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
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. The russian investigation. Thats now off the table the president Praising Manafort as a good man, but at the same distancings from his former campaign chairman. I still feel its a very sad thing that happens. It has nothing to do with washington collusion. This started as russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do. Its a witch hunt. It is a disgrace. In West Virginia last night the president whipped up the crowd with his attack on the Special Counsel. Russian witch hunt. We got a whole big combination where is the tlugs . You know, theyre still looking for collusion. Where is the collusion . Find some collusion. Despite all the devastating news for the president. His supporters still revived some familiar chances at this rally last night. Tomorrow, following charges from using Campaign Finance money for personal purchases. In one instance, buying clothing at a golf course and re reporting the purchase as balls
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Island. A slide at one of the major roads across the island and some voluntary evacuations in hilon. This particular location, we had hilo. In this particular location, we had six or seven hours of rain dumping down. Crickets. The rain has stopped. The wind. There is almost none now. We are waiting for the next band if it comes from the hurricane. Many other islands of hawaii remain under Hurricane Warning right now. The big question is honolulu and oahu. The island with honolulu county. Population is 400,000. How close will lane come to it and how will people fare there . They are concerned of flooding in honolulu. Easier to deal with it on the big island where they are accustomed to rain. Honolulu is not looking forward to this and people battening down the hatches there. Back to you. Miguel marquez live for us in
pahala. Thank you. A new advisory from the National Weather service. For the latest on that, we are joine
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Many are linked to iran for card fated manipulation. It comes after microsoft took control of websiteles. Republican california congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife will be arraigned in Federal Court tomorrow, fooling their indictment on 250,000 in campaign funds. The stinging indictment alleges the hunters knowingly conspired with each other, if one instance, buying clothes a at a golf course and reported the purchase as balls for Wounded Warriors. House Speaker Paul Ryan has removed him from Committee Assignments during the case. Hunter was the second member of Congress To Support President Trump. First, Chris Collins was recently indicted on insider trader charges. Details about this. Mollie tibb etc. Is somebody people wanted to find. People started weeping very loudly, very upset about the details of. This from what they know, there was a under Surveillance Camera in the neighborhood. They started going through h