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You might have a situation in which white house counsel was aware of this complaint and aware of concerns and was also involved with giving directions to members of the directorate of intelligence to really do something quite irregular with respect to transferring the transcript on to the code word system. at the same time, joke, 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. that would be another gross ir...

Not leap to the conclusion. it doesn't look good. that's why we're talking about it. it doesn't give the american people confidence or some section of the population confidence that everything was done in exactly the right way. >> if you look at the whistle-blower complaint which everybody can go online and read for themselves, the very first paragraph talks about an allegation about president trump who obviously works at the white house. and an allegation about attorney general barr who obviously runs the justice department. sam, let me ask you, are you surprised to hear that the justice depa...

Call doesn't get out. >> that rough transcript was eventually released and nothing was redacted, so there couldn't be have been much sensitive information. sam, give us some connect hetex what do we need to know? >> while the white house might have tried to scrub the digital record of this call readout from the top secret system and transfer it to the code word system, they can't scrub the verbal readouts. allegedly in the whistle-blower complaint, there were numerous officials at the state department and the house who knew what happened on this call. so the white house wasn't concerned about ...

John? >> reporter: good afternoon to you, dana. little more on the idea of that transcript being moved to a highly secured compute eur system. that is one of the central revelations in the whistleblower's complaint. the whistleblower saying for reasons of wanting to lock down that transcript, it was moved to a code word protected computer system. a short time ago, catherine herridge talked to the former chief of staff at the national security council and he talked to her about it being standard operating pro-sired to put transcripts of phone calls with foreign leaders into that highly secured ...

High security systems that i told exist are one called the top secret information system and one above that which is code word for where information about covert operations are usually housed. might be unusual for a transcript to be housed on that computer. also, was it standard operating procedure for the white house to archive transcripts of calls on that system or is this a one off? catherine herridge interviewed fred flights, the former chief of staff of the national security council who said that to him, it didn't seem like anything unusual to do what the white house did with the zelensky...