transcript between president trump and president zelensky to be handled he classified system done appropriately. the argument white house officials are making it was already a classified document because it was a head of state call and officials say that they did this because it was a way to cut down on leaks after the leaking of conversations that the president had with heads of state from mexico and australia and of course president putin's phone call as well that leaked out. so basically official, saying that was really the reason why that there wasn't really a cover-up just to protect the president, but, of course, the statement leaving a lot of questions unanswered. who else was involved in this beyond the nsc lawyer directing this? we know this practice of limiting access to head of state transcripts began in earnest last year. so it does make you wonder why was it done? we know that this transcript in