kelly's rendition of natural woman in 2002. was a game changer.ve learned that the 76-year-old music legend is gravely ill. >> over the years e, "e.t." has spent so many amazing moments with aretha including one of her final sitdowns. >> never take the music for granted. whether you have a hit or not. >> well, aretha has plenty of hits. 112 on the charts ♪ what you want baby i got it >> along the way winning 18 grammy awards. >> the audience expects you to do your thing. ♪ >> this all despite some serious health problems through the years. eight years ago, aretha was denying cancer rumors saying she had a tumor removed. >> how are you feeling everything is great. you're doing wonderful. >> yes, i felt really good tonight. >> that was aretha with nancy in 2011. she also sounded upbeat in our 2016 interview with michael jackson's nephew t.j. >> how are you doing healthwise. >> i'm doing okay. >> reporter: if tellon john aids foundation, aretha looked frail. confirmed to "e.t." the gravely ill aretha is surrounded by family and friends and they're as

clarkson. >> kelly's stepping into the talk show world.taped on friday and we have exclusive new details on her daytime gig. the first "american idol" has officially taken her "voice" to the stage of her own pilot called "the kelly clarkson show." according to an eyewitness inside, the stage reflects her country roots and looks like the inside of a barn. kelly's first celebrity guests include josh groban, terry crews and chloe grace moretz. our "e.t." source says the taping stretched for 4 1/2 hours. kelly cried at least three times while interviewing real people, including a homeless shelter employee. back in october, kelly told me it's hard to contain her emotion in the spotlight. >> i hope i don't cry on the stage tonight. i'm so excited, like, i'm so excited. you're trying to make me cry. you're trying to oprah me. you're trying to oprah me! >> no, i would not oprah you. >> as for kelly's hosting style? our source says, quote, she's not oprah, she's more like a kelly ripa. however, this kelly kicked off the show with some "ellen" inspi

why is jhud calling out kelly?> i thought we were friends. >>> this is "entertainment tonigh tonight". >>> jennifer from the block. owned new york city. on the vmas was just the start. wait until you see what j.lo did after the show. >>> she was on fire. meanwhile, madonna spontaneously combusted. twitter erupted over her ill-fated tribute to aretha franklin, but madonna is defending herself today. >> aretha louise franklin changed the course of my life. >> madonna was ripped apart on social media after what everyone thought was an aretha tribute -- turned into a six-minute monologue. >> what we got was a long, long story about madonna. which incidentally mentioned aretha franklin. in passing for a second or two. >> i want to thank you, aretha, for empowering all of us. >> check out the gifs -- a thumbs down. this -- no, no, no! and another called, what would aretha think? madonna fired back today. she says that mtv asked her to share about any aretha connection she had before presenting video of the year. adding,

>> kelly o'donnell breaking down a very complicated story for us. kelly, thank you. good to see you on this monday morning. >>> with us now is mark lotter, he served in the trump administration for eight months as special assistant to the president, as well as the press secretary for vice president mike pence. took a lot of phone calls from all of us. also on set is the correspondent for the "daily mail," franchesca. and also msnbc political analyst phil rucker. mark, i'll start with you. a lot to get to. a lot to break down. i want to start with a simple question, have you ever heard the president use the "n" word? >> absolutely not. nothing close to it. i've traveled with the president, the vice president, for almost two years now, when i was on the camcampaign, in the white house. i never heard him say anything like that. >> have you ever heard him use any type of racial slur, say anything derogatory toward people of color or minorities? >> no. the president speaks bluntly and plainly, but he doesn't speak in those kinds of terms, that i have ever heard him say. t

kelly's a talk show host.bs has ordered ten episodes of lebron james' new competition show, "million dollar," congratulations. >>> lot of early buzz for gaga and this new movie comes out in october then. she's keeping busy. isn't she? she'll take up new residency roots. up first in music edition of "know and tell." ♪ i love for the applause, applause, applause ♪ >>> the diva's vegas show "enigma" will launch on december 28th at the park theater at the park mgm resort, and will, of course, feature her greatest hits. ♪ i'm on the edge with you >> as part of her vegas gig, gaga will also do four jazz shows with stripped-down versions of her most famous songs. ♪ caught in a bad romance >> the pop icon was one of james corden's most popular carpool karaoke guests. ♪ i'm on the right track, baby, i was born this way ♪ >>> could ariana grande be his next ride along? ♪ oh oh you got me walking side to side ♪ >> james tweeted this photo of lyric sheets from ariana grande's songs, saying, "learning these," which prompte

