in an e-mail to condoleezza rice, adding blame also rests on his leaders in washington, and yes, hrc. rice responded, completely agree. >> these leaks came from dc leaks on the same day a hacker by the 2.0 released more information from the democratic committee. experts pointed to russian state elements behind those dnc leaks no word on the hacking of the e-mails. >>> up next, the impact hackers are having on both sides of this presidential election. . >>> former secretary of state, colin powell, his personal e-mails leaked on line, calling donald trump a national disgrace and blasting hillary clinton for hubris. the author of "security mom," and good to have you, kevin, you first. before we dig into the content of these e-mails i want to ask you about the impact in general hacking is having on this election, because it's totally unchartered territory. >> it is, and a lot of people are looking at this election and seeing -- there's many new things that have happened in this election. i think this is one of them. but it also brings into play, the idea there are outside forces at work i

condoleezza rice, the national security director, was there and her aid. i had been ordered, as everyone in the west wing was, to evacuate, but i was tracked down to make my way back. when i got in, there were a few people there, but the vice president was squarely seated in the center. work activity was going on. again, i would like to say that it was emotional, but it really was work, work, work. -- the secretary of transportation was trying to locate first and foremost all of the planes. identify the planes, ground the planes. strangely, george herbert walker bush was on a plane. he had to be downed. there were a lot of priorities on what we needed to do. it was a very methodical and organized work environment. i distinctly remember, and i think i wrote this down, that -- the country would be comforted to know that their elected officials in elected positions were functioning at a high level. secondly, i thought because the vice president and the top security team had such deep experience, not just on the subject but deep experience working with each ot

they have all jumped on board. >> what about the silence from condoleezza rice, henry kissinger, george schultz and james baker, you must be so disappointed they are not endorsing donald trump? >> i kind of look at it personally, wolf, i sort of look at this as, there are people in the past, those are great names. those are great people. i have met some of them. i know some of them. i would just say that everybody is going to be making their own decision as we go forward. i am less concerned about people that are looking at how we did things in the past. i am more concerned about people focusing on the future and the type of national security, the type of foreign policy, the type of military, the type of homeland security kind of issues that we must start looking at in a much, much different way. i think this election is an election of change. i think that the people of this country, the united states of america, want change, in a big way. that's what donald trump brings. >> donald trump often says illegal immigration is a national security issue itself. as you know, there is a lot of c

bush was not a tool of cheney or condoleezza rice or of the neocons or anyone else. he was the driving force,se whether it was cia renditions or nsa snooping or the war in iraq, these were all personal decisions made by the president. and everyone in the administration fell into line. let me say a word bet nationalon security council. the nsc was establishedded by the republican 80th congress in 1947. and the idea behind it was to prevent the concentration of power in white house that happened under fdr in world war ii. it was modeled after the british war cabinet and was designed to bring the secretary of state and the secretary of defense, military leadership, in a conference with the president on national security issues. o truman used the nsc that way. eisenhower used the nsc that way. eisenhower met with the nsc every week on thursday at 10:00. and in his eight years in the white house, he presides over 314 meeting of the nsc. the change came with john kennedy. kennedy appointed mcgeorge kendy as hismanal security adviser. neither truman nor icessen hour had a n

. >> so julia, an exchange between colin powell and condoleezza rice.y supported her sort of the so powell writes benghazi is a stup stupid witch hunt and basic faults fall on a cower ageourag ambassador, but blame also rests on its leaders and supports back here, pack kennedy, intel community, ds, and yes, hrc and condoleezza rice replied "completely agree." is this an accurate assessment by the two former secretaries of state. >> i think it is and it's an accurate description of the independents not the witch hunts reports which was 10:00 a.m. bass door made a sincere assessment of his protection and of his safety and security. he was well-known before benghazi as a sort of out-there diplomat. he was out there meeting with people and the assessment was unfortunately incorrect, but as hillary clinton has said, as the state department has said, the standards for him making that assessment and the standards for how that information flowed from the a.m. bar car out in tmbassa fixed. there's no surprising in this expect he calls all of these hearings and s

