world, fox cot. they make the lap tops for apple and iphones and they re ing a tremendous plant right now in wisconsin. they need workers. i have to let people come in. but they have to come in through merit. they have to be people that can love our country and help our country. thank you all very much. president trump there, a few moments ago at the white house, taking questions from reporters there in the room. it was, shall we say, wide ranging in terms of scope. the president talking about tariffs, the president talking about trade. the president, of course, talking about immigration as well at one point, dispelling the notion that you need a bunch of judges along the border to help decide who should get into this country and who should not. also the president, at one point, talking about washing machines and there being some sort of abundance of good washing machines being discarded all over the united states of america.
wrongdoing on hicks part, importantly, but says, quote, the russian outreach effort shows that even after american intelligence agencies publicly accused moscow of trying to influence the outcome of last year s presidential election, russian operatives were undaunted in their efforts to establish contacts with mr. trump s advisers. and this is important. new court filings made public just today show the scope of the mueller investigation and in plain english it s enormous. this gives us an idea of the mountains of evidence that mueller has gathered only thus far in the criminal case against former trump campaign manager paul manafort. mueller s team has collected over 400,000 documents, including e-mails and bank statements. they have the information off of 36 electronic devices like cell phones, lap tops, and they are disclosing 15 search warrants that we know of.
documents, if i were looking at this and looking for what the mueller people might be looking for, i m not thinking just documents, i m thinking lap tops and cell phones, they re looking for devices that he never declared. maybe he had emails or addresses that he didn t turn over. think about the digital trail that he carries with him every day. i think that s substantial in this. jeff, do you expect there to be more of this? i don t know, i was surprised to see this one, especially since manafort s people said he was cooperating. it certainly says that mueller s team is not afraid to make a big statement, is not afraid to confront the people they are investigating, and if they did one, certainly my expectation is that they would do more. coming up next, a new response from north korea to president trump s threat of fire and fury like the world has never seen, a message containing
we don t know who it was, gave the okay to search this house really indicates that this affidavit which is under seal, we haven t seen it, that mueller presented to the judge was a powerful document. phil, would they have to have specified exactly what they were looking for in order to threat gte this search warrant? could they say they are looking for someone thing and come across something else and can they take computers? or does that depend on what they ve already agreed in advance? absolutely. if they find something of interest, they re going to take it. we keep talking about documents. if i were looking at this and looking at what the mueller people might be looking for, i m not just thinking documents. i m thinking lap tops and cell phones. they re looking for devices that he never declared. maybe he had emails or addresses that he didn t turn over. don t look at this looking about documents he could have burned this the chimney. think about the digital trail he
have ever have been removed as national security advisor. it was only after it became public that the president took action on it. apparently it was only after it became public that the vice president knew he had been lied to. so i understand the sensitivity of leaks and the administration i worked for was tough on leaks for sure. but there s no doubt that some of these leaks have shown a bright light in places where light was very much needed. i have no problem with the washington post publishing it or the times publishing it. i do have problems with the people who work for the national security agencies leaking confidential information that may cost lives, that may make it much more difficult to detect lap tops. remember the only way isis got this information is through the leak. and you have to be very careful when you leak, because you re taking the law into your own hands. you may not have all the information and know everything, we are still a country of laws and we have to m