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The national security council -- directed the transcript of the presidents call with president zelensky of ukraine to be moved to a highly secure computer system. the question is, why was it moved? to back was this a one-off directive, or is it standard operating procedure at the white house to keep all transcripts with foreign leaders on the system? the white house will not talk about that aspect of it. all we know right now is that the transcript was moved, but we have no idea of the context o...

He is no longer at the white house. the white house will not put into context the reason for putting that transcript on the highly secured computer system, but fleiss indicating there that it was standard operating procedure to do so. president trump meanwhile trying shred the credibility of the whistleblower saying this was third-hand information, information that leaked out of the white house, the president tweeting, quote, sounding more and more like the so-called whistleblower isnt a whistle...

John? >> reporter: good afternoon to you, dana. little more on the idea of that transcript being moved to a highly secured compute eur system. that is one of the central revelations in the whistleblowers complaint. the whistleblower saying for reasons of wanting to lock down that transcript, it was moved to a code word protected computer system. a short time ago, catherine herridge talked to the former chief of staff at the national security council and he talked to her about it being standard o...

Their constituents back home could help determine what happens when they come back. we havent seen president trump on television today. hes been active on twitter defending his call with the ukrainian president and demanding the resignation hoff the democratic chairman of the house tell committee, adam schiff. among the presidents tweets, if that perfect call or i should say perfect phone call with the president of ukraine isnt considered appropriate, then no future president can ever again spea...

Change. >> officials of past administrations tell fox news it would be unusual to put transcripts into that highly secure or highly classified system. however, dont forget that early on in the trump administration there was some high profile leaks, telephone conversations that the president had with the australian prime minister at the time and the mexican president. im told as a result of that, steps were taken to button down access to these transcripts. dont forget, too, while the transcript d...

Lawn. good evening, john. >> bret, good evening to you. in the complaint the whistleblower suggests that the white house went to extraordinary lengths to lock down the transcript of the telephone call between president trump and ukrainian president. while the white house was short on detail today, it suggested what happened to the transcript was standard protocol. white house officials today confirmed that administration attorneys directed the transcript of the zelensky phone call be archived in...

State mike pompeo demanding documents related to the ukraine call and the suspension of aid. those committees also announced their intent to depose four state department officials who were mentioned in the complaint, including all rec bretmule who again we are told was not involved in any of this. bret? >> bret: okay, john roberts live on the north lawn. john, thanks. lets dig in a little bit more. learning additional information about that whistleblower complaint that ignited this latest impeac...

>> he deserve those minutes. >> "world news tonight with tonight, the whistle-blowers complaint revealed. was there a coverup in the white house? the acting director of national intelligence grilled today, asked why he held onto the whistle-blowers complaint. why he went to the white house first and not congress. he acknowledged the whistle-blower did the right thing. and tonight, what the whistle-blowers complaint now public reveals. he says white house officials were alarmed by that phone ca...

Call with the president of ukraine, trying to conceal the transcript of the call on a separate, highly secure computer system. and today, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire, was in the hot seat, asked why he held onto that complaint for so long. why he went to the white house before congress. he defended his decision today, but he also acknowledged something else. he said the whistle-blower did the right thing. and he acknowledged that when he learned of that phone call...

Tried to cover it up and that is yet another reason why this is such an enormous scandal. the extensive cover-up is evidence of a guilty conscience. what the whistle-blower complaint as a frenetic widespread effort to cover up and hide that phone call, the evidence of the wrongdoing, officials deciding to put the transcript of the call in a separate computer system, not the normal one pretending it was classified at a higher level than it actually was. quote, white house officials told me they w...