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With an inside look at some of the mechanics. do you agree with some house democrats that there seems to be a cover-up afoot here? >> i dont see a cover-up. what i see is a difference by the general council to the white house saying ive heard that theres an issue going on, what happened, wheres the transcript, whats the story on this call? it is not unusual to have calls with foreign leaders classified. that oftentimes is an overclassification. i think here its clear that it was over-classified....

Personal gain. in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call, especially the transcript of the phone call that was produced by the white house situation room. this set of actions underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired on the call. white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electron...

But also, concerns about how the white house dealt with records related to the presidents call with the president of ukraine that was the basis for the whistle-blowers complaint. in this complaint that was unsealed today the whistle-blower says, quote, white house officials told me that they were, quote, directed by white house officials, excuse me, white house lawyers, to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead the transc...

Transcriptwat haleres >> i would say that the whistle-blowers complaint is in alignment with what was released yesterday by the president. >> reporter: the whistle-blower goes on to say that some white house officials were "deeply disturbed" by the phone call and the likelihood "that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain." and the whistle-blower alleges senior white house officials tried to cover it up. he writes that "senior white house officials had intervened to,...

Zelensky. multiple white house officials with direct knowledge of that call told the whistleblower that, quote, after an initial exchange of pleasantries, the president used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. the complaint says that white house officials were so, quote, deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call because they believed they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. white house officials and lawyers then intervened to, ...

The complaint reports a, quote, repeated abuse of an electronics record system designed to store classified sensitive national security information. which the white house used to hide information of a political nature. this is a cover-up. this is a cover-up. >> the whistle-blower complaint says senior white house officials tried to lock down in their words records that were related to trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. what the house speaker is now calling, as you heard her say, a ...

Now. >> reporter: total panic is what one person close to the administration is describing whats happening inside. theres always an aspect of crisis response where how do you get the right message. its always difficult for a white house to triangulate and say the right thing, but more difficult now. >> carolyn, youre also talking about people who know about how these national security pieces of the puzzle move around and it seems this morning that one of the big focuses is on why this key inform...

Classified at a higher level than it actually was. quote, white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which transcripts are typically stored. instead it was loaded into a separate system otherwise used to store classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the call did not cop tain anything sensitive from ...

Its this. the white house knew at the time when the phone call ended just how bad it was. even in the degraded moral compass of the people who surrounded donald trump, they understood the gravity of what he had done, quoting again, the white house officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. they told me that there was already a discussion ongoing with white house lawyers how to treat the call because the likelihood of the officials telli...

Thank you. geoff bennett. >> thank you on behalf of the entire capitol hill team. >> our respect to them. >> new details emerging about a major allegation that the whistle-blower made in their complaint. the whistle-blower wrote, as you recall, quote, according to multiple white house officials i spoke with, the transcript of the presidents call with president zelensky was placed into a computer system, managed directed directly by the national security council directorate for intelligence progr...