FBI probes Trump hack, Harris team says it was also targeted
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
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The FBI is investigating allegations that Iranian cyber agents breached Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday August 13th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.2 | excerpt. Today the latest on the Trump campaign hack plus what new polling tells us about |
| 0:27.4 | Trump and Harris in Florida and millions of bird flu vaccines are being prepped. |
| 0:34.6 | The FBI confirmed yesterday it's investigating allegations that Iranian cyber agents breached |
| 0:40.0 | Donald Trump's presidential campaign. |
| 0:42.4 | Trump said on Saturday that Iran had hacked his 2024 political operation, |
| 0:47.2 | confirming speculation that the Republican nominee was the unnamed victim of a June |
| 0:51.9 | intrusion that Microsoft had exposed a day earlier. |
| 0:56.0 | Meanwhile, the Kamala Harris campaign said yesterday that it too was the target of an attack, |
| 1:01.2 | this one unsuccessful, aimed at breaching its firewall, according to a Washington |
| 1:05.8 | Post report. |
| 1:07.4 | In 2016, Trump opponent Hillary Clinton's campaign was hit by damaging revelations after Russian hackers breached the Democratic National Committee's email servers. |
| 1:17.0 | Trump, who had publicly asked Russia to hack Clinton, celebrated that breach and read portions of the emails allowed at a campaign rally. |
| 1:27.0 | A new USA Today Suffolk University survey shows Donald Trump leading Kamla Harris, but within the margin of error in Florida. |
| 1:37.0 | I spoke with USA Today, Trump campaign reporter Zach Anderson for more. |
| 1:42.0 | Zach, thanks for hopping on. |
| 1:43.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:44.0 | So, Zach, starting with this, how are Donald Trump and Kamala Harris doing in the Sunshine State |
| 1:49.4 | according to this new USA Today, Suffolk University survey? |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah, so the top line from the survey is that Trump is leading Harris by five percentage points |
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