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all the big moments and the network s new mission. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august 21st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s 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. let s bring in fred pleitgen. reporter: the organization that we re 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 cr ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. russia s 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 don t 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 wasn t the only option he had. president trump ....
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On to become an investment banker with goldman sachs. he transitioned into media, going on to lead the right-wing breitbart news and eventually becoming involved in trump s 2016 campaign and serving as a white house said visor, even after he was fired, he remained devoted to trump. he is an instrument of divine providence and a master of misinformation. bannon spun boilerplate language about how the fbi was authorized to search mar-a-lago in august 2022, into a baseless claim that trump s life may have been at risk they wanted somebody to bleed out. they were looking to have a confrontation that would be an armed confrontation end. he still peddling lies about the 2020 election. if you do not believe that 2020 election was stolen you re not at the rail head of this movement. now, he may find himself staying true to these words. you have repair to go to prison well, sir, isn t he facing another trial on the phony build the wall charity that he was part of. ....
That trump s life may have been at risk. they wanted somebody to bleed out. they were looking to have a confrontation that would be an armed confrontation end. he still peddling lies about the 2020 election if you do not believe that 2020 election was stolen you re not at the rail head of this movement. now he may find himself staying true to these words. you have to be prepared to go to prison well, sir, isn t he facing another trial on the phony build the wall charity that he was part of i m that s the thing he d been already pardoned by trump four before. yeah, that s right. i mean, this is in new york. he s facing state charges essentially saying that he defrauded folks by raising money to build a wall a southern border, and then allegedly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to himself and some of his colleagues. again, that trial is set for later on this year. he s pleaded not guilty. and as you pointed out, that same conduct was the subject of federal charges, bu ....