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>> you did not ask the lawyers to put it on the code word system, correct? >> i want to be precise about the lexicon here. i did not ask for it to be moved to a compartment and system. >> you just wanted the transcript to be controlled. >> i wanted access to be restricted. >> okay. when you learn that the transcript had been stored on the department server, you believe that was a mistake, correct? >> it was represented to me that it was a mistake. i was trying to pull up that man can't, because we were in the process of pulling together ambassador bolden's materials and the presidents material...

>> yes. >> you didn't ask the lawyers to put it on the codeword system, correct? >> i want to be precise about the lexicon here. i did not ask for it to be moved to a compartmented system. >> okay. you just wanted the transcript to be controlled? >> i wanted access to be restricted. >> okay. and when you learned that the transcript had been stored on the compartmented server, you believed that was a mistake, correct? >> well, it was represented to me it was a mistake. i was trying to pull up that memcon because we were in the process of pulling together ambassador bolton's materials and the pr...

Vindman. what should we look to hear from them. >> vindman was one the first officials to testify that top white house lawyer john eisenburg moved the record of that phone call into this top secret code word system. and in an effort essentially to restrict access to it. to conceal it. because he thought that it contained of course very politically damaging information and that the president asking for investigations into the bidens from volodymyr zelensky. and vindman has also testified that john eisenburg told him to be quiet about the phone call further adding evidence to this idea that perh...

What is unusual is to put it into a code word system that very few people have access to it. now there's only two reasons that one would do that. one is to actually protect very classified information such as the identities of spies or covert programs. which raises the question of why would a president be talking about that with a foreign leader. unknown. or to try to hide what the conversation was about. which is it here? i think we'll find the answers to that as well. you also have to remember when the president of the united states is on the phone with a foreign leader, that is a big deal f...

It's especially shocking in the realm of foreign affairs where the president has vast authority to represent the country, vast discretion, and we expect him to champion our national security. but clearly it's obvious in these phone calls that he was undertaking with the president of ukraine, with the prime minister of australia, probably also with the crown prince of saudi arabia, with president putin of russia -- those are some of the phone calls that we understand have been placed into the code word system where it's hard to get at them. i think the reason why that's happened is because it's...