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
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. New york saying a crime is not a crime. What is going to be next . The skys not blue . Red is not red, an apple is a banana . It is just a bizarre world. And if thats a defense and thats what theyre going to put forward we are in for a crazy ride ahead. We may already be in one. Jennifer, to you. I just had last hour on a former law school classmate, good friend of rudy giuliani. Hes a former Assistant Prosecutor in watergate. He was just with me. He said that the fact that there is not an official Cooperation Agreement, at least that we know of maybe it is under seal between Michael Cohen and muellers team in the Southern District on this suggest that maybe the Southern District and muellers team dont even need Michael Cohens testimony and that could be a problem for the white house. How do you see it . Well, it is very interesting that Michael Cohen doesnt have a Cooperation Agreement here. It means that t
There was no collusion ed working together through history right now. Our colleague, Shannon Bream, is live in washington. Bret baier will be back at 8 p. M. Eastern. Shannon bream in washington with more fox news special coverage. Dana thanks. It was just announced, there was no collusion with russia. The most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. There was no collusion with russia. There was no obstruction, none whatsoever. And it was a complete and total exoneration. Shannon President Trump just minutes ago reacting to the news from Attorney General bill barr that, quote, The Special Counsels investigation did not find that the Trump Campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 president ial election. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Weve got Fox Team Coverage across d. C. With Mike Emmanuel
on capitol hill, Molly Henneberg at the Justice Department, and lets begin with molly first. Good afternoon. Reporter hi, shannon. No
Seem to have everything thats been a response to everything that the democrats have done. They announced impeachment charges, Michael Horowitz report. Bill barr is out there. Articles are introduced. Horowitz testifies today. On one hand they get exactly what they want. They create sort of confusion about mueller, the obsession to get trump. That story is out there. It seems as if this is part of a strategy the way the Trump Administration has used the government to respond to impeachment. Last night in hershey, pennsylvania, i was there, covering President Trumps rally. He talked about the ig report. He talked about the ongoing Impeachment Inquiry. He claimed that he was spied on. This is the counternarrative that has been building on the Trump Campaign, on the white house side, the Republican Party for a long time. When you read the igs report there was not an intention, according to horowitz, to spy. What was going on was Counterintelligence Investigation about possible russian inte
A crash of that plane into the alcoh capitol. President obama will observe a Moment Of Silence marking the moment the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. Bv moving to the Memorial Ceremony at the pentagon across the river where he will speak. Donald trump appeared alongside Rudy Giuliani at ground zero this morning. Hell visit a firehouse later today. Hillary clinton is also at the site of the attacks. She spoke to chris cuomo about visiting ground zero the day after the towers fell. I went the next day, Chuck Schumer and i. We were one of theery few planes in the sky that day. The 12th. And we landed at laguardia. We were on a fema plane. We took a helicopter. And we went over, circled the burning pile. And when we landed, we met up with the governor and the mayor and went walking toward ground zero. And as we moved further south and we saw this curtain of black smoke that was stretched across the island basically, occasionally it would be broken by a firefighte