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White house dealt with records relate to the presidents call with the president of ukraine that was the basis for the whistleblowers complaint. in this complaint unsealed today, the whistleblower says, quote, white house officials told me that they were, quote, directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead it was loaded into a separate electronic system that is used to store and handle classifi...

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 ...

Inquiry. today we got our first look at the full whistle-blower complaint about the president. the one that sparked this whole impeachment investigation. this whistle-blower sournding te alarm about president trump using his power to get ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election and the white house according to the whistle-blower trying ho lock down records of that phone call hiding the transcript in a computer system where only the most sensitive security information is storerd. house speaker n...

Word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of akds underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. continues, the white house officials told me they were directed, directed again, a quote, by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet-le...

Whistleblowers complaint are reve revealed. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: among the key allegations, not only did president trump seek ukraines help in interference in his 2020 re-election campaign but the white house subsequently took steps to keep it quiet. the seven-page now declassified complaint says after the presidents july 25th phone call with ukrainian president zelensky in which trump pressed the ukrainian leader to investigate biden and his son, the whistleblower learned from m...

White house. >> corruption is not the business, or it shouldnt be, of the white house or anyone in it. >> the white house decides to do with their privileged communication is the business of the white house. >> do you believe thats true even if that communication involves crime or fraud? im sure youre aware that there is an exception to any claim of privilege. the privilege cant be used to conceal crime or fraud? >> this is before any crime or fraud that should be referred to the justice departm...

Something happening to this, quote, unquote perfect call that would make you think, maybe this wasnt a perfect call, and if the president thinks its a perfect call, there is a lot of people around him who do not. the whistleblower says officials told him white house lawyers directed officials to remove the electronic transcript from the normal computer system where its housed and move it to this highly classified system. how significant is this? >> well, its very significant because the big poin...

Transcript from the computer system in which transcripts are typically stored. governor kasich you are here with us now, and the suggestion here, or flat out stated by the whistle-blower. >> i think this is not by the whistle-blower. i think this is the report by -- >> this is the letter from the whistle-blower. the inspector general then investigated it and find this is to be of urgent concern which adds credibility. >> which explains why he was of urgent concern. >> what about the notion that ...

It was a remarkable hearing today, but the whistleblower complaint, if youre at home, suspend your politics and read it, not only did the president seek foreign dirt in the 2020 election and used essentially extortion against the ukranian government. but in some ways, more dangerously, it suggests that people in the white house created a second computer system because they understood how outrageous this was and they were hiding this, covering it up, burying it. the question is, does washington h...

Let me read you at the end of page three a paragraph that struck jim and i. white house officials told me, this is the whistle-blower, they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for finalization and distribution to cabinet level officials. the whistle-blower goes on to write, instead this transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle clas...