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
china and u.s. gear up for trade talks. a chinese delegation heads to washington tomorrow. investors like the two countries keep trying. wall street closed higher. s&p 500 is less than 1% from a record high. one day shy of the longest bull market on record. s&p has risen more than 300% from the march 2009 low. tesla shares near a three-month low as investors doubt the plan to take tesla private. jpmorgan chase slashed the price target for tesla. musk tweeted he secured funding for a buyout. jpmorgan chase denies that is true and doesn t believe there is a formal proposaproposal. shares recovered by close. the tweet from musk triggered scrutiny with the sec probe. pepsi is buying sodastream.
talking. s&p s&p s&p is just shy of an all-time high. tesla shares hitting a three-month low. shares fell 4% after jpmorgan chase slashed its price target for tesla. musk previously tweeted he secured fund for a buyout. jpmorgan chase denies that is true and does not believe there is a proposal. shares were covered by the close. the original tweet triggered an 11% rise in tesla stock. it triggered an sec probe. pepsi is buying sodastream. pepsi will pay $3.2 billion for the company. sodastream is a healthy ail