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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 with trump campaign officials and his associates. those also unmask trump associates in the adminis...

Looks an awful lot like the room you're 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. they've done, you know, some 120 questions per session that last for hours each. >> they're probably thrilled to do this. they didn't get to do it for the debates because donald wouldn't prep that way! >> that's actually a very good point. i spoke with jerry ...

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 counsel's office raising policy and legal questions but officials say he wasn't sounding alarms. nbc news filed a freedom of information request for that and any other records to be continued. i'm joined by jerry bash and also served as chief of staff to jane harmon, current dir...

>> 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 don't 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 it's hard to identify one position for the government. one thing the obama administration is hoping is that the mullahs would say wow, we don't want to get our nuclear facilities whacked like just happened in syria. so let's not do anything provocative i...

>> i also want to ask you about the sort of failure of -- failure of american confidence and intelligence. because now we're 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 they're coming back and saying, if you're not on the ground, you can't really trace the chain of evidence, but the syrians won't let the u.n. inspectors on the ground. have we reached a point...