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mueller. ♪ good morning to you. it is monday, august 13th. i'm richard louie alongside louis bergdorf. ayman and yasmin have the morning off. we will start with explosion new allegations from assistant to the president. the former reality television star is proceed moemoting help about her time in the white house. one thing that did not make the memoire concerns a tape of donald trump using the "n" word. she says in the book that three sources in separate conversations described to her trump using the rarely slucial t it was not until after the book was lossed sclosed she heard th >> you have heard the tape in. >> i have heard the tape. >> since publication of the book? >> yes. >> and you know it exists? >> yes. and i regret that people are trying to leverage it as an october surprise. i don't want to be a part of it.

i heard for two years it existed and once i heard it for myself, it was confirmed what i feared the most, that donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities. but when he talks that way, the way he did on this tape, it confirmed that he is truly a racist. >> why didn't you get that in your book? >> it closed too soon and i have been tracking, tracking. this person is so afraid because of the forces who are working to keep this tape from coming out. then there's omarosa talking about her firing by white house chief of staff john kelley. the stunning part of this part of the story is not the firing but that she was able to record it, allegedly, happening in the white house, in the situation room. here is part of that tape. >> there are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that -- that'll make it ugly for you.

but i think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure we can all be -- you know, you can look at -- look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation, and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. >> can i ask you a couple of questions? does the president -- is the president aware of what's going on? >> let's not go down the road. it is a non-negotiable discussion. >> i don't want to negotiate. i just -- i would like an opportunity to understand. >> we can talk another time. this has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations. so i'll let it go at that. so the staff and everyone on the staff works for me, not the president. so after you're departure i'll inform him if he gets interested on where you may be. >> a surprising bit of audio there. omarosa did not say how often she recorded her colleagues but

she defended her actions in the situation room. >> i protected myself because it is a white house where everybody lies. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in front and lies every day. you have to have your own back because otherwise you look back and see 17 knives in your back. >> you taped -- >> it is not disloyalty. if i didn't have this recording, listen, people would still think i was trying to set off alarms. yes, i had to protect myself and i have no regret about it. >> the white house responded to the kelly tape in this statement by sarah sander says, quote, the very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the white house situation room shows a blatant disregard for national security. and then to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of integrity from this disgruntle ltd, former white house employee. president trump was asked about his former white house aide saturday.

>> do you feel betrayed by omarosa? >> low life. she is a low life. >> the white house expanded on that. quote, instead of telling the truth about all the good president trump and his administration are doing to make america safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. it it is sad that a disgrunted former white house employee is trying to profit off these false attempts. >> and the white house responded to omarosa's claim she was offered, quote, hush money to keep quiet. it was in the form of a non-disclosure agreement signed by people who worked on the trump campaign. it includes a clause that prohibits, quote, demeaning or disparaging the campaign, mr. trump, mr. pence, any trump or trump company, any pence or pence family member or company. here is omarosa discussing that. >> there are several former employees from the white house who actually signed this

agreement, who are all being paid $15,000 for their silence. the only reason "unhinged" -- >> you believe all of the people that left the west wing of the campaign are bought off? >> absolutely. which is why sean spicer was describing donald trump as a unicorn jumping over rainbows, because he signed this agreement. >> is the president in the habit of offering hush money. >> that is an insult. you know it is typical to sign an nda in any place of work. i would be shock if you didn't have one at abc. i'm told she signed them when she was on "the apprentice," certainly on the campaign. we've all signed them in the west wing. >> you sign them in the west wing, you have signed a non-disclosure? >> we have confidentiality agreements in the west wing. why wouldn't we do that? >> you're a public employee. >> hold on.

