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Corrosive effect across our intelligence community when our number one customer and our leader is violating those standards. >> larry, you were senior director of the white house situation room. you worked in the cia, as i said. i want to get a sense of the abnormality of the way things were compartmentalized. the meeting that took place in the oval office with kislyak and lavrov. the president of ukraine was compartmentalized. how out of the normal is it what happened in the trump administration? >> very unusual given the nature of the materials that they seem to be wanting to put into this c...

Lunatic or a whack-a-doodle. this is someone leading a group of people who were involved in inagency review of the ukrainian policy. and perhaps drew the short straw. perhaps volunteered to represent the group's viewpoint on what is going on out of a sense of frustration. >> what about the details whistleblower reveals about how the record of this phone call was treated after the fact with white house lawyers ordering people to move it into a high security area? >> a number of very unusual aspects of that. number one version unusual for the white house lawyers to be making a call about classif...

Secret aspects of our tension intelligence business, covert action plans and policies, sensitive reconnaissance developments. very sensitive diplomatic initiatives. could there be phone calls stored in that database? yes. if a world leader was talking to the president and they were talking about a covert action plan that we were relying on a foreign government to support, yes. a phone conversation about that would be appropriately classified and put in that database. this phone conversation was barely secret. it was very easily declassified. putting it in that database is an affront to the sta...