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
acknowledgeable and says it. pete says things in such a way that it s refreshing, in such plain language. that will be an interesting dynamic on night one. kamala harris and cory booker, i think kamala will only swung at when hit at. but i think kirsten gillibrand can battle joe biden over anita hill. and one of the best people on the stage on criminal justice platforms is not kamala harris or cory bookerjulian castro. keep your good eye on julian. you won t see that punch coming. i think a lot of things will be coming and gabbard will take her shots as well, a provertebrae in the african-american community which is don t come for me unless i send for you. she s going to learn that from senator harris.
donald trump agenda. you sometimes hear republicans hit at nancy pelosi and like to use nancy pelosi in their ads and the like. this all would suggest that using nancy pelosi will this hurt or help? when i look at those numbers, i see it really probably won t do anything. if anything, democrats are more motivated to turn out to vote because they want nancy pelosi to be speaker. if you go back to 1994, you will see an unpopular president and you see the opposition leader to try to balance and make it a choice instead of a referendum. it doesn t work. newt gingrich was not popular. how about race as a factor in the midterms? the president touting his approval rating with blacks in the country. is there proof to support that notion? yes and no. i think the president sometimes pumps up the polls shows support of the african-american