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 Trumps advances to Vladimir Putin and also toward Russian Foreign policy. We have to point out that apparently no evidence that these domains were used for successful hacking or spear phishing attacks. This is months after Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein indicted 12 russians for Election Campaign and meddling. We know a few days later, President Trump seemed to side with the russians instead of the Intelligence Services while at the helsinki summit with putin. Now President Trump gave an interview to reuters where he would offer russians sanctions if they work with u. S. With
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 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. One of the nations leading coal producing states. Chris watts expected in a colorado Courtroom Today. Formally charged with firstdegree murder in his pregnant wife and two young 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 Candlelight 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 apparently 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
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Breaking overnight. Microsoft says it spoiled the latest cyber attack linked to russian intelligence. The latest target . U. S. Senators and conservative think tanks. A colorado man charged with killing his wife and two daughters. Chris watts defense . Killed his wife, but because she killed the girls. In this game, you guys are allowed to kneel. You can do whatever the hell you want. There is no old white man stopping you. Politics at the mtv video music awards. The new mission to engage young voters. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. We start with breaking news. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. A Hacking Group created fake versions meant to look like real sites. 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. Live for us in russia. Reporter good morning, guys. The organization we are talking about is called fancy bear. The same group that hacked into the dnc and Clinton Campaign during the 2016 Election Campaigns. 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 two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican 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. This comes after the 2016 campaign and meddling in the 2016 campaign with the 12 russians charged by Rod Rosenstein. Now just last night, President Trump gave an interview to reuters who said he would be willing to offer the russians sanctions relief if they work with the u. S. With syria and ukraine. And this seems to be a fact that the russians seem to believe they will take the lead role and the u. S. Needs to follow in syria. Finally, im at the largest arms expo looking to showcase Stealth Fighter jet. Another way russia wants to challenge the united states. Guys. We are 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. Joining us this morning is writer harry enten. Good morning. Lets stick with the russia probe and developments. When we ask voters what is important to them for the 2018 vote, russia probe is at the bottom of the list next to nancy pelosi. The president is obsessed with the russiarigged investigation or hoax. Whatever you want to call it. He is obsessed, but he is obsessed because he is watching cable news and we are talking about it. He says something, we say something. Meanwhile, if you look at the polling, voters dont care. This encapsulates itself and theApproval Rating is stable despite the russia investigati