So, you know, as claire was saying, there are so many more substantive allegations now including this misuse and abuse of a highly classified Intelligence Community Computer Network system. And for people to say that this didnt fall under the dnis purview is wrong. The dni is responsible for maintaining the integrity of those systems. And if it is being used to cover up political corruption, that requires an investigation. And whether or not the senior official was asked to hide that material inside that Computer System. So i do think that donald trump and his associates are in a heck of a lot more political trouble right now than they were 48 hours ago because of the substantive flow of these allegations coming through,
again all reinforcing the theme that this is a corrupt white house that will stoop to doing anything in order to prevail in elections as well as to cover their krucht trackcorrupt track. Weigh in on the idea that President Trump took all of the conduct detailed in the
A foreign lead er soft take the dozen white house officials and the people around pompeo that knew about it, the people around bar that knew about this, the people around the white house that knew about this. The people around zolinski that knew about this. Suddenly this little conspiracy expands. And it is something that cannot be contained and barr knows he is on the hot seat now. He can play it cool if he wants to, but a 30,000 Christmas Party at the trump appropriate is not going to protect him, zolinski will have to explain this as well. The you trainians are saying we knew if we didnt play ball that we were not going to get military equipment. This is something that the white house cannot tamp down. The one thing they find intriguing here is the electronic tape of the conversation used to get this transcript was to they destroyed the transcription. Do we have somewhere is there somewhere in president ial recordings this recording of this conversation because i think in the end th
for this. we are determined to find out. that was chairman adam schiff following reports that the white house saused a highly concealed server system to conceal transcripts. leading to questions whether the president had release classified information. joining us now, our white house correspondent, one of the authors is michael crowley. let s be clear about this. there are different levels of where you keep things in the white house and there would be a reason to use this more highly classified system or however you want to describe it. a code word level system that reduces the number of people who have access to it. the reason to do that would be because there would be natural
the rubicon here. i m announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. she s talking about impeachment. by the way, she hasn t even seen the phone call. the trump administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. who those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader. impeachment for that? that word now that we have the whistle-blower complaint. if you read through the appendix, it says this. according to white house officials i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information, not the first time. great. this is a coverup. this is a coverup. i think the whistle-blower did the right thing. i think he followed t
classified server used for the country s most sensitive secrets, the whistleblower claimed, quote, according to white house officials i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting political sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. the last claim from the anonymous whistleblower was enough for house speaker pelosi to call the situation at the white house a, quote, cover-up. leland: nevada has become first republican congressman to come out in support for impeachment inquiry into president trump adding his name to a very long list of democrats already backing this move, joining us now to react former georgia congressman who debated on the heels 20 years, jack kingston, good to see you, sir, does this bring back any memories, good, bad? well, it does in one sense in that everybody is running to their partisan corner right now.