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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 clear that the president is not pursuing foreign policy or national security. he is basically pursuing campaign business. in the case of the prime minister of australia, he was clearly encour...

Through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the president's handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the president's use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. way, way not enough information is known at this point to make a determination. that was problematic. people are saying that ...

You're going to have to go through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the president's handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the president's use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. way, way not enough information is known at this point to make a determination. that was problemat...

You're going to have to go through it quickly -- specific things about what stands out for you about the phone call, what stands out for you about the president's handling of the aid and what stands out for you about the president's use off the books of several private attorneys? >> so first point, quickly on the transcript, a lot of hay being made about the fact that white house officials ordered the transcript moved from a top secret is system to an even more highly classified code word system. way, way not enough information is known at this point to make a determination. that was problemat...

Response, essentially? is that what they are saying about about these latest reporting? >> reporter: yeah, so the white house isn't directly commenting on the saudi and putin calls. they are saying that, look, though, if we try to restrict access, it's because of all these other leaks that happened early in the administration. and we should note, anderson, that a senior white house official did acknowledge earlier today that nsc lawyers moved the now-infamous call to the highly classified system. the official said it was handled appropriately. but we should note while classified, the ukraine c...