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>> now were starting to see reporting theres also conversations that the president had with russian president vladimir pu t vladimmir putin as well as with the saudi crown prince that have been kept on this code word level server. if you talk to democrats on capitol hill they see this as a cover up. they see this as an effort to obscure these conversations. republicans say hes just protecting against a leaky white house. at the end of the day there are rules that govern how information is classi...

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. its just been a remarkable week. i expect this weekend will be just as nuts as the last four days have been. well see you again on monday. time for "the last word" with lawrence odonnell....

That it is the habit of the white house to absolutely put these kinds of things into a classified network where they cant be seen. we have at least one allegation from the whistle-blower that that happened with the ukraine call and possibly others. but i dont know if we can say right now that it was just routine to put these memos into that very secret system. >> shane harris, national security reporter at "the washington post" joining us on very short notice and near something thats backing up,...

Was the claim that this was, quote, not the first time under this administration that a transcript of a presidential call had been placed into a code word level, high security system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive information even though that code word protected secure database is only supposed to be holding national security sensitive information. the whistle-blower was basically claiming that after this very worrying phone call in which the president we now know ask...

To cover it up. they had taken the record of that presidential phone conversation and not put it on the server where regular -- where information like that would be regularly stored. they instead put it in a very, very high-security code word protected top-level stand alone security system thats not networked to any other thing, apparently just for the purpose of limiting the ability of other people inside the government to see what happened on that phone call. not because it was national securi...

Actually placed on that server, so there could still well be other conversations out there that white house officials were so alarmed at that they took the extraordinary step of actually placing it on that server. the other irony, rachel, is this conversation in 2017 between president trump and russian officials should have been held essentially at the unclassified level. theres very little we share with the russians that could betray our sources and methods. but if you think about it, this is a...

A paper trail in terms of whodunit in terms of this coverup? >> i suppose i would say yes, but i would include a caveat there. in a normal white house there would be a paper trail. in the previous white house certainly there would have been a written request of this nature. but just to put a finer point on it, rachel, this is a system that is administered by the intelligence directorate within the national security staff. its a relatively small team, no more than a handful of people, nearly all ...

In which trump revealed highly classified information, code-word-protected intelligence information that exposed a very sensitive live source of intelligence on isis. this was the same meeting in which he admitted that he fired fbi director james comey because it relieved great pressure on him. it was the same meeting where he gave one of our allies incredibly sensitive intelligence sources against isis and apparently according to "the washington post" tonight that was also a meeting in which he...

Those russian officials, this is a pretty inflammatory statement to attribute to the president, that he told these russian officials he was unconcerned about moscows interference in the u.s. election. your source, you and your colleagues source for that according to the lead in this story is three former officials with knowledge of the matter. is it your understanding, shane, that the presidents rarkts to that effect were included in these notes that were held so closely after this event took pl...

Breaking news from the white house. thank you for that. joinings now senior national security skpocorrespondent for defense one. thanks for joining us and the system reportedly theres, at the moment, potentially, the transcript, potentially verbatim of what was discussed. what do we know about it? >> whats happened here is theres one system that the national security council uses that is like 99% of the work that the nsc does. it can handle material up to top secret level and this is what the ...