it's not just her and john kelly. >> kelly, what have you got there? >> am i mistaken, it wasn't just -- >> maybe i misunderstood. >> right. >> i thought she had said it was omarosa and john kelly for about an hour and 15 minutes and that's when others joined. am i mistaken, the lawyers were there the whole time? >> based on the recording account, general kelly asks omarosa manigault newman's assistant to leave but refers to the lawyers in the room. i think lawyers were there. i'm not an independent person on this. the situation room is a mult multi-room space in the white house. what is interesting about it is, of course, their conversation was it appears limited to her employment. you're in an environment where there are potentially national security ush use which is a surprise that she would bring the device in and a surprise that he would hold the meeting there. his calendar, multi-room situation, no pun intended, in the white house. i think those details will be borne out about who was in the room or who was not. clearly she takes it as a threat t

the tape itself with john kelly, there is nothing particularly outrageous about what kelly says. the question is why was she taping in the first place, and how can you run a workplace in the single most secure place in the united states. where people are taping each other in the situation room. i mean when you go into the situation room, you're supposed to surrender your cell phones, put them in a locker, what kind of workplace allows this to take place. >> she says this is because this is a white house where everybody lies. omarosa, not exactly known for her standing as a moral compass in some cases, but that is the reasoning that is being given, you can't ignore that or the legal ramifications. she is an employment custom to turn in your cell phone when you go in the room, but i think it is indicative of a crazy and disorderly workplace, first that you worked there in the first place. how she behaved when she was there, and what she has done since she left. >> the best people, we played that amazing montage of the president claiming he would only hire the best people. >> i thin

it ought to be john kelly. now we have john kelly in middle of a mess.h all due respect, no matter what your partisanship, ideology, this white house is not functioning well. what omarosa's book and these interviews reveal is that dysfunction. we ought to be focused mostly on that. what else she says about him, that will be debated a great deal in coming days and weeks. tapes and what tapes were heard and which were not. at the core of it is the revelation of dysfunction. >> thank you both. have a good sunday. >>> today is the one year mark of the charlottesville rally that left one person dead. in one hour a white supremacist rally will be leheld in counter the timers as well. you were saying last hour the energy was growing. there were many from different parties and different places. >> reporter: that's right. you mentioned this is the anniversary. one year ago today the mark in charlottes which i wiville that the murder of heather heyer. she is top of mind. you have communist calling for violent overthrow of the government. we have folks calling for

. >> general kelly -- general kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no, i -- nobody even told me about it. >> wow. >> and just moments ago, telling msnbc there could be more to come. >> do you have more recordings? >> oh, absolutely. >> are you planning on releasing them? >> i don't know. >> among the most startling allegations, questioning the president's state of mind with savannah guthrie on the "today" show. >> did you think he's mentally comp tent to do this job? >> no, i don't think he's fit. as we heard on the recording you just played, he doesn't even know what's happening in his white house. john kelly is running this white house and donald trump has no clue what's going on. >> telling chuck todd on "meet the press" she's heard the reported "apprentice" tapes where donald trump allegedly uses the "n" word. >> once i heard it for myself it was confirmed what i feared the most that donald trump is a con. and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities. but when he talks that way, the way he did on this tape

but then it was time for kelli to come out.s would be painful with that fractured pelvis. >> and greg had standing on this forklift over this drop off, maneuvermy feet to get it around the metal and they were lifting me from the top and he was pushing me down from the bottom. >> lifting and pushing. her pelvis was damaged. you couldn't pull or lift too much. >> and i remember it -- the pain was not too much to handle because i -- it was worth every ounce of pain i felt to get out of there. >> then, on the way to the hospital, she got a reassurance. >> when they put me in the ambulance, the para medic r.j. and i'm here to help you. laying on the stretcher i said that was my dad's name. >> kelli's father died suddenly a few months before the accident, but somehow, she felt like he was still with her as she arrived at the hospital desperate for news about her daughter. mylo was okay, but sage's leg was crushed, her pelvis was broken, her head severely swollen and those were just the apparent injuries. the surgeons were already wor

