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Is that what they are saying about these latest -- this 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 tried 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 early today, the nsc lawyers moved the now infamous ukraine call to the highly classified system. the official said it was handled appropriately. but we should note while classified, the ukraine call di...

>> the whistleblower, the information. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? we used to handle them differently than we do now. >> reporter: the white house is after donald trump took office it was concerned too much information were leaking out. this came after details of private conversations with former leaders of australia and mexico leaked to the press. the was a blower alleged the white house was trying to lock down the contents of a with ukraine and national security official told fox news securing conversations is common at the white house. >> when i handled t...

Electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the calls did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. let's bring in our legal panel, a former new york state assistant attorney general and former senior investigative counsel for the house oversight he reform committee and michael j moore, a former u.s. attorney and partner at pope mcglamery law firm. does the white house have the discretion to store...

So how that's stored, how that's stored and where it's stored is also up to the president. there had to be two reasons why they did it. either they stored it in a different computer system if it's true because they were worried about leaks or because they wanted to engage in a coverup. if it was a coverup, they wouldn't have released the transcript and i was listening to the segment leading into this, arthel, and one of your other experts who used to work on the national security counsel mentioned that it was not uncommon to store these types of documents on a code word system. so i'm sure thi...

According to white house officials, i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration of a presidential transcript was placed into this code word system. >> great. >> this is a cover up. this is a cover up. >> i thisnk the whistleblower dd the right thing. he follows the law every step of the way. >> we expect more subpoenas to go out first thing next week. we are moving with all the speed. coming up, the new york times did something you don't see a newspaper did this week. you will see it happening again. that's next when "the 11th hour" continues. e 11th hour" continues. of...