confidentiality is implied. >> joining us washington correspondent, enez. thank you for being here. omarosa's ability to tape a conversation with the chief of staff, general john kelly, in the secure room, in the situation room, one has to ask what is happening with security protocols and what more there might be. >> this is a huge deal that can't be understated. the fact these recordings exist at all and the fact they were taken inside the situation room is shocking. it is supposed to be one of the most secured places within the white house. so the fact it is happening inside the situation, certainly raises questions about national security and about where else people might be bringing in recording devices to record conversations without other people knowing about it. omarosa may have broken the law by doing this. you can't just bring a recording device in the situation room and record people speaking. let's not forget there's a reason these laws are in place,

a reason you can't do it, and that's to keep america safe and ensure foreign powers aren't using these recording devices and hacking in to gain access to classified information. >> you know, part of this as we look at it, there's the legal issues that general kelly in the recording is alluding to, right? and number two, what you're bringing, she bringing a recording device into the situation room that could intimate legal jeopardy. >> absolutely. you are not allowed to do that. another point i want to make and something worth remembering is that the president himself has kind of shown a blatant disregard for certain national security protocols. remember, he has been known to use a phone that's not fully secure and experts believe is at risk for hacking and undermined places like the cia and fbi. i think when you have that top-down, kind of disregard for national security protocols it

is not setting the right example for the staffers. >> and taking a step back, what is the control system like right now. if you have a taping going on like this, someone has to ask what is the chief of staff doing. >> that's right. there's been reports that the trump administration is looking into kind of legal proceedings to maybe try to stop omarosa from releasing additional recording, to maybe punish her for making these recordings to begin with and stop her from releasing additional recordings which she claims to have. we will have to see if they take legal action, but if i had to venture a guess i would guess probably not. i feel like what we've seen in recent months is any kind of effort on behalf of the administration to stop people from speaking out, whether, you know, with non-disclosure agreements or hush payments, that hasn't worked out. so i don't think they're going to venture down that path. >> i guess not taping very -- in very secure areas in the white house is so 2017, right? >> right. >> exactly. thank you so much, my friend. i will speak to you later. on the first anniversary of the

deadly charlottesville protest, thousands of anti-hate protesters out numbered the rally steps away from the white house. it was a gathering aimed to bring together multiple white national organizations including neo nazis. the group was met by thousands of chanting counter-protesters at lafayette park across from the white house. meanwhile, in charlottesville people gathered for the one-year mark of the deadly clashes and to pay respects to heather heyer, a civil rights activist who was killed last year after a man drove a car into a crowd. president trump, who was criticized for saying both sides shared the blame for the violence last year on saturday tweeting, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together as a nation. i condemn all times of racism and acts of violence. peace to all-americans. well, european and asia stocks are falling this morning as relations between nato allies, the united states and turkey continue to plummet.

on friday president trump tweeted, i have just authorized daubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum with respect to turkey as their currency, the turkish lira, slides downward against our strong dollar. aluminum now will be 20% and steel 50%. our relations with turkey are not good at this time. well, 12 hours after the president's sudden twitter announcement, the commerce department weighed in with secretary wilbur ross writing in a statement in part, quote, since the imposition of the section 232 tariff in march, exports to the united states have lined and domestic capacity utilization has increased, but not to levels sufficient to remove the threat to national security. doubling the tariff on imports to turkey will further reduce the imports that the department felt threatened to impair national security. less than three weeks ago trump threatened, quote, large sanctions on turkey for ankara's ongoing detainment of pastor

brunson. the lira continued to collapse, hitting new record lows. the dow jones dropped 200 points on the fear that it would impact global markets. in speeches on friday, president erdogan said threatening blackmailing language and bullying will not cut it. he called on turks to sell their gold and possessions to buy lira. meanwhile, the president is not only continuing his attacks on one of america's most well-known companies, but he appears to be actively promoting its downfall, tweeting yesterday morning, quote, many harley-davidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. great. most other companies are coming in our direction, including harley competitors. a really bad move. u.s. will soon have a level playing field or better.

that tweet came as trump was hosting an event for bikers on saturday at his golf resort in new jersey. harley-davidson announced back in june it was shifting some production from the u.s. to overseas due to trump's ongoing tariff battles. still ahead, what we're learning this morning about the baggage handler who stole a passenger plane in seattle and what it means for airport security concerns. later, president trump goes after attorney general jeff sessions once again. this time calling him scared stiff. those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. ♪ i am all about living joyfully.

