[ music playing ] well, this morning the war of words continues between president trump and omarosa. the former white house aid accused the president of using the "n" word the white house cannot guarantee there is an audio recording of it. a grand jury report is revealing decades of more than 300 predator priests. the death toll is rising in italy after a bridge collapse, workers are trying to clear wreckage and debris honing to find any possible survivors. well, good morning to you. it's wednesday, august 15th.

i'm richard liu. ee ayman and yasmin have the day off. the minnesota primary for governor, commissioner jeff johnson easily defeated tim pawlenty, a former two-term governor. he will face congressman tim walz then in wisconsin democrat tony evers one in a crowded eight-way primary for governor. the school superintendent is up against scott walker, who is seeking a third term. >> in connecticut, 2006 u.s. senate nominee ned lamont claimed the nominee for governor my. a former ge registered democrat and history was made last night at democratic candidate for vermont governor christine

hallquist is the first transgender. democrat a marwyns the minneapolis house seat -- om omarwins. we show president trump's net negative approval rating in double digits in each of the polls. now the latest polling about the russia probe. 58% believe the investigation into russian efforts is a serious matter.

a shocking grand jury report is rocking from fas from pennsye vatican, hundreds of predator priests in pennsylvania. if the abuse was covered up by senior church officials. anne thompson has more. >> reporter: in searing damage language, the grand jury report revealed the dark secrets of pennsylvania. priests were wrang little boys

and girls and the men of good who were responsible, did nothing, hid it all. >> it was child, sexual abuse, including rape, committed by grown men. priests. against children. >> reporter: the report found over 1,000 child victims identified in the church's own records. the alleged crimes often described as inappropriate contact or ground u boundary issues. >> reporter: she says she was angry, she came forward in 2002 the church said it was hiring a private investigator. >> i found out today it wasn't him they were looking at, they were looking at me. >> reporter: the report finding a pattern among the bishop and church leaders. the main thing was not to help children but avoid scandal. it names more than 300 predator priests in six diocese from one end of the state to the other. home to more than 1.7 million catholics. almost every instance of abuse too old to be prosecuted but the

investigation did result in two priests being criminally charged with sexually assaulting children during the past decade, from the die see, apologies. >> i ask you, the church asks you for forgiveness. >> reporter: but for some, words are not enough. >> people want total transparency. they want the bishops to report what happened, why it happened and how they will make sure it never happens again. >> reporter: many of those same bishops and their past handling of abuse cases are implicated in this investigation, including cardinal donald wuerl, the foreman bishop of pittsburgh. wuerl now in washington says he acted with diligence, concerned for victims and to prevent future abuse. >> just a shocking story, our thanks to ann thompson for that report. the white house is revealing comments about omarosa newman, trump lashed out calling her a

dog. here's what the press secretary had to say about that. >> the president has said similar things about a number of individuals, certainly, that are not african-american or any other minority. i can simply talk to you about policies and the person that the president is. i think if again the person that a lot of his critics say he is certainly wouldn't have been in business with him for decades, certainly wouldn't have had bill and hillary clinton. they attended his wedding. i think he has made a number of comments about plenty of people and to try to single that out to one group is frankly silly. i think if you did a comparison, he's probably got a lot more nasty things out there about some other people. >> the president called you a dog this morning. what's your reaction? >> i think it shows you, if he would say that publicly, what else would he say about me privately? he has no respect for women, for african-americans as evidenced by him to instruct the chief of

staff to lock me two hours in the six room to harass me, threaten me and say things could get very ugly for me and there would be damage to he reputation. he is unfit to be in this office and to serve as the president of the united states. >> republicans senator jeff flake is weighing in on the president's tweet as well, writing this kind of language is unbecoming of a president of the united states. there is no excuse for it and republicans should not be okay with it. meanwhile, the press secretary yesterday also could not confirm whether or not president trump has ever used the "n" word as omarosa has claimed. >> can you stand at the podium and guarantee the american people they'll never hear donald trump utter the "n" word on a recording in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything, but ki tell you that the president addressed this question directly. i can tell you that i've never heard it. >> well, now the trump campaign has taken legal action against omarosa in the form of an ash

trath complaint, claiming she violated a 2016 confidentiality agreement. the reality tv star turned white house official she says she doesn't believe it's breached. there is white house secrecy agreement. omarosa says she did not sign that official contract but not every white house official was as forthcoming. >> did you sign an nda? >> i'm in the going to get into the back and forth on who has signed an nda in the white house. ki tell you it's common in a lot of places for employment for people to sign ndas, particular in government with people with security clearance. >> let me tell you what it says about the eggs pression of loyalty or lack thereof. why do people have to be contracted to never say anything negative about the president, any member of his family or product they should produce. why is that necessary? >> loose, again, it's common in a lot of --

