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The secret server. i think that will be one of the throughlines we see throughout this story have what is a white house lawyer supposed to do when someone raises a concern like this? >> yeah, i think white house lawyer, first of all, has to get all the facts and decide whether theres been any violation of law. i think if theres been a violation of law, a difficult spot for a white house lawyer. right? i think one of the options, i think the real right thing to do is report it to congress. now, t...

Is very quickly we sort of had two different movements form. on the one hand, there were the real national security professionals who said we need to report this, we need to do it through proper channels and there needs to be accountability and pushing the other way, you hat those people within the white house, perhaps elsewhere, who were looking to suppress this, hide it, put it away on the secret server. i think that will be one of the through lines we see throughout this story. >> what is a w...

Computer system, which it should not have been. its a whole other problem. and i think there are some witnesses coming forward this week who will speak to it. but they again, like other people after vindmans testimony today, especially sondland, are separately in the soup. >> john, we now have the text from thursdays impeachment resolution that lays out how the inquiry will play out. for one thing well start to have open hearings. and you know firsthand the power that that can have. what will th...

No? >> yeah, thats right. so its not simply that its further substantiates the basic line that started with the whistle-blower complaint and has been repeatedly verified. its a separate obstruction and potential crime. remember, its hidden away in the classified, you know, computer system, which it should not have been. its a whole other problem, and i think there are some witnesses coming forward this week who will speak to it. but they, again, like other people after vindmans testimony today, ...

Colonel vindman told the impeachment investigators today he tried to change the constructed transcript made by white house staff to those omissions but those two corrections were not made. colonel vindman -- driving further questions how officials handled the call and the decision to put it into the white houses most classified computer system and also drive questions whether those moves were meant to conseal the calls most controversial aspects. yeah, it will. joining us now is michael mcfall, ...

Constructed transcript made by white house staff to reflect those omissions but while some of his edits were successful those two corrections were not made. colonel vindman -- driving further questions how officials handled the call including changes to the transcript and the decision to put it into the white houses most classified computer system. it will also drive questions about whether those moves were meant to conceal the calls most controversial aspects. yeah, it will. joining us now is m...

Bet you didnt even know one of those existed. it warned the administration that if the office tasked with protecting white house computers doesnt change direction, it is, quote, posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again. i am joined now by the reporter who broke this story alexi. whats the gain here in the white house not being the most fortified computer system in the country? >> thats what a lot of cybersecurity officials, current and former officials are asking themselves a...

Meeting he was told to, quote, lay low, when he raised questions about president trumps attorney rudy giuliani. the white house is reportedly leading its own review of the presidents view of ukraine. sources saying that "the new york times," is reporting that the white house is do an internal review. according to the "times," the lawyers inquiry centers on why one of their colleagues john a. eisenberg placed a rough transcript of the call in a computer system typically reserved for the country...

For amid already high tensions in the white house, particularly between the offices of the chief of staff and the white house counsel following the release of that call summary "the times" reports, quote, the lawyers inquiry centers on why one of their colleagues, deputy white house counsel john eisenberg placed a rough transcript of the call in a computer system typically reserved for the countrys most closely guarded secrets. we are waiting for peter baker from the "new york times" to join us....

Call on a computer system typically reserved for the countrys most closely guarded secrets. now, that is quite a story. you may remember it was anonymous -- this anonymous whistle-blower, now two, but initially one that reported that the reconstructed transcript of that july conversation was moved, many thought suspiciously, to the standalone server that would be reserved for other things, for highly classified information. now "the times" reports that isenberg reacted, quote, angrily to suggest...