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Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. collar professional, think of john kasich, congressman from this district. that strain of republican used to be the heart of this district. in 2016, what we saw happen with donald trump on the scene, franklin county it was dead even when it was obama versus romney. the flip side is when you get outside of franklin, outside of the wealthy suburbs of delaware and into the blue counties of rural. you saw some of the biggest swings in the country from romney in 12 who did terribly from trump in 2016. obama carried the muskingum in michigan. muslim american public health official is running the democratic primary for governor. the front runner in the race, the state former senate minority leader has been endorsed by emily s list and like every contest, today s elections stand in the shadow of 2016 election and the man who became president and the wreckage he associates himself with. his fixer michael cohen is under investigation for ta ....
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 ....
Fire with fire what what is all this min i read, i don t know exactly what the senator meant by that, but i do think it s a good opportunity to get republicans allison to vote in november to make phone calls to put up yard signs. so again, previous segment, i was talking about building at campaign operations. you re going to need volunteers to knock on those doors. got any volunteers to assist? people would registering to vote, particularly some of those new individuals who may have never voted before, where trump s sort of has somewhat of an advantage compared president biden. so i was sort of tamper down the rhetoric. i understand people may are frustrated but this to me presents a unique opportunity to say, let s use f frustration to build the campaign operations that is necessary to yield a victory come this november. and meghan, potential trump running mate and dakota governor doug burgum dismissed the impact of the verdict. he said this voters don t care about the trial. they w ....
A new study conducted in writers showing 11% republican sang, they are less likely to bo mack for trump following his conviction while 34% and they are more likely to votes for him. the new numbers show the overall horse race between trump and president biden as essentially the same as before the verdict. with the majority sang in the verdict would not change their votes. we have reporters around the country covering all of the reaction. i want to go to atlanta. good to talk to you. how are voters there reacting to this? reporter: i have been speaking to voters since the verdict to gauge the reaction and most of the conversation i have had point of the reuters finding that the overall majority of these voters don t feel like it will have an impact ....
Voters? reporter: something of great value, so much value donald trump thought it was enough that he went to such great lengths to hide it from the american voters. this is new territory but they are victims. would people have changed their vote if they had known this information? donald trump certainly thought so because he went to great lengths to keep it from them danny, the probation office who has to do the presentencing investigation, the presentencing interviews with donald trump s family members and that kind of thing. is it likely, even, that don jr. or eric trump or donald trump himself are going to sit down with anyone from the office to give these interviews to prepare for the sentencing? reporter: they don t necessarily have to. the probation officer conducts and prepares their interviews and sometimes don t want to talk. you can imagine a situation where a criminal, his spouse, i m not going to talk. ....