is kelly truly running the company -- country?>> reporter: this follows another secret recording she released, the son with chief of staff john kelly -- this one with the chief of staff john kelly. >> let's not go down this road. this is non-negotiable. this has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations. >> reporter: the president is firing back for the former advisor, whom he has known for 15 years. >> she is a lowlife. >> reporter: he called her a lowlife and in a tweet called her wacky and said people in the white house hated her. she was vicious but not smart he said. manigault newman says she recorded the conversations to protect her credibility. nicole killian, cbs news, the white house. >> the white house has not commented on why john kelly held a personnel meeting inside one of the most sensitive rooms and the world. the biggest wildfire in california history... is >>> we are looking at cooler conditions thanks to onshore flows. a live look with our roof cam and you can see clouds still out there hanging around f

john kelly is still alive and walking around howie: anyone following the media coverage of john kellyould have been convinced the white house chief of staff was toast, he was history. i am told the president asked kelly what they were going to do about the stories and asked if he would stay on for the rest of the first term and he said yes. what does that say about this media drum beat based on named sources. the a.p., it's leading trump staffers to believe kelly is work on borrowed time. abc, the president has once again started contemplating his possible replacements. >> a source telling cnn the president is talking to friends about possible replacements for john kelly. >> white house chief of staff john kelly may be ready to leave his job very soon. >> it could come this week or the mid-july trip to europe. >> the reports he was likely to leave by july 31. and that he repeatedly referred to trump as an idiot. >> he'll be leaving by his own choice or by president trump deciding he had enough. howie: trump's decision to keep kelly doesn't knock down stories that kelly has vented to o

kelly is working on a daytime talkhow for nbc. the pilot was shot last year.f picked up it will hit tv on 2019. >>> all right, another music diva. rihanna wants to show you how to put your best face forward. only we got her good girl gone bad beauty tips. ♪ >> i want to give you guys a vibe. my vibe for summer is, more is more. >> a step by step guide on how to look more like riri. first? the right tools. rihanna uses venti beauty. >> your cheeks looking like baby cheeks. >> next the makeup must-have in her bag, her bold, red lipstick. >> now, it's like, the sky's the limit. no rules. i can do whatever i want. ♪ >> and for step three, we went to her makeup artist. >> actual lly met her on the se of one her videos and i'm actually in it. i'll take eye primer. >> how to re-create the makeup she won for london premiere for "ocean's 8." >> bring it up and into the crease. to lift the eyes and make them look more lift zmrd now rihanna's collection is available. use the bronze and gold tones to look sunkissed. line the lip and then fill it in. ♪ >> but the best beau

>> general kelly -- general kelly came to me sen said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no, nobodye about it. nobody -- they run a big operation but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. damn

kelly clarkson. beauty tips revealed. >>> let's start the style of the royal kind. meghan markle is redefining duchess fashion at every turn and it's come at a very hefty price, too. $1 million. it all started the day she became prince harry's fiancee. >> it cost a pretty penny to stay royal ready and according to royal experts meghan has spent more than a million dollars on her style. since linking up with harry. if you think she's getting glammed for free. think again. >> now that's married in, cover the cost of her royal working wardrobe. >> it was over $440,000 and her reception outfit was over $150,000. >> meghan contributed but certainly some of the cost for either of those wedding dresses, or perhaps both, i believe was also picked up by the palace. >> prince charles has been footing the bill since the announcement of the engagement. >> i think most people would argue it's meghan is now an ambassador for the royal family. look at the publicity that she's brought in the run-up to the wedding. >> since becoming a member of the royal fennamily, she's wear a lot

howie: trump's decision to keep kelly doesn't knock down stories that kelly has vented to others aboutred his resignation after the furor over rob porter. and kelly may not make it through 2020. the president could change his mind next month or even next week. those who work for this president don't always know what he's going to do. using sources to predict what he's going to do and dismissing the official denial is risky business. corey lewandowski has constantly been battling the press on twitter. with the crowd yelling and cursing jim acosta, we'll talk to the reporter who pressed sarah huckabee sanders on the issue. (burke) abstract accident. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ howie: with so many media controversies swirling around the president from the manafort trial to the angry anti-press crowds. joining us is corey lewandowski, president trump's former campaign manager now with pence's pac. i covered the mutual warfare with the press. i have never seen the president so resentful of his

