katrina pierson said there are two tapes. we've reached out to cbs for verification was this two separate tapes? we haven't gotten word back. you raise a fair point. gloria, the president does seem to have a penchant for likening people to dogs. i like dogs, but things like choking, getting fired, sweating, a few comparisons he's made to people over the past few years. >> mitt romney choking like a dog. it's his way, a silly way of donald trump asserting his prowess and his dominance. he doesn't like dogs. we know he is a germophobe. but what this is really about is about saying i am stronger than you, and i am better than you, and you choke like a dog and you sweat like a dog, and i'm going to fire that -- i'm going to fire that dog. it's demeaning not only to the person who is saying it, which would be donald trump, but it is demeaning to the office of the presidency and the stature of the presidency because a president really needs to understand that he should not be speaking like this. and i know his supporters will say t

whether you hear it from the transcript, it sounds like katrina is saying it. >> obviously katrina can speak to herself. >> she's trying to get omarosa -- >> we all had that annoying co-worker that's going on and on. >> if anything with overcomaros tapes prove that the president denied saying it early on and he said it to me. i am the one who delivered the message. >> i want to ask you about that specifically. my only question is what we have not heard from you and we heard from katrina pierson. let's just play that. >> in the book omarosa says katrina heard from her sources that the tape of trump uses the "n" word someone she knew told her that luntz heard it. she asked trump about it on the plane specifically whether it is possible and such a tape may exist, he says no. then katrina asked him what he wanted to do and he said put it to bed and katrina kucursed and said he said it. did it happen? >> it sounds like she's writing a script for a movie. i have been out there talking about this. that's absolutely not true. >> so that was before the tape was released. the tape actually does

hurricane katrina changed the whole game.asically for the first time since 1718 with a different but clean slate. we have an opportunity to do two things. the populace of the city realized how endangered the life was. it all seemed to manner. it seemed to matter more that it was preserved. and that the tradition was being carried forward. however, at the same time hurricane katrina brought an enormous influx of very bright people from all across the country who moved here in droves and decided they wanted to live here. and based on the change of population. the food began to change. we have seen a greater division and the kinds of food served. in an explosion in the restaurant business like and nothing new orleans has ever seen before. here today on the 14 years almost 14 years after hurricane katrina. we head over twice as many restaurants operating in new orleans as we did before that. visitors come here and the most important thing to me is that they have an authentic food experience. whether it is trying a new sandwich or

then she, katrina, asked him what she wanted to do. katrina cursed and said, he said it. did that happen? >> [laughs] no, ed. that did not happen. it sounds like she is writing a script for a movie. i have already been out there talking about this, that is absolutely not true. >> ed: so you referenced a moment ago that the second time i said "she" last night, i said, "she," katrina pierson, with the book says, "you, when pearson." that i apologize. that is an honest mistake. that does not change the fact that you are now claiming they are triggered every phone calls, talking about women with jason miller -- -- >> i'm not claiming that, ed. >> ed: you told me that several times today. let me get to the facts. i don't want to get two side issues. bottom line is, there was one line with jason miller, one wita similar. we'll get to miller and a second. the one without jason miller on cbs, omarosa says come according to a transcript you provided may come a point they are not aired yet, omarosa says, "yeah, it's out there," meaning this week 23 tape, it is just -- and katrina p

let's start, obviously, katrina pearson and omarosa. what katrina said on fox news.'s talking about the "n" word tape. it sounds like omarosa is writing a script for a movie. let's stop there. fast forward to tuesday morning when omarosa is on cbs and plays some audio of a conversation she secretly recorded between she, and pearson and another. >> i'm trying to find out the context it was used in to help us maybe figure out a way to spin it. >> i said, well, can you think of any time this has happened and he said no. >> well, that's not true. >> how do you think i should handle it? and i told him what you just said which is, well, it depends on what scenario you're talking about. and he said well, why don't you just go ahead and put it to bed. he said it. no, he said it, he's embarrassed. >> katrina pierson comes out with a more formal statement. we never had a call confirming that frank lutz, a republican pollster directly heard president trump say this word on a tape. that doesn't mean the tape sdnc doesn't exist. they were denying frank heard donald trump. wait, t

