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 concerned about falling into a socalled perjury trap. If he consents to the interview with the special counsel. He worries mr. Mueller would compare his statement with others like james comey who trump said was best friends with mueller. In that situation, the president said even if im telling the truth, that makes me a liar. This comes after his lawyer Rudy Giuliani who said the Perjury Trap Truth Isnt truth. Giuliani attempted to clean that up monday saying he was referring to the classic he said she said dilemma. A Perjury Conviction requires someone willfully telling a lie. White House Counsel don mcgahns cooperation with muellers team has unsettledPresident Trump. The president approved the interview, but the president did not know the interviews stretched for 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. As to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators . The Trump Legal Team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. The white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahns testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. The president in full attack mode on monday with tweets. D disgraced Robert Mueller and his team of thugs. They are a national disgrace. Not deterred by the twitter attacks, melania trump. She addressed an anticyber bullying summit monday. President trump breaking president ial protocol by criticizing the federal reserve. He told reuters that Jerome Powell is raising Interest Rates. Trump appointed him last year. Trump said the fed should do more to help him boost the economy. Now candidate trump criticized the fed for doing exactly that and keeping Interest Rates low to help president obama. We have a fed that is doing political things. This janet yellen of the fed, the fed is doing political. By keeping Interest Rates at this level. Now President Trump wants the same easy money policies for himself. The fed did not comment. Historically, the president s do not talk about the fed. Powell reaffirmed that issue
last month. We do our work in a strictly non political way based on Detailed Analysis which we put on the record transparency tly. They are keeping the economy from overheating. Experts worry it may be overs m overstimulated by Government Spending and tax cuts. Breaking overnight. A Nationazi Labor Camp guard han deported back to germany. An order of deportation of jakiw palij. He became a u. S. Citizen in 1957. He concealed his nazi service saying he spent world war ii working on a farm. Sean Richard Christie of pennsylvania was last seen sunday night in cumberland, maryland. He is accused of posting threats on facebook against the president and prosecutor in pennsylvania. The u. S. Marshals service is offering 20,000 for information leading to christys arrest. One stating she was communicating with aliens and endorsed by the miami herald. Running as a republican and seen in a 2009 interview, aguilera claims she was taken by aliens. Her past comments on aliens are not an issue in the race. I cant believe it. Acknowledged her comments about past issues with aliens. Okay. She says the aliens were long, Blonde Haired and told her to come outside. Nothing unusual here. Nothing to see. 17 minutes past the hour. Imagine if your life depended on driving through this. Oh, my gosh. Go. Keep going. Easy. A father and a son race to escape a wildfire. You dont want to miss how this ends. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Protesters on campus of university of North Carolina pulling down a confederate statue known as silent sam. 250 protesters gathered at chapel hill peace plaza before marching to the base of the plaza. University officials called the Toppling Dangerous and said it was fortunate no one was hurt. One arrest was made. North carolinas governor said he understands people are frustrated by the pace of change, but no place for violent destruction of property. Check out this harrowing video. A father and son desperate to escape the forest fire in gla Glacier National park in montana. Driving down the harrowing road with no way out. Easy. The car is heating up. Its going to explode. Youre all right. Oh, jesus, god. Help us. Slow it down. Youre all right. Slow it down so we can see. Dad, what if a tree falls on us . Please, god, help us. Youre doing good. Can you imagine . Eventually they were stopped by a downed, burning tree in the road. Justin had to reverse back to the trail head where they were lucky to flag down a boat and taken to safety by two park employees. The car burned in the fire. Justin and charles will be guests on new day later this morning. Terrifying. Authorities in los angeles aring investigating Sexual Assault allegations against filmmaker asia argento. Argento paid off in the case. The special Victims Bureau is reaching out to the alleged victim. The times reports it has legal dock uuments showing arge
sexually assaulted him when he was 17. She was 37 at the time. The report shows there were emails through an unidentified party. He played her son in a movie in 2009. Cnn has reached out for comment. The New York Times has been trying to get a response from her since thursday. While you were sleeping, pop culture and politics colliding at the mtv video music awards. Camila cabello for artist of the year. And generJennifer Lopez with Th Vanguard Award thanking her boyfriend. Alex rodriguez. You are my suiweeter and bet
with you in it. The universe is infinite and so is what we can accomplish together with love and trust and understanding. Politics very much front and center. Logic wore an f The Wall Shirt and invited immigration families. During the monologue, kevin hart went directly at the president. Do not worry. In this game, you guys are allowed to kneel. There is no old white man to stop you. Do it. You never know what will happen at the vmas. Bad language, people run to the bathroom and septembnd out craz tweets. It is like a typical day at the white house. Wow. Mtv announced its first ever midterm get out the vote. The initiative called plus one aimed at getting young people to convince people to register with them. Groups on the right encouraging a boycott of kevin hart. It is the vmas. Ahead, breaking news. Microsoft has found another cyber attack linked to russian intelligence. The target . U. S. Senators and conservative groups in the leadup to the midterms. Hey there people eligible for medicare. Gimme one minute. And ill tell you some important things to know about medicare. First, it doesnt pay for everything. Say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. This much about 80 medicare will pay for. Whats left is on you. Thats where an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company comes in. This type of plan helps pay some of what medicare doesnt. These are the only plans to carry the aarp endorsement for meeting their high standards of quality and service. So call Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company today and ask for your free decision guide. With this type of plan, youll have the freedom to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. And when you travel, your plan will go with you anywhere in the country. Whew Call Unitedhealthcare today and ask for your free decision guide. Breaking overnight. Microsoft says it spoiled the latest cyber attack linked to russian intelligence. The latest target . U. S. Senators and conservative think tanks. We are live in russia. A colorado man charged with killing his wife and two daughters. Chris watts. His defense . Killed his wife, but because she killed the girls. In this game, you guys are allowed to kneel. There is no old white man stopping you. No shortage of politics at the mtv music awards. The new mission to engage young vot voters. