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Problematic. and i would be curious to know what else was on there. there are 12 pages of notes. >> we have no idea what happened in a place called helsinki. the latest breaking news from cnn that the white house restricted access to president trumps calls with putin and the saudi crown prince. we dont know if they were stored on the code word server. is this a pattern concerning you? >> this is a pattern of behavior hes shown from day one. he has a complete disregard for the standard of securit...

They do at the nse? >> again, at the nse there are multiple types of systems, some for unclassified information, some for classified and then some for whats called code word, which is exceptionally classified that even people with top clearance doesnt necessarily get to see. and what breaks with executive orders is anyone taking information from the unclassified system that has no reason to be classified and putting it in one of those higher level systems. i learned on my first day as a cia offi...

People familiar with the matter. they were among the conversations that aides took remarkable stems ps to keep fro becoming public. instead, a transcript was never circulated at all. the source said was highly unusual. the call contained no security secrets, as the white house was looking at the murder of jamal khashog khashoggi. it was restricted. its not clear if the aides took the additional step to place the saudi arabia and russia phone calls in the secured, code word operated system, that ...

Discussions on what was in the discussions specifically that are troublesome with saudi arabia and with russia, theyre going to try and limit the access to it. and it is unprecedented. >> and i should point out, gloria, that cnns reporting is that access was limited on these -- on the putin and the mohammed bin salman call. we didnt know exactly how in the whistleblower complaint, the whistleblower said they -- they understood that other phone conversations or transcripts had been placed in this...

Responding to all of this? >> reporter: certainly on the issue of the code word required server, what officials are saying is, yes, this ukraine call and the call summary weve all seen now declassified and made public was included in this more protected, limited access server. as "the washington post" reports, weve not been able to specifically match their reporting about two other high profile countries that would certainly be newsworthy no matter what the contents of the call, the president sp...

Was still the state department. like you saw with director mcguyer the other day. if kurt volker chooses to tell the committee everything he knows of how hes trying to fix what rudy giuliani is doing and his concerns about what the whistleblower had raised. he could say it to the committee. >> frank, i want to talk about this is server business. this moving of information in the case of the whistleblowers complaint. the transcript of the call between president trump and the president of ukraine ...

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 memorandum that might be stored on that server from president trump leaked to them information that could be considered code word classified. so i think there are a lot of questions we dont know about this, and i ...

Under this administration that a transcript was placed into the code word level system to protect politically sensitive information. joining me now is danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst, and also melissa murray, a professor of constitutional law at nyu law. good morning. danny, want to start with you. when it comes to the whistle th whistle-blower and what they said, do you have a point from a legal perspective? was it an abuse of the electronic system? >> one point, the president and his team ...

Trumps conversation with world leaders whoever it may be into the super secret server that you have to have code word access and know the code to get access to it. whats the relationship between this new revelation and "the washington post" and the impeachment inquiry thats underway. >>. >> this is a pattern of covering up and things that are embarrassing and conversations he had with foreign leaders. the foreign leaders know what it says. policymakers dont know. but, what it is is not so much o...

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 security sensitive, not because it was about some covert action or code word protected intelligence program. but simply because they had to make sure that nobody could find out the president did this on this call. again, the ...