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Had already stopped the Trip Planning by that point. And when did that happen . Stopping the Trip Planning . Yeah. On may 13th. Okay. And how did you hear about that . I was called by a colleague in the the Vice President s chief of staffs office and told to stop the Trip Planning. Okay. And as i understand it, it was the assistant to the chief of staff . Thats correct. Okay. And so you didnt hear about it from general kellogg or the chief of staff or the president or the Vice President , you he...

Chairman schiff allowed her to answer our questions. when we asked mr. morrison who he spoke to after the call about the call, he was willing to answer our question, and mr. schiff -- chairman schiff allowed him to answer our question. but when we ask you, you first told us three individuals, at the nsc, your brother, and the two lawyers. and then you said there was a group of other people you communicated with, but you would only give us one individual in that group. secretary kent, and the cha...

National security adviser would either personally or via his senior team authorize folks to give a verbal readout of what happened to key personnel at the state department, dni, cia, and other relevant officials while waiting for the official transcript or call readout to be finalized and sent around. so this defense that this was to prevent leaking really doesnt hold water, especially based upon the fact that this call readout wasnt initially classified at a code word level, in which case it wo...

Call doesnt get out. >> that rough transcript was eventually released and nothing was redacted, so there couldnt be have been much sensitive information. sam, give us some connect hetex what do we need to know? >> while the white house might have tried to scrub the digital record of this call readout from the top secret system and transfer it to the code word system, they cant scrub the verbal readouts. allegedly in the whistle-blower complaint, there were numerous officials at the state departm...

This from folks at the white house and then said, hey, this might be a problem, this might be soliciting a foreign contribution, but that because it didnt involve an intelligence activity or anybody in the intelligence communitys actions it didnt fit that. nonetheless justice said it should have been referred to for criminal investigation which is what they said happened. so actually i think from dojs perspective they think they handled this right. >> what do you think, neil? >> i think there we...