So I found out what the issue was but I do not understand why. I created a sample project and it worked flawlessly. I compared the sample project to mine and found mine had some entries that the sample project did not in the release section. I removed those. I also noticed that in the sample project the key/value pair (see below) were not the last item in the info.Plist. So in my project I moved them to the very top. Rebuilt, copied the IPA over to the build server and dropped the IPA in tranporter and the verification process was successful. But why??? So I went back to the IPA and I moved the key/value pair to the bottom (where they are added by default) rebuilt and tried Transporter again. I got the error I always get...App Icon missing. So I moved the pair back to the top, very first entry, and then rebuilt and tried Transporter again. and like magic it worked. So my question is why???
<key>XSAppIconAssets</key
<string>Assets.xcassets/AppIcons.appiconset</string>