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Official, formal process, which provides this whistle-blower protection. right? >> that's right. >> and the president, according to the "new york times" told us a crowd of staff from the united states mission to the u.n. he wants to know who provided information to the whistle-blower, and whoever did so, the whistle-blower, close to a spy and said in the old days spies were dealt with differently. >> yes. two things jump out at me here. first is, of course, the president is doing exactly what government officials are not supposed to do. he's clearly targeting the person who's filed this compla...

Those folks and indeed a message to all people serving in the government that if they step forward with complaints, they can expect the president to come after them. >> you just heard from congresswoman slotkin. >> yes. >> she says that she wants to focus on the president using his influence and, frankly, government money, right? >> sure. >> to influence ukraine to dig up dirt on an opponent. i asked her about what we've learned in the complaint. that information was actually moved around to hide it at the white house. and she wants to focus more on the other things. she thinks americans under...

Something we didn't know about until we saw the complaint, and one of the other things we didn't know until we saw the complaint was that the whistleblower said it's not the first time a politically sensitive transcript has been hidden in a system that is meant for information that is supposed to keep private, sensitive information, classified information that has to do with national security. what recourse, though, does congress have in investigating this allegation? >> they have tremendous recourse. and this is why i think it was so important that nancy pelosi began impeachment inquiries. it...

Complaint, this information was provided to me and related in course of interagency business. so this would have come to them just in the course of doing their work. what would the president's reaction be to that? >> reporter: look, i think we're probably going to see the same from the president. we're headed into uncharted territory. we know this is a president that doesn't typically have discipline in terms of what he says. i apologize but there is a rainstorm around me right now. doesn't have discipline in terms of what he says, sometimes makes these kinds of comments behind closed doors. t...

Phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of actions underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. according to this whistleblower, two things then happened. first, white house lawyers directed officials to remove the electronic transcript from a computer system where these kinds of transcripts are typically housed. and two, the transcript was then loaded onto a separate system that is used to store highly classified information ...