Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I hope you had a great holiday weekend and a

reminder today is Tuesday. It's September 8th. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. A discovery about a whole

new star system, plus President Trump's campaign cash crunch. First though, today's one big thing. Foreign actors are still spreading misinformation.

Will Russia have an impact on our 2020 election like they did in 2016?

That's what Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris was asked by CNN this weekend.

And I do believe that there will be foreign interference in the 2020 election and that

Russia will be at the front of the line.

Does hearing that give you a bit of deja vu?

How about this?

We keep seeing these briefings come out of the intelligence community

that allude to the fact that Russian forces are meddling in the election.

These are active conversations that we're having and we're finding examples of it in real time.

Sarah Fisher writes the Axios media trends newsletter and she's been reporting on the clear pattern

that has emerged from these malicious foreign actors.

That happened in 2016, 2018, and once again, now in 2020.

That's correct. So if you take a look at foreign actors that are trying to meddle in our elections,

primarily Russia, although there's evidence that both China and Iran are interested in doing the same type of thing,

they really go after similar themes, things

like systemic racism in the United States, the Black Lives Matter movement, police

brutality, and more recently mail-in votes and confidence in the voting system

writ large. But if we're thinking about Russian actors, tweeting about President

Trump or Joe Biden, what is the goal there? What Russia wants, according to U.S. intelligence officials, is for President Trump to win

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