the phone call between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine to a secret server. and breaking tonight, investigators have subpoenaed john eisenberg to appear before the impeachment committees next week rather than rely on his voluntary cooperation. that s according to the new york times. new reporting suggests that john eisenberg knew how damaging that phone call was to the president. this man, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who served as national security council s director for ukraine told lawmakers that he went to john eisenberg to register his concerns about the call. according to a person in the room for vindman s deposition, john eisenberg recorded lieutenant colonel vindman s complaints and then conferred with his deputy about how to handle the conversation. politico reports, quote, the lawyers then decided to move the record of the call into the nsc s top secret code word system. vindman did not consider the
handle the conversation. politico reports, quote, the lawyers then decided to move the record of the call into the nsc s top secret code word system. vindman did not consider the move itself as evidence of a cover-up, according to person familiar with his testimony. but he said he became disturbed when a few days later eisenberg instructed him not to tell anybody about the call especially because it was vindman s job to coordinate the interagency process with regard to ukraine policy. nbc news and the washington post have since confirmed that reporting. also breaking tonight, house democrats have scheduled out going energy secretary rick perry to provide testimony to the impeachment committees. a spokeswoman for rick perry told the wall street journal that he won t testify behind closed doors. but the spokeswoman added, quote, if the committee is interested in conducting serious proceeding, they are welcome to
complaints and then conferred with his deputy about how to handle the conversation. politico reports, quote, the lawyers then decided to move the record of the call into the nsc s top secret code word system. vindman did not consider the move itself as evidence of a cover-up, according to person familiar with his testimony. but he said he became disturbed when a few days later eisenberg instructed him not to tell anybody about the call especially because it was vindman s job to coordinate the interagency process with regard to ukraine policy. nbc news and the washington post have since confirmed that reporting. also breaking tonight, house democrats have scheduled out going energy secretary rick perry to provide testimony to the impeachment committees. a spokeswoman for rick perry told the wall street journal
that this was a very far-reaching, wide-ranging conspiracy to pressure the ukrainians to oust the ukrainian ambassador the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, mashie yovanovitch, and basically bring ukraine to its knees in wake of the president s own political objectives in the united states. i do think, though, that it s really interesting, because if there wasn t anything wrong with this phone call, then why were there so many efforts to cover it up? we broke the story yesterday that after he moved the transcript or the record of the call into the top-secret code word system that the nsa uses to dramatically restrict access that officials have to this call, john eisenberg, the white house lawyer, actually told lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who was the ukraine director for the nsc, not to tell anyone what had happened on the call. and remember, vindman had actually participated in the call. he had listened in on it. he was very alarmed by what he heard. and eisenberg was so conc
he cites white house officials stating the transcript was placed in a stand alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence. a former senior national security counsel official who worked in the trump white house questions whether the process was, in fact, unusual. when i handled presidential phone calls at the nfc last year we put it in a top secret code word system. i don t see any difference from what this alleged whistleblower is claiming. i don t think there was a change. a little more on the anticipated testimony from the inspector general friday we understand it will be a non-public or closed session, bill. bill: catherine herridge in washington on that. julie: house democrats fast tracking an impeachment inquiry into president trump. the chairs of three powerful committees issuing subpoenas to secretary of state pompeo for documents related to the