♪ mr. brennan leveraged his status. >>t was child sexual abuse. this is absolutely the worst possible outcome. > ♪ good morning. welcome to sunday todd on this august 19th. i'm willie geist. president trump is up and responding aggressively to the new revelation rhatert mueller's investigation reportedly reached into the white house itself. "the new york times" reportingh that house counsel, don given 30luntari hours of interviews to mueller and the special counsel's office. the times reporting that mcgahn

cooperated because he feared the president was setting him up t take a fall for illegal acts of obstruction. what is the president saying th morning and what does it mean for the russia investigation? we're live with the lest and 'll get into it with chuck todd. tore the killers responsible for a double murder on friday morning. and nowolice are investigating whether a series of recent shootings are related. a laider, a sunday sitdown with a funny man, chris o'dowd onis breakout role in bridesmaids, his latest series with ray romano and his own amusement of being labeled a heartthrob. >> what's the term? it's not a sex symbol, you're a what? >> friend symbol. there was aime when women didn't want a fling with me, just to be spooned by me. >> let's begin with the a revelatiut robert mueller's investigation with a

report thatou white houseel don mcgahn is talking ex tense tifl to the special counsel. president trump is weighing in this morning. white houseel correspondent o'donnell is near the president's new jersey golf club for us. kelly, good morning. >> good morning, the forecast included an early morning tweet storm from the president. he has a lot to say about the mueller investigati today, including comparing it to mccarthyism and hnsistings done nothing wrong. the president says that the cooperation of his top white house lawr does not equate to providing bad information about the president. >> one of the most powerful figures in trump world, wte house counsel don mcgahn is often visible but rarely heard in public. but "the new york times" reports that mcgahn has had plenty to say to robert mueller's russia investigation with more than 30 hours of voluntary interviews elth special cou investigators since last fall

the white house counsel, don mcgahn came back to hme. role places him a the scene of key events under scrutiny for potential obstruction of justice like the firing of james comey. >> i was going to fire comey. there's no good time to do it, by the way. >> and with attorney general sessions. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> late saturday, the president tweeted, i allowed white house counsel don mcgahn to fully cooperate with the special se co the times reports this mcgahn and his lawyer initially feared mr. trump was setting up mr. mcgahn to take thelame for illegal acts of obstruction. he provided information about the president's desire to control t investigation, including attempts to fire mueller himself. se presidenlawyer, rudy giuliani tells nbc news there's no reason to believe he provided

anything harmful. sarah sanders responded in a statement. the president and don have a great relareonship. he aates all the hard work he's done. n's cooperation houserom a former white counsel who survived the scandal of watergate. john deand, twee mcgahn is doing right. and that john dean referencene inspired of the president's tweets today where he talks about what he refs to as the iniling new york times and their article. he tweet they make a comparison to don mcgahn getting hours of testimony must be a john dean type ratut allowed them to testify. he also tells me because the president asserted no privileges, no attempt to stop mcgahn from testifying that he did so full some li and honestly as anyone interacting with ati federal invtion should. willie. >> never a dull sunday morning for you.k chodd is nbc's political

director and moderator ofs. mee the pr good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with don mcgahn's three interviews, 30 hours' worth over the course of nine months with the special counsel's office i'm reminded of a report in april when mcgahn was reported to have quit whe he couldn't stopn -- so did don mcg sit down with mueller to protect the president or to protect hself this piece suggests? >> that's not clear. i mean,at here's e do know, willie, that makes this fascinating. the present'sirst legal team that was led by john dowd and ty cobb, ty cobb remember that he had that terrific mustache. i'm trying to give people a visual of who the preous team was. they had counseled, they took he president at his word, did nothing wrong, full cooperation. don mcgahn was operating under

that principle. now rudy giuliani and emmitt flood are leading theause here. flood, a veteran of the clinton years believes in fighting the access here. mcgahn is sort of caught in the middle and now,e, wil to sort of connect some dots here, i have a better understanding of y rudy giuliani is emphatic about not letting the president sit down robert mueller. mueller may have an eyewitness to obstruction in don mcgahn. that makes him a lethal witness here. he could end up essentially being an unintentional whisin blower that was allowed to speak to mueller duen to old legal strategy. >> mcgahn's testimony goes to the heart of the questions about obstruction. you'll have a lot to ask rudy giuliani and john brennan on "meet the press" this morning.