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and you're right about john kelly. the fact that he is the mastermind and the president is a puppet, i mean, weren't there reports that john kelly wanted to leave because he couldn't control the white house? i mean, so it's sort of undercuts the narrative about omarosa trying to sell her books with this. >> said the same thing about steve bannon. >> but astonishing that a recording device was brought in there and she was recording. >> melissa: here's the thing that is interesting. they keep drawing the parallels between people that are first trump supporters. you go to chris collins, you know, who was just indicted for insider trading. and they try to connect it to the president and say he had bad judgment. you have to remember, he's trying to reward loyalty of his early supporters and the only people that supported him early on were people that were way out on the fringe who were betting on a long shot because they were already disenfranchised from things that were going on and he tried to repay their loyalty but now

reported by our nbc's kelly o'donnell who joins us now and, kelly, you were saying how you had received notice that around 4:28 that was when the news came across to you. >> yes, been in touch with those close to the senator and obviously when they made the announcement, richard, that he was not going to seek any additional treatment, they had an awareness that after fighting the disease and really expanding his expectations for the prognosis of this very tough form of cancer, but they recognized where things were and the family made the decision to let the public in on the senator's decision thought to seek additional treatment and today he passed surrounded by loved ones and now that the word is out that this life of service and politics has ended, there are, of course, reactions coming in from people who served along with him like senator lindsey graham who says that america and freedom has lost a great champion today as well as he has lost a friend and mentor. we will hear much more of that from people who were touched by john mccain. i am really struck, richard, by the coincidence

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general kelly, john kelly is running the white house and donald trump has no clue what's going on.at's dangerous to this nation. >> omarosa, if you've got to go, i've got a stack more questions right lower on the to "today" show. >> you know i have an interview >> you know i have an interview with someone well it finally happened, zachary. >> you know i have an interview with someone somebody burned down my she shed. nobody burned down your she shed, cheryl. well my she shed's on fire. your she shed was struck by lightning. zachary, is my she shed covered by state farm? your she shed's covered, cheryl. you hear that victor? i'm getting a new she shi-er she shed. she shi-er? mhhm. that's wonderful news. go with the one that's here to help life go right. state farm. chair, new laptop headphones, with free 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes. start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. like these for only a 25 cents at office depot officemax. you know doc how can i get whiter, brighter teeth.. and the

of her conversation with john kelly., essentially, he was saying let's be nice about this. and you are going to be leaving the white house. and there are some lawyers here from personnel to talk to you. he was talking about how she had broken rules and it sounded like not only involving vehicles or cars but also money as well. ainsley: serious integrity violations that's why she was fired. i want to know what those are. she worked for him 10 years. steve: donald trump. ainsley: he helped make her famous. he gave her a job in the white house. if she feels this way about him. she fields she was helping to deceive the country working for him? why did she take the job? brian: she says now that she heard these taping she claims to have heard from his days on the apprentice behind the scenes he met with some in los angeles. she heard the tapes. she suddenly has changed her mind entirely. i think overall, people are going to be looking at this story for about two weeks and i think it's going to go away. i just don't see a lot o

