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Code word system, and that's only used for highly classified material including covert operations, you know, other things that, you know, should have a tight close-hold system, but if you look at many of these calls they don't actually have classified information on them. >> do we know it doesn't have classified informations? when it is classified at this point? you mentioned in reporting there at politico it is a stark departure from how the servers normally is used and how memos of the president's exchanges are typically handled. the question -- you mentioned it was after those leaks with th...

Respect to transferring the transcript on to the code word system. i am very surprised to hear from the department of justice that attorney general barr did hear about the contents of this call until reportedly weeks after it happened. the department of justice issued that as a statement a few days ago. attorney general barr was mentioned by name on the call with the president and he is saying that he did not have any knowledge of the fact that he was named in the call despite the fact he was named by the president of the united states and somehow other officials at the state department went t...

Officials are explaining where these were stored? >> a white house official acknowledged a key graph of the whistle-blower was accurate. in a statement it said nfc lawyers directed the classified document, talking about the transcript between zelensky and trump, be handled appropriately. what the white house is saying according to the senior official is, yes. nsc lawyers directed it be listed in the code file, nothing wrong with it and making the argument the transcript was classified as every head of state transcript is, but, brianna, the code word system that the crypt was moved into is rese...

National security adviser would either personally or via his senior team authorize folks to give a verbal readout of what happened to key personnel at the state department, dni, cia, and other relevant officials while waiting for the official transcript or call readout to be finalized and sent around. so this defense that this was to prevent leaking really doesn't hold water, especially based upon the fact that this call readout wasn't initially classified at a code word level, in which case it would have been handled in the first instance on the code word system. >> house speaker nancy pelosi...

Particular that the zelensky transcript didn't fit the criteria that would normally be required to be moved to this code word system. that is for documents that contain intelligence secrets, military secrets. covert operations. we've seen the transcript. it didn't contain any of that. it was just politically sensitive to the president, jake. >> not just politically sensitive in the view of some loyals, po tegsly even criminal. today president trump attacked the whistle-blower on twitter suggesting he or she is a partisan operative. that's a claim his own director of national intelligence and t...