A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. Steve you mean Reverse Psychology . Brian right. Steve watch this. Were fighting a war. And we are fighting a war on drugs. They are bringing in drugs. Theyre bringing in lots of bad people. And were going to start to get very nasty over the wall. You know, the democrats, anything i want, they want to oppose. You know, i just figured out how to do the wall i will say i dont want to build a wall and they will insist on building it. [laughter] i just figured that out right now. We will be taking some very tough actions. We need more republicans but they are friends of mine they say sir, we are better off until wait until after. Its better before. We are either getting it or we are closing down government. We need Border Security. Steve the president was very clear about that as he has been. Thats one of the issues that got him the keys th to
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Paul manafort spent 2. 2 million on Home Entertainment technology. Including 10,000 on a karaoke system. A lot of details prosecutors packed in. We will hear more from his accountant today as they delve into his finances. Dave and kaylee. Thank you, jessica. Can the u. S. Economy keep up the pace of swift job creation . We get a look at the labor market this morning when the July Jobs Report is released. Economists are expecting 190,000 new positions. The Unemployment Rate is expected to tick down to 3. 9 . It rose in june as more than 600,000 americans got off the sidelines and entered the labor market looking for work. The big mystery has been wages. That number expected to hold steady at 2. 7 annual rate. Wages have been stuck in that range for the past three years. As the labor market tightens, wages rise, but the growth has been slow since the great recession. Wall street is looking at where the jobs are created. S
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
move-on.org. i want to start with you your thought. this is a truly appalling behavior from the president, on a scale of the worst events in the trump presidency, helsinki summit with putin. let me point out a couple things first of all, the reporting is the intelligence community has a high confidence assessment that mbs was responsible for this murder which by the way is anybody who follows saudi arabia closely would think about a team of people flying to a third country to kill someone and render them back to saudi arabia number one, that s the highest level of confidence the intelligence community can et. if that s true, trump lied about that today number two, they don t pop up out of nowhere with that to your point, nicolle, they ve had information for some time, probably weeks, that led to that conclusion so the question that needs to be answered is, what did donald trump know and when did he know it about mbs responsibility was he lying to the american people to create a cove
tribute. they re here now. two weeks ago john bolton said the president was looking forward to the meeting so why the on again, off again comments about putin and trump getting togeth together. well, because the americans maybe didn t know it happened. that s a typical thing we see happening. again, there s some worry about a repetition of the helsinki summit with putin, which was really speaking of humiliations, a complete disaster for trump. do you think there s any fallout