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nbc's hans nichols has more. >> oh, my god. what is happening right now? >> reporter: before richard russell made it into the sky in a horizon air dash eight. investigators want to know how he made it across a crowded tarmac and on to a runway. >> the dak 8 on runway 1-6 center, say your call sign. >> causing confusion in the control tower and a call to the military. >> you need to call and scramble now. >> yeah, we are. >> reporter: with a fair of f-15s on his tail, russell stayed airborne for more than an hour before dying in a fiery crash. his flight reveals a troubling security gap at our nation's airports where thousands of ramp workers and mechanics have the same broad access russell had. >> for me the biggest red flag is that this this something that aviation security is not designed to prevent. >> reporter: making an insider attack one of the biggest potential threats to commercial aviation. >> we're fortunate in the sense that it wasn't an terrorist, somebody who was focused on causing mass destruction.

what this incident did was demonstrate a vulnerability that is still existing here almost 17 years after 9/11. >> reporter: as investigators work to determine if tighter security could have prevented russell's flight, a video reveals a man who enjoyed his work. >> look at all them bags. oh, a purple one. >> reporter: and loved to travel, his final act leaving a family in grief and friends in mourning. >> he was friends with everyone. some of us are lucky to have one or two really good friends. he had dozens of really good friends. >> our thanks to hans nichols for that report. let's get a check on the weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. what do you have for us? >> more of the same, louis. still looking at hot weather out west and areas of the east getting drench. heavy rain has developed in areas of eastern pennsylvania, especially near harrisburg and heading up into towards central pennsylvania. thunderstorms existed most of north carolina. there's a little bit on the outer banks. the rainfall forecast today, it

is another umbrella day. we had a to goy saturday in areas of the northeast. sunday was a little better. today is just a soaker in areas of central and eastern pennsylvania where we could get two to three inches of rainfall. the ground is saturated, rivers are running high. don't be surprised if we show you pictures of flooding in this area tomorrow. we have potential in areas of the catskills almost to the poconos in north jersey there, potential of two to three inches. here is how it will play out at 8:00 a.m. this morning. by the time we get to your evening drive home, hit-and-miss showers and storms, all of these little dots. boston, maybe a hit-and-miss shower, most of it south of you. tuesday morning, the storm heads further to the north. a dry morning commute tomorrow, and by tuesday afternoon, hit-and-miss showers once again. watch out in texas, also the northeast. if you want great summer weather, minneapolis, chicago and st. louis looks pretty good,

louis. >> bill, breaking and important news here. a special shout out to the newest member of our family. early friday morning yasmin welcomed her new baby boy. noor clifford weighing a strong six pounds, 14 ounces. we are overjoyed, including dad and big brother as are here. you can see he's got a great look on his face. very excited to welcome his new baby brother. for his part, noor seems completely relaxed there. >> that's not right. look how cute. >> arms behind the head, that chilled style there. looks like whit, his dad. >> i think his feet were kicked up, too, at that very same time. >> i think yasmin is going to call into the show in the next couple of days. >> that is so cute. i may accuse her of staging that one. have you ever seen a more -- >> yeah, perfect. unbelievable. a big congratulations to them. we can't wait for yasmin to call in and tell us more. >> go, yasmin.

