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10:00 p.m. and tune in for state of the union, congressman jeffries, jim jordan, and cory booker. 9:00 a.m., noon eastern. have a great weekend. happening now. breaking news. issuing subpoenas. secretary of state mike pompeo has just been subpoenaed by three house committees demanding ukraine documents as the impeachment inquiry quickly accelerates. hearings could start as early as next week. moving transcripts. the white house corroborates the whistle-blower complaint, admitting its own nat...

Read, and i quote, the presidents personal lawyer mr. rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. though the whistle-blower concedes that he or she was not a direct witness to most of the events, quote, i found my colleagues accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases multiple officials were counted fact patterns that were consistent with one another. a variety of information consistent with these private acco...

Discovering a crime? >> id say thats close. im sure there is others, but i dont disagree with that. >> in the whistleblowers complaint, the whistleblower alleges that immediately after the presidents call with the president of ukraine on july 25, white house lawyers moved quickly to direct white house officials to move electronic transcripts from one computer system where it was normally stored to a secret classified information system. is that right? is that what was alleged in the complaint? y...

Love his country and has some serious concerns about what he was seeing from the highest levels of government. >> heres something that has jumped out to so many people about what happened after the phone call. and that is that the contents, the written transcript was transferred to a different computer server or network than would normally hold something like this. here is from the whistle-blower complaint. white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the tra...

They are typically stored to a highly secure area where they arent typically stored. a cnn white house official said, quote, nfc meeting financial security lawyers directed the white house document be handled appropriately. what you could read into that is there is a national security council luawyer who instriktuct his staff to move this transcript to an area where theyre not normally kept, because even though the president is on twitter this morning questioning the credibility of this whistleb...

William barr knew about the whistle-blower allegations more than a week before the formal referral, and now there are questions about possible witness intimidation. listen to the president describe people speaking to the whistle-blower as treasonous and there seems to be an implication here that he thinks maybe they should be executed. >> i want to know, whos the person that gave -- the whistle-blower. whos the person that gave the whistle-blower the information? because thats close to a spy. yo...

Jessica schneider with more from washington. washington. >> the details of the whistleblowers complaint are now fully revealed. and the stunning allegations are two-fold. first, that president trump sought out ukraines interference for the benefit of his 2020 election campaign. and second, that the white house tried to cover it up. the whistleblower said that senior white house officials locked down all records of that phone call. and they said they were directed by white house lawyers to remove...

House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system. and this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this codeword level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information." the president says it was a perfect call. then why move mounta...

Did, but going forward. for how the white house wants to fight this impeachment inquiry. >> nia malika, there were so many stunning developments and revelations yesterday. i mean, they just came one after the other. and one of them was this coverup. so not only the alleged crime, but then the coverup of transferring this call to this sort of code word protected secret computer system where calls like this normally do not belong. heres what "the washington post" reported overnight, a new developm...

Now fully revealed. and the stunning allegations are two-fold. first, that president trump sought out ukraines interference for the benefit of his 2020 election campaign. and second, that the white house tried to cover it up. the whistleblower said that senior white house officials locked down all records of that phone call. and they said they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system it would normally be on and transfer it to a second syst...