juan: it seems to me if people remember hurricane katrina, hurricane katrina was probably the low pointf the bush administration in terms of demonstrating the george w. bush administration, that it was incapable of handling the of what katrina represented. somehow the crisis in puerto rico and not only the ability to handle the immediate crisis, but even to account for properly and count the dead, to me, has to be, certainly for the government of puerto rico -- the governor of puerto rico hasn't received, in my estimation, sufficient criticism for the failures of his government to properly the dayshe crisis in after hurricane katrina, but also for the trump administration. somehow the trump administration has managed to push the maria crisis aside and the failure of the federal response to katrina so that we now have an official recognition of nearly 3000 dead, perhaps possibly more, because the good -- at least now close to 3000 dead is astonishing, a year later as we are interesting the one year anniversary of maria. randi, you have been to puerto rico multiple times and have especial

one is with me, omarosa, and katrina. the other is also with me, omarosa, katrina, and jason.he distinction is modeled. what you are hearing, really, in my opinion, is not only verification of the president said very early on and very sternly and immediately that he did not use this derogatory term, but the more i hear this recording, what you are also hearing it as woman, omarosa, who outright interrupts me during this interview and says, "he said. that's a lie." and you know, why would she go work for him if that was the case? >> laura: was she interrupting you, you think i'm at that point in the recording? she knew she was recording it, and she wanted her own little insurance policy. she wanted to get it on the record that, oh, no, he said it, and -- >> you raise a good point because even my boyfriend this morning has said to me that the reason why omarosa kept bringing this elusive and were tape up is because she used it as an opportunity to surreptitiously record me, obviously, katrina, possibly other people, and this was something -- you know, omarosa has been obsessed w

guess what katrina pearson says. it is true. >> you don't want to go around making accusations and that is very true. >> you just misquoted yourself, you just said i said that is true. you said it is true. >> that is true. you don't want to make those kinds of claims with you backup lynn patton says that is true because we are talking about there is no evidence. we are saying in this transcript there's absolutely nothing we can find, just rumors and innuendo about this tape and it is true that we cannot move forward. >> you just use the term dog, the president called omarosa dog. you have a son, do love him very much. i'm going to be the president out of this. do you raise your son to call a woman, any woman in this country a dog? >> this isn't about my son. >> what the appropriate this is a personal issue between donald trump and omarosa. >> let's leave your son out of it and be the president of that. would be appropriate for me to call a woman a dog? >> depends on what she did to you. i don't know what she did to y

as you heard, she -- katrina joins us now. katrina, there is a big target right on you. go for it. >> look, i was often asked if amoroso is anything like the line, manipulative, backstabbing is to greater like the character she played on tv. my answer was simple. she doesn't play a character on tv, that is just to she is. i am sad to say that i was shocked that i was brought into this. if you see my statement from today, that's an absolute lie. in fact the fact that any of us even heard of this apprentice tape was from amoroso. she was the only one who talked about it during the campaign. the rest of us were wondering what she was talking about. i reached out to those individuals, they both have no idea what she is talking about. sure, let's see those receipts. she is just trying to cover up for her own issues. she wrote the book and so, she has to tell lives to make a buck. i truly feel sorry for her. i am not even angry. clearly, she is in a desperate move to try to make money. what would you expect? what should could you possibly do. >> steve: that's what strikes me.

i know you spoke to katrina pierson about this. just last night, she told a very different story. >> she did. she and other trump campaign advisers that denied the conversation like the one we just heard, they said that didn't take plate. katrina pierson gave me a statement yesterday saying this is all a complete fabrication, stef, by omarosa. but on that tape, you heard katrina pierson speaking of donald trump and this purported "n" word tape and said he said it, he's embarrassed by it. nbc news, we should point out, has not been able to verify the authenticity of that recording. in which donald trump uses the "n" word. and they talked repeatedly about how to handle it. i've been calling katrina pierson, all morning, but no word back yet. between two people who are of compromised credibility. one of whom, omarosa, seems to have evidence to back up at least some of her claims. >> it's like michael cohen all over again, two people without any credibility, but one's got the tapes to prove it. i want to bring my panel in. christine to

