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Was the white house national security staff trying to hide those conversations for those reasons and for reasons that have nothing to do with national security which would be the normal justification for putting those call ons the more secure computer system. >> what would it make for a highly secure system like that that three of us are not going to see the information that was on it. who would need to see it to determine whether or not this was done appropriately or not. there is some possibil...

Computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and -- the whistleblower also alleges that according to white house officials, this was not the first time that happened and that allegation squares with new reporting from the "new york times" about the white house concealing transcripts of calls between the president and other foreign officials notably those include vladimir putin ...

Whistle-blower claimed the white house placed a record of trumps phone call with the president of ukraine on a highly classified computer system that few had access to. >> and this is another example of this happening, happening a long time before moving documents not based on classification, but based on how embarrassing they would be on the president. here, of course, the president of the united states once again attacking america, denigrating america all to put it on a more equivalent plane w...

Central to house democrats impeachment inquiry after an intelligence community whistle-blower claimed the white house placed a record of trumps july phone call with the president of ukraine on a highly classified computer system that few have access to. it is unclear whether documentation of trumps white house meeting with russian officials was placed into that system. coming up, president trump unloads as the white house works overtime to contain the growing ukraine scandal. >> more on the pr...

Correspondent catherine herridge with more from washington. >> allegation of a cover-up. reporter: one of whistle-blowerrers most expensive second-hand claim that official record of july 25 phone call. was locked down to quote restrict access, in complains, the whistleblower cites white house officials states that transcript was placed in a stand alone computer system, reserved for code cord intelligence information but a former senior official who work at trump white house questions whether the...

President of ukraine which a whistle-blower says was placed into a highly classified computer system accessible to only a small number of officials. tess, what about the lawyers making that decision? >> sure, lawrence. from my perspective, this is very odd and deeply troubling. first, i would just say lawyers from the white house councils office are not usually who make the call about the level of classification of a document or what system that document needs to be stored in. so thats the first...

Trump and foreign officials, including president vladimir putin and the saudi royal family into a highly classified computer system after embarrassing leaks of his conversations according to current and former officials. jonathan alter is back with us. jonathan, here we go, the expanding of this story of the special treatment of trump phone calls. >> look, presidents deserve a certain amount of privacy on their calls. i think we can all agree on that we dont want to handcuff them too much. but i...

The record of the call, hiding it in a highly classified computer system. >> now theres a cover-up of the cover-up. >> by late friday, house democrats had already subpoenaed secretary of state mike pompeo for documents and scheduled depositions with five state department officials named in the whistleblower complaint. >> are you willing to testify in front of congress? >> well, theres a lot of problems with that. would i like to testify and tell my story? sure. there are things that i cant testi...

He wouldnt have a problem with what they would do in 2018 or 2020 or 2022 or 2024. thats part of larger narrative here. i think what republicans have to decide is are they comfortable with a president who is trading american sovereignty, or do they believe someone else should be president who would do that? its a pretty straightforward question. >> lets talk about this computer system, the revelations that this conversation, the transcripts of the conversation with the ukrainian president as wel...

Always been clear right from the mouth of his lawyer. rudy giuliani plans ukraine trip to push for inquiries that could help trump. thats way back in may. the months since, there were drips about this, and then the tsunami, trump ordering his chief of staff to put a hold on hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. the call transcript, trump asking ukraines president to do us a favor, talking about a lack of reciprocity with all we give them. in the next breath, asking to investigate bide...