he likes having john brennan as a foe and he's entertaining the idea, sarah sanders said, of removing the clearances of other forper national securityal offi >> willie, it puts all of this intel community in the sam that we in the press are in when the president calls us the enemy of the people or attacks us by namer by network. where if you fight back, you're helping to prove yeah, see they're political opponents of mine. >> right. >> if you don't fight back, it allows the president to dictate why hefor instance, took away the security clearance. look, the intel, i j thinkn brennan is in this box. i think others would say john brenamn, he b more political than any other previous cia director. he would argue he's being a whistle ower, not a partisan. in that sense, as a campaign tacti tactic, this may have been a smart strategy short-term for the president to find a new foe

that his base can rally around attacking and that's john en n. >> the president certainly leaning into those attacks. before i let you go, chuck, you had omarosa onast week and started this national blitz she's been . the president called her a crazed lowlife dog. he was his close adviser for a long time. omarosa has 200 more secretly record tapes. how worried is the white house about r? >> so nervous that they annou e announced the security clearance when they did. you cannot disconnect the two stories. literally, a white house under siege. three straight days of omarosa c releasingdings of the trump family, of the president, of the chief of staff. yes, this is a white house that was wondering what's the next shoe to drop and wondering what does she have with me on tape? they chained the subjec

i think they're panicked about omarosa. >> you said ty cobb had thatal fa hair. >> i aspire to his mustache. or it is a good one. >> we'll look much more this morning on "meet the press." it is a big ow. chuck will be joined by john brennan and by president trump'l persattorney, rudy giuliani. police in nashville on the hunt this mtning for least two people responsible for a gruesome double murder early friday morning. the murders may be connected to several others in the city.s nbatt bradley has more. >> this morning, a citywide w manhunt und in nashville for two cold-blooded killers suspected of a deadly string of killers. the latest were shot dead early friday morning outside this east nashville bar. don't seem real. >> james hunter said his friend was celebrating his 33rdig birthday the he was killed. >> i've known him since we were

in middle school. loved good music and loved live shows. >> the killers robbi their victims before dumping their belongings in anay al. >> officers throughout the city are on the lookout for twoco -blooded killers who obviously have no respect whatsoever for theanctity of human life. >> police releases this photo bf theck chevy. law enforcement says this is just the latest in a string of violence in east police have not said there's a connection in the shootings but similarities. early tuesday morning, 31-year-old kendall rice was waiting for a bus when he was robbed and shot. on august 8th. he wife of a crew member for one republic was robbed -- >> she is now in a wheelchair, going through multiple surgeries. pleading for help on twitter. ce >> what took phile we were on stage with an unspeakable -- >> there raisingoney for the

woman's family. >> the city of nashville remains on edge. police ramping up patrols and sidents fearful they may strike again. matt bradley, nbc nut. ot chaic scene in oklahomaa as fs gathered for a b backstres concert. wild weather tearing through the area. conc gt-goers were warned tet a rtving through the area. the con was cancelled. we're getting an incredible view of how quickly a wildfire can get out of control, after a man driving through the we ridge fire. the driver justin bilton said he and hisather wound up nearly ed ungulfn the flames and h to reverse their car. they had to be flown to safety while their car bned in the

fire. and the white sox have found their own pitching ace. she threw out the very first pitch. she then threw a perfect strike on thern co. the team's manager latered jok that he asked sister mary jo to come f pitch the team. her answer? sure. >> it was like she snapped off a curveball. >> i wan to know when she practices. >> she is incredible. >> we have got some rain, it's beenunsettled across the northeast, it's another cloudy gray day, the heaviestf the falling down through southern new jersey, we also have some heavy rain falling back through the plains

states. we could see some isolatedve storms throughout the day. we will see this slowly move theastward into the nst as we go through tomorrow, this area of low pressure will keep the stormnd ar some could produce some damaging winds, for republican shall dofor - torrential downpours. as we go through this evening, and tondrrow. for us, we only have an it's lited chance of some showers rolling through the area today and tomorrow. tuesday looks like our best chan of rain from what dylan was just showing you down in the plains. by wednesday, thursday most dry and looking a lot better. current temperatures 60s and0s out there. we're headed into the middl 80s.> >>hat's your latest forecast. >> vdylan, thanksery much. k e highs and lows of the w coming up.

