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Taking it seriously enough. president trump is ramping up his support efforts for perdue. he raised money alongside mitch mcconnell. just a couple weeks ago, his campaign used its massive distribution list for a fund-raising appeal for gardner, ti tillis and ernst, all of this coming as the president is trying to drum up support for his impeachment trial. this is routine, sort of expected for the party, but it comes as republicans are trying to rally these republican senators behind a coherent impeachment defense. for example, vice president mike pence was at capitol hill at the senate republi...

Monitoring it real-time and it's definitely entering a new phase. >> talk about this cable. you used to work on the national security council during the obama administration, that the top u.s. diplomat send to secretary of state pompeo. tell us about that. >> i've written cables and read more than i can count, typically not done in the first person. bill taylor saying it in the first person shows how important this was to bill taylor as a career foreign service officer. normally you do these cables there's a specific distribution list and normally used for communication overseas or mainstay ab...

Started to clamp down in an effort to crackdown on leaks. but as a result, it went from one extreme to the other as we have seen in recent days. >> let's talk about according to your reporting the system that does exist for these phone calls. according to your reporting, the standard practice before donald trump took office is that the president makes a call on a secure line, security officials listen in. records are distributed to the relevant offices. what didn't work with this system? what was the problem? were there people within that group of people that got access to those that were leak...

>> correct. although there are reports now that other calls that may have preceded bolton were also treated this way and stored on the code word system. the national security adviser comes up with what we call a distribution list of who gets to receive that call read out or meeting read out and the document itself is stored on what we call the high side the top-secret level system. unless there is code word material that is a higher level classification in the document to the best of my knowledge, fred, never once did we store a meeting read out on the code word system unless there was code wo...

We would have a phone call with putin or medvedev or another leader in that part of the world in the white house situation room. there would be people listening in transcribing the call. i would be on the phone in the oval office also taking notes in russian and english, and then we would get the transcript and i would clean the transcript up and then we would decide, by the way, who to distribute it to. again, to go back to your earlier conversation about the attorney general, lots of times, especially if the attorney general was invoked in the conversation that he most certainly would have b...