condoleezza rice replayed, completely agreed.o obviously these e-mails something colin powell never wanted to come out. but a spokesperson confirming that these are accurate e-mails. these are colin powell's actual e-mails declining to comment further. but as you can see, very strong opinions on donald trump, carol, but also some harsh words for hillary clinton as well. >> all right phil mattingly reporting live from flint, michigan, this morning. with me now to discuss all of this senior adviser fordom sarah huckabee sanders, the former south regional director for obama's 2012 campaign, also a hillary clinton supporter. political editor of the root.com and political science professor jason johnson and finally cnn political analyst jackie kucinich also the washington bureau chief at the bailey beast. welcome to all of you. i'd like to ask you these questions one at a time. because i think these issues are so important that i don't want a big argument or a debate. i just want to ask specific questions to specific people so bear wi

powell also seems to defend hillary clinton in an e-mail to former secretary of state condoleezza rice, saying "benghazi is a stupid witch hunt." but the niceties end there. powell told a democratic donor she is working herself to death." and just last month, powell seemed frustrated after clinton publicly suggested he was the reason she decided to use private e-mail as secretary of state. writing that clinton, quote, "could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it. i told her staff three times not to try that gambit." powell has not said who he's endorsing in this race. >> in due course, i will, you this, but i want to wait a little longer. >> reporter: but in 2014, he wrote, "i would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend i respect." he says clinton has "unbridled ambition" and calls her "greedy, not transformational." >> so, let's get right to cecilia vega, live tonight. and cecilia, any response from either campaign tonight, after secretary powell's e-mails were revealed? >> reporter: well, perhap

. >> a if you months after the attacks, national security adviser, condoleezza rice, claimed to one could have foreseen the events of september 11th. >> i don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the world trade center, take another one and slam it into the pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. >> but the families' research showed this wasn't the case. >> there was information on the public record that the government was thinking about exactly that thing. there were only two possibilities. one, that she was lying. the other which is actually scarier, is that even though all this information was there, the national security advisor of the united states didn't know it. that really scared me. >> the families headed to capitol hill. >> i will summarize my testimony as follows. >> kristin, whose husband died in the attack, outlined their findings before a congressional hearing. >> she started with proof that the government had considered this kind of attack. >> in 1993, $150,000

condoleezza rice as the chief of staff. if you think about it it's inconceivable franklin roosevelt would have turned up a selection of the cabinet over to john garner were dwight eisenhower would have allowed nixon to do that especially after the scandal. as a result of the input, bush took office in the subcabinet appointees that are powerfully motivated and equipped to provide the intellectual justification for the president's policies. conservative outlook and articulate, these like-minded ideologues scooter libby, paul wolfowitz, elliot abrams, cheney played an important role in the first two years. he had an office in the white house, they were all white house staff. the energy from the revisio, the tax code in 2001 and after 9/11 the presidential directive to the al qaeda members by military commissions reflected dick cheney's input. they voted himself to the domestic issues. they had run the last three and a half year years and in the cln applied to reduce the national debt. it's your money he said frequently on the

he referenced her having the flu when her doctor said pneumonia, and he had comments about condoleezza ricey. >>> not frequently, but at times when she gets overworked and dehydrated she gets sick. >> 54 days out, is brikt no longer the closer. >> his favor ability is 53%, and favor ability is 58% approval rating. there are a lot of surrogates that will be out on the trail. >>> chris kris tis once was, and now he is talking about why he didn't get that vp slot. >> how much of a factor do you think bridge gate was a factor in you not getting hicked. >> of course. >> how big? >> you have to ask him, but i'm sure it was a factor. >> interesting to hear him say it. >>> the bridge stuff started to build pane build, and his numbers just clamsed across the board in new jersey. i think they ultimately viewed chris christie as a liability. that is why they went with a safer pick in their minds with mike pence. >>> a update on the leaked e-mails coming from colin powell's private e-mail. it was revaealed that he called trump a national disgraduation. donald trump not holding back tweeting out in resp