the weather system that hit new katrina. the weather system that hit n ew 0 rlea ns katrina. weather system that hit new orleans back in 2005. president trump has long had a contentious relationship with the press, and today it was social media companies he unleashed on. in an early morning tweet he took aim at the likes of google — saying they purposefully surpressed conservative voices. in a moment we'll hear from our technology correspondent dave lee — but first let's hear exactly what president trump said in the oval office. i think google is taking advantage ofa i think google is taking advantage of a lot of people and i think that isa of a lot of people and i think that is a very serious thing and a very serious charge. google, twitter, facebook, they are trading on very troubled territory and they must be careful. it is not fair to large debt at portions of the population. 0ur silicon valley reporter dave lee is in san francisco. what do you make of this? what do you make of thi57m what do you make of this? it is stepping up the attacks from donald trump to these techn

fourteen years after hurricane katrina we have over twice as many restaurants in new orleans as before. when visitors come here the most important thing is that they have an authentic food experience. try the po'boy sandwich or a bowl of gumbo or crawfish for the first time. it is all delicious and an adventure. that is what i want our visitors to experience and then go home with a special food memory they created here in new orleans. a mac if they could come back to america today to see that the most important play on broadway now is a play that lien i is is alexander hamilton and to see that now distribution of wealth in the united states and the amount of money for politics today, they would fear that many of these things are going on with that uncanny sampling --dash resemblance to what they revolted against. >> in 1935 the first visit here, he came here to cure himself it was still a very small town, a manufacturing town

then she, katrina asked what he wanted her to do, put it to bed. katrina crist and said he said it. did that happen? >> know. that did not happen. sound like she is writing the script for a movie. i have been out there talking about this. it is absolutely not true. i have no connections to anyone at celebrity apprentice other than amarosa and she was the only one that brought this tape up. people i've checked with who she mentioned have no idea what she is talking about but i am not going to be angry about this. clearly amarosa is in a desperate situation. i feel sorry for her. this is obviously trash for cash. i was concerned with amarosa when she got married, when she had to buy fake wedding ring so i feel sorry for her but i will not stand by and allow her to continue to tarnish everyone's reputation and hurt the one person that helped her become who she is in the celebrity world. >> you have been around the president during the campaign since the campaign since he was elected president. have you ever heard him use the and word or any racial slur? >> absolutely not, the answer is

you're in, katrina. >> this is interesting. this is a pattern of three or four days now where someone has said, didn't exist, no conversation happened, not true, not true, and omarosa has the tapes. >> and this newest recording is adding credence to the communication strategy that omarosa detailed to the two of us yesterday where she said that the white house staff on a daily basis preps the president to lie to the american people. >> so was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being prepped by hope hicks and the team. >> so if the team prepped the president to lie to lester holt -- >> they prep him to lie every day. >> his comment about omarosa is just the latest in the president's attacks on women and minorities. days after nba superstar lebron james opened a school for at risk youth paid for with his own money, trump implied that lebron was dumb, adding that cnn anchor don lemon was the dumbest man on television. trump has repeatedly called congresswoman maxine waters a low i.q. person and after megyn kelly challenged him he s

authorities now say nearly 3,000 people were killed, 60% more than in hurricane katrina. yet, until today, the official government death toll was 64 people. nbc's gabe gutierrez with more on what is now the deadliest u.s. national disaster in more than 100 years. >> reporter: outside puerto rico's overflowing main morgue, the government brought refrigerated trailers to hold dozens of unclaimed bodies. today, the new report from the washington university indicates nearbily 3,000 died in hurricane maria, dramatically higher than the previous official count of 64. >> it's way too early and did not look at the total counting for what might have happened over several months. >> reporter: shortly after the category 4 hurricane tore through the island almost a year ago, president trump touted the low death toll. >> if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in puerto rico. >> reporter: today, researchers slammed the president fo

