Good morning to all of you. Good morning as well for louis bergdorf. Ayman and yasmin have the morning off. We will start with President Trump who issued another call for the special counsels investigation to be ended after the fbi terminated a senior agent, peter strzok, who was removed from the investigation into russian interference in the election after an internal watchdog discovered he traded negative Text Messages about the president. The president then tweeted, agent peter strzok was just fired from the fbi, finally. The list of bad players in the fbi and doj gets longer and longer. Based on the fact that strzok was in charge of the witchhunt, will it be dropped . It is a total hoax. No collusion, no obstruction. I just fight back. Trump later tweeted that strzok had a lead role in what the president called the crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation, adding it was a total fraud on the American Public and should be properly redone. Meanwhile, in federal court in washington, d. C. Yesterday, a fourth federal judge rejected a challenge to Robert Muellers appointment as special counsel. The judge was appointed to the bench by President Trump last year. The move to dismiss came from a russian firm charged with conspiracy to defraud the u. S. , arguing that an independent counsel violated the constitutions appointment clause by creating an unaccountable branch of government. The judge rejected the argument and wrote that mueller had not strayed from his jurisdiction. Now, the attorney for fbi special agent peter strzok is suggesting his clients firing amounts to a purge of the bureau. According to Aitan Goelman said that strzok should face a demotion, a 60day suspension and lastchance probationary agreement. But the lawyer said fbi Deputy Director overruled that decision and ordered strzoks termination. In the statement, strzoks lawyer said the decision to fire him is not only a departure from typical bureau practice, but also contradicts director wrays testimony to congress and his assurances that the fbi intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters. On mtp daily goelmann added this. I dont think you can rationally reach any conclusion other than it was political. Theres no not a scintilla of evidence that any of petes political opinions affected his job. In fact, you can read the i. G. Report that says pete was one of the more aggressive people on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and if he had wanted to somehow impact the election he could have easily have done it and did not do it. Now to President Trump who is lashing out at his former aide omarosa, the former ex apprentice star is revealing about her white house ouster with secret recorded tapes hinting there could be more to come. We get more from White House Correspondent kristin welker. Reporter the outrage with the president and his top advisers trying to discredit omarosa. The president now finds himself caught on tape. President trump lashing out at his former apprentice turned adversary, in a tweet storm calling her a low life, wacky and not smart after she ramped up attacks. Do you think he is mentally competent to do his job . No, i dont think he is fit. Reporter omarosa releasing a recording after she was fired by white house chief of staff john kelly. I saw in the news youre thinking about leaving. What happened . General kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave. No, nobody even told me about. No. They run a big operation but i at any time know it. I didnt know that. Yeah. It. I dont love you leaving at all. Nbc news does not know what was said before or after that exchange, but manigaultnewman telling savannah mr. Trump appearing surprised was an act. Do you think the president lies often . Absolutely. On meet the press she first revealed she secretly recorded john kelly firing her inside the highlysecured white house situation room. Press secretary Sarah Sanders saying it shows a blatant disregard for security. This is a white house where everybody lies. The president is accusing his former top aide it breaking not only a law but an agreement, tweeting she has a fullysigned nonadvertise closure agreement. Mr. Trump also tweeted that general kelly warned she was, quote, 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. So why did she stay nearly a year . Because right now there is no africanamerican senior staffer in the white house. Reporter all of it raising questions about how mr. Trump is running his own administration and whether hes including enough africanamericans in it. Kristin welker, nbc news, the white house. Thanks to kristin for that report. Omarosa also told Msnbcs Chris Matthews she has plenty of recordings and said she does not mind sharing them with bob mueller if the special counsels office calls again. There are recordings featuring omarosas private conversations with ivanka trump and jared kushner. On one of the calls, he wished her the best and told her that he had no idea she was going to be fired. Less than a month ago President Trump was railing against michael cohen, but yesterday he pointed to cohen as a validator in an effort to dispute an allegation by Omarosa Manigault newman. He retweeted cohen who wrote, to the dozens who called me questioning omarosa claimed in her new book that