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
keep the financial system strong and imposing no more burden than necessary. earlier this year, congress passed a bill raising the level which banks are too big to fail up to $250 proposaproposal, ths has a bigger system to changes. under the new propoeosaproposal under $250 billion would have so softer rules. the national archives have just released the watergate scandal documents. it has never been seen before. it reveals how the grand jury was going to charge nixon in the investigation. the president was never formally
china and u.s. gear up for trade talks. a chinese delegation heads to washington tomorrow. investors like the two countries keep trying. wall street closed higher. s&p 500 is less than 1% from a record high. one day shy of the longest bull market on record. s&p has risen more than 300% from the march 2009 low. tesla shares near a three-month low as investors doubt the plan to take tesla private. jpmorgan chase slashed the price target for tesla. musk tweeted he secured funding for a buyout. jpmorgan chase denies that is true and doesn t believe there is a formal proposaproposal. shares recovered by close. the tweet from musk triggered scrutiny with the sec probe. pepsi is buying sodastream.
and good morning. this is your a.m. wake-up call for wednesday, november 23rd, from the time warner center in new york. i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. i don t want a law that says after we lose a major american city, we re sure going to come and find you. i want a law that says you try to take out an american city, we re going to stop you. newt gingrich challenging ron paul over the patriot act. the new co-front-runner still getting high marks in his first debate with a bull s-eye on his back. we ll have more of the highlights ahead. it s going to be a necessme one. delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year. the east coast being soaked. and avalanche warnings in the pacific northwest. uc-davis trying to make good after police were caught on tape pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters, now promising to pay medical bills and drop charges against students who were arrested. how would a president handle a nuclear iran or an uns