on your w-2 that could protect your refund. and the one mistake made by so many people. and on the eve of the super bowl, why tom brady suddenly cut an interview short. what was said beforehand? good evening, and it s great to have you with us to start another week here. and we begin tonight with the sudden departure of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, the number two man at the fbi, and a frequent target of the president s criticism. mccabe stepped in temporarily when fbi director james comey was fired, defending the scope of the fbi s russia investigation. and defending james comey, saying the rank and file had not lost confidence in him. tonight, the white house answering questions, did the president pressure the justice department in any way to push mccabe out? abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off. reporter: tonight, the number two at the fbi stepping down, following months of blistering attacks from president trump.
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what he did when officers moved in, and the chilling discovery made by detectives. plus, the wild encounter. a man caught on camera in yellowstone taunting a bison. the massive animal at one point, lunging at him. why that tourist is now facing charges. and good evening. it s great to have you with us on a busy friday night. i m tom llamas in for david, and we begin tonight with dangerous storm threats as we come on the air. flash flooding alerts for 50 million people from georgia all the way to maine. in lynchburg, virginia, take a look at this. emergency crews keeping a close eye on the college lake dam now crippled and under repair. 150 homes evacuated over fears it could fail, and this destruction from a rare confirmed ef-0 tornado. hitting new york city, winds up to 85 miles per hour, downing at least 50 trees. powerful storms forcing ground stops at major airports in the northeast.
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good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 578 of the trump administration. and tonight the president of the united states is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling robert mueller discredited and disgraced. he is neither. and now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. the russia investigation. now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. this afternoon, reuters interviewed president trump. they report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him. quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, rudolph giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could be a perjury trap. reuters quotes the president as saying association if i say something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my
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all the big moments and the network s new mission. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august 21st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s 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. let s bring in fred pleitgen. reporter: the organization that we re 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
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russia s 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 don t 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 wasn t the only option he had. president trump also sai