>> corporations, protecting corporate interest. >> it's also despite the contrary penalties, it's actually very normal and under every administration prior to the trump administration has had ndas, particularly specific for anywith than you had a security clearance. this white house is certainly no longer -- >> all right. here's a thing. quick fact check on the claim you just heard that ndas are standard at the white house. that's not true according to past administration official there is. mbz news is told there are restrictions on releasing highly classified or sensitive information. those things fall under a security clearance and not an nda. i want to bring in from washington, a senior writer, neil lessnewski. when you hear snowball, these recordings, from omarosa could turn into an avalanche, by some stills, could bring down the

president. do you agree with that assertion and if anything, what kind of legal trouble could this mean for the white house and the president? >> well, i think the first question is really going to be how much of what omarosa is saying on television and in her new book is actually even beyond that what she's already told to the special counsel's office to robert mueller and company, because of the revelation that she's now made that she has been in contact with them. so the question of whether or not some of this is unsavory versus how much of this is potentially a legal matter or something that frankly if the democrats take back control of the house in 2018 or for 2019, whether or not we're going to see omarosa called to testify before the house judiciary committee or something. that's kind of where this could turn from just sort of a normal

circus into something beyond that. >> neil, it could be a circus of security, potentially here, with that recording making it out with the chief of staff. leon pa net that saying -- panet that saying this is a breach. >> remember, there was this prohibition supposedly imposed on cell phones, personal cell phones in the west wing. we're not entirely sure yet exactly how much omarosa was recording, where, but it does raise all sorts of questions about what sort of electronic equipment may have been available or may have been in secure locations that could theoretically have been hacked by someone outside entity. the other thing, of course, is, you know, if there are, in fact, recordings that omarosa has of all sorts of other meetings, back to the point about robert

mueller, that could all be evidence if there is any sort of criminal proceeding or other sort of proceeding that goes on. those may all be subpoenaed. >> yeah, lots of folks wondering what is omarosa's editorial calendar? we will all be following it. thank you. . ahead for you, we are following the latest on the deadly bridge collapse in italy. overnight, workers have been digging through rubble there hoping to find survivors. later, closing arguments are set to begin on the paul manafort trial after his legal team rested their case without calling any witnesses, including manafort to the stand. we will have those stories and a check of weather when we come right back.

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scene, it looks like a bridge having fallen more than 450 feet is made up of shopping centers, factories and homes. dozens of cars and heavy trucks were on the bridge at the time. officials say a pillar collapsed and a witness tells italian media lightning struck the bridge before the collapse. and at least 11 people have been rescued from the rubble. an investigation has been launched. i believe that number will rise as far as those rescued. >> absolutely. nato allies, the united states and turkey continue to dissolve. turkey's president erdogan is calling for turks to boycott u.s. electronics, calming out apple, specifically. ironically, as the "new york times" points out two years ago when erdogan appealed to

supporters during a coup attempt, he fused facetime, that's the apple video chat app. he is often frequently seen with an iphone, it comes between an ongoing standoff between u.s. pastor andrew brunson. the u.s. sanctioned two top officials over the situation and last week increased sanctions on turkish metals. yesterday, turkey raised a host of u.s. goods, including tobacco to 60%. u.s. cars to 120%. u.s. alcohol to a whopping 140%. all of this comes as the turkish economy continues to be in a freefall with the turkish lira falling to lows and selling spree of turkish debt. they say the policies and management are to blame for the crisis. erdogan repeatedly is to blame for an influence.

the united states currently does not have an ambassador to turkey. all right. let's get a check of your weather with bill kierans. bill, you are tracking rain in the middle of the country this morning. >> that's where the flash flood is. we had rain along the finger lakes and central new york. here's some of the damage that was done. some of the rainfall totals were 6 inches in about one-to-two hours. seneca lake, they had significant flooding. look how high that water was. there were some water rescues that were needed. so we will do it again. this time we are focused on the ozarks. we've had numerous rounds of heavy rain and new thunderstorms are now moving from oklahoma towards areas into northern oklahoma and northern arkansas and southern portions of missouri, too. right up to 44. that's heavy for st. louis. here's where the heavy rainfall will be. the area of red is up to two inches. there is a possibility that areas of portsmouth and little

rock, this will be a soaking rain with storms later today from southern illinois through indianapolis. indianapolis, you start dry. same goes for chicago, too. let's try to time this out. this is at 8:00 a.m. this morning. that area from st. louis to springfield continued with that thunderstorm three. notice it's spotty in northern illinois. as we go through the lunch hour that heavy rain in st. louis is coming to an end. chicago is dry by your lunch hour as we head towards the afternoon dry, these are sneaking up there into the southern portions of wisconsin. again, it will not be an all out, all day rain in those areas you will get periods of rain. the forecast, finally a dry day from new york, baltimore, d.c., raleigh, atlanta, included. it's upper-like, there is a lot of grounds moisture, it will feel humid out there. i don't think anyone will complain in boston. tomorrow looks nice for the

