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>> they were supposed to be guardians of the law, they are senior legal security officials. we know they were not safeguarding and upholding laws and parameters the national security coordination and oversight, but new this case they seem to have been a key part of the cover up or at least one of them. the senior lawyer on the nsc staff was the attorney to whom several white house officials complained in the immediate moments and days after the july 25th phone call and rather than raise his conc...

Attend the deposition or not, but the fact is this is a lawyer for the national security council. what does this make you think? >> i think its very concerning. we had already heard the information that john eisenberg, the lawyer, had taken the unusual step of concealing this call in a code word safe where its not normally stored. that raised a lot of questions i think as to why that was done. now we have this additional testimony by colonel vindman he also told him not to tell anybody about thi...

Learned from lieutenant colonel vindmans testimony or reports of his testimony. first, that eisenberg was the one who requested to move the memo of the zelensky call to the code word clearance-only server in the white house basement, and perhaps more troubling, eisenberg is the one who instructed lieutenant colonel vindman not to speak about the call with zelensky to anyone else. vindm vindman, the nsc point person on ukraine, thats his job. now, youll hear a lot about this concept consciousness...

Post reporting about the handling of the notes of the phone call between the two presidents. "the washington post" reports that colonel vindman who testified two days ago old eisenberg the white houses adviser on security issues that what the president did was wrong. vindman told the national security council lawyer what the president did was wrong. scribbling notes on a legal pad, eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with other white house protocol -- moving a tra...

The secret server. i think that will be one of the throughlines we see throughout this story have what is a white house lawyer supposed to do when someone raises a concern like this? >> yeah, i think white house lawyer, first of all, has to get all the facts and decide whether theres been any violation of law. i think if theres been a violation of law, a difficult spot for a white house lawyer. right? i think one of the options, i think the real right thing to do is report it to congress. now, t...

Getting increasingly frustrated. he even voiced some publicly the other day before he got on air force one that hes upset that the republicans arent litigating the facts themselves, just the process. if you have somebody who says, yes, i heard this but it didnt strike me, for the presidents defenders thats going to be important. >> if he says that, that will be a very interesting contrast to colonel vindman who also heard the phone call and was so outraged he went to the lawyers and said this is...

Is normally reserved for code word, level intelligence programs and top-secret sources and methods, according to an administration official. former trump national security official said it was unheard of to store presidential calls with foreign leaders on the n.i.c.e. system but that eisenberg had moved at least one other transcript of a trump phone call there." this really lays out exactly how it went down when vindman went to eisenberg. >> all the presidents men are in a lot of trouble, don. i...

Linking eisenberg to the decision to move the problematic transcript to a highly classified server. joining our conversation just in time former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. let me ask you -- i could talk to you for another 45 minutes, but let me just -- have you ever heard of someone in the white house counsels office ordering a transcript after any sort of inner agency review -- or if there was a problem, was locking it down in a server for code word protected intel, which, its m...

Used for highly sensitive code word protected classified information. what we are learning today about this lawyers knowledge about the presidents pressure campaign and when it started against the ukrainians. we will be right back. back. fascinated by whats next. and still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if theres a better treatment than warfarin... i want that too. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke ...

Fact that has not changed, that there was a history of corruption in the ukraine, then i think its an entirely appropriate for the president of the united states to ask a new administration thats coming in on an anti-corruption platform to make sure theyre following through with their commitments and also look at these questions that have been raised, whether it is now about joe biden in ukraine, now china, were actually seeing theres reporting out here recently this week that there were calls m...