and this all happened more than once. quote. this was not the first time under the trump administration a presidential transcript was placed into a code word level system for the purpose of protecting these politically sensitive, rather than national security sensitive information. the outlines of a cover-up. take a listen to speaker pelosi. the complaint reports a, quote, repeated abuse of an electronic records system designed to store classified sensitive national security information. which the white house used to hide information of a political nature. this is a cover-up. and the complaint goes on to say. the president s personal lawyer, rudolph giuliani is a central figure in the effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. that a meeting would depend on whether he showed willingness to play ball on this plot on the
white house tried to cover it up and that has also happened before. according to white house officials 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 of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. so again, we ask, what if there was no whistleblower? joining me, covering capitol hill, msnbc correspondent garrett headacaike, washington and msnbc karen lentic and former assistant director for congressional affairs at the fbi, greg brouwer. folks before we dive in take a look at what the president is saying now and how he s defending himself. this was him moments ago at andrews. what these guys are doing, democrats, are doing to this
quote, multiple white house officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me that after an exchange of pleasantries, the president used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. the whistleblower reports that the white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. can you imagine this? this appears to cause the whistleblower to get concerned about a coverup. so the whistleblower later says, quote, this was not the first time under this administration that presidential transcript was placed in to this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. you are not supposed to put stuff in the code word protected system, prevents a number of people from getting access. you do that when there is a national security issue, not
transcript being placed in that national security council. it you read through the apen diction it says according to white house officials that i spoke with, this was not the first time under the administration a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than in nation nal security sensiti sensitive information. we have a lot of detail with what they left us, the transcript that we re using, but if we get a actual recording of the president of the united states, because the wall street journal said there was like eight times he asked for help with biden. the notes we got yesterday were not a half hour of conversation. there is a lot of, and by the way by reading this report, of