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the bottom of the hour. here are your top stories. the war of words between president trump and former aid omarosa is escalating. the president is pushing back on her allegation he's been caught on tape using the "n" word. kristen walker has the very latest. >> can you stand at the podium and guarantee the american people they'll never hear donald trump utter the "n" word on a recording in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything, but i can tell you the president addressed this question directly. ki tell you that i've never heard it. >> just to be clear, you can't guarantee it. >> look, i haven't been if every single radio. i can tell you the president addressed this directly. >> a defiant trump said a producer mark burnett said i don't have that word in my vocabulary. i never v. that's off rrom rosad

an outtake with mr. trump using that slur. >> how many times did you hear him use the "n" word? >> multiple times. >> calling he foreman apprentice a crazed low life, good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog. it sparked criticism and the firm response. >> it just shows you that if he would say that publicly what else would he say about me privately? he has absolutely no respect for women, for african-americans. >> it's just not omarosa, the president used dehumanizing term to take aim at rivals. his recent attacks, questioning the average americans in pop culture have come under scrutiny. >> this has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone's lack of integrity. >> reporter: newman says a new

discussion during the 2016 campaign about the alleged "n" word tape with other aids and katrina pierson. >> he's done it. he's a menace. >> thanks. a spokesperson katrina pierson said the tape you heard there is taken out of context. mark burnett has not responded for comment. >> omarosa made a claim to our own katy tur if true would be of interest to special counsel bob mueller. take a listen. >> so you were instructed, according to your book to bring up the e-mails at every point you could at the end of the 2016 campaign? >> that's correct. >> hillary clinton's e-mails? >> that was our talker. >> did donald trump know about the e-mails before they came out? >> absolutely. >> he knew about them? >> yes. >> he knew about them before wikileaks? >> yes. >> you said donald trump had a back channel.

>> i didn't say that, ub did. i will expose the campaign and i will continue to proceed the whistle on all of this. >> not true. he didn't know. i know he didn't know. >> if he did in. >> i know it beyond being his lawyer. >> if he knew, is it a problem? >> no, and but, he didn't know. i'm not even going to get into a hypothetical. he did not know. >> omarosa did not offer everyday to back up that claim. it is not in her book. rom rosa claiming that the president used a disparaging nickname to describe his educationing is ditzy devos. it allegedly happened after she was booed to a historic black bethune university. the aid claims devos left town early and left her stranded in a hotel. she said, once i returned and told djt about what had happened, he shook his head in disgust. he said, she is ditzy devos,

what do you expect? in a very short time, i'll get rid of her. they said this disgraced former white house employee is meddling lice for profit and the jokes about betsy devos. the trial of paul manafort team rested its case without calling a single witness. attorney for president trump's campaign chairman did make arguments for acquittal yesterday which the judge denied. manafort plead not guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud and money laundering spoke for the first time yesterday. the judge called him to the podium to make sure he understood he had the right to testify if he wanted. when asked if he wanted to testify, manafort simply replied, no, sir. speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, manafort's lead lawyer says his team did not offer witnesses because they do

not believe the government had sufficient evidence to prove its case the case is expected to go to the jury today. role call neil lesnewski is back to us. what is expected in the manafort trial? both sides have settled. do we expect a long dlibati deliberation? or should we expect to hear anything soon? >> reporter: we are headed to alexandria virginia, toovmt today. it's not how quick the jury might be deliberating for after the closing arguments are over with. but what's going to be really key today is what exactly do mr. manafort's lawyers try and sell to the jury in terms of the government not having proven its case? they didn't put on any witnesses. so there is this question of whether or not the real play here is even for the trial,

itself, or whether manafort and company are sort of playing a long game down the road for a possible presidential pardon from donald trump eventually. >> what became a two-day revelation of omarosa, you heard that conversation where omarosa said the staffers in the white house should be very worried about that. what are you hearing from the staffers inside? what are they talking about? how worried are they, if at all? >>. >> reporter: well the worry has got to be about whether or not omarosa knows anything, like we said before, that would be of interest to bob mueller, more than sort of this president trump makes statements from time to time, many of which are not on secret recordings. there are plenty of things he said right out in the open that are probably outside the boundaries of normal political