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Breaking overnight. 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 we are talking about fancy bear. It is apparently linked to russias military intelligence. Organizations targeted were members of the senate and two think tanks which are conservative think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institu institute. Both are conservative, but critical of the trump advances to russia and critical of Vladimir Putins foreign policy. We have to point out it is unclear, or there is no proof, any of the domains have been used for any sort of successful attacks. This is big enough for microsoft to come out with this statement and we expect to get more information later today. All of this, christine, comes only about a month after attorney general Rod Rosenstein indicted 12 russians for hacking into the dnc in the 2016 election and the Hillary Clinton campaign. We also know that a few days
after that indictment, President Trump seemed to side against his own Intelligence Services at a summit with russian president putin. We had the interview with President Trump where he offered russia sanctions relief if they worked with the uk and u. S. And syria. I was in syria with the Russian Military and they certainly seem to believe they are going to be the ones to take the leading role as far as solving the issues in that country. Just on a side note, im at one of russias Largest Military fairs where the russians plan to display the Stealth Fighter jet. Another way the russians are looking to challenge the u. S. We are glad are you there covering it. Glad you are there covering it for us. Thank you, fred. Imagine you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how it proceeds. President trump talking about pushing Robert Mueller aside and talking about conducting the investigation himself. He said he has chosen not to get involved. Saying, i dont have to stay out. As you know, i could 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 concerned about falling into a socalled perjury trap. If he consents to the interview with the special counsel. He worries mr. Mueller would compare his statement with others like james comey who trump said was best friends with mueller. In that situation, the president said even if im telling the truth, that makes me a liar. This comes after his lawyer Rudy Giuliani who said the perjury
trap truth isnt truth. Giuliani attempted to clean that up monday saying he was referring to the classic he said she said dilemma. A Perjury Conviction requires someone willfully telling a lie. Not he said she said. That is something that happens in court every day. White House Counsel don mcgahns cooperation with muellers team has unsettled President Trump. The president approved the mcgahn cooperation, but two telling cnn the president did not know the interviews stretched 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. As to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators . The Trump Legal Team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. The white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahns testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. The president in full attack mode on monday with tweets. Disgraced Robert Mueller and his angry democrat thugs looking to impact the election. They are a national disgrace. Not deterred by the twitter attacks, melania trump. She addressed an anticyber bullying summit monday. Her be best campaign focusing on the well being of children. Warnings of destructive and harmful uses of social media. She may have had her husband in mind. Lets face it, most children are more aware of the benefits and pitfalls of social media than some adults. But we still need to do all we can. Melania trump announced plans to good to africa in october. Her first major solo trip since becoming first lady. No word on which countries she will visit. Back in january, you may remember the president used a
derogatory term bemoaning the immigrants from s hole countries in africa. The verdict watch resumes this morning in the Paul Manafort trial. Jurors will return for a fourth day in the bank and tax fraud trial. The former Trump Campaign chief faces 18 counts of crimes. His defense team sees it as a good sign the jury has not reached a verdict after three days. Manafort faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Later today, the Trump Administration rolls back clean Air Provisions put in place by president obama. The move gives states power over Emission Standards for coal fired power plants. This is expected to increase the release of Carbon Dioxide at a rate 12 times higher than current standards allow. Those emissions can lead to Heart Disease and stroke and cancer. The issue likely to come up tonight when President Trump headlines a rally in west virginia. Chris watts expected in a colorado courtroom today. Expected to be charged with the murders of his wife and two daughters. Court documents revealed that watts claimed he killed his wife after she killed the girls. Prosecutors are not buying the confession. At the conference on monday, the father of Shanann Watts thanked the community for its support. We would like to thank everyone and the federal Police Department and agencies involved for working so hard to find my daughter, granddaughters and niko. Thank you, everyone, for coming out to the vigil and saying all your prayers. They are greatly appreciated. Keep the prayers coming for our family. We get more from cnns scott mclean in frederick. Reporter dave and christine, we are hearing the story that chris watts told police. According to a new Police Arrest affidavit, he initially said he woke up early and told his wife he wanted to separate and went to work. She had apparent planned on going to a friends house, but never returned. He then said he had killed his wife shanann, but not his daughters. He said after he told shanann he wanted to separate, he went down stairs. When he came up, he saw that shanann strangled the girls and then he in a fit of rage strangled shanann. He loaded the bodies in the back of the truck and to the work site and dug a shallow grave and dumped his wife and put his girls in the oil well. Police say he left out a detail. He had been having an affair with a coworker. Watts has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of tampering with a
deceased