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Intelligence probes aimed at finding spies within. quote, working at the white house national security council means juggling multiple computers every day. one is used for unclassified communications. a second is run by the pentagon. it is known as siprnet for information up to the level of secret. a third system is for even more sensitive data designated ts/sci for top secret/sensitive compartmented information. thats the third level. finally, there is the fourth and most sensitive system, the ...

The complaint reports a, quote, repeated abuse of an electronics record system designed to store classified sensitive national security information. which the white house used to hide information of a political nature. this is a cover-up. this is a cover-up. >> the whistle-blower complaint says senior white house officials tried to lock down in their words records that were related to trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. what the house speaker is now calling, as you heard her say, a ...

>> reporter: well, this is important because as the president has tried to discredit the whistle-blower through his tweets and comments, especially say be the person did not have firsthand information, weve heard that from rudy giuliani as well, this fact is backed up now by the white house, a fact from the whistle-blowers complaint now supported by the white house through our reporting today where white house officials tell us that lawyers from the national security council appropriately made t...

They all went to work to cover up for the president doing a thing they knew was wrong, that they knew was an egregious abuse of his power. and this is just the beginning. the who knew what, when questions hang over everyone in the white house legal counsels office. everyone at the olc, everyone in the just department, national security counsel. they knew what they were doing was wrong, and that in and of itself is devastating. but perhaps the most explosive new detail in this complaint comes at ...

Lawyers took the notes and did in fact put them behind code word protection on a special server that would typically be reserved for the highest level secrets. and what is important to know about this is now officials are also saying, kellyanne conway in particular, that after the early days of the trump administration, when some of the presidents foreign leader phone calls which are typically classified by their very nature to protect those conversations, that there were leaks that ended up bei...

Ukraine because of questions about corruption, questions about the bidens? was it the subject matter or was it the fact that it was a foreign leader call? those facts may become important as we go along. what we dont know is had this become the practice for trump phone calls with foreign leaders in the last several months? remember, in the early part of the administration, ali, some the calls the president had with i recall, you may well, with leaders with australia, with mexico because fodder b...

>> connected with this. >> that is undermining americas national security. what was your takeaway from the whistleblower complaint? >> i can just say i know my first hearing question for mayor giuliani, which is going to be could you speak for the whole four hours? >> go. go. yeah. >> but on your point, i can tell you, you know, i was the white house staff secretary. im familiar with these kinds of call memorandum. its an extraordinary thing that first of all the director of national intelligenc...

With direct knowledge of that call told the whistleblower this. after an initial exchange of pleasantries the president used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. the complaint says that white house officials were so deeply disturbed by what had transpired on the phone call, because they believe, quote, they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. >> so white house officials and lawyers then intervened to quote lock down the official transcript by r...

Receiving from giuliani, versus u.s. officials, who represent the united states on ukraine issues. in an interview with nbc news yesterday, giuliani called the claims nonsense, and prove allies. >> the whistleblower complaint reveals that white house officials and lawyers work to quote lock down the transcript of president trumps july 25th call with ukraines president by placing it an electronic system managed by the national security council which is normally reserved for code word intelligence...

Movie, again, from the originally classified appendix to the whistle-blowers complaint. quote, according to multiple white house officials, the transcript of the presidents call was placed into a computer system managed directly by the national security councils director for programs. this is a stand alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. according to information i received from white house officials, some officials voiced concerns inte...