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Security or could not get out and not to prevent political information to get out. >> thats exactly right. you can think of it assort of a vip room. everybody on the national security council has the security clearance and everyone works there share this secure system that many most people in government cant have access to. thats a national security council. theyre working with secrets and not the most explosive. the vip room which is a security system thats not connected to that other security ...

Putin, that the president was also undermining our security in a way that he thought would personally benefit his campaign. if those conversations with putin or with other world leaders are sequestered in that same electronic file that is meant for covert action, not meant for this, if theres an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes, were determined to find out. >> if youre trying to be speedy with this investigation while also being thorough, is there a point where you just have to -- yo...

Currency across town. >> okay. so which of those is the case that, of course, members of congress would try to get an answer to that. but to that question, to that point, what leeway does a president have in determining where and how tightly some of these conversations are either stored or protected if its buffo buffoonery, by using your word, if its politically sensitive versus sensitive in the national security context? >> well, i believe its important to protect conversations between "world l...

Law of the way it was written. >> the complaint also alleges the call transcript was moved to a secret system in the white house. "reserve for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. ">> there is an allegation of a cover-up. >> if this military aid was withheld from an ally that is fighting off putins russia and it was done so to be used as leverage to get dirt in a u.s. political campaign, dont you think that should be investigated? >> i have no situation awareness if th...

About whether you should provide the complaint to congress. >> it did appear that it has executive privilege. i was not stonewalling, didnt receive direction from anybody. i was trying to work through the process and the law the way it is written. >> the complaint alleges the transcript was moved to a secret system in the white house, quote, intelligence information such as covert action. >> there is allegation of a cover-up. >> of this military aid was withheld from an ally fighting vladimir pu...

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 ...

With direct knowledge of that call told the whistleblower this. 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 deeply disturbed by what had transpired on the phone call, because they believe, quote, they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. >> so white house officials and lawyers then intervened to quote lock down the official transcript by r...

Receiving from giuliani, versus u.s. officials, who represent the united states on ukraine issues. in an interview with nbc news yesterday, giuliani called the claims nonsense, and prove allies. >> the whistleblower complaint reveals that white house officials and lawyers work to quote lock down the transcript of president trumps july 25th call with ukraines president by placing it an electronic system managed by the national security council which is normally reserved for code word intelligence...

Movie, again, from the originally classified appendix to the whistle-blowers complaint. quote, according to multiple white house officials, the transcript of the presidents call was placed into a computer system managed directly by the national security councils director for programs. this is a stand alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. according to information i received from white house officials, some officials voiced concerns inte...