we discount that and conversations we have with condoleezza rice. rumsfeld and chain nea and he -- cheney and he called them both idiots, but he said they were terrible about how they prosecuted the word and they moved in and they were pretending to know what they were doing in iraq after the invasion and that stuff is important and it is good to have that. i am a big fan of hacked e-mails. the transparency is good even if it -- >> there is a cover your ass element with the iraq war. it is almost as if -- i don't want to say he knew this would come out at some point, but there is an element of i will back away and blame somebody else. the cheneys are anything but idiots. i will say that. >> my take away from this was that he is such an elitist. you read through this e-mail. in one he said he just got back from the bohemian grove. >> not wearing pants. >> in another he is throwing a tantrum at a hampton party. then he is complaining about staying in a guy's second house because hillary is in the first house. >> i do find it refreshing that there is a

his correspond with condoleezza rice were he and she both seem to have a lot of contempt for their contemporaries while they were in the white house. i talked them about the pentagon family. the one type of defense i might offer and it's not much of a defense is that sometimes when things go wrong and you have a policy like we are going to rebuild iraq and it's going to go swimmingly it doesn't work out because what you're trying to do is just impossible. no one can do it. no perfect gerson can do it in sometimes that's why government ales. kennedy: is impossible for people like that who have been in power. it's impossible for them to believe that perhaps they were wrong and they spent the rest of their lives and the rest of their careers defending bad choices. >> i did love that bit of gossip kennedy: you have to feel a little bit bad for colin powell. this is leaked information but i think overall the big losers are hillary clinton and donald trump. it's going to show that hillary clinton was trying to cover her tracks and it goes long with the narrative that she does not tell the whole truth a

. >> justine: >> pam:the emails also show former secretary of state condoleezza rice agreeing with powell's assessment of the benghazi attack. her chief of staff said today, "this was a conversation between friends, nothing more." >> grant: 20 live look from our san francisco airport camera. a little pat g f o g is expected later on. -- taking a live look >> brittney: we still have these warmer temperatures. we will not cool things down. in fact; we will warm things up. >> brittney: more sunshine for us tomorrow afternoon. friday will be the peak and our temperatures about the weekend we will cool down just a few degrees. but closer to average. not like how we started the work week. >> brittney: we have a system of ariel pressure that will work its way away from us and a high pressure system building behind that. we do have more moving end of a direct flow. versus the stronger on shore flow that will give us a lot of f o g in clouds lonely start the morning. >> brittney: tomorrow morning we get up will be in the mid-60s for downtown san francisco, the same thing for san jose. >> brittney: h

if this were a republican secretary of state, condoleezza rice, has done the same thing in office and now running for president with a democratic doj, do you think she would be indicted? >> i think for sure she could be. the case for mishandling classified information was made out by the information the fbi had. it's political judgment as to weather or not because someone is a presidential campaign. it is too big to go forward. >> an fbi report that reads as the one we saw. so much was redacted. the report on her e-mail is highly classified. you read a lot of reports. typically, it would end with, and we recommend prosecution. >> typically it would. for a lower level employee, by signing off that you were aware of the classified system, that would be all the government would need. i want you to step outside that system, that would be it. >> we have all seen the form she signed saying i understand classified information, i understand it's important, i understand i can be charged with a crime if i reveal it. take a listen to tim kaine defending his running meat today. >> she did make a

the first test was during the bush administration and secretary of state was condoleezza rice, the next was in 2009, hillary clinton was secretary of state and then the next were when john kerry was secretary of state. is it right to blame hillary clinton for this? >> partially, she was secretary of state. there's something like 15 million people that live in seoul. if north korea were to attack be in 2010 we started to do this exercise and the chinese and the yellow sea off the coast of korea. it's an economic zone for us. you cannot operate in this area. we've been operating there for years. it was during secretary of st e state's term. on >> juliette kayyem, is that accurate? >> it's one piece of a complicated issue. >> it's easy to say this is a problem. the administration is saying it, the u.n. is saying it. the solutions are limited. they're probably limited to two different things, one is us doing a first strike, to do something in north korea. the second is china. what we're going to need to do is to have china begin to take their support of north korea more seriously as a -- an