discourse. so that's not unusual. it's whether or not there is anything that is of sort of legal interest to mueller and the other thing i would just throw in, is that the senate is actually coming back into session today. because they canceled a part of the august recess. so unfortunately if you are a united states senator who is a republican, you are going to be answering questions about omarosa at this point. >> we have an omarosa out of the white house, it's been a while, it comes to, what she had access to they were not with high level senior fishlgs herringofficials. so in essence, would it be in this case kind of you know just conversations that may not really amount to anything? especially with her credibility at stake? >> it's entirely possible that she doesn't have a lot that's actually of interest and the other thing, of course, is with

the way this white house and this presidency has been going, you know, i wouldn't be surprised if a week from now we have moved on from omarosa, that you know she does her round of television interviews. she starts our book tour in ernest, but barring there being any new revelations from her, we may be onto the next controversy. >> hmm. all right. >> it's certainly possible. neil lesniewski, thank you. >> still ahead, we go live to istanbul, with the leaders minutes on the ongoing currency crisis. rescue crews in italy racing against the clock there to find survivors in that horrific bridge collapse. the challenges they face in trying to find anyone who may still be alive. okay we need to get

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bridge collapse in italy. this happened in the port city of gen aw-- genoa. >> this video capturing the horror, the moment a massive bridge collapses during a powerful storm, sending cars plunging, witnesses stunned. >> i got out of the car, i saw people running away from the bridge and some people, there was even a guard with his face covered in blood. >> reporter: hundreds of first-aid responders rushing to the scene, digging through tons of concrete and steel this fire fighter carrying out one rescue, lowering a survivor down from the bridge. what is the biggest danger for any potential survivors? >> well, there is no gas leaks or anything, if there are any survivors they are trapped in maybe a confined space. >> reporter: the bridge seen here before the collapse

stretched over the residential buildings and water that green truck avoiding disaster by inches. they say at least 50 vehicles were on the bridge a part of the main road to france when a 260 foot span began crumbling. tomorrow is a major summer holiday, many traveling on the bridge to get to nearby mountains, officials say the work was under way when the collapse happened. they are launching an investigation to find out what sparked zempl which for dozens of drivers came without warning. president erdogan called for tariffs on a number of american good, escalating the diplomatic tensions between the two nato allies. we have more, what's the latest? i know the lira has made a rebound as well? >> reporter: yeah a little bit

of a rebound this morning. that's on the backup of regulations restrictions issued by the banking regulatoreer. it has to do with foreign currency swaths. in terms of those announcements on tariffs, they are pretty significant if you look at tobacco, alcohol, cars, cosmetics, rice, fruit the one that will have an impact is tobacco. they spend about $50 million of tobacco products from the u.s., turkey. that's in context of more than $22 billion of trade and goods and services between these two countries. yesterday, president erdogan doubling down his rhetoric, talking about the need to avoid iphones and buy samsung a local company instead. in terms of the an update on that man andrew brunson, the american pastor held there almost two years, most recently under house arrest, we had a chance to speak to his lawyer, who told us his late st appeal to have that house arrest liftd had been denied by a turkish

court in other city, he will at the moment face espionage charges related to that 2016 failed coup attempt, unless, of course, will is some kind of intervention from the white house. they had set today as a deadline for him to be released, otherwise, they threatened further punitive actions against turkey. >> we will hear a lot more as this develops. thanks so much. and we've got more. president trump set to head to one hot spot of the elites that he continuously denounce at his rallies the reason behind the president's rally there. >> after being separated by 100 votes, finally a gubernatorial race in kansas. plus, bill kierans is back with another check of our forecast.

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. welcome back. so a week after candidates for a gubernatorial primary finished in a neck and neck finish. jeff collier conceded the race to chris kobach. he said he would endorse kobach in the general november election. the governor made the decision of a review of provisional ballots did not yield enough votes for him to overcome the lead kobach had over him. kobach will face laura kelly in the election. they are reviewing submitted

signatures of greg ormond to see if he will be in the ballot as well. the president will be in the manhattans hosted by nathan's famous, the hot dog company, bloomberg citing people reports the roundtable with supporters and a luncheon will take place at the southampton friday. it will host a trump victory for the 2020 campaign in the rnc. he was there and was appointed as the board of trustees for the u.s. holocaust memorial museum last year. he described him as one of his two best friends. according to bloomberg, they traveled to moscow in 1996 to explore business opportunities. in sports, we talked about it being the dog days of summer and miami and the 1st base coach

