denial to cnn saying, quote, it is not my practice to comment in response to questions from the media, but this warrants a response. she never said that. and the idea that hope hicks ever suggested that e-mails or other documents would be concealed or destroyed is completely false. i m joined now by new york times washington investigations editor mark mazetti, one of the reporters who broke this story. mark, thank you for being with us. and you detail in here what corallo is going to tell mueller s team about the phone call between him, the president and hope hicks. what is he planning to say? well, he s describing a conference call between president trump, hope hicks, and himself, the day after a statement came out that was misleading, about this meeting that had happened a year earlier. during the call, according to what corallo plans to testify to, that these documents, th s
very powerful. he does this on camera. he does it on showalize ts all time. he recognized me. what about other people? did he recognize other people in mar-a-lago? i am always amazed, so, i ll give you an example. i had at the golf club for lunch, michael schmidt of new york times he was sitting with two other people the president knows. and the president at first saw michael, hadn t seen him since i think march of last year. and it clicked. like it took him a few seconds and then he realized, that s michael schmidt of new york times. this idea that he s somehow disconnected from reality, i think michael wolff is talking to all these people. you ll find out most of the sources are people that are disgruntled that no longer work at the white house. do you think you have any concerns th s about the preside
president trump has promised during the campaign about keeping special interests away and lobbyists that has any kind of he s made that very, very clear. i m not worried at all. it s unfortunate that here we go again, sources say, like comey s colleague who leaked information to the press, this is not very good for the fbi for us to have sources who say, it s very detrimental to the american people for the fbi to have their names pushed around on anyone for that matter. this is not good stuff, it s not productive for the american people to have a bureau that operates th s like this, it s n good at all. does it speak a bit to how polarized people are? that people can look at all of
that is why he s been avoiding these kinds of questions. he s trying to get the support, jim, on two immigration bills. it s energy week at the white house, but, again, with the press briefings not consistently being on camera, it seems like it s a missed opportunity for this white house to talk about those things if th s they want accomplished. reporter: it really was. sarah huckabee sanders, deputy press secretary, came into the briefing room today, slammed the news media, said, well, if we didn t have immigration officials who came out into the briefing room today by surprise, you would have never covered them. but at the same time, because they did not have the cameras on, those officials received less coverage. don, there were some pretty illuminating moments, for a second here, the acting i.c.e. director came out and essentially acknowledged that there are only 11 to 12 undocumented immigrants in this country. president trump when he was a candidate out on the campaign trail
of whether or not banning all muslims from entering the united states would do any good. take a listen. there is really no evidence to suggest that by banning muslims or banning muslims from a particular set of six countries that we would make ourselves here in the united states safer. and th s, beeve, one of the major reasonshy the courts thus far have b very skeptical of the travel ban. more over, i think there is a very real risk that by sigmatizing and isolating muslims from particular counties and muslims in general that we alienate the very communities here in the united states whose cooperation we most need to detect and prevent these home grown extremists from being able to carry out attacks. your thoughts? well, it is very interesting that she mentions data and evidence because that is something clearly lack anything this administration in their