Mueller. Good morning to you. It is monday, august 13th. Im Richard Louie alongside louis bergdorf. Ayman and yasmin have the morning off. We will start with explosion new allegations from assistant to the president. The former Reality Television star is proceed moemoting help about her time in the white house. One thing that did not make the memoire concerns a tape of donald trump using the n word. She says in the book that three sources in separate conversations described to her trump using the rarely slucial t it was not until after the book was lossed sclosed she heard th you have heard the tape in. I have heard the tape. Since publication of the book . Yes. And you know it exists . Yes. And i regret that people are trying to leverage it as an october surprise. I dont want to be a part of it. I heard for two years it existed and once i heard it for myself, it was confirmed what i feared the most, that donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities. But when he talks that way, the way he did on this tape, it confirmed that he is truly a racist. Why didnt you get that in your book . It closed too soon and i have been tracking, tracking. This person is so afraid because of the forces who are working to keep this tape from coming out. Then theres omarosa talking about her firing by white house chief of staff john kelley. The stunning part of this part of the story is not the firing but that she was able to record it, allegedly, happening in the white house, in the situation room. Here is part of that tape. There are pretty significant legal issues that we hope dont develop into something that thatll make it ugly for you. But i think its important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure we can all be you know, you can look at look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation, and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. Can i ask you a couple of questions . Does the president is the president aware of whats going on . Lets not go down the road. It is a nonnegotiable discussion. I dont want to negotiate. I just i would like an opportunity to understand. We can talk another time. This has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations. So ill let it go at that. So the staff and everyone on the staff works for me, not the president. So after youre departure ill inform him if he gets interested on where you may be. A surprising bit of audio there. Omarosa did not say how often she recorded her colleagues but she defended her actions in the situation room. I protected myself because it is a white house where everybody lies. The president lies to the american people. Sarah huckabee stands in front and lies every day. You have to have your own back because otherwise you look back and see 17 knives in your back. You taped it is not disloyalty. If i didnt have this recording, listen, people would still think i was trying to set off alarms. Yes, i had to protect myself and i have no regret about it. The white house responded to the kelly tape in this statement by sarah sander says, quote, the very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the white house situation room shows a blatant disregard for National Security. And then to brag about it on National Television further proves the lack of integrity from this disgruntle ltd, former white house employee. President trump was asked about his former white house aide saturday. Do you feel betrayed by omarosa . Low life. She is a low life. The white house expanded on that. Quote, instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make america safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. It it is sad that a disgrunted former white house employee is trying to profit off these false attempts. And the white house responded to omarosas claim she was offered, quote, hush money to keep quiet. It was in the form of a nondisclosure agreement signed by people who worked on the trump campaign. It includes a clause that prohibits, quote, demeaning or disparaging the campaign, mr. Trump, mr. Pence, any trump or trump company, any pence or pence Family Member or company. Here is omarosa discussing that. There are several former employees from the white house who actually signed this agreement, who are all being paid 15,000 for their silence. The only reason unhinged you believe all of the people that left the west wing of the campaign are bought off . Absolutely. Which is why sean spicer was describing donald trump as a unicorn jumping over rainbows, because he signed this agreement. Is the president in the habit of offering hush money. That is an insult. You know it is typical to sign an nda in any place of work. I would be shock if you didnt have one at abc. Im told she signed them when she was on the apprentice, certainly on the campaign. Weve all signed them in the west wing. You sign them in the west wing, you have signed a nondisclosure . We have confidentiality agreements in the west wing. Why wouldnt we do that . Youre a public employee. Hold on. Confidentiality is implied. Joining us washington correspondent, enez. Thank you for being here. Omarosas ability to tape a conversation with the chief of staff, general john kelly, in the secure room, in the situation room, one has to ask what is happening with security protocols and what more there might be. This is a huge deal that cant be understated. The fact these recordings exist at all and the fact they were taken inside the situation room is shocking. It is supposed to be one of the most secured places within the white house. So the fact it is happening inside the situation, certainly raises questions about National Security and about where else people might be bringing in recording devices to record conversations without other people knowing about it. Omarosa may have broken the law by doing this. You cant just bring a recording device in the situation room and record people speaking. Lets not forget theres a reason these laws are in place, a reason you cant do it, and thats to keep america safe and ensure foreign powers arent using these recording devices and hacking in to gain access to classified information. You know, part of this as we look at it, theres the legal issues that general kelly in the recording is alluding to, right . And number two, what youre bringing, she bringing a recording device into the situation room that could intimate legal jeopardy. Absolutely. You are not allowed to do that. Another point i want to make and something worth remembering is that the president himself has kind of shown a blatant disregard for certain National Security protocols. Remember, he has been known to use a phone thats not fully secure and experts believe is at risk for hacking and undermined places like the cia and fbi. I think when you have that topdown, kind of disregard for National Security protocols it is not setting the right example for the staffers. And taking a step back, what is the control system like right now. If you have a taping going on like this, someone has to ask what is the chief of staff doing. Thats right. Theres been reports that the Trump Administration is looking into kind of Legal Proceedings to maybe try to stop omarosa from releasing additional recording, to maybe punish her for making these recordings to begin with and stop her from releasing additional recordings which she claims to have. We will have to see if they take legal action, but if i had to venture a guess i would guess probably not. I feel like what weve seen in recent months is any kind of effort on behalf of the administration to stop people from speaking out, whether, you know, with nondisclosure agreements or hush payments, that hasnt worked out. So i dont think theyre going to