mr. stone on august 17th, are you aware, received a communication from gusifer 2 that said, quote, i m pleased to say that you are great. please tell me if i can help you anyhow. it would be a great pleasure to me. are you aware of that communication from essentially gru through gusifer to mr. stone? i have to give you the same answer. are you aware that mr. stone was in touch with mr. asangs and wikileaks? same answer. this is a question i think can you answer. do you know whether the russian intelligence service has dealt directly with wikileaks o whether they, too, used an intermediary? we assessed they used some
about the reaction in moscow and abroad? well, chris, i m afraid we have a bit of a fire alarm going off right now. the last 24 hours we ve heard outrage matt, we re going to let you take care of that and we ll come back to you when the fire alarm ends and hopefully there s no actual fire in our london bureau. meanwhile, the transfer of power to president-elect trump takes place in 21 days. last night trump released a statement on actions against russia. it s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, i will meet with leaders next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. as nbc has previously reported, trump was first briefed about direct links between vladimir putin s government and the e-mail hacks on august 17th, but he has continued to cast doubt on russian involvement as
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 sitting on their bed that weighed 400 pounds. anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the russians. she doesn t know if it s the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it s russia or china or somebody, it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. i think we ought
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 stay on message, please stick with your teleprompter, not that he only stuck with his teleprompter, but the kind of one might call them self-inflicted wounds, your campaign calls them that with the clinton campaign. some of the gaffes that he made, most of them took place disproportionately before you and steve bannon took over. i m wondering what did you and
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