Incredibly sobering piece, anybody could be subject to retribution. Dont forget, you can watch outfront, any time any where, just go to cnn go. Acc 360 with Anderson Cooper begins right now. Good evening, thank you for joining us, a busy day at the white house, the president announcing his tax plan but what will it mean for you and who will pay for it . And about the president s unusual statement that hes looking at options to break up the Appeals Court where judges have blocked some of his kb executive action. But we begin with a meeting at the white house that was so unusual that not even President Trump all but summoned them there for a briefing on the increasing tensions with north korea. Some said on leaving that they thought it was just a photo op
for the white house. Just today north korea conducted an artillery drill, designed to annihilate the u. S. Imperialists bases of aggression, their termology. What more are you learning about this briefing at the white house . Well, ande
Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. That is something we have heard him say over and over again. Then we learned he cancelled the meeting. President trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. Bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the United States closest allies, its Third Largest Trading Partner. What happens next . The administration floating the idea of a possible 20 tax on imports from mexico and, hallie,
for a very busy day. Keir simmons is
Work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i saw congress doing. A member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the United States and in his way tried to express that opinion, he was a brave man, fallen hero, he knew what he was getting into because he enlisted. He was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be, exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken, that was the message. Kellys own son robert was killed fighting for the us in afghanistan in 2010, Donald Trumps Chief Of Staff describing the agonizing process of notifying a Family Member of a loved ones death and the pain those loved ones go through and live with. Typically the only phone
calls a family receives are the most important phone calls from their buddies. In my case after my son was killed his friends were calling us from afghanistan telling us what a great guy he was. Those are the only phone calls that really matter. Kelly said he was upset by will financ
Interesting. Solid conservative, excellent legislator. I think es hes one of these people you want in congress. A person of tremendous integrity whether you agree with him or disagree. He knows full well hes going to face a primary opponent and trump will campaign against him but in the land of barry gold water, were going to see now a defiant and Maverick Mccain and someone in flake with this book and his campaign is going to elevate conservativism again. The ultimately they need to find a way to govern. The to go to voters to say give us your trust to move the country in a new direction. Thats not just about the economy and the governments intervention in the economy. So you have the republicans making a move towards conscience or so they say and chris, you
have this other blow to the president in the form of a lawsuit, former d. C. Cop accusing fox news of manufacturing a story, using the death of a dnc staffer to distract from the Russia Investigation. We talked to the donor at the
Tries to clean up trumps tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged thenfbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. The president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. Heres Sarah Sanders late today. Look, the president knew that he lied to the Vice President. That was the reason for his firing. The problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. Quote, i had to Fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. The white house has made it very clear, President Trumps tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the United States. No matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. In this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a president ial tweet. Trumps tweet and Sarah Sanders explanation simply are not the same. They contradict each other. They also dont match cnns reporting. A s