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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 ....
congress is not in session. when congress is back from in session after the midterms. they have republicans on the far right who say you have to pay for it and there won t be the votes and the democrats won t vote for it it s not coming. is he going to say it because of politics and it s not happening. five seconds is left. here comes your world with neil cavuto. have a great afternoon. neil: thank you, shepard. we expect to hear the president of the united states as that tape makes its way to us. corner of wall and broad on a crazy day here where we had stocks down 550 points. losses 126 points. a lot of the people saying melt down might have been a washing out process. way too early to say that the fact of the matter is there was a lot of concern built into the latest earning reports, still by and large coming in a lot better than expected that this trade thing is beginning to pinch. caterpillar the latest company to say you know what? the higher materials cost from us e ....
good morning to you. craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in new york city. we continue to follow this breaking news. potential explosive devices mailed to president obama and hillary clinton. as you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in new york city. this is a live look outside the time warner center here in new york city. the secret service confirming a criminal investigation into the explosive devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. let s start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc investigative reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. this is a suburb of new york city. this is where president clinton and hillary clinton live. hans nichols is at the white house. tom, let me start with you here in the studio. i understand that you have some new reporting ....
something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. we should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. all right. our justice correspondent pete william s williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. i am going to step aside and andrea mitchell reports starts now. thank you, craig. i m andrea mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. and we are told that florida resident cesar sayoc jr. has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. we will have a press conference at 2:30 with more details. and to today, we are told that cory booker, and james clapper, those men joining the growing list of public figures critical of president trump, and that list is two former presidents, and democratic officials, and democratic law officials and a leading democratic donor. and now, joi ....
right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. he apologize nod country. and the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. the prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, danny cevallos, ken delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. and jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from michael cohen saying that he was acting out of blind loyalty to donald trump. of course, the phrase blind loyalty to donald trump reminds me of the book by john dean blind ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. ....