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To u.s. embassy facilities. in the worst instance, the marine who was convicted of espionage and served nine years in prison, he apparently handed over blueprints for the embassy facilities. and then as thatoney trap scand public in 1987, the story also finally went public about the kgb embassy construction scam fiasco, and how russia was able to sew intrinsically compromise the basic building bones of our embassy. >> reporter: the new ambassador to moscow, jack matlock, arrived today. his first job, secure the embassy. the state department has asked the nation's top-secret national security a...

Back channel with russia? i mean, he tries to y s ties to away, but this is a nation-state many consider an enemy. how do you explain that? >> he said in his statement kiselak said to him, hey, do you have at the transition offices a way to communicate securely with our generals? and kushner said no. by the way, that's not true. i worked on transitions. there are secure communications attrition offices. jared turned it around and said however we can go to the russian embassy and speak on secure communications channels with your senior officials in russia with those who have responsibility for ...

Straight to you. because it looked like certain things got straight to your inbox and the requests for more security did not. and while you're answering that, i want to instruct why i'm asking that. you mentioned arb on a number of occasions again today. this is not the first arb. we had one after kenya and tanzania. that could not have been more specific. the secretary of state should personally review the security situation of our embassy facilities. that arb put the spoblt squarely on you. so with respect to that previous arb recommendation and in contrast, what did make your inbox versus w...

In the talking points about what happened in benghazi. >> cnn's barbara starr is reporting tonight that you as an administration are readying yourselves for more action to go into libya and track down the people responsible. can you comment on that? >> that's part of the investigation led by the fbi that the president ordered immediately in the aftermath of the attacks in benghazi. and i think that whatever activity is being undertaken, and i can't confirm something like that, but whatever activity is being undertaken, i think represents and elucidates the fact the president has made sure we a...

Security secretary is saying that biden link the libya attack to a protest over that video erroneously because the intelligence community was providing that information. general michael hayden who led the c.i.a. and michael chertoff, both officials in bush administration they are, quote, disappointed by the vice president's remark. it is clear that any failure was not on the part of the intelligence community but on the part of the white house decision makers who should have listened to and acted on available intelligence. vice president also said the white house has not been alerted to any ad...