but as bad as hurricane katrina was, and it was horrible, nearly everything that happened next turnedn-made disaster as well, one of the very worst this country has ever seen. a failure on too many levels to mention. and for all that misery that people endured, it was compounded as they watched just a few days into it all as the president of the united states said this -- >> again, i want to thank you all for -- and brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. the fema director is working 24. [ applause ] they're working 24 hours a day. >> the president, president bush was praising michael brown, brownie, director of fema, the federal emergency management agency. he was a political appointee with no real experience, and many saw the praise for him as the ultimate example of adding insult to injury and misery and homelessness and death. more than 1800 men, women and children died as a result of hurricane katrina, many because the planning for it and immediate response to it was so badly mishandled. that tragedy became the genesis of this program's keeping them honest reports. so it is with s

it's that simple. >> i appreciate your time, katrina. thank you, and good to talk to you again. >> thank you. >>> next the white house defending trump's latest attack, which is calling omarosa a dog. >> this has absolutely nothing to do with race. >> does it, or not? >>> plus a former executive of one of trump's casinos says he was offered money for silence and refused. so what happened next to him? jack o'donnell is my guest. >>> and a cnn scuff tonight. a senior pentagon official under investigation for misusing her staff. what she is accused is the swampiest of the possible swamp behavior. when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. and got them back on track. (thomas) nice choices! you see, now verizon lets you mix and match your family unlimited plans like you mix and match your flavors. so you get what you want, without paying for things you don't. number 6

fox news that i an exclusive, with term 2020 campaign advisor katrina pierson. about to break some news. in the book, she complained confirms that president trump used a racial slur. pearson is here to say that is not false but she will reveal new information that could poke more holes in her story. information you will only hear this our ominous show. plus, another high-profile firing in washington today. the fbi was at the firing of this anti-trump tax controversy was fired. the president says it's about time. as the firing just for show or are we about to see some real accountability in the investigator of the investigators? will investigate. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am ed henry in for shannon bream. we begin with the latest insider account of the white house. omarosa manigault newman is a former colleague of katrina pierson, making wild claims by the president. person will reveal that new information i mentioned about omarosa in a moment. but first, let's go to trace gallagher. good evening, trace. >> good evening. in three separate intervi

katrina cursed and said, he said it. did that happen? >> no, ed.hat did not happen. >> jimmy: okay, so that was last night. and this was this morning. >> i'm trying to find out at least what the context it was used in to help us maybe try to figure out a way to spin it. i said, well, sir, can you think of any time that this might have happened? and he said no. >> well, that's not true, so -- >> he goes, how do you think i should handle it? and i told him exactly what you just said, omarosa, well, it depends on what scenario you're talking about. and he said, well, why don't you just go ahead and put it to bed? >> he said it, he's embarrassed. >> jimmy: katrina pearson, who said the conversation never happened, not only did it happen, you can hear he say about the "n" word, he said it, he's embarrassed. which i think we're all embarrassed by this. m t now the word worried omarosa might have dozens of tapes and that other staffers might have tapes and of course there are these alleged "apprentice" tapes and on top of all those we uncovered this tape

president katrina adams about america's inability to field top-tier male players, and how efforts to diversify the game may changthat. this story is part of our ongoing series about povty and portunity in america: chasing the dream. >> reporter: even though it has been nearly 20 years since katrina adams last played professionally, fans s clamor to have their picture taken with her. as the first former professional player to serve as chairmanf the board and president of the u.s. tennis association and chair of the uha. open, adams one of the broadest resumes in tennis. from her earliest days learning to play in chicago, her 12 years on the world tennis tour, hee has lived and breathed game for most of her life. >> its live its happening, its show time, its vibrant. >> reporter: but when katrina adams started playing tennis in 1975, it was arthur ashe who everyone wanted a picture of. seven years after his 1968 u.s.p win had blown open the doors of u.s. tennis for african american men, ashe was a sensation. it meant a lot to see him playing this sport that i had gost picked up. yoack

