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Highly classified and sensitive information. the house intelligence committee is now leading a formal impeachment investigation into president trump because of this complaint. congresswoman jackie speier is a member of the intelligence committee and she joined us from capitol hill. koj congresswoman, what do you make of this reporting, a quote from a senior white house official who said, nfc lawyers directed that the transcript be handled appropriately. >> the question is whats appropriately? wa...

Transcript from the area where these calls are usually stored to a separate system which houses the most classified information about covert actions. keep in mind thats not supposed to happen without a paper trail, a formal request from a top white house official. this reporting first here on cnn is from our senior white house correspondent pamela brown. pamela, tell us how the white house is explaining this move? >> basically with the statement out this morning, the white house is acknowledging...

Information. the move is unusual, but this was a statement given to us this morning. let me just read it. nfc lawyers directed that the highly classified document be handled appropriately. just to take a step back, the way this would work is you have a lawyer that normally handles national security issues that would reach out to the intelligence director and say, hey, i want you to move this to your system, because the intelligence director handles where the transcript went. this raises question...

Was there the only transcript moved? was there others? my understanding is they wanted to cut down on leaks, and reading this complaint from the whistleblower, which the state confirms this did happen, was that this was politically damaging information in the transcript and this was done to protect the president, basically because it made him look bad. whats also interesting in this is that administration officials, allies of the president, continue to go after this whistleblower, attacking the ...