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Now, were following two major breaking stories tonight he case begins. Its the first time a former us president as ever stood trial. On criminal charges. Jury selection now underway as the judge, the Defense Attorneys and the prosecutors marrow down a massive list of potential jurors to find the 12th New Yorkers who will consider trumps fate also tonight, The Middle East on edge after israel vows to exact a price for an iranian attack, what israeli official tells Cnn The War Cabinet is determined to act, but its still unclear where, when and how the idf might retaliate the white house, meanwhile, urging calm in the region as President Biden turns his focus to diplomacy and deescalation welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn, Breaking News we begin our coverage tonight in new york. Were Donald Trumps historic criminal trial is finally underway. The court adjourning for the day just a short time ago
i am here because of crooked joe biden. the worst president in the history of our country. he is destroying our country. this country is being destroyed rapidly. not slowly. rapidly. this is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all. we don t want to wake up after the election saying again? my god. what the hell have we done. we can t have that happen again peered we have been here for six weeks. nobody has said trump did anything wrong. we have a highly conflicted judge with unconstitutional gag order and everybody sees this case for what it is. sandra: a live look now from the new york state supreme court there is nowhere manhattan where the defense just wrapped in donald trump s criminal trial. they are in a lunch paper that was a former president moments ago as he departed the courtroom and prosecutors will have their chair. and welcome. john, great to be with you today kicking off a new week. john: it will be of big week. i m john roberts from washi
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