the second reason is we have katrina, katrina missed it. hit 40 miles east. the levees fell. who is responsible their he levees? army corps of engineers which is a government enterprise. the horror for most people is that 1900 people died because of that. as an economist, the horror is they're still in boston. imagine if mcdonald's or burger king killed 1900 people. they wouldn't be in business anymore. they go the way of pan am or somebody other company but anywhere business. if someone opened the mississippi river and did that, it would pass into other more competent hands. how can we have the mississippi or hudson river or the atlantic ocean owned? the same we get land owned, by the john walkian homesteading principle, he who mixes his labor with to land or water or whatever, gets to be the owner of it. so the people who but those ships up and down the mississippi river, people who own land on the side of the mississippi river because we assume they're using it in some way, you have 100 people with 100,000 showers and the mississippi river corporation. again, it sounds wei

the second reason is i'm from new orleans, we had katrina. katrina missed us. it hit 40 miles east, the levees failed. who was responsible for the levees? army corps of engineers, which is a government enterprise. the horror for those people, 1900 people died as a result of that, to me as an economist, the horror is they're still in business. imagine if mcdonald's or burger king killed 1900 people. they'd go the way of pan-am or some other company, but they're still in business. whereas if someone owned the mississippi river and they did that, it would pass into other more competent hands. so how could we have the mississippi or the hudson river or the atlantic ocean owned? well, the same way we get land owned. by the john lockean homesteader principle. the people who put those ships up and down the mississippi river, the people who own land on the side of the mississippi river because we assume they're using it in some way. so now you have 100,000 people with 100,000 shares, and then that's the mississippi river corporation. again, it sounds weird to the non-i

katrina. >> we've saved a lot of lives but if you look at a real c katri katrina. and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died. >> we begin with the new reports with the escalating battle to team president trump from firing jeff sessions and yet resignation that's probably going to happen anyway. and the question is when. and the tantalizing suggestion. i've got a team here to break it all down. let's lay out the new reports that the attorney general is back in the cross hairs of president with all of the intended implications for the mueller russia probe. "the washington post" revealing that the president has privately revived the idea of firing sessions not once, twice this month, according to people close to those conversations. of course, public attacks against his own attorney general are nothing new. since sessions first recused himself in the russia investigation back in march of 2017, the president has blasted his a.g. on twitter, calling him weak. lamenting

more than double that we saw that happened down thin katrina.nd off the coast of florida, people don't seem to pay attention to it. so he may get away with it, but the lack of us a thenity t auth catch up with him. >> and these are u.s. citizens. let me put the numbers up on the screen. you can see the hurricane death tolls. recent hurricanes, maria, puerto rico, 2975, katrina 1833, and then sandy, 147, harvey 68. this is so much higher. >> and you think back to hurricane katrina and how disastrous that was and the degree of the political challenge that posed for president bush at the time. everyone expected that they would have their hands around that problem and it was so woefully inadequate and how president bush took it upon himself to at first he did a lot of what donald trump is doing now, a hick of a job and all of that, but then when it became clear how horrific the impact had been, that was seen as a real crisis. i don't think this administration you views it as a crisis at all. we heard no compassion today. the death toll rifle tsz thv

more than 1,000 than were killed in hurricane katrina. the magnitude of this is overwhelming.should point out some other things that this report from george washington university also pointed out. it blamed puerto rican officials for a massive communications breakdown and for not having the proper protocols in place in terms of emergency response. now, the governor yesterday, he said that the official death toll would be updated because of this report. he said that the buck stops with him and in hindsight things could have been done differently. but the white house still saying it is proud of the federal effort here, saying that more than 12,000 personnel had come to puerto rico. but that statement isn't sitting well with many people here on this island, including san juan's mayor, carmen cruz, who's been an outspoken critic of the federal government's response. watch what she had to say after the white house's statement. >> shame on the white house and shame on the president. all he had to say was i'm sorry that 2,975 of you died. that's all he had to say. but he's incapable