and we've heard about that and he makes reference to talking to madeleine albright, talking to condoleezza rices a fraternities of secretaries of state going on. he says he admires her but would rather not have to vote for her. saying she tends to turn things into trouble. everything she touches she screws up with hubris and on the e-mails you see him feeling personally sandbagged. his sense seems to be the clinton team is trying to draw him into the story, blame him for advising her to use the e-mail and being able to point to him and say, well, look, we're just doing what he did and he says, no, i didn't say to have a personal e-mail server. this is not what i said. it's a far more went on dr. oz today and, surprise, revealed one sheet of the result of his physical, here was that moment. >> if your health is as strong as it seems from your review of systems why not share your medical records? >> well, i have no problem in doing it. i have it right here. should i do it? i don't care. [ applause ] it e it's two letters, one is from the report and the other is lenox hill hospital. >> may i see t

. >> we saw these colin powell leaked e-mails and condoleezza rice and colin powell, contemporaries ofnald rumsfeld in the pentagon did their jobs better, the iraq war would have been better. what did you think of that? >> i probably felt badly for colin and condi. they were equal opportunity critics of everybody they wrote about except each other. what did i think about it? sure, was everything done perfectly? i doubt that. overall, i'd give president bush and his administration pretty good marks. perfect? heck no. is it fun to get an e-mail and say bad things about other people? i suppose it helps them feel better, but i kind of find it juvenile. >> and he hasn't confirmed it but it's been reported that george h.w. bush will be voting for hillary clinton. are you surprised? >> no. >> why? >> he's up in years. >> so are you. >> but he's up in years and he obviously comes from a totally different cut than donald trump and he gets his choice and if that's true, he's made his choice, then fine. he can go do what he wants to do. i look at it and say, i don't agree with either 100% of the

the people who had not done that rr robert gates, condoleezza rice, hadley, james schultz, sorry, george schultz, james baker. they had been slamming. i said why are they silent. the reason was two-fold. one, they wanted to keep it dry. they don't want to be seen as pro-clinton. they think it will hurt them after trump loses, if he loses. two, they want to wait for the right time. gates is stepping up, coming out saying hillary is bad but trump is worse. he's ignorant and doesn't take this stuff seriously that's a big thing in republican foreign policy circles. >> if donald trump loses, seem thag it's neck in neck, if trump wins, at least robert gates put himself on record saying this is what i think about leadership. >> most of them expect him to lose, but they are not sure. they expect a fight to come after he loses. hat half the party is pro-trump. they want to be positioned and say when it was time to stand-up, i stood up and said what i felt. >> we'll check back with you as donald trump addresses the crowd at that luncheon. appreciate it gentlemen. president barack obama and hillary

condoleezza rice, the national security adviser was conducting national security council meetings inuation room at the white house, even though the white house was evacuated. >> and that's how my husband, who was then the chairman of the federal reserve found out what had happened to the u.s. >> this country has suffered a devastating attack that will cost us in the sense of loss of life. it will also cost us in terms of our psychological security that we have in this country. >> as a student of history, i've always been interested in what i called the bold print, you know, the chapter headings. 9/11 is a chapter heading. this is when america was changed. this is when the world began a new kind of warfare. was i thinking great thoughts at that moment? no. what i was thinking was we're on to something new here and how it's going to play out, i don't know yet. >> what i think of now in retrospect is that it really was the loss of innocence. it was the last free time where we didn't have to think that terrorists were really going to attack us on the home front. >> our politics became al

colin powell wrote the following to condoleezza rice in an e-mail an he said, benghazi is a stupid witch-hunt. we reached out to the trump campaign for any response to what colin powell said, that national disgrace language. so far from the campaign at least on this topic, we have not heard back. >> peter alexander, thank you. while hillary clinton prepared to go back on the campaign trail tomorrow, her team is out with a new ad this morning. seizing on the new york attorney general's inquiry into donald trump's foundation. >> while he attacks one of america's top charities, his foundation has been fined for an illegal donation. he sent florida aj pam bondi thousands from his foundation just as she was considering an investigation into his sham university. she cashed the check, blocked the case and he tried to cover up the donation. >> nbc's kristen welker is following the story and joins us from chappaqua, new york. this ad is interesting. so many of the ads the campaign believes have resonated have been the focus of donald trump's tone, the image to what he's presented to children with some

