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You need to be when you work on capitol hill. kacie, thank you very much. >> thanks, katy. russian president vladimir putin again denied that his country was involved in this election hacking. >> translator: it is my contention that no hacker will have control in any country. in syria, it is possible. nevertheless, i must stress that at the state level, we are never engaged in these kinds of activities. >> this has the house intelligence committee issued seven subpoenas related to alleged ties...

Looks an awful lot like the room youre seeing now. they put up volunteers to play the parts of senators. in all, the transition team says there have been some 200 volunteers coming in and sort of play-acting the role of senators, quizzing them with questions, lines of questioning like you can expect sessions to see at this hearing today. theyve done, you know, some 120 questions per session that last for hours each. >> theyre probably thrilled to do this. they didnt get to do it for the debates ...

Individuals, but to my supervisors, to my colleagues, in more than one office. >> and that was edward snowden claiming that he had attempted to raise the red flag within the nsa before leaking those documents to the world. nbc has confirmed with multiple forces snowden did indeed send at least one e-mail to the general counsels office raising policy and legal questions but officials say he wasnt sounding alarms. nbc news filed a freedom of information request for that and any other records to be...

>> do we know whether shooting in syria will be taken seriously by the people deciding, the mullahs, whether to weapon nice their nuclear capability in iran? do we know that they think like we do? >> we certainly dont know that they think like we do. and iran is such a complex and many-layered place, with so many layers, areas of control that its hard to identify one position for the government. one thing the obama administration is hoping is that the mullahs would say wow, we dont want to get o...

>> i also want to ask you about the sort of failure of -- failure of american confidence and intelligence. because now were hearing new questions being raised, whether or not the syrian chemical -- syrian regime was involved in chemical weapon use. the president said finally, somewhat reluctantly, agreeing with the british and the french and other intelligence services, that the red line was crossed. now theyre coming back and saying, if youre not on the ground, you cant really trace the chain o...

So its important that we first of all make sure that there is no one else outstanding, we dont believe there is but we must mak absolutely certain of that. >> joining me w, msnbc contributor, shawn henry and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, jerry bash. shawn, starting with you on this, were getting reports from matt and mayor saying were going to see a lot more presence on the street right now. live pictures, it shows there is a presence. what are they doing right now?...

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