essentially katrina pierson now saying omarosa is wrong, crazy, whatever you want to say.'ll be on erin burnett "out front" this evening to explain her side of this. let's go to cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. i was going to ask you to help untangle this. i don't think it can be untangled. >> reporter: john, what it speaks to is the fact that new statement there from katrina pierson, now she says she acknowledges there was a secret tape recording. she said she was trying to placate omarosa at the time. what this all boils down to, let's take a step back. this boils down to who president trump, then candidate trump, decided to surround himself with. at the time he brought omarosa on to the campaign, it was unclear he was going to become the 45th president of the united states. it was unclear that she would end up here at the white house, but that is what happened. this is a huge mess, largely of everyone's making. as we untangle this, there is potentially some legal action here. there has been an action filed in new york state, potentially with the trump campaign, see

katrina, 1,833. horrible. hurricane maria., they can talk all they want about how these studies are measuring lethality in a way -- whatever. this is the number. even if you cut it considerably, it is still a tremendous and unexplained loss of life. so what happened to the sense of urgency? and you know, the president's not the only one. this tendency to isolate power. no. what about the people that we elected to check the executive? hello, congress. the republican-controlled congress in recent years has held hearings on all sorts of partisan issues. benghazi, climate change is a hoax, planned parenthood is a problem, whether or not president obama was deporting enough people. you know, really big things that should consume our tax dollars. but a disaster that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 americans, one hearing they've had so far. katrina? 32. how? our leaders might as well say listen, we just don't care that much. why would i say that? because they are not doing and not saying things in a way that speaks just as loudly.

he has no idea compared to katrina. one thing he talked about on katrina, katrina was a disaster. well, it looks like more people lost their lives in puerto rico than even did in katrina. >> and they're still suffering. >> they're still suffering. so he's in denial. he definitely doesn't know what's going on in puerto rico. >> you went down to puerto rico what was it six months ago on a humanitarian mission. is this president trump's katrina? is it going to impact him politically? >> first, when i was down there, people were just happy to get a blue tarp to have a roof over their head. >> how many months after the storm was this? >> about six, seven weeks after the storm. people didn't have water. we were up high in the mountains. they hadn't seen a doctor. there were hundreds of people who we knew were going to be very ill in the coming month because they couldn't get to dialysis. there was no commerce. they couldn't buy food because there's no atms. people didn't have money. it was horrifying, the conditions in which we saw people living. we're in the poorest, most remost areas

you had him talk about megyn kelly, rosie o'donnell, you had him talk about katrina perry from the irish network rte. you had him talk about representative frederica wilson, starting a fight with her. calling m ining maxine waters l. he came after lebron james. he came after you, don. all of these comments suggest that he relishes insoughting people of color and women in a particular way, even if he does it sometimes to other people, and because he has this long track record, all those videos you just played, you can't give him the benefit of the doubt at this point, that it's the most innocuous interpretation when he says omarosa is a dog. >> douglas, you're the historian here. what is the president's language and behavior doing to the office of the presidency? are we witnessing the denigration of this office in real time? >> we really are, don. it's just horrific. i was reflecting on past presidents today and since the civil war, we haven't had a president, at least since andrew johnson right after the civil war, that is a full-pledged bigot, and we have that with donald trump. there h

but, katrina, maybe i could start with you. >> thank you, yeah. and i'd probably go back to one of your earlier questions about competition. we're not positioning ourselves as competing, but rather trying to address the enormous demands, the infrastructure development and financing in the region. ing i go back to that big $26 trillion headline number. that is a big number. and you're right, we are on the aiib, we're the sixth largest -- [inaudible] and we're on the board. we're very, you know, pleased to be on that board because it helps us to help shape the rules and the standards and to provide another source of financing for projects. and so far it's going very well. it has a aaa rating from moody's, standard & poor's and fitch. and in a short time, january 2016 you'll remember it was established, there were 28 investments worth $5.5 billion -- [inaudible] so that's good news for the region. and, you know, we're pleased that that offers an option for opinions. and if done -- for finance. of and if done well, that provides a really good alternat

