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house. this is picture for that meeting. and for the second straight day the dow bounced on wall street. truly an unprecedented thick and it runs completely counter to many of the prognostications out there before. yet another record today after donald trump s win. michelle kosinski is outfront at the white house. michelle, the moment today of this meeting so many people thought 24e8d never see barack obama and donald trump meet, never mind as president and president elect at the white house. maybe even not the two people at the meeting. and tonight outside the white house more protests but inside today it was all about reassurance and everybody on their best behavior. what was so fascinating about this, on the one hand you have this incredibly organized transition process with handshakes and good wishes on all sides. but then on the other, you have this intense bitterness from the campaign trail. and today the white house didn t really hold back in saying that i have gr ....
secretary of defense here tonight. we know last week he made a surprise announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes he s indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. but the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. so donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for secretary of defense. and we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. just two this week alone and thursday he ll be in iowa and friday in michigan. you heard him taking credit for what he said is a $50 billion investment by softbank. what are you learning about this? reporter: i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the trump transition team or the company tonight. but certainly a little showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. contours of the deal are $50 ....
any better. craig, thank you. thank you. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us, don t forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. just go to cnngo, a.c. 360 s.t.a.r.t. starts right now. and good evening, thank you for joining us. we re waiting to hear from fbi director james comey who s going to speak at a dinner for the intelligence community. we ll bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. earlier today, the top two members, the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. and while it s obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape it s going to take, it s hard to miss the sharp contrast between today s rollout between straight forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. both the house and the senate intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last el ....
did not discuss sources, methods or military operations. the president only discussed the common threats that both countries face. but anderson, nowhere in these statements that were released by tillerson, powell or the national security advisor. is there any kind of denial that the president released classified information to the russians, and of course that s a deeply sensitive topic because president trump went after hillary clinton for having emails on her private server. h.r. mcmaster will be briefing reporters tomorrow on the president s upcoming foreign trip. obviously if mcmaster does not show up at that briefing, that s a telling sign that we should circle the wagons on this. it s not clear that any of those statements almost sound word for word the same, the fact that they don t specifically say hi didn t reveal classified information, that s not just an oversight that the white house put out a statement that didn t directly address that. this is the sort of deni ....
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 ....