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Taking it seriously enough. president trump is ramping up his support efforts for perdue. he raised money alongside mitch mcconnell. just a couple weeks ago, his campaign used its massive distribution list for a fund-raising appeal for gardner, ti tillis and ernst, all of this coming as the president is trying to drum up support for his impeachment trial. this is routine, sort of expected for the party, but it comes as republicans are trying to rally these republican senators behind a coherent i...

Monitoring it real-time and its definitely entering a new phase. >> talk about this cable. you used to work on the national security council during the obama administration, that the top u.s. diplomat send to secretary of state pompeo. tell us about that. >> ive written cables and read more than i can count, typically not done in the first person. bill taylor saying it in the first person shows how important this was to bill taylor as a career foreign service officer. normally you do these cable...

Started to clamp down in an effort to crackdown on leaks. but as a result, it went from one extreme to the other as we have seen in recent days. >> lets talk about according to your reporting the system that does exist for these phone calls. according to your reporting, the standard practice before donald trump took office is that the president makes a call on a secure line, security officials listen in. records are distributed to the relevant offices. what didnt work with this system? what was ...

>> correct. although there are reports now that other calls that may have preceded bolton were also treated this way and stored on the code word system. the national security adviser comes up with what we call a distribution list of who gets to receive that call read out or meeting read out and the document itself is stored on what we call the high side the top-secret level system. unless there is code word material that is a higher level classification in the document to the best of my knowledg...

We would have a phone call with putin or medvedev or another leader in that part of the world in the white house situation room. there would be people listening in transcribing the call. i would be on the phone in the oval office also taking notes in russian and english, and then we would get the transcript and i would clean the transcript up and then we would decide, by the way, who to distribute it to. again, to go back to your earlier conversation about the attorney general, lots of times, es...

Hes just a guy trying to get stuff done. there are enough people out there who buy that that he thinks that he can just basically put this out in plain sight as it is and that there ultimately wont be any real political consequence. >> the white house is your beat. is there any effort to get the distribution list for anyone else? i mean, i understand were covering this in part because of the whistleblower complaint, but who else knew hed ask eight times the leader of ukraine to investigate joe b...

Effect says that the president can not be held accountable for obstructing justice. should not be interrogated for possibly intimidating witnesses or firing james comey or destroying evidence. he is above the law. that distribution list to the presidents closest advisers and his lawyers indicates clearly that william barr is auditioning for the job. hes sending a signal. >> it wasnt that he was just sending out that 19-page memo to various lawyers representing the president, but he actually had ...

Threat to our national security. it is more than just a vague and unascertainable kind of indication. were talking here about a real and present threat to our national security and the american people have a right to know. >> let me get your reaction to the new reporting that cnn now has, and youre a member of the judiciary committee. youll be there tomorrow when william barr, the attorney general nominee, is called to testify, his confirmation hearings. theres new information that he actually s...

0.25%, a more thorough would be counted. it must be completedly sunday the 18th. >> i will let you go. >> democratic strategist in 2008. thanks to beth of you. you have been sending us e-mails i think hourly almost with what is going on. >> im not on a distribution list. >> so for people like stephanie where do we stand right now? >> so as i spam the company with all of this reporting it is moving really fast. we have seen escalate while people are still counting votes is the legal battles start...

Backgrounds, law enforcement background. theres a ton of democratic candidates this year in lots of crucial districts where the democratic candidate has national security qualifications on his or her resume. we know that in part because the democratic party is keeping a list of those types of candidates. scrolling by, this is the names and by the state and congressional district in which theyre running. that formed the distribution list to which the democratic party sent a letter this week warni...