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The State Department is investigating what appears to be a "prank" after its website suggested President Donald Trump's term would end Monday evening.

>> i want to move on now and talk about the wikileaks in reference to hillary clintons e-mail server, and it says jen you probably have more on this, but it looks like potus found out hrc was using her personal e-mail in the news, then the e-mail makes its way to the top clinton advisor, and she writes john podesta, we need to clean this up. he has e-mails from her. they did not say "state.gov," proving president obama was in on the scandal. the white house is saying the president didnt know of ...

But it looks like potus found out hrc was using her personal e-mail in the news, then the e-mail makes its way to the top cliento clinton advisor, and she writes john podesta, we need to clean this up. he has e-mails from her. they did not say "state.gov," proving president obama was in on the scandal. who is right here? >> i dont know who is right, but what i do know is that this would be an enormous issue in these closing weeks of the campaign if it werent for donald trump. its fascinating to ...

Responsive. 90% to 95% of them were on state.gov. i understand that the committee broadened the scope of their request, and i think that in response the state department has been trying to provide what you have requested. in the meantime, theyre going through the process of making all of my e-mails public. >> you think our first request there were only eight e-mails responsive to our first request? >> i cant speak to it. i believe your first request was for benghazi, and i believe that the state...

Again, i think its important to remind it wasnt a violation of policy. its not a violation of policy now as long as e-mails that you are sending from a private like your yahoo account are docume documented on the state.gov account. theres times you have no choice. we want people to use government account. >> a lot of e-mails were born classified. if i write talking about north koreas nuclear situation, thats classified even though not stamped classified. shouldnt someone in government know wheth...

The unclassified system, they would go through the same process. so, again, its confusing and thats why im trying to do a better job of explaining it to the american people. >> you have said that colin powell did the same thing. he actually had a personal e-mail and a state.gov. i dont think theres any precedent for someone just relying on a personal system at your level of government. >> i cant speak for him. thats been portrayed differently depending on how its considered but this was fully ab...

Way of handling it. >> this issue come up surpris g surprisingly often because there is an administrative problem where people do these things and their security officers summon them and warn them and issue repry mandz and it goes in their file. its a serious personnel administrative problem. my only point is i couldnt find a case where this kind of activity had been prosecuted. and thats just worth noting as we assemble our clinton e-mail -- and one more thing, joe. legally, theres no differenc...

Straight to breaking news here on msnbc, new information on hillary clintons private server and e-mails. we were just talking about there. lets go to nbc news justice correspond pete williams on the phone with us right now. pete, what are you learning? >> im at the federal courthouse in washington where theres been a wrinkle in this controversy. a judge has ordered the state department to seek information from the fbi in its investigation of the clinton e-mail server and thumb drives. this is a ...

Thumb drives that relate to the work arrangement. the state department has told judicial watch, the legal watchdog group that wants this information and filed the freedom of information act request, that it has searched all the paper copies, the 55,000 pages turned over by former secretary clinton and found nothing. now the judge says, though, that the state department needs to know whether the fbi finds anything that wasnt in those pages that was on the server or the thumb drive. so its not abo...

Other side here say, well, there was information that before these e-mails were forwarded to an outside e-mail should have raised some eyebrows, things about military intelligence, about the movement of gadhafis forces and that kind of thing that should have perhaps raised some concern about putting them into an even further unclassified system. >> yeah, pete, and the fact they were from a state.gov to an outside server is something that they have been mentioned. thanks for being with me. apprec...