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His objectives, multifasedded. it began, one official says, as a vendetta against hillary clinton after the former secretary of state criticized russias parliamentary elections back in 2011. >> we do have serious concerns about the conduct of the election. >> but trying to hurt clintons presidential chances soon morphed into an effort to show corruption in american politics. attempting to split off key american allies, hoping to prove the u.s. is not a credible global leader. the stunning revela...

Want to know more. >> this is ans a sir vary of the united states. were not on the same page with russia on a number of issues and this topic of russias interference in the election process goes back months now to before the election, to after the elect -- when even more data points came out and it became clear that putin himself was orchestrating this, according to the nebraska reports. but looks like the cia is saying, serb most officials. thats putin. so, why is that? what was russia thinking...

I cant imagine any of them have security clerrance. it is all classified information. and i dont see the obama administration rushing to do this. they cant brief congress at this point, how will they brief uncleared civilians who are electors. you point out 69 elector and they are the people who elect the president they are putting out a letter calling for a briefing and 68 of them is democrat and only one of them is republican and they have two leading theories on what is going on. some democra...

Highest level of government, and we are considering what responses can be taken. >> two senior intelligence officials with direct access to the information tell nbc news that vladimir putin authorized the hacks to interfere in the u.s. election. but was he trying to elect donald trump or was there some other motive? that is just ahead. and also on the agenda, the trump campaign responds. >> people seem to think that were not upset about it. we are very upset about it. >> trump transition advis...

Clintons presidential chances soon morphed into an effort to show corruption in american politics, attemptin to split off key american allies hoping to prove the u.s. is not a credible global leader. this stunning revelation comes after the cias recent assessment of the russian government wanted to elect donald trump, a view that the fbi and other intelligence agencies dont fully endorse. and neither does the president-elect. >> theres great confusion. nobody really knows. >> reporter: trump cal...

300. they want to take the board of lex aw-- elections away from th governor. one of those bills was passed in the state senate this afternoon. that bill now goes to the house. folks, its one thing to lose a close race and is be bitter about it. its quite a different one to try to jam through changes to set political powers. then again, this has happened in north carolina before. joining me now in his first national interview is the governor elect of north carolina, governor larry cooper. he is ...

>> we do have serious concerns about the conduct of the election. >> reporter: but trying to hurt clintons presidential chances soon morphed into an effort to show corruption in american politics. attempting to split off key american allies, hoping to prove the u.s. is not a credible global leader. the stunning revelation comes after the cias recent assessment that the russian government wanted to elect donald trump, a view that the fbi and other intelligence agencies dont fully endorse. and nei...

It was embded in our constitution. so the president elect right now is planning to violate the constitution to be clear, at the time of the constitution the delegates, edmoney randall said a violation of this would be grounds for impeachment. were talking about serious -- >> this part of the constitution, david, it said you cant take presents and gifts. shall not accept any present, office, title, or any kind whatever from the foreign states. in other words, unlike the federal bribery laws, whic...

Elect. >> there is great confusion and nobody knows. trump calls the cia assessment ridiculous. >> they have no idea. it could be somebody sit ting i a bed some place. >> the russians seem to agree and telling nbcs richard engel that russia has gone beyond the reasons. >> the mountain of questions is will president obama respond before he leaves office? >> now, the kremlin is calling these reports laughable nonsense and turning the table. joining me now from moscow is richard engel. lets expand ...

Is brand new. this has just happened. weve not had any discussions. i would hope, because he also had his struggles with this legislature and gubernatorial authority, i would hope that he would veto this legislation because its wrong in and of itself. >> we may find out soon enough. the governor elect, rory cooper in north carolina. theres more in the lid of president obamas conflicts of interests. stay tuned. ♪