the country remains divided in terms of its willingness to stay the course on mask wearing and social distancing for the final month before the vaccine has been distributed. president biden is expected to preview what a return to normal will look like here. he ll also address the grief of a nation consumed for one whole year. the anniversary marks the day for many americans, the grim reality, from the washington post, quote for most people march 11th was when the crisis first became real. it was the day of a high-profile diagnosis, and official decidingation of pandemic. schools closed, streets emptied and commuters stayed home. we didn t know it then, but the virus had already infected thousands. over the next 12 months, leaders bungled opportunities to quell its spread. case levels rose, fell, rose again. hope endured and more than 525,000 people lost their lives. dr. anthony fauci, who has become a household name, first for his beleaguered attempts, acknowledged today
Conversation she had about Campaign Aides about thencandidate donald trump and the possibility of a tape on which trump uses the nword. This recording made public just hours after the president Accused Omarosa of lying after she called him a racist. And tonight, the white house is pressed. Can you guarantee the American People there will be no such tape . Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter tonight, president Trumps Campaign is taking legal action to silence omarosa, as the president himself launches a vicious counterattack, calling his former Senior Adviser a crazed, crying lowlife, adding, Good Work By General Kelly for quickly firing that dog is this any way for a president to talk about any american, let alone somebody that he hired and made the highest ranking africanamerican woman that served in his white house . I think the president is certainly voicing his frustration with the fact that this person has shown a complete lack of integrity.
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
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