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 removing it from the computer system typically used to store such records and the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system managed by the national security council normally used for information that is of court especially sensitive nature and reserved for code word level intelligence information. such as covert action. a white house official told the whistleblower that is an abuse of the secure system, since quote the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.