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
you re like my twin soul. we re mirror images of each other. my life is sweeter and better with you in it because you make me realize it everyday the sky is not the limit. the universe is infinite and so is what we can accomplish together with love and trust and understanding. write that down for your anniversary card to your wife? politics very much front and center last night. rapper logic wore an at the wall shirt, fighting families displaced by immigration laws all wearing shirts that read, we are all human beings. kevin hart went straight at the president during the earlier monologue. i m looking at this like it s game day, people. do not worry, this game you are allowed to kneel, do whatever the hell you want. there s no old, white man that can stop you. do it. you never know what s going to happen at the vmas. bad language, people run to the bathroom to send out crazy
has more headlines for us? jillian: a number of stories a state lawmaker will be resign after disturbing disappearance on saudi arabia shah baron cohen tv show. jason spencer will leave his post by the end of the month on the show called who is america. spencer is shown yelling racial slurs repeatedly. during another segment he lowers his stance. spencer lost the republican primary in may but could have remains in office through the november election. imagine witnessing. this moments before a flight, that s fuel pouring out of the wing of an american airlines plane in philadelphia. check it out. video appearing to show responders cleaning it up with paper towels. passengers put on another plane to l.a. the airline says it was a minor spill caused by a mechanical issue. a high school student suspended for wearing this pro-border wall shirt to school is getting the last laugh. we told you about this a little while ago. here is the follow-up. addison barnes who filed the lawsuit will rece
pro-border wall shirt. this is what we are told which i don t know enough about school rules to know if they were favorably enforced. shannon: clothing decorator are marked with illustrations, words or phrases that are disruptive or potentially disruptive and or promote superiority of one group over another, not permitted. i and a school you would not be allowed to wear that shirt. there would be no way. shannon: what about the present city policy? i would tell teachers not to have that either if i were head master of the school, i would forbid any of that going on in the classroom. people are there to learn, not