>> kelly, very quickly. you've been in contact with rudy guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. and we saw rudy guiliani. we saw the president's legal team and the white house communications team this week talking about the president's tweets. what they signify to them. they talked about them as opinions versus orders when we got that extraordinary tweet earlier this week. it seemed to address the attorney general, jeff sessions, directly. let's take that and apply it to this. i am sure that we will hear from the president's legal team. this is the president spouting off. it's him offering an opinion. over the course of these last many weeks, we have seen a lot of reporting about how bob mueller, special counsel and his team, are looking at the president's tweets. so i guess what i'm saying here, kelly, the president and his team may see it one way. the special counsel and others may see it another. >> rep

he has established a rapport with his generational peer in general kelly. they bond as people who have shared grievances about members of the media, about different political rivals or enemies, but the president has not been eager to make an immediate move, but he has talked to associates about mick mulvaney, nick ayer, chief of staff to vice president pence, and even other options like secretary mnuchin, close to the son-in-law jared kushner and senior adviser, has been mentioned by some trump allies. could be akin to president reagan in the late 1980s bringing in don regan. but for now the president is sticking with john kelly. >> we know that did not go well with don regan, especially if you ask nancy reagan back at the time. you have written a story tonight about the koch brothers. it was really extraordinary to read criticism of the koch brothers by the president this morning. the headline is trump feud with koch network exposes rift between populist forces and establishment gop. you're a broadcaster yourself. give us the viewers guide to this fight. >

coming up, speaking out. >> general kelly -- general kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted memer white houseide omarosa manigualt newman opening up exclusivel on "today" about that secretly recorded phone call with the president. ws this tape s him saying i didn't know you were fired. is he>>lying? yes, because there were subsequent calls after that. >> how the trump administration is responding to her shocking claims. plus, hitting back. meghan markle's father once agai grabbing headlines. why hesays she hung up on prince harry in a heated phone call. >> and a whale of a time. >> thatas amazing. that was amazing! >> jenna sets sail off the coast of new york city in search of the largest animals to ever live on the planet. t we'lake you insidig her seas adventure today, monday, august 13th, 2018. >> spending my last days of summer on the plaza. >> monroe city, missouri. >> louisiana. >> and charlotte, north carolina. >> good mornndg, hoda savannah. >> we're from baltimore. >> sisters from wisconsin in the big city. >> celebrating my dad's 80th birthday. >> and good morning, ev

>> general kelly -- general kelly came to me sen said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no, nobody even told me about it. nobody -- they run a big operation but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. damn it, i don't love you leaving at all. >> already released the recording of the conversation she had with general kelly, part of the conversation in the situation room. that when it came out over the weekend sparked all sorts of questions and raised national security concerns and raised a lot more credibility questions. let's go to boris sanchez who joins us with more. boris, covering the white house and knowing the background sort of her tenure while she was serving in the white house and controversy that swirled after she left, walk us through what we're learning this morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, poppy. this newly released audio from omarosa indicates that the president told her that he wasn't aware that she was fired by john kelly. omarosa now says that she did not believe the president when he told her that, that in subsequent conversations he ended up admitting that

rebecca, you are at kelly wa ward - what's going on there. >> reporter: make no mistake, don, kelly wards the under dog tonight. it could have been a different race but a crucial turning point in this senate race was the decision by joe arpaio to toss his hat in the ring leading the vote between kelly ward and sheriff joe arpaio that's what we are seeing in the votes ti t tonight. the other is president trump, kelly ward has been a supporter of the president, has framed herself as such during the primary and there was some question whether the president as he has in other primaries which is trying to toss his opinion into this race and weigh in on this race either for kelli ward or arpaio which he pardoned previously. the president decided not to weigh in that race, something that ultimately helps make mcsally boosted her and republicans are breathing a sigh of relief in washington. they believe that kelli ward would have been less electable. >> thank you, both. we'll get back to you as need be here on cnn. back with us chris cillizza and symone. and our congressman having been here. tha

talk about theou reactionng in today, kelly. >> reporter: good morning, kristen. the nator's passing came at 4:28 p. local time, surrounded by loved ones in a place that meant so much to him, his ranch near sedona, somewhere tranquil and a sanctuary for him. he w k a mannown for his straight talk and hisservice. sedona at dusk. a slow procession and police escort carried senator john mccain away from home one last time. a two-hour journey through the state he loved and represented for more than 30 years. signs of respect and appreciation along the way. and a crowd came to pay respes outside the phoenix funeral home. the most personal loss belongs to his family. seven children, five grandchildren. his mother roberta svives him at age 106. wife cindy shared, m heart is broken. i am so lucky for living the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. daughter megan who let the public in with her grief wrote, i was with my father until the end as he was with me from the beginning. his love and care alway unfailing, took me from a girl to a woman, and he showe

