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
trap truth isn t truth. giuliani attempted to clean that up monday saying he was referring to the classic he said/she said dilemma. a perjury conviction requires someone willfully telling a lie. not he said/she said. that is something that happens in court every day. white house counsel don mcgahn s cooperation with mueller s team has unsettled president trump. the president approved the mcgahn cooperation, but two telling cnn the president did not know the interviews stretched 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. as to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators? the trump legal team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. the white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahn s testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. the president in full attack mode on monday with tweets.
president trump. the president approved the interview, but the president did not know the interviews stretched for 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. as to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators? the trump legal team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. the white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahn s testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. the president in full attack mode on monday with tweets. d disgraced robert mueller and his team of thugs. they are a national disgrace. not deterred by the twitter attacks, melania trump. she addressed an anti-cyber bullying summit monday.
omarosa a dog is not having impact. certainly not at all. i point out the approval rating is still low. 14%. harry enten, thank you. white house counsel don mcgahn s cooperation with bob mueller s team unsettled donald trump. the president approved the mcgahn cooperation, but two telling cnn the president did not know the interviews stretched 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. as to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators? the trump legal team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. the white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahn s testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. the president in full attack mode on monday with tweets. disgraced robert mueller and his angry democrat thugs looking to impact the election. they are a national disgrace.