The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The 2016 election including some of President Trumps primary opponents. This does spook to trumps own administration. Speak to trumps own administration. The only person who doesnt see this is the president himself. This morning a series of tweets from the president but none condemning this. I was reminded instantly reading this of marco rubio. Marco rubio, the republican running for president in 2016 warned when the john Podesta Emails were coming out through wikileaks i want to warn my fellow republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks, today its the
intelligence agencies and in term of being able to stop this . I dont know that its u. S. Intelligence agencies or the president himself. There are two ways you can deter this conduct. One is to make it impossible for the adversary to succeed. You impose such a
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Russias largest Arms Expo Set to Desk Plisplay the fighter je hyper sonic missile. Another way they want to challenge america. Guys. Fascinating. Fred live for us this morning in russia. Thank you. Three minutes past the hour. Imagine a world where you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how the investigation proceeds. President trump using monday about pushing Robert Mueller aside and running the russia investigation himself. In an interview, the president has chosen not to get involved in the probe. He says i dont have to stay out as you know. I can go in and i could do whatever. I could run it if i want. Jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. He was out of it. It was better if he did. It is interesting. He was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the
decision to stay out. It wasnt the only option he had. President trump also said he is concerne
All the big moments and the networks new mission. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 21st. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the latest. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. Microsoft stopped the attack last week. The company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. Lets bring in fred pleitgen. Reporter the organization that were talking about, the Hacking Group, called fancy bear. That is the group that hacked into the dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. U. S. Intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by Russian Military intelligence known as the gru. As far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institute. Both critical of President
derogatory term bemoaning the immigrants from s hole countries in africa. the verdict watch resumes this morning in the paul manafort trial. jurors will return for a fourth day in the bank and tax fraud trial. the former trump campaign chief faces 18 counts of crimes. his defense team sees it as a good sign the jury has not reached a verdict after three days. manafort faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all charges. later today, the trump administration rolls back clean air provisions put in place by president obama. the move gives states power over emission standards for coal fired power plants. this is expected to increase the release of carbon dioxide at a rate 12 times higher than current standards allow. those emissions can lead to heart disease and stroke and cancer. the issue likely to come up tonight when president trump headlines a rally in west virginia.
hole. i can t believe i m saying this. you re geeking out. but it s exciting. through the prism of an executive branch that is criticizing the federal reserve here. higher interest rates could weigh on that ch. the trump administration is green lighting a rollback of obama-era clean air provisions that critics say could come at the expense of public health. it aimed to reduce greenhouse gases from power plants by 32% from where they were in wife the and they had to do this by 2030. it s also federally regulating emissions for the first time, but that will go away. this is a proposal signed by andrew wheeler who once worked as a coal industry lobbyist and it now puts the power in the hands of the states to decide emission standards and set them for coal fired power plants. states would have the right to