nbc's kelly o'donnell is near his ranch in sedona, arizona this morning, and kelly, you have coveredator mccain for years. tell us about the tributes that are pouring in. >> reporter: good morning, kristen. over the next several days, senator mccain will be honored here in arizona, then in washington, d.c., and ultimately at the u.s. naval academy, the place where he chose to be laid to rest. it was striking how here in arizona so many came out to pay their respects as a police-escorted motorcade traveled two hours from sedona, the ranch he loved so much, through the streets to phoenix, the place where he had also made his home for so long. it carried the senator, his family, and there were flags and signs and admirers along the route. daughter megan mccain shared an essay about her own reflections, and in part she writes, all that i am is thanks to him. now that he is gone, the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, the expectations and his love. also, his family remembers him, but the loss goes so much more beyond that. his support and love was broad and bipartisan. one

i never had a chance to talk to you, general kelly. so if this is my departure i want an opportunity to understand -- >> we can talk another time. this has to do with serious integrity violations so i'll let it go at that. this staff and everyone on this staff works for me, not the president. >> you have made no bones about it that you have a lot of tapes. >> wait. he just said the staff and everybody works for him, not the president. you don't have a problem with that, chuck? >> for what it's worth, many white houses are organized like that where the chief of staff -- >> it tells you donald trump has no idea what's going on in the white house. >> he did not know that minute that you -- >> no, i know he knows because i have talked to him subsequently. he said he delegated. i delegated. so he knew. he knew that john kelly was going to take me into the situation room and lock me in there, threaten me and say that things were going to get ugly for me, there would be damage to me reputation, you know what, the next day there was damage to

>> all right, kelly, thank you. omarosaman goe omarosa manigault newman will be on the "today" show later today. >>> cessna 172 headed for an airport when a fuel line ruptured. the pilot reported a rough running engine for touching down on the interstate. miraculously, no cars were damaged during the landing, but one of the two people onboard did suffer minor injuries. >>> let's turn to bill with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning. still looking at hot and dry in areas of the west, especially the northwest, but the worst weather today is in pennsylvania and new jersey, already throughout the middle of the night, we've been dealing with flash flooding concerns. heavy rain and thunderstorms continue to pour off the atlantic. this is after a soggy weekend, too. 20 million people at risk of flash flooding through tonight. red flash flood warnings, mountainous terrain, you can get big problems in a hurry. today, still warm in boise, but not like last week. looks like you're heading back into the108 in palm sprin

>> general kelly -- general kelly came to me and said you that guys wanted me to leave. >> no.nobody even told me about it. nobody. you know, they run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. [ bleep ]. i don't love you leaving at all. >> reporter: trump appearing to not know of her firing, though on "meet the press" on sunday manigault newman says he was indeed aware. >> i've talked to him subsequently, and he said he delegated, "i delegated." so he knew. >> reporter: she says she recorded chief of staff john kelly in the secure situation room as he was firing her, claiming he locked her in. >> i'm only going to stay for a couple of minutes. these are lawyers. we've got to talk to you about leaving the white house. there are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that will make it ugly for you. >> is the president aware of this? >> don't -- let's not go down the road. this is a non-negotiable discussion. >> i don't want to negotiate. i never talked -- never had the chance to talk to you, general kelly. so if this is my depar

>> general kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no. nobody even told me about it. you know, they run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. damn it. i don't love you leaving at all. >> now as there are questions over how many tapes she has -- she says she has more we haven't heard -- an administration official says this is deepening the sense of paranoia in the white house. let's go to boris sanchez who joins me now. walk through the disconnect what the president is saying this morning and what we heard on that tape. >> reporter: yeah, poppy, omarosa tried to make the case president trump told her he had no idea she had been fired. she later went on to say in subsequent conversations, he acknowledged that he directed john kelly to dismiss her. she says that during the recording of the tape, she did not believe the president. she went as far as to say she doesn't think that president trump is fully aware of everything that's happening within his administration. perhaps the most startling part of this is the revelatio