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>> get in o fficersne carly s and firstn jennings were the to a arrivet the facility holding some 60 animals, dogs, cats, rodents, snakes mong them. the officers raced through the building and with the help of employees and volunteers, freed the animals and rounded them up into their police cs of the frantic ten minutes were captured on officer stone's body camera. you can see how close the smoke is. they w taken to the parking store where they were given food, water and beds. the shelter lost power and water, was damaged by smoke but all were happy to say animals were saved. >> i didn't have anywhere to put those an lals.me they s content in the back of my car. they came with me to work for the next couple hours while we

evacuated houses and closed roads. did what we could to help the fire get out. >> after the rescue made headthnes, many o animals were adopted permanently. that's the best ending to the stor all those animals found a home. >> they seemed like thein liked out of there anyway. >> how close the flames were to the facility. >> we apologize for the first low. especially while you're enjoying a leisurely sunday breakfast. paris, one of the world's mos beautiful cities, maybe the most beautiful, but that reputation took a hit this week becau of new public urinals dotting the city of light and set up in prominent locations for fellows to relieve themselves into the mailbox looking thing. the city placed them in places where public urination is a probable conceding that it' in the box or on the .stre the city argues they're e ecofriendly turning waste into compost for city rks.

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let's get a check of your stnday fore lauryn, is it going to stay dry today? >> we'll see a few swers out there, sprinkles and maybe a stray shower but that's a through the day today, tuesday looks like our best chance of rain and thursday and friday, it's going to feel more lik fall o there. 60s and 70s across the board out there right now, if u're headed to church or your morning run. if you're headed out the wash the ca i would say wait until wednesday if you can because we have a slight chance of sprinkles today and tomorrow. and about all it's going to amount to is a 30% chance. me deal tomorrow, i think we'll have a little bit more cloud cover around tomorrow. stormy on tuesday, and we could see somevere weather,

wednesday looking good as well as thursday and. frid >> we'll have more news and weather coming >>refor the rd, you flirted with me. you made me feel like you really liked me. which really unfair. then you came home with me and we did uff, fun stuff. and then you just left. it's like it was nothing. >> oh, please. that is chris o'dowd playing opposite kristen wig in his breakout role as officer nathan rhodes in themash comedy "bridesmaids." owe dowde had m name for himself in the uk. but the huge succe of bridesmaids put him on the map in america, launching him into a series of mostly comedic roles on movies, television and broadway. the 38-year-old known for using

his charm and sense of humor ons screen, f himself a tough guy who uses his fists in the shorty.ies get chris and i got together in new york this week for a sunday sit-down. >> miles dailey, t mobster turned film pro duders at the center of "get shorty" is adi fferent kind of role for chris o'dowd. >> open it up. if you don't make this movie, i'll rong yo >> he can intimidate people. that's not something i get to do very often. somebody who is more dynamic than most of the -- rather than e head-buttable kind of tarks. >> now in the second season, t's based on novel that inspired the 1995 film starring john travolta and gene hackman. o'dowd stars with ray romano. >> he's a germophobe, which is fun if you have toet into it

with him. there's a few times we're kind of trouble in together and i ha to cover his mouth and then rehearsal, i said il put my hand on your mouth. that's okay. i got some purely. >> at 6'4", o'dowd can play the guy you don't want to growing up the youngest of five siblingseland, he learned to use his heights for laugh. >> as a teenager, i was a funny looking thing, really. i was 6 foot when i was 11. was a big fella. but not really a -- it was all bone and -- i was a bone and nodes man. >> old bone and nose o'dowd. coming down the street like a stupid spider. women were quite repulsed. humor is helpful in those occasions. >> o'dowd was drawn to acting in

grade school where he perfoed inmusicals. >> i remember thinking even then, this is a wonderful feeling. all these other kids on edge and everybody is nervous. i'm like't oh, i it the best feeling in the world? >> o'dowd studied politics and socog sociology. he couldn't shake that special feeling he got froting. he enrolled in the london academy of music andramatic art. just months shy of graduating, he dropped out and hit the lond audition circuit. >> there's a rumor about you in auditions that you create something to help the casting directorrnd the direc of the film remember you. and that is y that pretend you've been bitten by a dog. is that true? >> it's totally true. somebody said to m who had been doing okay, they said leave them with sething to remember you by. he presumably like a great funny sendoff line. but in my head, i was like. gotit.

so i would go into every audition pretending i had just been bitten by a dog.yo >> d come in limping? >> you go down - do you see that? ? at? >> the cocker spaniel. i'm all right. i don't think it's dra -- sorry. i buad to start doing it, because i was doing it all the time. they were ke, that's so weird. they said because the last time you were here, you were bitten by a dog. >> in 2006, one of the auditions landed himhe lead role in the hitish comedy series the i.t. crowd. ave you tried turning it off and on ouagain. >> seasons later, he left london for los angeles.ad >> i just broken up with somebody. i was going through a listening to bon ee ber phase and going through the airport with my