>>> worst than katrina. a shocking new report now says near 3,000 americans were killed puerto rico. >>> accusations of bias whileall tweeting early this morning abt hillary clinton. >>> the controversial comeback of comedian c.k. >>> dubious record. america is leading the way when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases. frb >>> can you identify this woman? she's been ringing door bells in the dark of night. >>> and two dreams come true. s. "early today" starts right now. good wednesday morning. i'm marlie hall. >>> the polls are now closed in the last big round of primaries in arizona, florida and oklahoma. voting got off to a rocky start in arizona with widespread equipment malfunctions. but once they got those issues ironed out, the race to watch was the three-way republican primary to replace retiring senator, jeff blake. steve recaps all of that action for us. >>> well, republicans are breathing a sigh of relief in arizona. mcsally, she survives that republican primary tonight. two candidates sort of

doesn't exist when she clearly doesn't know and there's clearly a doubt in someone's mind and that katrina pierson audio adds to that. >> give us a senseover what is the situation right now in this white house? we started off the week talking about how omarosa said she had these tapes because everybody lies in the white house and so you needed to make tapes of things and there was this sense of paranoia. there were concerns about what else might come out. here we are a few days in as john pointed out. how are things going in the west wink? >> they're going about how they usually go. i know that we tend to look at these things as if this is suddenly the moment when things have gotten really bad. this has been a paranoid factionalized white house have the t very, very beginning, from the very first week and everything that has happened since is almost like a natural role of what you would expect based on that. these are people who don't trust each other, who don't particularly like each other, who don't respect each other and they exist in little clumps and lanes as one person put it to me y

well, katrina was a real disaster and now we have more deaths than katrina and what comes out of thete house yesterday is simply a we are very proud of what we did and we are committed. the administration killed the puerto ricans with neglect. the trump administration led us to believe they were helping when they weren't up to par and they didn't allow other countries to help us. >> what does that mean that they didn't allow other countries to help you? >> i'll tell you exactly. the past president of prepa, the puerto rico electric power authority said he wasn't allowed by the american government -- he didn't say who in the government but he doesn't allowed to buy generators or light posts from any other country that wasn't the united states. we have this thing called the jones act that forces everything that comes into puerto rico to come via ships that are u.s.-flagged and we weren't allowed to even buy generators and light poles from countries that the u.s. buys them so there were no inventories in the u.s., we were told, but we weren't allowed to go outside and get them. so the n

about 1,000 more people died from hurricane maria than from katrina.e reported on that situation on the ground in puerto rico, and it was very different than the story that was coming from the administration. though president trump had plenty of praise for the recovery efforts. here's what he said during his only trip to the island back in october when he tossed paper towels to survivors. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on puerto rico and that's fine. we've saved a lot of lives. if you look at the -- every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, you can be very proud of all of our people, all of our people working together. 16 versus literally thousands of people. you can be very proud. everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in puerto rico. >> so in addition to throwing towels and saying you've

i reached out to katrina pierson about omarosa's other allegations involving her, and she said it wastotal fabrication. after cbs released that tape i then reached out to katrina pierson again, around 7:30, 8:00 this morning. she's given us an updated statement where, andrea, she says that she said that, the reason she said what they said on the tape was that it was one of the many times she would placate omarosa to move the discussion along "because i was wea weary at her obsession over this alleged tape." so it appears katrina pierson and other campaign advisers are sticking by their assertion that this alleged tape does not exist. but the american people can make up their own minds on where he stands on crucial issues of race and ethnicity. >> we should point out omarosa was the only high level african-american in the entire administration, in the white house staff, and has not been replaced. she was fired in december. ashley parker, you've been writing on these nondisclosure agreements as they apply to white house officials. and omarosa says she did not sign one, despite what was

katrina pierson.n you and when they say there wasn't even fact-checked, i'm pretty shocked at the publisher to be honest, that they would allow it. >> i am too. i met omarosa through president trump and we became friends. i'm surprised she went scorched earth and all of the conversations her and i a have had as to african-americans on the campaign trail along with katrina pierson, diamond and silk and a few others. she never, ever even insinuated even remotely insinuated that the president was racist. in fact, she defended him very vigorously and she gave me talking points on episodes from her life where he was just a help to her and family members. i think her brother died and he helped then. she told me about how much he helped her before, during and after the apprentice, helped her get deals, kept her in his orbit, in his loop and even when she goes on to say that she was offered hush money, i don't see where somebody offering you a job, a landing space after you lose one job and they offer you ano

