climate change. the high court curbed carbon emissions at the time when scientists are sounding the alarm on the case of dploeshl warming. also today, president biden lashed out over their decision to overturn roe. he supports a filibuster carveout for congress to codify abortion rights. he said that at the nato summit in madrid, where he announced new aid for ukraine. we will discuss this a little later, first, new developments in the january 6th investigation. resources tell cnn that cassidy hutchinson, the former aide was contacted by someone in the former president s orbit to try to influence her testimony. those revelations so damming that the committee has now issued a subpoena for one of the central figures in the west wing, pat cipollone, the former top lawyer at the trump white house. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. do we know who was trying to influence tuesday s testimony? reporter: we do not, alisyn. you remember the end on tuesday after hutchin
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
pledged executive action to combat climate change after the supreme court s decision to limit the epa s ability to regulate cash bonn emissions. the person that calls it another devastating decision that will take our country backwards, rene marsh joins us, what does this decision mean for the environment? reporter: the head of the epa just put out a statement calling the ruling quote disappointing but vowing the agency remains exited to using the full scope of epa s authority to protect communities and reduce pollution that is driving climate change. so despite this ruling coming down, the agency clearly saying that they re going to continue to look for ways as to regulate emissions from these power plants. now, the supreme court ruling, of course, today is it safer of coal power plants? it is a win for coal-producing states and a blow to biden s climate agenda. and it will make reaching his
on climate change provisions. cnn chief congressional correspondent, manu raju here. is manchin willing to compromise? has he dug in? it s unclear if they can resolve his concerns and do as quickly as the democratic leaders want. joe biden and nancy pelosi discussed what they both share here. they want the talks to end. what is less clear is exactly how they will end. there is significant differences between progressives who want a massive expansion of the social safety net, they re willing to come down on the $3.5 million price tag, and keep the number of programs and limit the years they can offer the benefits. manchin and kyrsten sinema, and manchin has pushed back on the climate change emissions, reducing global greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. he hails from a coal producing states. he does not support the program
in prison if convicted on all charges. later today, the trump administration rolls back clean air provisions put in place by president obama. the move gives states power over emission standards for coal fired power plants. this is expected to increase the release of carbon dioxide at a rate 12 times higher than current standards allow. those emissions can lead to heart disease and stroke and cancer. the issue likely to come up tonight when president trump headlines a rally in west virginia. one of the nation s leading coal producing states. chris watts expected in a colorado courtroom today. formally charged with first-degree murder in his pregnant wife and two young daughters. court documents revealed that watts claimed he killed his wife after she killed the girls. prosecutors are not buying the confession. at the conference on monday, the father of shanann watts thanked the community for its support. we would like to thank