quote, under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into the code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting. >> so, bob, let me ask you about the significance of that. that this was a process to protect him that had happened multiple times? >> that certainly seems to be the case that there were people in the white house who felt they had to essentially protect the president from himself. i'm going to be a contrarian and suggest that in this case the issue was not the cover-up, but the crime itself. the cover-up seems to be a bunch of underlings who realize they have a president who is prone to get in trouble all the time. there's no indication, and i suspect it's not true, that the president himself was directing that these things be removed from the system. >> fair point. >> so i think it's relevant to show that there were a lot of people in the white house who recognized that what the president was doing here was very iffy, but fundamentally here the real issue is what the president was doing. >> there's going to be a lot of