if anybody were to invent a holiday for the soul of america it would be this day. the fourth of july. so very nice of thomas jefferson and the whole gang to be thinking of you ahead of time here. it was big. big. very generous. the message that so many people are driven to such despair over the latest trump outrage that it s very easy to forget instructions i mean, forget of our founders, but instructions from the founders of the modern conservative movement. like bill buckley. who said, i m not going to be troubled by truths arrived at, at the latest ballot box. yesterday s you know, at yesterday s ballot box, charles krauthammer always told people, don t lose your head. stay calm. there is an apocalypse de jour
sabotaged to gain access to the centers. manufacturing. it may have been a potential infrastructure target. perhaps the most frightening of all. turn up the volume. nuclear power. the report was short on specifics, but we do know the russian government targeted certain organizations rather than casting a wide net. that s scary stuff. we re joined by investigat n investigations reporter tom winter. what do we know about the nature of the attacks? ali, something that s different with these attacks than we ve seen before is these were specifically targeted attacks. this wasn t just looking for some sort of a target of opportunity or let s see where we can go with this. wasn t fishing. exactly. they weren t just trying to see whatever company we can get into. we know from yesterday s from the technical alert put out by the fbi and dhs that stephanie referenced that there was a targeted campaign to get into specific companies, to get into specific industries, and to target those i
that s what he thinks of himself, yes. what things did they threaten you with? when i was reporting for the daily beast in the runup to the run up to the election, we were reporting on rape allegations ms. trump made against the to-be president. we said, what do you think? he said, i ll see you in a courthouse one day in the future and take you for every penny you don t have. what i will do to you being bleeping disgusting. we have a sound bite first. well, that s yeah, let s do that. let s get the full screen of what he said with respect to the daily beast reporting on donald trump s ex-wife, ivana. tread effing lightly. what i m going to do to you is going to be effing disgusting. he says, you want to ruin your life at the age of 20?
eva pilgrim and our team on the ground in puerto rico again tonight. there is yet another developing story from los angeles tonight. for late details, here s byron pitts. david, there has been a second massive rock fall at yosemite national park and there are reports of injuries. this just a day after a slab dropped from el capitan, killing one british climber and injures a second. a witness said it appeared to be three times the size of yesterday s, and happened at the same location. rock slides at yosemite are not uncommon, but rarely fatal. david? byron, thank you. we turn now to president trump s new tax plan, promising a middle class miracle. tonight, the white house was pressed for specifics. how much will middle class americans see? and how much will wealthy americans see? here s abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl.teo today claimed president trump s tax plan could save the average american family up to $1,000 a year. if we allow a family to keep anot
people, and he s fighting every war that can possibly, that he could possibly take on. when you do all of that, it s a losing proposition. maybe he s turned a corner here with a new chief of staff. we have to see what happens, but that is just another indication of the core problem in this white house. all right, so you have two issues. the first one is that the president s counsel said he had nothing to do with it. that was the word from the white house, and now the washington post says that was all a lie, to remind, here is his attorney on new day, being asked about this specifically. so he didn t have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out being worked on with his team? no, the statement that don jr. put out, you talking about yesterday s, chris? the one over the weekend the president was seen as helping with. no, that was written by donald trump jr. and i m sure in consultation with his lawyer. the new york times is reporting the president okayed the