headphones on, bawling my eyes out. >> all alone. >> going to hollywood alone, yes. >> were people loot you? >> yes, very much so. kind of like, that's too much. they're like you poor -- but it's too much. >> i don't want to get involved. >> it's flashing. emotionally.ng them >> but o'dowd wasn't heartbroken for long. in l.a., he s metcottish writer and television host dawn porter. they're now married with two young sons. >> o'dowd found work quickly in ig yw budget jack black movie, gulliver's travels. it was the next year that prelled him and his female co-sta to stardom. >> you're l me thed of dishonor. >> "bridesmaids "requests was

yourreakthrough role here in the u.s. did you think you had a good shot at the audition? >> i arrived and they had this thing to sign in to let the casting dirtor know you're there. it's a basic piece of paperwork. it's all of these incredible acto actors. it suddenly calmedow me because it was suddenly, i have no chance of this. i can go in and have fun. >> he hit it off with bridesmaids star kristen wiig, that led to a meeting with judd apat and o'dowd got the part. >> i was going through this kind of phase of my process where i didn't read parts of scripts that i wasn't in. i didn't want it to cloud anything i was doing. i felt like we were making a nice little movie. and then i didn't see what the girls were doing. when i watched it, i'm like oh, my god, this is a riot. what do i need to go to toilet in? >> with the massive success of

bridesmaids, fans labeled o'dowd a heartthrob. though he prefers a different title. >> what's the term you use? you're not a sex symbol. >> i a friend symbol. >> that's a timehen women didn't want to have a fling with me, just be spooned by me. it's more like a dessert spoon. sweeter and kind of an odd after taste. >> after bridesmaids, o'dowd became an app to you favorite with roles in movies like this is 40 and friends with kids, as well as the hbo series "girls." in 2014, ao'dowd earne tony nomination for h turn as lenny n be "of mice and men" on broadway. >> i'm stevie wonder. >> real >> his latest movie role is as a professor obsessed with a washed-up rock star played by

ethan hawk in the film juliette naked. >> it fikls l a chris o'dowd film. smart, funny, good typ cast. do you think that way about your career? >> i'm deaf nift more engaged with things tt i believe. a huge kind of -- but i'm alwayv lable. >> you can watch chris in season 2 of "get shorty" sunday nights on epix and his film is in theaters now. thanks to gel so and grand for hosting un new york. to hear the hilarious story of his one time job at a charity call center and tales he spun to drum up donations, check out our web extras. don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to hear the entire unedited interviewit chris. next week, a sundayt- down with one of the biggest artists

in all of music. jason aldean. we got together on the day of his sold-out show at madison square garden toou talk how close he was not long ago to giving up on his music dream and how he's doing nearly one year after he was the man on stage when thehooting began in las vegas. that's next week hey, willie, we are going to start off with cooler weather this week and next week. we could some isolated stronger storms, it stays hot and dry in the southwest. by the middle of the week, that system falls apart. we finish off the week with temperatures warmi ining back i the lower 90s and0s.

>> out our window we have a mix of sun and clouds, a little bit of breeze in the air, not that bad out there, the umidity is not all that bad. maybe a few sprinkles tcross storm team 4 radar, but we may have an isolated shower or two. tuesda ishe best chance for rain for our area. sp that's your latest forecast. thaupg very much, dylan. see you in a minute. next on sunday "today," did you know that more than half of us will not take all of your vacation days this year? art of the reason could be the rise of the work-cation. we'll get into the benefits and the costs of that trend. if you're anything like me, your to-do list just keeps growing. (laughs desperately) it never stops. which is why the online financing application at carmax.com is so convenient. get some of that finance stuff out of the way from wherever you are, at the doctor's office,

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the difference. as long as a iwering e-mails on time and answering their calls, i'm accessible, they don't know if i'm in california or down the stree in new york. >> fuller works at social code, a tech company in manhattan that lets employees work remotely every friday durg the summer. it's given her the chance to take work-cation, a popular trend among millennials, allowing employees to travel and work remotely from anywhere. some that means never getting out of bed. fuller hits the road for new adventures to spend more time with friends and family. >> she's ventured to austin, nashville and home to southern california several times. >> we love it. she's super disciplined too. she's home but i have to let her be during work hours. >> having her around is wonderful. she's 3,000iles away. >> a whopping 52% of americans fail to take all their vacation days last year. even when we do get away, 68% of

workers check e-mail on vacation and 43% workmorely. so-called work-cations on the rise at tech astartups financing. travel companies cashing in too. wfh or work from hawaii. our lauren -- luring people to log in from paradise. >> a flexible work environment is the trend of the future. we're seeing it. scott dough brow ski is the director of communication at glass door. he justac got from a work-cation in london. hawaii, post scuba session, before a hike in ireland and floating off the coast of the canary islands. >> theti work- policy is really designed to enable people to live their life at their best in and out of work. go ou want to go travel, travel. get your work done on your hours no matter what time zone you're in, crossing borders. as long as you're meeting your >> some workplace experts are