the botched handling of hurricane katrina cost over 1,800 americans their lives.ema director michael brown was soon out. and president george w. bush was haunted till the end of his presidency by that line, brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. really? was he? one lesson to be gained from this is don't be so quick to pat yourself on the back. what about when you start patting yourself on the back way, way after the fact, after it's crystal clear how badly you did. this week, puerto rico announced it has had to raise the death toll associated with hurricane maria from 64 deaths which had been the previous death toll to now 2,975 lives lost, almost the exact same number of americans who were killed in the 9/11 attacks. over 1,000 more americans killed in puerto rico in hurricane maria than were killed in the gulf in katrina. for some reason, these facts about what went wrong and the response to hurricane maria and how wrong it went have not made their way to the oval office or maybe they took a wrong turn on their way to the president's head. >> do you still believ

i want to play for you, katrina, something that chuck todd said today about a bombshell tomorrow. let's watch. >> here's what i've learned about bob mueller and that is a single person that has worked with him, known him, would say, if he didn't have anything, he would've ended this is comic investigation if there was no collusion. >> we can tell that until he tells us. >> i think it was more than anything, he keeps quiet between labor day and election day. i am not missing work tomorrow. i wouldn't miss work tomorrow. >> laura: we are not missing work tomorrow, either, but that was one of the more ridiculous things i've heard. [laughs] katrina -- and a rabbit will come out of his hat. >> laura, this is hypervigilance on behalf of the left. these are the kinds of things that we've been hearing since the president of the famous ride down the escalator and people are pretty much immune to it. pretty much, there was no collusion. no one is going to be listening to the talking heads on tv, particularly when their 401(k)s are going out. this trade deal was very good, and it looks like

over 1,000 more americans killed on the gulf in katrina. some reason, these facts about what went wrong and the response to hurricane maria and how wrong it went have not made their way to the oval office or maybe they took a wrong turn on their way to the president's head. >> do you still believe that the federal government had a good response? >> i think we did a fantastic job in puerto rico. >> fantastic job. fantastic job on the day after puerto rico had to up its death toll to 2,975 americans killed. fantastic job. that has to go down in the annals in michael brown, heck of a job. doesn't it? doesn't it? i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release its own insulin, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen. and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine t

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yet, today, omarosa had a tape of katrina pierson discussing the tape. take a listen. >> i said, well, sir, can you think of anytime that this might have happened and he said no. >> well, that's not true. >> he goes, how do you think i should handle it, and i told him exactly what you just said, omarosa, which is, well, it depends on what scenario you're talking about. and he said, well, why don't you just go ahead and put it to bed. >> he said -- >> he said it. no, he said it. >> katrina pierson saying he said it and was embarrassed. that is despite telling omarosa she never had the conversation. the significance of the recordings? >> it shows the den of liars and thieves they are. they're their own investatifestf corruption and crazy. why was omarosa recording these conversations in the first place? >> that was during the campaign, to be clear. >> she was clearly setting this up for this moment. she was setting this up to drop a dime on her colleagues and people she was working with on the campaign from the very beginning. all of this, you know, fake a

katrina pierson: "he said. no, he said it. he is embarrassed by it." one of the staffers on the call, katrina pierson, telling cnn she was only trying to 'placate omarosa.' the president again taking to twitter denying that any tape of him using a racial slur exists, claiming, "i don't have that word in my vocabulary"the trump campaign taking legal steps against omarosa today...filing an arbitration action alleging she violated a confidentiality agreement. while cnn has not seen the agreement omarosa signed, it has obtained a copy of the non-disclosure agreement trump campaign officials signed in 2016. those who signed agreed not to disparage the president or his family, and agreed to binding arbitration if they did...the messy feud...creating an environment of paranoia in the west wing...as officials fear there could be more recordings to come...while omarosa continues her book tour... omarosa manigault-newman: "there was a lot of corruption that went on both in the campaign and in the white house and i'm going to blow the whistle on all of it." (vick