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It only raises the question, what is in those transcripts and in those documents? what is it that the president said? what leaders are they with? is it just regular calls with allies? is it calls with vladimir putin? it just heightens the issue of what is tucked away in this highly classified channel in the white house. >> it object lit ratliterates t the white house introduced yesterday. they hid that call away with human intelligence protocols. >> that's right. the dni indicated it had to be intelligence activity. this is intelligence activity. when you start moving things into the intellige...

Are detailies who operate those systems. that's where representative quigley started to come in and a ask good questions. what is mr. giuliani's role? i would have followed up and said, was he meeting with the head of a security service with a foreign nation, was that business on behalf of the united states government? i thought it was interesting how the dn i felt said, i don't really know what his role is, what his position is, i don't know what he's doing, which supports a lot of the allegation. what's really going on, who is in charge of this government, what is the intelligence activity, ...

To the intelligence community's inspector general. bradley, let's go back. this is the precipitating event. let's go back to how this is supposed to work and how it did or didn't work in this particular instance. if i am in the government and i see something -- i'm sorry. if i have a complaint, i see something that might be a national security concern, what is supposed to happen and what did happen. >> what is supposed to happen, you submit the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community. it's a standard form you fill out, provide any supporting information you have to val...

Law, soliciting in effect a foreign campaign contribution. the crux of this is the department of justice said no, that doesn't hold water or meet the standard for passing this complaint to congress, because it doesn't concern an intelligence activity or the conduct of somebody in the intelligence community and additionally the president was potentially asking for in this conversation did not amount to a thing of value. so that seems to be the rationale from the trump administration behind this based on your team at the justice department's reporting. does that hold water to you? >> i think the...

This from folks at the white house and then said, hey, this might be a problem, this might be soliciting a foreign contribution, but that because it didn't involve an intelligence activity or anybody in the intelligence community's actions it didn't fit that. nonetheless justice said it should have been referred to for criminal investigation which is what they said happened. so actually i think from doj's perspective they think they handled this right. >> what do you think, neil? >> i think there were two revelations, not one. they're focussing on this call readout which says the ukrainian pre...