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
Strategist. He is outnumbered. David delightful to be here. Big day for big news. Melissa theres a lot going on. Lets jump right to it. Speaker pelosi speaking to the israeli president yesterday just days after democrats slammed israels decision to bar omar and tlaib from visiting there. Israel later allowed tlaib to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds, an offer she rejected. A spokesperson tweeting that the conversation was spirited by their personal friendship. And the israeli president tweeting, i spoke today with Speaker Pelosi about the importance of strong u. S. Israel relations, and i thanked her for her commitment. The link between us is between people, based on historical ties, strong friendships, and shared values. Not dependent on the links with either party. This, as the president is doubling down on criticism of jewish voter support of democrats amid the firestorm. My opinion, the democrats have gone very far away from israel. They dont want to fund israel. They
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