the first test was during the bush administration and secretary of state was condoleezza rice, the next was in 2009, hillary clinton was secretary of state and then the in 2013 and this year during secretary kerry's term. is it accurate to blame hillary clinton for these tests? >> >> partially, she was secretary of state. happened on her watch. there's something like 15 million people that live in seoul. if north korea were to attack be -- we've done this exercise every year. if they attack would be tens of thousands of loss of life in seoul. chinese don't want to use yellow sea. it's an economic zone for us. you cannot operate in this area. we've been operating there for years. it was during secretary of state's term. klein chinese demanded we pull the ships out and akweensed. moved exercise to the sea of japan. once you give up those rights hard to get it back and was during hillary clinton's time. >> juliette kayyem, is that accurate? >> it's one piece of a complicated issue. it's very easy to say this is a problem. no one is denying it. the administration is saying it, the u.n. is s

in another e-mail, joel, this one to condoleezza rice, he called the benghazi hearings a, quote, stupideed. doesn't that feed right into the hands of what hillary clinton has said from day one on this? >> we, it's not news to me. as you know. i testified to the committee in 2015. and that was my impression. my testimony there. it did not feel like it was an honest congressional hearing. it did feel like a witch-hunt. it's continued. it failed when they had secretary clinton testify last year. they were not able to get her in any meaningful way on any of the conspiracy theories they have been proposing. so, yes, $7 million, several years of taxpayer time, congressional attention for essentially nothing. so i'm glad that secretary powell said that in the e-mail. again, it's helpful to have this publicly aired. >> if they hack into your e-mails, what will we see? >> well, they'll see what i say here so it will all be good. >> thank you, joel. >> thank you. >> donald trump returning to battleground michigan today, renewing his outreach to african-american voters. he is set to visit water cr

stories about colin powell's e-mails, currently unconfirmed by nbc, including exchanges with condoleezza rice. in december 2015, powell call inquiries into the terror attacks in benghazi, quote, a stupid witch hunt, saying christopher stevens bore much of the responsibility. benghazi is a stupid witch hunt. basic fault falls on a courageous ambassador who thought libyans now love me and i'm okay in this place, powell wrote, but pat kennedy, the intel community, diplomatic community, and, yes, hrc. completely agree, rice responded. in another published by buzz feed, rice apparently criticized former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld for bungling the occupation in iraq. "if don and the pentagon had done their job after claiming the rights to lead post-war rebuilding, things might have turned out differently." and "don should just stop talking, he puts his foot in his mouth every time." >> the hacker has released another batch of internal documents, including what appears to be vice presidential nominee tim kaine's personal cell phone number. the hacker made the data dump at a cyber security

and i'm surprised we haven't heard from powell before and i'm surprised we haven't heard from condoleezza rice and the bush administration impugned in their own foreign policy who can make the case he's dangerous on the world stage and wefully unprepared. >> let's talk about what we're going to see tomorrow. a television spectacular on "dr. oz" donald trump says he's going to reveal his medical records we don't know if that means from his latest checkup or decades worth of medical records. here's how dr. oz describes how he will or will not confront donald trump about whatever information is revealed. listen to this. >> look, the metaphor for me, is this a doctor's office a studio. i don't want to ask questions that he doesn't want to answer. >> that's not how a doctor's office works, by the way. i was just in the doctor's office, and the doctor says, 228 pounds and i said that is pretty good, right? she said, no, your bmi is high you're obese. >> let's hope he's dressed differently than in a doctor's office. >> that's good, too. >> what do you think is going to happen here in this tv reveal?

