Monday, August 12, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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Monday briefing: Trump campaign hack; Gaza school strike; Uvalde videos; Tom Cruise at the Olympics Closing Ceremonies; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump said his campaign was hacked by Iran. The FDA approved a new |
| 0:07.6 | treatment for allergic reactions and Paris bid farewell to the Olympics. |
| 0:12.4 | That's some of what we'll get to on the set and Paris bid farewell to the Olympics. |
| 0:13.3 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:17.8 | It's Monday, August 12th. |
| 0:20.2 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:25.0 | Number one, Donald Trump's campaign said it was hacked. |
| 0:32.0 | On Friday, Microsoft said it was hacked. On Friday, Microsoft said it had discovered evidence that Iranian hackers had tried to break into the email account of a high-ranking official on a U.S. presidential campaign. They said it happened back in June. The company |
| 0:46.0 | didn't say which campaign, but a person familiar with Microsoft's work confirmed |
| 0:50.8 | that it was referring to the Trump campaign. And Trump himself said |
| 0:55.1 | on social media that his campaign was informed by Microsoft that one of its websites |
| 0:59.7 | was hacked by the Iranian government. The hack appears to include a private vetting |
| 1:05.2 | document about Trump's running mate Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio. The |
| 1:10.4 | post was also sent a 271-page document about Vance from a mysterious email account. |
| 1:18.0 | That was on Thursday. The document drew from publicly available information, including past news reports and interviews with the |
| 1:25.2 | senator. |
| 1:26.6 | Analysts and intelligence experts warned on Sunday that wider efforts may be underway by |
| 1:31.7 | foreign powers to disrupt November's election. |
| 1:37.0 | Number two, Republicans and Democrats are arguing about the sizes of the crowds at their rallies. |
| 1:47.0 | For years, Trump has boasted about how many people he could pack into a venue. |
| 1:52.0 | He's treated crowd size as an all-important |
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