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>> starting wit "access hollywood" tape and the president, some of them who spoke out the president punished them ever since that happened. theyve seen themselves dragged and supporters turned against them causing problems at home. >> exactly, there is a political calculation very makably going on here for a lot of these republicans. >> and there is, sabrina, even among some of the presidents most ardent defenders there are some question s even they need the answers to. listen to this conversati...

Contextual activity. certainly investigators are going to want to talk to this person. ultimately, as much as republicans are sort of saying this is just hearsay, second-hand information, the rejoinder is youre right, we need to bring in people with firsthand information, get them speaking with congressional investigators and have the white house agree to that process, participate in that process because it is such an incredibly serious not just allegation at this point but even from the most se...

Undermining congress in performing its role, which is to provide oversight. so here you have a whistle-blower report that credibly implicates the role of the attorney general. we must investigate the attorney generals actions in this case. >> the complaint says that multiple white house officials listened to the ukraine call and thought that they were witnessing an abuse of office for personal gain. they said that some were directed to move the transcript to its called a code word server, a leve...

Serious as the possibility of removing and undoing a legal election. my argument is if youre going to do this, do it right. make sure that all of the information of that whistle-blower is confirmed before you even do something like this. >> ive got some ideas on this. lets get the other guys in. susan, lets bring you in. if the whistle-blower ultimately testifies, it seems like one of the first questions will be who are these white house officials who told him about the call and who say they wer...

Inspector general to come forward to congress for anyone to even learn about its existence. >> so many deliberate delays in this throughout the story. also this morning, another crucial question. how far have those who surround president trump gone to protect the presidency from the presidents own words and actions? theres new reporting from the "washington post" this morning, detailing alleged attempts to bury that july call with the president of ukraine, on a code word protected server, that t...

Do many, many times with respect to president trump. >> okay. let me ask you this. if this call was entirely okay, a beautiful call, as the president has said, why did white house officials immediately after that call take the extraordinary step of putting the record of that call in a code word protected system? >> well, i think thats a good question. i think that is a question that the trump administration needs to answer. certainly, that is something that im confident will be asked, as the dem...

Make a formal written request to make a call to that, an action that could be an acknowledgment that knew the presidents conduct was potentially ill lael. the whistle-blower also claims this was not the first code word -- not the first time the code word level system was used, quote, solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive information. the impeachment inquiry is focusing on ukraine with democrats pushing for a vote as soon as october. >> joining us now to help us understand al...

The proposal. one official put it to us earlier today, no one here sees a need to add anyone to the inside team at the white house. >> thank you. jim acosta at the white house. want to bring in jim sciutto. the white house argues the decision to move documents around this call with the president of ukraine was designed to get it to a highly secure computer system to cut down on leaks. first of all, what do you know about the secure computer system? >> whats clear, this system has never been used...

Thats just posted in "the new york times" tonight. "moreover, others amplified the narrative on thursday with details that were not in the complaint. for instance, at one point an order was given to not deconstruct the transcript of mr. trump as would be typical. instead copies were printed out and hand delivered to a select group. >> im concerned about whether the trump white house may be holding back with certain details associated with that conversation. one very interesting part of the compl...

Ive seen memos like this. you dont codeword classify something like that. codeword documents are among the most sensitive information you can imagine. the raid against bin laden, things that will cost somebody their life if it gets out. so that fact that they were classified in that manner may have been inappropriate, but it sure speaks volumes how they were trying to keep this quiet. >> "the washington post" is reporting that to move a call like this to this code-level protected system, a offic...