Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Russias largest Arms Expo Set to Desk Plisplay the fighter je hyper sonic missile. Another way they want to challenge america. Guys. Fascinating. Fred live for us this morning in russia. Thank you. Three minutes past the hour. Imagine a world where you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how the investigation proceeds. President trump using monday about pushing Robert Mueller aside and running the russia investigation himself. In an interview, the president has chosen not to get involved in the probe. He says i dont have to stay out as you know. I can go in and i could do whatever. I could run it if i want. Jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. He was out of it. It was better if he did. It is interesting. He was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the
decision to stay out. It wasnt the only option he had. President trump also said he is concerne
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
reporter: we hear the story that chris watts toldaffidavit, said he woke up early on august 13th and told his wife he wanted to separate and went to work. she apparently planned on going to a friend s house, but never returned. later he told a different story. saying he had in fact killed his wife, shanann, but not his young daughters. he says that after he told shanann he wanted to separate, he went down stairs and when he came back up, he saw shanann strangled the girls and in a fit of rage, he strangled his wife to death. he loaded the bodies in the back of the truck and dotook them to the work site and dug a shallow grave and put shanann s body and the girls in an oil storage tank. police said he left out a detail. he had been having an an fashff with a coworker.
according to a new police arrest affidavit, he initially said he woke up early and told his wife he wanted to separate and went to work. she had apparent planned on going to a friend s house, but never returned. he then said he had killed his wife shanann, but not his daughters. he said after he told shanann he wanted to separate, he went down stairs. when he came up, he saw that shanann strangled the girls and then he in a fit of rage strangled shanann. he loaded the bodies in the back of the truck and to the work site and dug a shallow grave and dumped his wife and put his girls in the oil well. police say he left out a detail. he had been having an affair with a coworker. watts has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of tampering with a
mother. same thing, with the hammer, blow to the head. he then collected the bodies of all of his family members, and he put them in the station wagon. he drove 275 miles south. then to a state road, to then to a rural road, and the logging road wasn t even on the maps. and dug a shallow grave. he then placed all the bodies of his family members in that shallow grave. why he burned the bodies, i