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scoreless innings on the way to boston's series-sweeping 4-1 win over the orioles. man, boston is just on fire. to chicago where adaming will commit home run robbery for the third time this week, this time pulling back a would-be homer at the left wall against the indians in the eighth inning. while he saves a run there, cleveland still has enough to win it 9-7. what a play by hem though. meanwhile, dramatic scenario on the north side of the city last night as the cubs find themselves trailing the nationals by three runs in the bottom of the ninth. with two out and the bases loaded for rookie david body. >> bodie at dead center field. did he get it? did he get it! walk-of walk-off! >> welcome to the big show. he delivered a grand slam over the center field wall that gives

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i'm richard louie alongside louis bergdorf. it is the bottom of the hour. president trump once again attacking attorney general jeff sessions. in a series of tweets on saturday, the president criticized sessions while also slamming christopher steele, the former british intelligence officer who authored an opposition research dossier on trump and former associate attorney general bruce ohr. he tweeted, the many meetings with deputy ag bruce ohr and his beautiful wife nellie. fusion gps hired him to write the phoney dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc. do you believe nellie worked for fusion and her husband still works for the department of justice? our ag is scared stiff and missing in action. it is all starting to be reveal. not pretty. ig report soon.

witch-hunt. according to jonathan swann of axios, session does not use twitter and has no tv in his office. sources who work for him says he tries as best he can to tune out trump's attacks. they seem to genuinely bother him at first, but over time aides said it appeared he had grown desensitized to them. all right. president trump's lawyer rudy guilliani is now claiming that special counsel robert mueller told him he would complete his probe into possible obstruction of justice by september 1st. here is what guilliani had to say yesterday. >> september 1st was the date bob mueller gave me two months ago when we were talking about getting his report done. he threw out the date of september 1st as a reasonable date to get it done. maybe i credit it too much. i thought he meant, well, that will keep us clear of the elections. they did say something like they didn't want to repeat some of the mistakes comey made. >> in an interview with the

"wall street journal", guilliani said, quote, we certainly won't do an interview after september 1st because we're not going to be the ones to interfere with the election. let him, mr. mueller, get all of the bad publicity and the attacks for that. meanwhile, trump's legal team is also preparing to counter mueller should he issue a report on the president's actions, even a critical one. guilliani told "the journal," quote, i would take that. he went on to say, a negative report gets it over with. we can answer it with, i think, a better report from us. and then we get to wait and see what happens in congress. and rudy guilliani seemed to contradict himself yesterday. he said that president trump and former fbi director james comey never discussed former national security adviser mike flynn. but guilliani and other trump officials previously indicated that the president did, in fact, discuss flynn with comey. here is what guilliani had to say yesterday followed by comments that he made back in

july. >> what happened in that conversation with comey about michael flynn? what exactly did president trump say? >> there was no conversation about michael flynn. >> so you're saying that president trump and james comey never discussed michael flynn? >> that -- that is what he will testify to if he's asked that question. they already know that. so why are they asking us for him to repeat what they already know under oath. >> and you're also saying a month ago you didn't tell abc news he said something along the lines -- >> of course not. >> -- of can you give him a break? >> no, i said that is what comey says. >> the reality is comey in some way ends up a good witness for us. >> how is he a good witness if he's saying the president was directing him, in his words, to let the michael flynn investigation to go. >> he didn't direct him to do that. what he said was, can you give him a break. >> and joining me again, washington correspondent for global national enez de la

quetara. thanks for sticking around. what is president trump's end game as you continues that attack against him own attorney general? >> so poor jeff sessions, right? scared stiff and missing in action, some of the harshest words the president has used with regards to jeff sessions. that's really saying something given the repeated attacks on jeff sessions over the last few months, over the last 18 months, just over and over again attacks on jeff sessions. we know the president is not pleased with sessions recusing himself from the russia probe. the end game i think is obaviou, is trump trying to pressure sessions and get him to step down. he has called on sessions to put an end to the russia probe, of course, as sessions can no longer do that. only rod rosenstein can do that. trump obviously aware of that. i think the end game is for sessions to resign. >> pointing towards the end game, september 1st according to rudy guilliani in terms of a potential sitdown happening or not and on that very topic,