skeptical about how productive we can on a work-cation and warning that doing work while away should not be a substitute for a rea vacation. >> when you come back from working remotely and you come back from one of these work-cations, do you feel more refreshed? >> yes and i definitely do in the sense that i've had a ltle change of space. however, it does get a little i work till 3:00 and cram in the social. i don'tcklways come as refreshed as i want. i could do a better job of balancing that. >> refreshed or not, fuller loves the flexibility. >> it's always a chance to kind shake up your norm and meet new people or get new ideas. so ishink it' really a beneficial thing. >> a perk of the job that's expanding the possibilities of work hard and play hard. for sunday "today," jo ling kent, encinitas, california. got to figure out ao way t

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i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but labor day weekend and the unofficial end of summer is only a couple of weeks away. many of you back to school and into routines. but with memories of a special place maybe you visited the last few months. in our sunday closer, harry smith follows the birds to of the most beautiful corners of a beautifultr co >> a jet ski is a good way to get around new hampshire's massive lake win psaki. if it looks like pam and brenda are in something of a hurry, they are. what's your goal here? what a you trying do? nds.wim around all the is >> the lake has a lot of

islands. >> we're d 121 and there are 255. uh-huh. >> yeah. >> lake swimming is o onef the true joys of summer. brenda and pam graciously allowed me toom accpany them on a half-mile crawl around steamboat island. the water here isool and crystal clear. while keeping in shape is part of the goal for these women, they are also swimming to raise money to protect loons. loon ambassadors if you >> if you've seen the movie on golden pond and the calling of the loon. henry fonda and katherine hepburn. it's all about the loons. >> oh, look, i'v spotted the loons. lovely.'re so >> they echo across the lake and they're one of thebi oldest s. >> been around for a couple million years. >> it's so wonderful to see

them. >> loons love lakes along the northern tier of the u.s. c ls summon memories of idyllic summers, of places you long to return to. we and the i loons, turns out, have much in common. they crave clean water, good fishing and a safe place to raise a family. if you think their call is cool, you should see them swim. >> underwater swimming around, they're a fis eating torpedo with a propeller at the back. >> john cooley is a senior biologist. they've helped to tple the loon population since the 1970s. but the species is still threatened. >> people on the le have a sense that they want to be in community with the loons. >> absolutely. one of the big and probably peaps the biggest part of our work on the lake is just helpi people share the lake with loons. >> artificial habitats are a big hit, too.

from the loons' perspective, it's like a room at the ritz.ds the bir can live for decades and often return to the same place. neighbors who put on a show. >> livingheir lifeut right off of our docks and in the middle of the lake where we can see them start to nest, hatch their chicks, rear their chicks and then fight for territory so we can track and people can watch the whole life history unfold like that. >> it makes sense that our pals, the swimmers would make loons their cause. they say s etimes the birds even follow them when they swim. birds of a feather indeed. for sunday "today," harry smith, lake win psaki. harry, thank you as always. we high lie another life well-lived. ♪ ♪ >> aretha franklin was born, you might say, wh a gift from god.

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we close with a look this week. on wednesday, president trump will present the medal of honor posthumously to air force sergeant john chapmang honor the heroism he showed pack in march of 2002. chapman will be the first airman to receive the highest persona military honor since the vietnam war. mtv video music awards will be held tomorrow. just a stone's throw from here at new york city's radio city music hall. producers plan to honor aretha franklin with a tribute. she was nominated for several vma awards in the '80s. no details on what is planned for the tribute. >> we've been listening to arekha all d. she left us with so much. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. see you back here next week on sunday "today." today."

heading into the 9:00 hour here on news4 today, here's what ra're following for you, police work to down a gunman who opened fire on a d.c. street corner. the american university grad accused of working for t russian government is out of the district, but not out from behind bars. good morning to you on this sunday and thank you so much for starting your day with us. i'm adam >> and i'm angie goss. >> we're getting weather that's a little bit cooler.

>> will we see rain today? we'll checkn with lauren ricketts. >> we're going to have at leastr a chance an isolated chance of rain out there, i was waiting for i to roll through my area, and it never did, which was fine with me. but hopefully you were able to get an eye on the sky and out yesterday and not just wait for the rain, because not everybody saw it. and not every is going to see it today. a few isolated sprinkles, a isolated shower. it's like it going to rain, but a mix of sun and clouds out there today. we'll continue to take those temperatures into the low to mid 80s toda a chance of a stray shower, an isolated shower but that's about it. you can see a few sprinkles popping up around the region, but we're mostly dry, with just