Anderson Cooper on Deep State: Leans deny

The claim: A hidden network of unelected officials secretly controls US government policy.

2018-05-23: “Again, the bottom line is this, saying you were spied on by the deep state, even saying it over and over does not make it so.” source
2018-05-23: “Just a serious of escalating insinuations that the FBI sending a confidential source to talk to three Trump campaign figures, two of whom with pre- existing Russia connections somehow amounts to a deep state attempt to plant a spy or spies in his campaign and to do so to take him down.” source