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Is that what they are saying about these latest -- this 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 tried 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 early today, the nsc lawyers moved the now infamous ukraine call to the highly classified system. the of...

>> the whistleblower, the information. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? we used to handle them differently than we do now. >> reporter: the white house is after donald trump took office it was concerned too much information were leaking out. this came after details of private conversations with former leaders of australia and mexico leaked to the press. the was a blower alleged the white house was trying to lock down the contents of a with ukraine and national secu...

Electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the calls did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. lets bring in our legal panel, a former new york state assistant attorney general and former senior investigative counsel for the house oversight he reform committee and michael j moore, a former u.s....

So how thats stored, how thats stored and where its stored is also up to the president. there had to be two reasons why they did it. either they stored it in a different computer system if its true because they were worried about leaks or because they wanted to engage in a coverup. if it was a coverup, they wouldnt have released the transcript and i was listening to the segment leading into this, arthel, and one of your other experts who used to work on the national security counsel mentioned th...

According to white house officials, i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration of a presidential transcript was placed into this code word system. >> great. >> this is a cover up. this is a cover up. >> i thisnk the whistleblower dd the right thing. he follows the law every step of the way. >> we expect more subpoenas to go out first thing next week. we are moving with all the speed. coming up, the new york times did something you dont see a newspaper did this week. you ...

Code word system, and thats only used for highly classified material including covert operations, you know, other things that, you know, should have a tight close-hold system, but if you look at many of these calls they dont actually have classified information on them. >> do we know it doesnt have classified informations? when it is classified at this point? you mentioned in reporting there at politico it is a stark departure from how the servers normally is used and how memos of the presidents...

Respect to transferring the transcript on to the code word system. i am very surprised to hear from the department of justice that attorney general barr did hear about the contents of this call until reportedly weeks after it happened. the department of justice issued that as a statement a few days ago. attorney general barr was mentioned by name on the call with the president and he is saying that he did not have any knowledge of the fact that he was named in the call despite the fact he was na...

Officials are explaining where these were stored? >> a white house official acknowledged a key graph of the whistle-blower was accurate. in a statement it said nfc lawyers directed the classified document, talking about the transcript between zelensky and trump, be handled appropriately. what the white house is saying according to the senior official is, yes. nsc lawyers directed it be listed in the code file, nothing wrong with it and making the argument the transcript was classified as every h...

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...

Particular that the zelensky transcript didnt fit the criteria that would normally be required to be moved to this code word system. that is for documents that contain intelligence secrets, military secrets. covert operations. weve seen the transcript. it didnt contain any of that. it was just politically sensitive to the president, jake. >> not just politically sensitive in the view of some loyals, po tegsly even criminal. today president trump attacked the whistle-blower on twitter suggesting ...