>> general kelly -- general kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no. nobody even told me about it. nobody. >> wow. >> you know, they run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. >> yeah. >> i don't love you leaving at all. >> reporter: but now, a different story. >> lowlife. she's a lowlife. >> reporter: today, he tweeted omarosa was, quote, "nasty to people and would constantly miss meetings and work. when general kelly came onboard, he told me she was a loser and nothing but problems. i told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said great things about me until she got fired." that's true. >> when i say donald, you say trump. donald! >> trump! >> donald! >> trump! >> reporter: and there wasn't a peep of criticism when she sat down with abc's deborah roberts days after she was fired. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never sit nor work for someone who i believe to be a racist. >> many people see donald trump -- >> nor would i have continued a relationship, a friendship, a business

so it was really recent actions on the part of the trump administration, john kelly calling undocumented immigrants uneducated and harm to american society, and jeff sessions arguing for the removal of children of undocumented immigrants. these are crises in our society that i wanted to respond to. >> before i play this john kelly sound bite to remind everybody exactly what you're talking about, just remind us of your story. obviously it's a long story, but you are a refugee and immigrant. you came with your family from vietnam, right? when was it? how difficult was it to assimilate back then? >> well, it was 1975. i was 4 years old and my parents were in their 40s. of course the vietnam war ended, and we were on the losing side, so we fled as refugees to the united states and ended up in a refugee camp in pennsylvania in 1975. and while it was a great gesture of hospitality on the part of the united states, what happened to us personally was that i was separated from my parents at 4 years of age in order to leave that refugee camp. and that's a very traumatic experience, and it stayed w

stacey kelly/lost home in fire: "and that's what happened." home in fire: "lots and lots and lots of memories. yeah, they're gone. i mean, everything's gone."nick watt/cnn reporter: "everything?"stacey kelly/lost home in fire: "everything." nick watt/cnn reporter: "what did you manage to save?"stacey kelly/lost home in fire: "i have two rubbermaid tubs that i threw some stuff in. some scrubs for work!"a nurse, she's back at work already. stacey kelly/lost home in fire: "i actually felt better yesterday than i had in a long time because i was at work, and i felt like i had a purpose (tears up)."nick watt/cnn reporter: "right." this was her home before the fire. nick watt/cnn reporter: "and this is all that's left of stacey kelly's house. rubble and a few charred trees. in fact, her entire little cul de sac, 6 houses, all completely destroyed. but, then, if you look just across the street, the random nature of wildfires - another house, still standing." stacey kelly/lost home in fire: "i just feel empty. i don't know. i don't know. i, i don't kn

next to him is kelly sager. and the most prominent media attorneys. and and the senior vice president and associate general counsel for the motion picture association of america. next to him, not only an attorney, an oscar-winning movie producer of spotlights. and not at all, we have duncan crabtree-ireland, ceo and general counsel of aftra. >> can you hear me? >> for questions if you have questions. >> i apologize in advance for those who came thinking you could the lindsay lohan, we weren't able to secure either of them for the panel but we have a really great panel and interesting discussion ahead on a confusingly complicated area of the law. i will call upon kelly to set the context, talk about where we are and go from there. >> thank you for having us here today, a privilege and honor to be here. what is right of publicity? let's see if i can make this work. for those who may not have handled or been involved in these cases or those who are not lawyers or judges that the writer for the city protects the unauthorized use of someone's persona for c

. >>> joining us now, nbc's kelly o'donnell outside the church in phoenix as the hearse approaches for this memorial service. kelly, you have a lot of thoughts about john mccain today and the extraordinary outpouring of arizonans in all that heat, they had to add extra time for people to come and pay their respects at the capitol building last night. >> reporter: it's hard to understate how remarkable it was when people can think of their own lives of physical discomfort of being in extreme heat, and yet roughly 15,000 arizonans stood in line, waited patiently for just moments to be able to walk past the casket of senator john mccain inside the state capitol. that was something that it was hard to measure when the planning was taking place, how would people respond. indeed they did, and we also saw that some members of the family, i got to spend some time last night with the mccain family and with some of their closest aides, and they felt very strongly that especially as the evening came about and the doors were supposed to have been closed, yet there were still people, they wanted to

