Speaking to the media after a town hall meeting at Fort Bragg on Friday, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said he had read the transcript.

“There was nothing on its face that rises to what the House has chosen to do,” he said.

Tillis said the House has chosen to “drill down” into the phone call.

“It would seem to me that they need a lot more information than we have available right now,” he said.

Tillis said more information is needed to reconcile the transcript with a complaint filed by a whistleblower. The complaint, which included concerns about Trump’s call to the Ukrainian leader, was released Thursday.

The senator questioned whether the person who filed the complaint meets the “legal definition” of a whistleblower.

“We’re looking into that,” he said.

Tillis said some Democrats wanted to impeach Trump before he took office. Others were calling for impeachment during an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“I sometimes wonder though, based on past behavior, if this is a genuine, fact-based process that they’re going through or political games,” he said.

Tillis was asked about his support for Trump diverting military funding to build a wall on the southern border. He said about half the money scheduled to go to North Carolina military installations was for a project that already had been cancelled. The other three projects weren’t expecting to start in the next few years and will still get funding, he said.

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