Jillian Fox And Friends First continue right now. No stopping us now. I was pooled and got a country song. Dont know what i am talking about on tuesday morning. Unloading on robert mueller, targeting the russia investigation. Rob the president later addressing his role expressing concerns of a perjury trap. Jillian the very latest, enjoyed that singing from rob. Transparency, anyone who needs that much time when they there is no russia conclusion is looking for trouble, and ruining peoples lives and refused to look at corruption on the democrat side. There is so much more, muellers angry dems looking to impact the election, a national disgrace. The president s attorney Rudy Giuliani downplayed the cooperation indicating he would not be allowed to sit down with mueller sarcastically saying this. You give us the questions, not under oath or q a. And you write a report that im innocent before questioning it. If it left any doubts where he stands he will address it in a rally in West Virgi
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
at the very moment donald trump was attacking critics on twitter, melania trump was addressing the anti-cyber bullying summit. her be best campaign focusing on the well being of children. warnings of destructive and harmful uses of social media. she may have had her husband in mind when she says said she said this. let s face it, most children are more aware of the benefits and pitfalls of social media than some adults. but we still need to do all we can. melania trump announced plans to go to africa in october. her first major solo trip since becoming first lady. no word on which countries she will visit. back in january, you may remember the president used a derogatory term bemoaning the immigrants from s hole countries in africa. the verdict watch resumes this morning in the paul manafort trial. jurors will return for a fourth day in the bank and tax fraud trial. the former trump campaign chief faces 18 counts of crimes.
the country s history, it will be easy to get his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did but how he was involved in the mueller rigged witchhunt, he hit the sunday talkshow circuit admitting he had been contacted by lawyers and is willing to file a lawsuit over security clearance being revoked and hinting at doing the same thing for cia analysts philip mudd after what he called an unhinged tv appearance. rob: the first lady preparing for her first solo trip to africa. she visited several countries in africa in october, more about issues coming on the same day she spoke at an anti-cyber bullying summit. most are aware of the benefits of social media. we still need to do all we can