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Lots. there's a handful of national security council staffers. usually the national security advisor and/or the deputy national security advisor, somebody like fiona hill who's responsible for the office that was placing the call and one or two of her staffers and a couple or three people who were note taking in the situation room. >> and who then would have custody on the transcript of such a call? and i ask you that because we now know from the whistle-blower that this particular call to the president of ukraine, the transcript of it wound up in this super secret classified system where norm...

Meteorologists held between trump administration officials and ukrainians to pressure them or dig up or concoct dirt on vice president biden. >> having worked on the national security council, what is the process when a call like this takes place? a number of people are listening in real time, taking notes, presumably not cia detailees because they're not supposed to interfere with anything that's domestic. how does that work? >> so the white house situation room really handles the note taking and the monitoring of the call. there's probably a couple of senior officials potentially in the room...

Thorough would a whistle-blower complaint be if folks are just taking a look at it from the outside? >> yeah. i can't imagine it being very thorough, and i think the other thing is i don't expect it to be a direct transcription of everything that was said on the call. i would be shocked if that's what actually came out tomorrow. instead, i think what is normal is note-taking. it's very normal for them to have one or more note takers during a call. whenever you're talking to a foreign leader, they would then write those things down. they also keep some things sensitive, right? if there's a pers...

Also this whistleblower complaint, what can we actually expect here? when a transcript is put together, how many people are listening in on the call? what types of people are there? how faithful is that transcript going to be? and how thorough would a whistleblower complaint be? >> i can't imagine it being very thorough. i don't expect it to be a direct transcription of everything said on the call. i would be shocked if that's what came out tomorrow. i think what is normal is note taking. it is normal to have one or more note takers during a call whenever you are talking to a foreign leader. t...

>> i can't imagine it being very thorough. i don't expect it to be a direct transcription of everything said on the call. i would be shocked if that's what came out tomorrow. i think what is normal is note taking. it is normal to have one or more note takers during a call whenever you are talking to a foreign leader. they would write those things down. they keep some things sensitive. if there is a personal conversation that might go on or something that's maybe -- they're not probably going to write all those things down. so it really makes me question what we will actually see. my feeling is...