. >> three senior republican national security figures, condoleezza rice, robert gates and colin powello silent for now. clinton has not put out a list of military supporters though 50 republican foreign policy and national security experts and many veterans of george w. bush's administration signed a letter denouncing trump's candidacy and pledging not to vote for him. >> it is unclear if those still on the sidelines are simply waiting for the right moment or plan to just steer clear of election 2016 altogether. wolf? >> looks like a lot of them are going to steer clear. i want to get involved and i want to announce publicly who they support. it's obviously, a very, very sensitive subject especially for a retired u.s. military personnel, barbara star at the pentagon, thanks very much. a very strong report. >> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> "out front" next, the breaking news. donald trump speaking live right now. new poll showing the race almost in a dead heat

what's fascinating about that exchange as well is that a little later on condoleezza rice, who was theecipient of this e-mail said, totally agree. and i just want to get your perspective on whether this matters to the benghazi argument to the endless requests for investigations of hillary clinton as secretary of state? i will say this, he did say he believes fault also lies back in washington with some of the bosses and hrc as well. that's pretty strident language? >> yes. first of all i can tell you how violated colin powell must feel. >> agreed. >> to have his private thoughts, you know, snatched away from him and plastered across and become a part of this. this man is essentially a fairly private man. one of the reasons he didn't sign that letter. didn't want to get into the fray on this. i know colin powell pretty well, and i can tell you, he is, he's deeply troubled by the course of the nation, that it's on. the leadership. he holds high standards for what our president should be, what our secretary of states should be, he feels people are falling far short of those standards and

." - when i asked former secretary of state condoleezza rice who was the most impressive person who never become president, without hesitation she said, "senator john mccain." now, considered a maverick within his own party, mccain was a war hero who was willing to speak from the heart even when it wasn't politically expedient. shirley chisholm, a black woman who dared to run for congress just three years after african-americans saw the passing of the voting rights act, could be described the very same way. in fact chisholm, another bold straight talker who didn't want to wait her turn. instead she saw an opportunity and she took it. for both john mccain and shirley chisholm, part of the reason they ran and maybe part of the reason they lost, is that these contenders were supremely unbought and supremely unbossed. [upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - delegate strength, because that's the name of the game. you can go to the convention and you can yell, "woman power here i come." you can yell, "black power here i come." white power, any kind of thing. the only thing those hard-nosed boys are going to under

condoleezza rice wrote in her book she met with al maliki, the person serving as prime minister then. he couldn't get it through the iraqi parliament for forces of 5,000 to 10,000 to stay beyond that withdrawal date. leon panetta backs that up, that they sought to keep forces there and also make sure that u.s. troops could be shielded from any type of prosecution within that country, and that benchmark could not be met. do you think that russia is a friend or foe? would you advise donald trump to continue his flirtation with the russian president? >> it's not only donald trump that has, number one, said things about the leadership style of vladimir putin or the results of that leadership. doesn't agree with his policies and those types of things. but this administration is also continuing in developing a flirtation with vladimir putin. first, it was the reset button seven years ago. then it was kind of a cold spell. now trying to develop a partnership and coherent strategy to work with russia to try to stop isis in syria. >> sir, it's good to have you on today. i appreciate your cando

sometime around 8:00 or 9:00, i got a call from west wing, from condoleezza rice's office and they said, how do they make preparations for mrs. rice to accept the president's invitation to stay at the white house for the night. i said, you've just done it. i'll take care of that. so, obviously, she was going to come over at some point. and take a room on the third floor. around 9:30 or somewhere in that vicinity, secret service came running into the office and said, where's the president and first lady? i said, as far as i know, they've retired. upstairs. they said, well, we have word that another plane is coming towards washington. and we need to evacuate. i said fine, let's go. we got on the elevator, went unto the second floor. at that point, the agent had already retrieved the president and first lady. they were in their night clothes and had brought them towards the elevator. i stepped back out of the elevator and yelled for neil to hurry up. he was coming down the hall. he had heard all the commotion. i gathered him with me on the elevator with the president, mrs. bush and secret

