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What it means if anything about the president of the united states. so i think the lesson we ought to take from that is even when impeachment is over theres a tail on this. a ukrainian piece to go on for months and months and months and we dont know what we find out about what they were up to. >> and jeff bennett on capitol hill, probably underreported in the midst of this is the russian angle. nancy pelosi said all roads to russia. how extraordinary was it that you had sergei lavrov in the oval...

If we can get four republican senators, then we might have enough senators to a majority to disqualify president trump, secretary pompeo, secretary perry, vice president pence from holding future office. >> when you look at pence, does he have exposure? >> security adviser was on the fated phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine, he got a readout of that call, and then its been reported that in his conversations with president zelensky he talked about about the importance...

Coming out of great britain in 2006. so he and this communication is happening. and then 6 september 2009, nsa intercepted a message from paktana communicates with someone inside the united states. under the 702 certification process, we were authorized to get the content of that e-mail. and when we read it, it had code words in it. theyre indicative of a terrorist act. and it had a phone number. what it didnt say is who is the guy inside the united states? where does he live and whats he up to?...

Coming out of great britain in 2006. so he and this communication is happening. and then 6 september 2009, nsa intercepted a message from paktana communicates with someone inside the united states. under the 702 certification process, we were authorized to get the content of that e-mail. and when we read it, it had code words in it. theyre indicative of a terrorist act. and it had a phone number. what it didnt say is who is the guy inside the united states? where does he live and whats he up to?...

He was on his way to one of the branch offices of his credit union. claiming kidnappers had strapped a plastic explosive to his belly, and rigged another device beneath his mothers bed back home where she lay bound. >> im driving to the credit union. and now, for the first time, i start to think of, "wow. hows this gonna play out? whats gonna happen?" >> reporter: wait a second. are -- are you meant to drive yourself? is that what youre saying? >> yes. they actually wanted me to drive my own car...

Corruption. >> reporter: right, hallie. basically what the whistle-blower alleges is that white house officials at the direction of white house lawyers essentially tried to hide this transcript or memo of the call with the ukrainian president in a system that is -- a classified system that is reserved for things like that are so sensitive that they are given code words or if covert operations such as the bin laden raid. so they took this transcript which was not classified, it was labeled secret...

Of justice. just the very fact they tried to hide the transcript of the phone call in a, in a database where they require code words normally, you know, so that no one, or fewer people would see it shows you that they knew that this was very problematic, an abuse of power, and we have to get to the bottom of this and thats what the impeachment inquiry will hopefully have us do. >> there are multiple white house officials mentioned in this complaint. >> yes. >> also, of course, the presidents per...

We learned from maguire is that there are conversations going on between the whistle blower and the committees and the goal is to allow the whistle blower to provide their testimony to the lawmakers directly, dana. >> dana: during the last few hours there were new allegations about the reliability of the transcript that the white house released yesterday? >> reporter: right. the whistle blower complaint is now declassified. it is the phone call between the president and the leader of ukraine. bu...

The new ukraine leadership and corruption. >> they finished an election where the incoming president won on the platform of no more corruption. everyone knew it was corrupt. the president had a conversation with him. lets be clear, we actually did give aid to ukraine. the democrats never did. >> sandra: the aid was released after the call. >> of course not. the president wants to make sure are dollars are spent with. he did it with -- what are we getting spending these billion else of dollars. d...

Accusation? >> yes. now the grand jury as the house of representatives and they decide whether or not this constitutes bribery. the trial jury is the senate and they also decide whether or not this constitutes bribery. what words to the president use? did the president use code words, as one of his former lawyer said he often does when he knows others are you listening to his conversations? did the recipient of those words understand them to be the code words? the conversation that president zel...