you will always be able to say that you were alive and living here and you had your eyes open when they started the impeachment proceedings against the president of the united states for asking another foreign country to get involved with helping him get elected after that helped him get elected the first time. it s just been a remarkable week. i expect this weekend will be just as nuts as the last four days have been. but that will do it for us for now. we ll see you again on monday. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. turns out the whistle-blower is right again. there s that passage in the whistle-blower report that people he spoke to said it s not the first time that a presidential transcript was placed into the codeword level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information.
largery corruption, all of the corruption taking place. largely the fact that we don t want our people like vice president biden and his son, creating the corruption in the ukraine. he may well have crossed the rubicon here. i m announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. she s talking impeachment. she hasn t seen the phone call. the trump administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. what those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader. impeachment for that? that word now that we have the whistle-blower complaint. if you read through the appendix. it says this according to white house officials i spoke with. this was not the first time under this administration a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive
placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose for protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. as a legal matter, jim, am i wrong in believing that even if that s inappropriate, it s not illegal unless they put it in the code word level system because they thought it was evidence of a crime and trying to cover it up as opposed to they thought it was politically a hot potato? i don t know that the placing of the material into the system is illegal, but it looks like guilty knowledge on their part. that s why we re talking about it. i m a former fraud prosecutor. i would have been excite today have somebody i was investigating do something this blatant which to me shows they knew something was wrong if if was done solely for political reasons. then that looks terrible. and yes it raises questions. and that s why we re talking
it says and this is the whistle-blower writing this. according to white house officials i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose for protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. as a legal matter, jim, am i wrong in believing that even if that s inappropriate, it s not illegal unless they put it in the code word level system because they thought it was evidence of a crime and trying to cover it up as opposed to they thought it was politically a hot potato? i don t know that the placing of the material into the system is illegal, but it looks like guilty knowledge on their part. that s why we re talking about it. i m a former fraud prosecutor.
such transcripts are typically stored. instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system. and this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. the president says it was a perfect call. then why move mountains to conceal the record? and if it s all fine, why call the whistle-blower basically a spy and suggest they should be killed? yes, that s where we are. so let s talk to players on both sides about where we re going. congresswoman maxine waters, chair of the house finance committee. it s good to see you. good to be here. thank you. delighted to be with you this evening. very important moment. yes. after today yes. where were you left in terms of the strength of conviction you have about what you re dealing with? well, i have, for a long