if someone messed with condoleezza rice -- i think they would have messed with the president before condoleezzahink he would have punched him. >> he would have gotten in there. >> i went to the summit he spoke after hugo chavez. we went to places where the hostility tour, president bush and the administration was extreme and we were never treated like the president -- this president was treated in china, ever. >> richard haass is here, council on foreign relations. >> insults from philippines leader. >> what happened and what do you think? >> china, wanting to step in and become the next great power, wanting to be respected on the world stage. to treat the united states president, to treat the united states national security adviser this way is inexplicable. >> describe exactly what happened. >> i think it is explicable. >> you've been talking about it for years. >> the president showed up. the proper steps weren't there. all sorts of issues. the press wasn't allowed to go places. >> it was a mess. >> unraveled, chinese officials incredibly combative. the question what's going on. were these ro

in a message to his successor condoleezza rice, he calls it a stupid witch hunt.hen adds basic fault falls on a courageous ambassador who thought libyans now love me and i am ok in this very vulnerable place." >> justine: that is a reference to ambassador christopher stevens, who was killed in the attack. cyber experts say repeated russian hack attacks on american political figures and institutions may be serving the propaganda interests of president vladimir pution. >>this is basically pushing out there fr the american public for the world, very important for the russian political audience that look at whats happening in the united states is any better than any ststems around the world. >> justine: the head of the the house homeland security committee said today that russian hackers also broke into republican party computers. there has been no release of information from that hack. trail thurs.-ots vo >> justine: vicki? >> vicki:"healthy and fit to serve as president of the united states." that's how hillary clinton's doctor is describing the democratic president

powell defends hillary clinton in a e-mail to former secretary of state condoleezza rice saying benghazi is a stupid witch hunt, but the niceties end there. powell told a dpm democratic nominee that clinton doesn't look good, she is working herself to death and just last month powell seemed frustrated after clinton publicly suggested he was the reason she decided to use private e-mail as secretary of state. writing that clinton, quote, could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it. i told her staff three times not endorsing in this race. >> in due course, i'll express my opinion about this, but i want to wait a little longer. >> reporter: in 2014 he wrote, i'd rather not have to vote for her although she's a friend i respect. he says clinton has unbridled ambition and calls her greedy, not transformational. perhaps not surprising, no comment from either side on colin powell's e-mails. the hillary clinton campaign certainly wants to shift the focus while she is still here recovering at home. she does hit the campaign trai

you can read some of those exchanges between secretary morel and condoleezza rice on campaign 2016 canbe found by following along on our website. isjoining us on the phone nick gas, deputy editor for breaking news at politico. his work available online at politico.com. you have had a busy day. >> it has been a busy couple of a few days here at politico. increasingly every single day with this election approaching. some of thek about eight stories you have written so far today. hillary clinton back on the campaign trail tomorrow. she will be in north carolina. in washington dc for a couple of days. a number of events that we will be covering. what can we expect? >> what is most important for hillary clinton is that she gets on the trail tomorrow and shows that she is healthy, that she is able to be transparent about what happened and discuss her plan to improve the lives of americans and defeat donald is thend why don't trump wrong choice. i think that her campaign feels that a return to normal will hopefully improve the sort of swollen that we have seen her sustained in recent polls. >

first of all, the executive director was a condoleezza rice crony.n addition to that, the bush administration was notoriously uncooperative in declassifying anything that had to do with saudi arabia. so the notion that we can look to 9/11 commission as the final definitive word on this matter is flatly false. i titled my topic revealing foreign policy hypocrisy 28 pages at a time. to me that more than anything is what these 28 pages do. the hypocrisy surrounding this starts with the fact that george w. bush on the night of september 11th looked in the camera and told the american people, we will make no distinction between the terrorist and those who support them. just just 48 hours later with the smoke still rising a different kind of smoke is imnating from the truman balcony at the white house as they smoke cigars with french ambassador. that mushroomed even larger as we launched forward to the drive to have a war in iraq. the fabrication between the links of 9/11 and iraq while you're similultaneously hiding links between 9/11 and the hijack ers i