budget lettuce in his hat to stay cool from the heat. >> that will be interesting. the heat is with us. we were soggy, now many spots. and a major breaking news story from the weather today, watch what happened in the ozarks. especially this area between fayetteville and little rock. moderate risk of flash flooding, especially earlier. new york city, five boroughs, a portion of long islands and area of new jersey, essex county, heat advisory. very humid. full sun later today, the heat indices could be up there enough to make it feel uncomfortable. oppressive heats continues especially in the south. norfolk, 93. the sun will be out at least. a little much. 99 in wilmington today and 93 in charlotte. do it again thursday. not much of a breeze to mix things up.

philly, 97. feels like. d.c., 91. pretty hot and humid friday, too. then thunderstorms kick through and cool things off. once the front goes through gets to be a pretty nice weekend. new york, 86, 82. boston, # 5 sunday. even philly night, 85 sunday and d.c. enjoyable sunday. humidity levels lower. forecast concerns today if traveling, could have problems with airports this afternoon at o'hare. st. louis especially throughout this morning into the afternoon. okay in dallas. atlanta look goods for travel and much of florida looks good. warm in the west. haven't talked a lot about it or had breaking news, big, new, huge fires but plenty burns out there and a lot of poor air quality. good we haven't had anything. we went about what was it? two, three weeks in a row talking about one fire story after another in the west. >> really tough. bill, you forgot. it's cabbage over the head. not lettuce. cabbage fits the noggin better.

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can we guess? >> trump's sitcom gone wild. we're seeing it play out on your air. since the president took office, sort of a subtext how he governs, how he leads is, this is a reality show. this is a sitcom. every day is a new episode. right? >> right. >> now, that's the dominant sense act. they don't even try to hide it. so right when omarosa was about to come out with her book, bow hi behind the scenes, top advisers says don't take the debate, don't talk about it. you'll just spur her views. melania trump said, don't do it. they knew he couldn't help himself. >> talk about the worry factor with staffers. telling katy tur they should be very worried. our last guest, neil said, a week from now, talk about something else. going to be done. are we? >> what people worry about is

the distraction that top republicans tell me if we could talk about immigration, if we could talk about the economy. we might hold on to the house. probably wouldn't, but do better. but their number one best case scenario for the fall is the president stays on message on the economy and immigration. seeing how unlikely that is. inside the white house, a feeling of betrayal from omarosa. nob liked her, respected her. talked how people were actually afraid of her. another really nuer what sknew did. her job was sort of like a joke. people are surprised by how close she's cutting to the bone and something that throws them, seems to be enjoying it, and yesterday i picked up my copy and if you look at the last line of her dedication, her acknowledgements, she ends her book, last words of her book are "to god be the glory". >> she's owning it, you were

saying. reality tv here, discussing this earlier. mike, you always have your ear to the ground certainly. an understatement. what do you think her editorial calendar is like? how much longer might it go? a week, mentioned earlier or months? >> october surprise, even? >> she's taking all of trump's bag of trips. doing the tease, doing the media. intimidati intimidation. playing the different -- off each other. yesterday with a.p. taping the abc podcast. of course she is. >> right. >> let's move on now. in the time we have. >> but the biggest tease of all, right? how many more tapes are there? people are skeptical that they're good, but keep that in hur back pocket. >> see if she releases it. day two of those revelations from her. number two, primaries. what are you looking at? >> washington will look very different come january. so 199 women have now won their primaries just for the house. and a great twist on this that

axios is seeing. pointing out, at least five reasons where we already know the women are going to replace men. no matter the results in november, we know there will be a woman in that seat, rather than the man. so this is how we know the differences that are coming for sure. >> candidates, and the electorate in terms of their preference. a part of that, lgbtq community. you're covering that? >> the "wall blade" won'ted out, lgbt, at least one, won all primaries. at least five lgbtq who won for governor and oregon state already the governor. >> mike allen. >> good to have you here. >> next time maybe a vente. the coffee you're asking for. >> and read "axios a.m." >> part a good breakfast.

>> sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that does it for us on this wednesday morning. i'm richard lui alongside francis. "morning joe" starts right now. good morning. it's wednesday, august the 15th, and with us today we have donny deutsch, president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass sighing already because he knows we'll be talking baseball top of the show, and host of "politics nation" and president of the national network reverend al sharpton and msnbc news reporter heidi przybyla and columnist and associate editor of the "washington post"