omarosa took a note from me. I did not see this. Just two weeks ago he slammed him for releasing a tape of a payment. Rudy guilliani said this about cohen. The man is a pathological manipulator, liar. He has been lying all week, hes been lying for years. I dont see how he has any credibility. Which lie do you want to pick . Do you want to pick the first lie, the second lie or maybe a new lie . Because hes lied all of his life. Joining us now, jill rolvin, white house reporter. Good morning to you. We have been listening to what has been said with President Trump mentioning the nondisclosure agreement. One might ask the legal jeopardy omarosa may face based on the nda which is not easy to enforce even in private circles, but in this Public Sector does she face more jeopardy . It is interesting. It is unclear what the president was talking about here when he referred to this nondisclosure agreement. We know during the campaign every member of the campaign had to sign one of these nondisclosures. Omarosa denies she signed anything at the white house and that she signed a contract when it came to the apprentice. When youre a government employee, there are questions about the ethics of having Government Employees sign these kinds of documents. Our understanding is that not everybody in the west wing signed them. Kellyanne conway this week referred to a confidentiality agreement, but the white house hasnt walked us through exactly what they feel people are on the hook for. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of concern within the white house about what other tapes omarosa might have, what other allegations she might publicly make about other individuals in the white house, and so everyone right now is kind of looking, trying to figure outweighs to stop her, trying to figure out threats to make. So whether these league threats are actually legitimate and whether they pan out in a court of law, at this point i think it is all about trying to fight back. The timing too given her book release and the midterms coming out. Want to turn to Peter Strzoks ouster here, especially when you have that going against director wrays testimony in congress. What is next for the administration . How will they use this to benefit their game plan . Well, peter strzok is somebody that the president has really used as the ultimate example for what he sees is bias within the fbi, within the Justice Department, that helped him, you know, make these claims, hurl his claims that the investigation is nothing but a biased witchhunt. For the president , it is likely going to need to find a new target. You know, hes gone after comey, mccabe, this long list of people involved in the investigation, and so i wouldnt be surprised if the president winds up trying to find somebody else who he wants to make the bad guy here. There is a very strong pr war going on between the president and Rudy Guilliani trying to discredit this investigation in any way they can. All right. Jill colvin, as also, thank you for being with us. We want to turn to breaking news from london where theres been an incident outside the house of parliament during the morning hour rush hour. Joining us live from the scene in london is nbc news chief global correspondent dale neely. What is the latest on the ground there . Reporter yeah, good morning, louis. The houses of parliament are about 400 yards behind me, the heart of britains democracy, and this Morning Police say there was an incident here. They still wont say if it was terrorrelated, but they say at 7 37 exactly a man drove his car into security barriers outside the houses of parliament. Now, there are numerous barriers made of concrete and steel. That was after a terror incident last year. The man was immediately surrounded by armed police. He was hauled out of the car, handcuffed and arrested. He did hit a number of people, but, as i say, police are still not sure whether this was terrorrelated. Two eyewitnesses though say that the man was driving at speed. One woman said around 40 miles per hour. She said the car was so close to the railings it was on the sidewalk or very close to it, and she says it must have been intentional. Now, obviously there are echos of last years attack here in march when a man, a 52year old, crashed his car into security barriers outside parliament and killed four people. He then jumped out, ran into the parliament, stabbed to death a Police Officer before he was shot and killed by Armed Police Response officers. Echos of that incident, but police here still say they cannot confirm that this was terrorrelated. The man who drove that car is in their hands being questioned right now. Back to you. Obviously a very scary and developing situation on the ground there, bill neely. Thanks for your reporting. Still ahead, it is primary day in four states across the country. We will look at some of the most competitive cases. Plus, prosecutors rest their case against Paul Manafort and now his lawyers will mount their defense. 