venture down that path. I guess not taping very in very secure areas in the white house is so 2017, right . Right. Exactly. Thank you so much, my friend. I will speak to you later. On the First Anniversary of the deadly charlottesville protest, thousands of antihate protesters out numbered the rally steps away from the white house. It was a gathering aimed to bring together multiple White National organizations including neo nazis. The group was met by thousands of chanting counterprotesters at Lafayette Park across from the white house. Meanwhile, in charlottesville people gathered for the oneyear mark of the deadly clashes and to pay respects to heather heyer, a civil rights activist who was killed last year after a man drove a car into a crowd. President trump, who was criticized for saying both sides shared the blame for the violence last year on saturday tweeting, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all times of racism and acts of violence. Peace to allamericans. Well, european and asia stocks are falling this morning as relations between nato allies, the United States and turkey continue to plummet. On friday President Trump tweeted, i have just authorized daubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum with respect to turkey as their currency, the turkish lira, slides downward against our strong dollar. Aluminum now will be 20 and steel 50 . Our relations with turkey are not good at this time. Well, 12 hours after the president s sudden twitter announcement, the Commerce Department weighed in with secretary wilbur ross writing in a statement in part, quote, since the imposition of the section 232 tariff in march, exports to the United States have lined and domestic Capacity Utilization has increased, but not to levels sufficient to remove the threat to National Security. Doubling the tariff on imports to turkey will further reduce the imports that the department felt threatened to impair National Security. Less than three weeks ago trump threatened, quote, large sanctions on turkey for ankaras ongoing detainment of pastor brunson. The lira continued to collapse, hitting new record lows. The dow jones dropped 200 points on the fear that it would Impact Global markets. In speeches on friday, president erdogan said threatening blackmailing language and bullying will not cut it. He called on turks to sell their gold and possessions to buy lira. Meanwhile, the president is not only continuing his attacks on one of americas most wellknown companies, but he appears to be actively promoting its downfall, tweeting yesterday morning, quote, many harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. Great. Most other companies are coming in our direction, including harley competitors. A really bad move. U. S. Will soon have a level Playing Field or better. That tweet came as trump was hosting an event for bikers on saturday at his golf resort in new jersey. Harleydavidson announced back in june it was shifting some production from the u. S. To overseas due to trumps ongoing tariff battles. Still ahead, what were learning this morning about the baggage handler who stole a passenger plane in seattle and what it means for Airport Security concerns. Later, President Trump goes after attorney general Jeff Sessions once again. This time calling him scared stiff. Those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. I am all about living joyfully. The new united explorer card hooks me up. Getting more for getting away. Traveling lighter. Getting settled. Rewarded learn more at theexplorercard. Com all your school get supplies today. School. Grade. Done. Done. Hit the Snooze Button and get low prices on School Supplies all summer long. Like these for only a 25 cents at office depot officemax. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people. 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Reporter before Richard Russell made it into the sky in a horizon air dash eight. Investigators want to know how he made it across a crowded tarmac and on to a runway. The dak 8 on runway 16 center, say your call sign. Causing confusion in the control tower and a call to the military. You need to call and scramble now. Yeah, we are. Reporter with a fair of f15s on his tail, russell stayed airborne for more than an hour before dying in a fiery crash. His flight reveals a troubling security gap at our nations airports where thousands of ramp workers and mechanics have the same broad access russell had. For me the biggest red flag is that this this something that Aviation Security is not designed to prevent. Reporter making an insider attack one of the biggest potential threats to commercial aviation. Were fortunate in the sense that it wasnt an terrorist, somebody who was focused on causing mass destruction. What this incident did was demonstrate a vulnerability that is still existing here almost 17 years after 9 11. Reporter as investigators work to determine if tighter security could have prevented russells flight, a video reveals a man who enjoyed his work. Look at all them bags. Oh, a purple one. Reporter and loved to travel, his final act leaving a family in grief and friends in mourning. He was friends with everyone. Some of us are lucky to have one or two really good friends. He had dozens of really good friends. Our thanks to hans nichols for that report. Lets get a check on the weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. What do you have for us . More of the same, louis. Still looking at hot weather out west and areas of the east getting drench. Heavy rain has developed in areas of eastern pennsylvania, especially near harrisburg and heading up into towards central pennsylvania. Thunderstorms existed most of North Carolina. Theres a little bit on the outer banks. The rainfall forecast today, it is another umbrella day. We had a to goy saturday in areas of the northeast. Sunday was a little better. Today is just a soaker in areas of central and eastern pennsylvania where we could get two to three inches of rainfall. The ground is saturated, rivers are running high. Dont be surprised if we show you pictures of flooding in this area tomorrow. We have potential in areas of the catskills almost to the poconos in north jersey there, potential of two to three inches. Here is how it will play out at 8 00 a. M. This morning. By the time we get to your evening drive home, hitandmiss showers and storms, all of these little dots. Boston, maybe a hitandmiss shower, most of it south of you. Tuesday morning, the storm heads further to the north. A dry morning commute tomorrow, and by tuesday afternoon, hitandmiss showers once again. Watch out in texas, also the northeast. If you want great summer weather, minneapolis, chicago and st. Louis looks pretty good, louis. Bill, breaking and Important News here. A special shout out to the newest member of our family. Early friday morning yasmin welcomed her new baby boy. Noor clifford weighing a strong six pounds, 14 ounces. We are overjoyed, including dad and big brother as are here. You can see hes got a great look on his face. Very excited to welcome his new baby brother. For his part, noor seems completely relaxed there. Thats not right. Look how cute. Arms behind the head, that chilled style there. Looks like whit, his dad. I think his feet were kicked up, too, at that very same time. I think yasmin is going to call into the show in the next couple of days. That is so cute. I may accuse her of staging that one. Have you ever seen a more yeah, perfect. Unbelievable. A big congratulations to them. We cant wait for yasmin to call in and tell us more. Go, yasmin. Well done. Congratulations to the two new uncles by the way as well. 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