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
it s just another way we re working to make your life simple, easy, awesome. go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. former trump campaign chief now convicted felon paul manafort may be on the move. cnn has learned manafort may be relocated from a low-security level inside of a pennsylvania federal prison to the notorious rikers island in new york city. he s facing a 16-count criminal indictment on state fraud charges in new york and manhattan district attorney wants him close by for the duration of the state trial. a source tells cnn it is not clear when he will be moved. but it won t be this week. manafort is serving 7 1/2 years for federal fraud crimes. this change could also mean manafort who is 70 years of age might end up in solitary confinement and his attorneys
customize each line by paying for data by the gig or get unlimited. get $250 back when you pre-order a new samsung galaxy. click, call, or visit a store today. tomorrow a u.s. district judge who has been entrenched in the mueller case for more than a year is going to decide the fate of paul manafort. how long the former trump campaign chief will spend in prison. she could tack up to ten years on to the 47-month sentence that
the fact that they have subpoena power and investigative authority into the trump administration right now. coming up for us, is the border wall worth shutting down the government? a new poll asks that very question and the results are very important. plus, paul manafort s major deadline. the former trump campaign chief had until 10:00 this morning to respond to allegations that he had breached his plea agreement, that he lied and broke his deal. last time this happened, you remember his team accidentally leaked out crucial details in the case. remember the formatting error? what could happen today? welcome to britbox.