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by Countable's Trump Impeachment Coverage | 9.27.19

September 27th, 2019:

The 30-second recap: A whistleblower complaint, which led to a House impeachment inquiry, accuses White House officials of trying to conceal \"politically sensitive\" information about President Donald Trump's July 25th phone call with Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky. During the phone call, Trump asked Ukraine's leader to \"do us a favor\" and work with Attorney General William Barr and Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, to \"look into\" former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.

220 House members support an impeachment inquiry.

Pelosi: Attorney General Bill Barr has \"gone rogue\"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Friday that she believes Attorney General William Barr has \"gone rogue\" with how he handled Trump's now-infamous call with Zelensky.
In the partially-redacted whistleblower complaint made public on Thursday, the whistleblower wrote that \"the president’s personal lawyer, Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well.”
\nDuring a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire said he handed the whistleblower complaint to Barr's Justice Department before (as mandated by law) giving it to Congress. The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel decided the matter was not of \"urgent concern\" and did not, as statutorily mandated, deserve to be forwarded to Congress.
Pelosi said on Friday:

\"This is my wheelhouse, as I said to the president. 25 years of experience in intelligence. ... I was there when we wrote the whistleblower laws. I was there when we wrote the law establishing the office of the director of national intelligence. That's only since 2004.\"

White House admits Trump's Ukraine phone call record was moved to secret server

A White House official confirmed Friday that Trump administration officials directed that the Trump-Zelensky transcript be filed in a highly-classified system.

\"[National Security Council] lawyers directed that the classified document be handled appropriately,\" a senior White House official told CNN.

The statement appears to confirm one of key claims in the nine-page whistleblower report: That senior White House officials intervened to “lock down” all records of the phone call - including the official word-for-word transcript that’s customarily produced by the White House Situation Room - by placing it in a system used to store and handle classified information of a sensitive nature. One official told the whistleblower that this was an abuse of the system, because it didn’t contain anything remotely sensitive.

Where we are in impeachment proceedings?

—Josh Herman

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