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The defense team for manafort, who is facing tax evasion, bank fraud and Money Laundering charges, is expected to tell the Court Whether it intends to offer defense or move to closing arguments. Before prosecutors wrapped their case they called james brennan, a Vice President at the federal savings bank, to testify. He told the court as part of an immunity bill there were red flags with the loans manafort had been seeking from the bank. That includes inconsistencies on the applications about manaforts income, assets as well as his liabilities. Brennan said while the president of the bank initially denied the application because of those issues, the bank ceo overruled the decision. Manaforts attorneys filed a motion to acquit him on some of the charges. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges. It is election days and voters in four states including wisconsin, minnesota, vermont and connecticut will head to the polls. In wys con, eight democrats face off to challenge incumbent Governor Scott walker, who is seeking his third term. Meanwhile, democrats will see a threeway battle for minnesotas open governor spot betwe. Former governor tim pawlenty will try to win back his old job. In minnesotas race, democrat tina smith who was appointed to the seat after al frank enresigned is expected to win her primary against former Bush Administration official richard painter. Finally in connecticut, both sides will face off for another open governor spot. Democrats will have a twoway race between Business Leader ned lamont and bridgeport mayor joe began non. On republican side, businessman Bob Stefanowski will face off. Ellison is denying allegations of Domestic Abuse as voters head to the poll. The allegations surfaced after a woman the congressman dated until 2016 confirmed a story shared by her son on facebook. The post allegedly detailing messages from ellison and ellison dragging her off a bed by her feet. The post was shared at least 2,000 times. Ellison is the frontrunner in the crowded rate for attorney general. The chair of the dnc issued a statement through his Campaign Strongly refuting any allegations of abusive behavior. Monahan denied request for the video which ellison said did not exist but shared more than 100 text and twitter messages. Theres no evidence in the messages it reviewed of alleged physical abuse. Always of yesterday, more than 120,000 early votes were cast via absentee ballot. Minnesotas deadline to change or cancel the votes elapsed last week. Tragic news here. A utah firefighter died yesterday after battling the largest wildfire recorded in california history. The firefighter who was not named was injured out while putting out an active ranch fire within the mendocino complex. He was air lifted to a hospital where unfortunately he died. The mendocino complex has scorched more than 320,000 acres, destroyed 139 homes and let two firefighters injured. Residents who defied evacuation orders were urged to leave immediately. This marks the latest fatality in a fire season that has taken a serious toll on First Responders who have been stretched thin as new fires continue to break out. Authorities say factfinding on the accident is, in fact, under way as we speak. All right. Lets turn to bill karins with a check on your weather and also a check on the smoke and the weather out there around those fires. Yeah, thats the thing right now, louis, is a lot of the fires are starting to get a little containment on them, theyre not spreading into populated areas. You talk to anybody in the west, even from Eastern Washington state south wards, even areas of the rockies, at times if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction is air quality is really, really poor. Lets bring it back the east because we are watching still a threat of flooding. Four Million People at risk of flash flooding. We are talking central pennsylvania, the Southern Tier of new york, back up into the Southern District and catskills here. These red rivers here are river flood warning. Theyre hit and miss and scattered but still high water out there. Overnight the thunderstorms have been in between syracuse and heading towards rochester. This is the area most at risk for heavy rainfall going throughout the next couple of hours and into the early morning. So here is your rain forecast over the next 24 hours. When we get up here to the red and then the pink, thats two to three inches of rain. We have a couple of spots in Central New York to watch and a couple of spots in central pennsylvania. You get to the mountainous terrain, it has poured over the last couple of days and the runoff is very fast because of the saturated soil. That will be an issue. The forecast today, there could still be a hitandmiss scattered shower for boston and new york. A nice, dry day for washington, d. C. And into the southeast. More storms in the middle of the country. We will talk about that later, richard. We have a chance for heavy rain over the next couple of days for arkansas, missouri, oklahoma and kansas. If only we could move it to the west. Not that easy. Unfortunately. Thank you, bill, so much. Still ahead, melo on the move. See where the nba guard has landed. The mets looking for beige upset over the cross town rivals. All of the subway series highlights next on sports. Were back in a moment. Mail and packages. Mail and its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you chair, new laptop headphones, with free 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes. 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