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Administration did not blame cuba for the incidents, contrary to the president's own words. >> and now in an exclusive and intensive interview with nbc news, cuban officials forcibly deny as they continue to investigate. andrea mitchell has more details. >> reporter: u.s. embassicy virtually shut down. president trump blaming the cubans. >> i do believe cuba is responsible. >> reporter: now in the first interview, cuba's investigative team and top officials pushing back. did you do it? >> translator: without hez tags, i'm telling no. >> reporter: the colonel says they've had nearly 2,000 peopl...

About what they have learned, the investigations, they were this week meeting with the fbi giving them their preliminary report as this medical mystery threatens to strain relations between u.s. and cuba back to a wild war freeze. the u.s. embassy in havana shut down. u.s./cuban relations in an escalating crisis two. dozen american embassy staff have reported mystery ailments. president trump blaming the cubans. >> i do believe cuba is responsible. >> reporter: now in the first interview, cuban officials and top officials and a doctor pushing back. did you do it? >> translator: without hesitat...

Talk to the physicians in miami and elsewhere who treated these 24 diplomats who had a variety of ailments, some minor, some hearing problems, minor hearing problems that went away, some profound. >> we originally had seen news reports originally pin it directly on cuban officials, the cuban government. we backed off that a bit. >> quite a bit. >> what is the u.s. government's position right now on this? are they willing to say that the cuban government was not involved? >> what they're saying, what general kelly said last week in the briefing, what officials are saying at the state department...

As many as 2100 flights into the u.s. on any given day. the cuban government pushing back on claims that a sonic weapon was used against american diplomats in havana. according to reports top cuban officials are calling the claim, quote, science fiction and slander. they're finally talking, steve? >> reporter: dana, they are talking. they're very angry. they're pushing back hard against these claims that they carried out so called sonic attacks against american diplomats in havana. cuban officials say they don't even have the technology to carry out such attacks. they carried out an exhaustive...

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