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But clearly its obvious in these phone calls that he was undertaking with the president of ukraine, with the prime minister of australia, probably also with the crown prince of saudi arabia, with president putin of russia -- those are some of the phone calls that we understand have been placed into the code word system where its hard to get at them. i think the reason why thats happened is because its clear that the president is not pursuing foreign policy or national security. he is basically p...

Through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the presidents handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the presidents use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. way, way not enough informa...

Youre going to have to go through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the presidents handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the presidents use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. w...

Youre going to have to go through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the presidents handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the presidents use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. w...

Response, essentially? is that what they are saying about about these latest reporting? >> reporter: yeah, so the white house isnt directly commenting on the saudi and putin calls. they are saying that, look, though, if we try to restrict access, its because of all these other leaks that happened early in the administration. and we should note, anderson, that a senior white house official did acknowledge earlier today that nsc lawyers moved the now-infamous call to the highly classified system. ...

>> correct. although there are reports now that other calls that may have preceded bolton were also treated this way and stored on the code word system. the national security adviser comes up with what we call a distribution list of who gets to receive that call read out or meeting read out and the document itself is stored on what we call the high side the top-secret level system. unless there is code word material that is a higher level classification in the document to the best of my knowledg...

>> well, it would have affected our national security in the sense that people who may have had action items or things to follow up on would not know how to follow up on them. whether its on the diplomatic front or in other channels. but i think as you said, anderson, this not only corroborates a key piece of the whistleblowers complaint, it also highlights a pattern of misuse of the classified systems which is against the law. youre not allowed to put things into a code word system that are not...

>> well, it would have affected our national security in the sense that people who may have had action items or things to follow up on would not know how to follow up on them, whether its on the diplomatic front or in other channels. but i think as you said, anderson, this not only corroborates a key piece of the whistle-blowers complaint, it also highlights a pattern of misuse of the classified systems, which is against the law. youre not allowed to put things into a code word system that are n...

Sensitive national security secrets came as well recall, anderson, as the white house was confronting the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi which u.s. intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the saudi government. now with putin access to the transcript of at least one of trumps conversations was also tightly restricted according to a former trump administration official speaking to my colleague, jim sciutto. its not clear, though, if aides took the additional step. placing the saudi...

Sensitive national security secrets came as well recall, anderson, as the white house was confronting the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi which u.s. intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the saudi government. now, with putin access to the transcript of at least one of trumps conversations was also tightly restricted according to a former trump administration official speaking to my colleague, jim sciutto. its not clear, though, if aides took the additional step of placing the sa...