kelly accepted the ongoing role at president trump's personal request.t staff know on monday which marked his one-year i was in in the role, white house officials caution kelly's claims saying unforeseen circumstances could uproot those plans. the four star general has had a tumultuous position at times, most notably getened flatt-- ge flattened in the trial and going without a chief of staff if he were to leave. john kelly's tenure as chief of staff would be among the longest in history if he stays on the board through 2020, guys. >> interesting, that is a long time away, especially in this white house. joining us again, white house reporter for political reporter andrew restucian, let's talk about chief kelly. this is a man bounced around for a few weeks as being checked out, so to speak. what can we see in terms of staffing personnel at the white house as this die nam wick john kelly unfolds? >> reporter: it's a notable development one note of caution, everybody is staying until they're not. we seen repeatedly people say they are staying only to be su

. ♪ say it again >> but why is j-hud calling out kelly?is is "entertainment tonight." >>> news on ben affleck after his es traijd wife jennifer garner checked him into rehab. this after his time with the new 22-year-old playmate raised eyebro eyebrows. >> here's the latest. >> that's ben affleck in the back seat of his rage rover on his way to rehab. with estranged wife jen garner behind the wheel. a few minutes earlier the actress didding? extraordinary. jen confronted the paparazzi outside ben's home politely asking them to back off. >> just out of respect. can you give us some space? >> yeah. >> to their credit the photographers obliged, although they did catch up with ben a few minutes later, making a prerehab pit stop at jack in the box. jen was spotted handing him his food. ben's recent behavior has raised a lot of red flags. on monday, the same day jen was getting her star on the hollywood walk of fame, ben had alcohol delivered to his home. the next day police were called when ben's dogs managed to get out of his house. and this, t

she has released a tape with john kelly, as well. the president is now responding tonight, and we ask here, could omarosa be in legal jeopardy for those recordings? here's abc's chief white house jonathan karl. >> reporter: she was one of the very few white house aides close to president trump before he got into politics. now, he's calling her "wacky omarosa," tweeting, "people in the white house hated her. she was vicious, but not smart." her betrayal is so thorough, she surreptitiously taped her own firing, sneaking a recording device into the situation room. >> hi. >> i'm only going to stay for a couple of minutes. these are lawyers. we're going to talk to you about leaving the white house. >> reporter: on the recording, which she released to nbc news, chief of staff john kelly told her she was being fired for, quote, "integrity issues." >> there are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that -- that'll make it ugly for you. but i think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendl

. >> and she hasec ading of her firing by john kelly. >> is the president aware of this? >> don't do -- let's not go down the road. this is a nonnegotiable discussion. is this a rare looknside of the trump white house or the work of a disgruntled employee firing?ed by her this morning my interview with omarosa. >>> plus, midtermpreview -- what that neck and neck special election in a red district in ohio tells us about possible blue wave republicans may be facing in november. i talk with ohio's republican governor john kasich, who may take on president trump in 2020. joining me for insight and analysis arehi nbc news wte house correspondent kristen welkerw "york times" columnist david brooks, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, and former republicanr go of north carolina, pat mccrory. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the pss." >>> good sunday e rning. s a reality tv star who wound up working in a reality ti star's house. by her own admission, omarosa and donald trump usedach other. writes,new book, omarosa "donald and i had a symbiotic relationship as i've said. i

andrea mitchell is going to standby with me and so as kelly o'donell, nbc news correspondent covering mccain's campaign and so as our former mccain's adviser, he has been advising the family for a number of years, aldofo as you are watching and listening to the service ear service here in phoenix, what are you thinking? >> well, i was thinking, of course, it is senator mccain, in some strange way how he would appreciate and think this tribute in a sense of not deserved because he was always putting the country in public service first. that way it is -- it is different than i have been watching for a long time. he's different than anyone i have known. i was thinking about him and he would be looking at this as how this would be an opportunity to bring the country together and unify the country and not about himself. those are things he repeated often in any of his speeches and addresses and it was heartfelt about being part of the cause greater than one self. that was a theme of his for many, many years of the principles he lived by. i was struck by the family and the children, cindy's