chris trow writes in, the president is merely a citizen entrusted with high office. while the courts must pay due deference to the president's constitutional responsibilities, he is no more entitled to ignore the laws or ignore a court order than any other citizen. like any other citizen, he has a duty to respond to a grand jury subpoena. giving evidence before the grand jury is occasionally stressful and sometimes embarrassing, but essentially simple, tell the truth. should special counsel robert mueller here play hardball, absolutely challenge the rule of law here to get the details as trow is saying here? >> i believe mueller will play hardball. he takes his work extremely seriously, who wants to get to the bottom of the investigation no matter what it takes, who is not going to strike a deal with the president to appease the

president. i think he really will do what it takes to get to the bottom of this investigation. the argument is that, you know, a trump/mueller confrontation could wind up strengthening american institutions but it could be good for america in the same way, you know, everything that happened with nixon and watergate was good for america as well and it showed nobody is above the law, that even the president is not above the law. so people saying, you know, many saying that a trump/mueller confrontation would result in doing that, others saying, you know, a trump/mueller deal could also end up being mueller rewarding bad behavior on behalf of the president, and by all accounts mueller is not somebody who will be looking to do that. >> interesting narrative there, saying, let's have our constitutional confrontation now. thank you so much on this monday morning. the white house is reacting to the claim by omarosa manigault newman she made a secret recording of her firing from the trump administration in the most secure room in the white house. the revelation of that recording

comes as omarosa unleashed harsh criticisms against the president and his administration while promoting her new book. nbc news white house correspondent kellie o'donnell has more. >> hi. >> reporter: omarosa manigault newman is recasting herself from long-time trump defender to outspoken adversary. >> he is truly a racist. >> reporter: but her own conduct and credibility are also under scrutiny after she secretly taped white house chief of staff john kelly inside the highly-secure situation room. >> this is a white house where everybody lies. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day. you have to have your own back. >> reporter: for 15 years -- >> omarosa is actually a very nice person. >> reporter: her fame and her career were intertwined with donald trump. now she ex presencpresses regre >> it is hindsight, but i will

say this to you. i was complicit with the white house deceiving the nation. >> reporter: she writes that she learned about a tape where mr. trump used the "n" word during the production of "the apprentice" but she had not heard it herself. but she told "meet the press" she did, but only after her book was completed. >> i heard his voice as clear as you and i are sitting here. >> you heard the tape? >> i have heard the tape. >> reporter: she brought another tape of her own to "meet the press," haden recordi press," a hidden recording she made when she was fired. >> does the president -- >> reporter: facing questions about whether sher her actions were disloi. >> she's trying to sell books and settle scores and you have to be anti-trump for it to be successful. >> reporter: the white house hit back hard, responding to her appearance on "meet the press." press secretary sarah sanders

said to sneak a recording device into the situation room shows a blatant disregard for security. she said to brag about it on national tv further proves a lack of character. richard. >> reporter: thank you for that record, kelly. in the confirmation process for supreme court nominee is set to ramp up in the coming weeks. as hearings get under way, senator chuck grassley anaunlsed that kavanaugh's confirmation hearings will start on tuesday, september 4th when lawmakers return from the august recess. he said he expects the hearings to last between three and four days. earlier this month senator said that he believes the judiciary committee should be able to wrap up kavanaugh's consideration within two weeks after the hearings end, adding that the nomination would likely reach the full senate floor days after that. fellow judiciary member and senate majority whip john corn

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pouring, where we have already had a significant amount of water. again, this is through tonight. it does not include d.c. or new york, but all areas north and west of there, and philadelphia is included. so after today, we will clear it out through the middle of the week. so this is us. we fast forward this week into wednesday. the eastern seaboard not bad at all. we will have a pretty summer-like middle of the week. but this front and the storms in illinois and through st. louis, that's going to sweep towards the ohio valley on thursday, and on friday it will be arriving into areas of the east with showers and thunderstorms, especially in the afternoon. so we're in and out of the pattern where we get just these tropical downpours. it has been very humid in areas of the north east. i'm sure you can attest to that. >> yes. >> it doesn't take much to get a quick inch or two of rain. >> that's right. and all of the flight complications have been happening. >> saturday was a nightmare for anyone trying to fly on the eastern seaboard. today it will be not as bad, but there will be delays. >> we've heard a lot of oh me, o

