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incredibly sobering piece, anybody could be subject to retribution. don t 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 he s 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 hou ....
so what have you learned? reporter: well, anderson, u.s. officials tell cnn that last year the u.s. intelligence used a dossier as part of a justification to get a warrant to secretly monitor carl as one of the sources of information that the bureau has used to defend or to support its investigation. this includes approval from the secret court that oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa, to monitor page s communications. the fbi and the justice department would have had to present probable cause that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, mobile engaging in foreign intelligence gathering for a foreign government. comey and other fbi officials would have had to sign off on russian spies. pai page denies he knew these were russian agents. page says he took a trip independently, that he expressed his own views and overall, he has disputed anything was illegal in his interactions with the russians. he sent us a statement that reads in part, i ....
through the b.s. i don t know if there s been any. wants to cut through the b.s., get the answers to the questions about how long this is going to go on and this is what was most interesting to me. one of my sources says to me, he s going to find out if we have to fight and where this leads. they seem to think that rudy giuliani will be the one to be able to do that where nobody else was able to do that before. in some interviews today he talked about his prior relationship with robert mueller. it s not clear to me how a prior relationship with mueller would impact an on going investigation. and he told that in his interview that they do have a prior relationship. i think i should remind people that john dab the lawyer that quit also had a prior relationship with mueller. giuliani did work with mueller after 9/11 of course. but i think that whole we have a relationship and we get along can be overdone because a lot of people worked with mueller over the years. he also sa ....
controversial stand your ground law. the lawyers who represented trayvon martin and george zimmerman are here. plus, for the president, it was the best of weeks and the worst of weeks, depending on your point of view. michael cohen again dominating headlines claiming trump knew in advance of the heating with russian representativeles. meanwhile, the longstanding accountant gets a federal subpoena. amidst the legal woes came more economic news. the president lifts the gdp above 4%. mid-terms on the horizon, is it still the semi-stupid? and this pennsylvania 5th and 6th grade teacher has been moonlighting for years. suddenly it s endangering his day job? because he plays a bad guy that does the nazi salute and shouts z zig heil. there are no charges in florida because of the florida stands your ground law. it s the same one much discussed in the killing of trayvon martin. now, federal lawmakers are calling the doj to investigate. so how did we get here? after finishing her n ....
unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. what a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the media s snark-nato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. is it a no win situation or if you are the president, no lose. i want to know what you think. smerconish.com, answer this question at this hour. does covering every one of president trump s speeches, rallies and tweets and utter rans hurt or help the gop and trump s re-election. thank you for being late. tom, great to have you back. i would be remised if i did not say it in the out set. here you are of another summer of extreme weather. well, we can talk about that in a second, let s talk about this whole question of covera ....