president trump, however, is throwing cold water on that washington post report, tweeting this false stories are being reported that a few republican senators are saying president trump may have done a quid pro quo. it doesn t matter. there is nothing wrong with that. there is not an impeachable event. perhaps so, but read the transcript. there is no quid pro quo! with me now, chief liquid anchor and anchor special report, bret baier. bret, even with me for a couple hours now, on the breaking news with the first few transcripts coming out. hundreds of pages. and now this development. are we witnessing a shift come or not? i think there is a shift. on capitol hill, some of the option of saying it really wasn t a perfect call. in the president s words, that it was perfecto or perfect, the call with the ukrainian president, that some people
something happening to this, quote, unquote perfect call that would make you think, maybe this wasn t a perfect call, and if the president thinks it s 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 it s housed and move it to this highly classified system. how significant is this? well, it s very significant because the big point here is there wasn t classified information in the transcript. it could be politically damaging, as we now know, to the president. so the fact that, according to this complaint, white house lawyers reviewed the transcript and tlahought, this is going to make the president look bad and put it in this secured classification raises questions and sounds the alarm bells on this. and sources i m talking to, they say that basically this was an effort to cut down on leaks, because they were worried