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
approval rating is stable despite the russia investigation. we think may be bad for him. it turns out voters are going meh. you mentioned nancy pelosi there who is a target of republican ads from coast-to-coast. voters don t care about that either. similar to what is going on with who? hillary clinton. president trump would love for her to reemerge in the scene. headlining three dnc fund-raisers. could this hurt? could this help? the reason donald trump won in 2016 was because he faced off with hillary clinton. donald trump s favorable ratings were the lowest ever for any nominee. hillary clinton s were the second lowest. hillary clinton reemerging can only help trump. the problem is she is not on the ballot. she is going out to raise money for candidates. we are not voting for or against her. we are voting for or against the