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Next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. nbc news has previously reported trump was first briefed about direct links between vladimir putin's government and the e-mail hacks back on august 17th. he has continued to cast doubt on russian involvement, as recently as wednesday. >> i don't know anything about . i don't know who hacked. i'm n sure who. you tell me, who hacked? i think it's probably unlikely. i think maybe, maybe the democrats are putting that out. >> i mean, it could be russia but it could also be china, it could be lots of people. it also could be somebody ...

She and campaign chair steve bannon seemed to be able to get trump to be more focused, to be more disciplined. the campaign seemed to scale back some of his most provocative proposals. how did that do that and how important was it to his victory? i asked her to take us behind the scenes. >> august 17th, the same day that steve bannon was named campaign ceo, it seemed as though from the outside you and steve bannon were able to convince donald trump to be more disciplined in a way that previous campaign managers had not convinced him to do, had not succeeded in getting through to him. please st...

This. bob, good to see you. so he has had briefings. these are things that every presidential candidate would go through. >> well, if you look at the time line, kate, he was bereariefed august 17th. we have seen it. of course, on friday, where the office of the director of national intelligence the department of homeland security comes out say they have high confidence of russia and he goes on with the debate and says he does not know that. in addition, to his own briefing we are told that there has been addition nall briefing of staff, and the clinton campaign getting access of the latest

Arb. you had talked about in that line of questioning that you, in fact, had closed, made the decision to close some embassies based on the premise, 1998 arb recommended secretary of state should personally review the security situation. you made a distinction between whether walls should be ten foot high versus whether or not it was a highly vulnerable situation. and so i wanted to ask you, as i was listening to that, knowing i was going to address these august 17 memos, i wanted to ask you, when you were looking at these two memos on august 17th, when said security was one in disarray, and t...

Decision. at this point, what we were trying to do was work with the libyan authorities, that's what the august 17th memo from secretary -- deputy secretary nides refers to. trying to provide additional security assistance so that the libyans could do more to assist themselves. and you know, it is the case that in the world we're in today, there are a lot of places that are dangerous. violence goes up and goes down, part of what acting assistant secretary beth jones was referencing in this memo is, this is a new -- is this a new normal? and the secretary does personally oversee the decision to...