after his time as vice president. sources tell cnn that it is possible that more searches elsewhere may happen. also that the white house is shifting into damage control. sources say president biden is growing frustrated by how the saga has played out. he cannot escape the questions about the timing of publicly disclosing the classified documents when some of the first pages were initially discovered in november. once again, today, the president chose not to take reports questions. [ inaudible ]. cnn s mj lee is at the white house. a spokesman for the white house counsel is defending the communication and strategy so far. tell us about that. yeah. victor and alisyn, we just wrapped up a lengthy phone call, a press call, with reporters ta that the white house counsel s spokesperson held trying to offer a robust defense of how the white house has handled all of this so far including sort of the timing of the disclosure of information and sort of the decision to wait to d
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
in this video. pena refused to accept defeat in his 2020 election and according to the arrest warrant, quote, there is problem cause to believe soon after his campaign he conspired to commit these four shootings at elected, local and state government officials homes. josh campbell joins us now. what have you learned? pena was arrested by albuquerque s.w.a.t. officers yesterday. police say he paid and conspired with four other men to shoot at the homes of four democratic officials. cnn has attempted to contact pena for comment. we ve been going through this police arrest affidavit that was just released, and it describes how authorities used firearm and cell phone analysis to uncover this alleged conspiracy. police also say one member of group, a cooperating witness, said that he intended to shoot above the windows in these homes to prevent from hitting anyone, but i ll read part of this affidavit, the confidential witness stated that solomon wanted the shootings to be more aggress
according to a new police arrest affidavit, he initially said he woke up early and told his wife he wanted to separate and went to work. she had apparent planned on going to a friend s house, but never returned. he then said he had killed his wife shanann, but not his daughters. he said after he told shanann he wanted to separate, he went down stairs. when he came up, he saw that shanann strangled the girls and then he in a fit of rage strangled shanann. he loaded the bodies in the back of the truck and to the work site and dug a shallow grave and dumped his wife and put his girls in the oil well. police say he left out a detail. he had been having an affair with a coworker. watts has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of tampering with a