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welcome back. ohio governor john kasich says he does not recognize the republican party during the trump era. kasich says the results of the special election should serve as a wakeup call to his party on the pitfalls of trump's policies. take a listen. >> the republican party has never been for protectionism. the republican party doesn't support a notion that families

shouldn't be held together. the republican party never supported the notion that we should ring up debt and put our kids in so much in debt by doing things that are not responsible. the republican party has never believed that we should walk away from our allies who helped us keep the peace since world war ii. these positions are -- they don't even resemble the republican party. >> now joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. the co-founder of axios mike allen. mike, good morning to you, my friend. what's the one big thing from axios this morning. >> good monday morning. axios's one big thing is the parkland generation's big plans for fall. so we traveled this weekend with the parkland students who in the six months it's been since that shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school have only gotten more ambitious, more organized, more active. and so they just have come off a summer-long bus tour and they have big plans this fall for

voter registration. they're going to use their huge twitter followings and their other tech tricks that they have that they've used to keep focus on the school shooting issue much longer than most people thought they would. >> mike, you thought you heard it all and then you did hear it all this weekend from am rosa and that tape from the situation allegedly. what are white house sources telling you about what's happened here and all that's involved here. >> it's shocking she had the run of the west wing as jonathan swan put it. she couldn't have the tape if she weren't in the room. and the funny thing about her is that she is actually one of the more trumpian of trump characters orlando there. she knows how to work the media, she doesn't care what other people think and she has the physical presence. aides told us that they were scared of her. they knew she had an in with the boss. even though nobody really knew what she did, her duties were a

big joke, almost like a trivia question category. but people were afraid to sideline her. people were afraid to exclude her because of the special hold that she had until she got the boot. >> mike, white house as you've been seeing railing against her credibility, question might be is how widespread might be this issue, right, of recording in certain places where we've not seen or heard such things before? >> i would be stunned if it was. people are calling this very unusual, one of the worst breeches of protocol you could possibly have in the situation room. and as your viewers know, when you walk into the west wing, the staff now is not allowed to have an apple watch. any communications device, even members of congress when they go into the west wing, they have to check their devices when they go in certain rooms. occasionally people will do a sweep. they do check. a lawmaker was caught up in that

sweep and he had some phone on him and he gave it back. >> very quickly. also i was reading through your note here, mike, axios has new reporting about the announcement of president trump's space force and the divisions that are creating right now at least between the white house and the campaign. >> that's right. the white house felt they had a good roll out for the space force and the campaign started sending a fundraising e-mail talking about the space force and talking about space force gear and the president saying he wanted my personal opinion about the designs, according to the mass e-mail i got along with millions of other people. so the white house said they were completely blind sided by this. they had no plans about that. we were told the campaign went rogue. >> all right, co-founder mike allen of axios. thank you, my friend, for stopping by. >> have a great week. >> of course we'll read in just a little bit. to all of our viewers out there, you can sign up for the newsletter at signupdot

axios.com. that does it for us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. september 1st was the date that bob mueller gave me, back two months ago, when we were talking about getting his report done. he threw out the date september 1 as being a reasonable date to get it done. maybe i credited too much. i thought he meant, well, that will keep us clear of the elections. and they did say something like they didn't want to repeat some of the mistakes that comey made. >> so, that's the president's lawyer setting a deadline for potential presidential interview with the special counsel. trump's team wants any possible sitdown to focus only on the questions of collusion, not obstruction of justice. we'll get to that. plus, the latest developments from the weekend rally and counterprotests on the one-year anniversary of