Bennett, Betsy Woodruff and also charlie savage. Geoff, ill start with you. What was going on when the president made that comment about omarosa . The president was in the middle of a photoop there at his private estate in bedminster, new jersey. He was surrounded by Trump Supporters known as bikers for trump. And the voice you heard was that of Maggie Haberman part of the press pool and she asked if the president felt betrayed by omarosa. That is when he leveled that scorcher calling her a low life. But look, this is what the president tends to do to people whom he views as being disloyal. I think it is worth pointing out that the relationship between the president and omarosa has always really been mutually beneficial if not entirely transactional. She was able to use him to increase her public standing with that high profile white house job. And he was at times able to use her for a certain amount of
political cover when it came to some testy issues involving race. You bring up a really good point about the relationship between omarosa and donald trump. I want to play something for you, this is a piece of omarosas interview npr in which she claims she has heard the tape of the president using the n word. Once on i heard it you have heard this tape . I heard this tape. You heard the president of the United States. I heard the president of the United States use not only the n word, but as bill pruitt described during that interview other horrible things during the production of the at prentis pr. You dont mention that in the book. It is mentioned. It sounds like you just heard his account of the tape. Did you actually hear the tape . I did. Did you you miss this whole girl, did you read my book . Betsy, what do you make of
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. With a Grain Of Salt for the reasons weve discussed already. That said, questions of racism have dogged donald trump since the central park supposed rapist that werent really rapists that he went after two or three decades ago. And we knnoknow today that he l to attack prominent black people and question their intelligence and go after black celebrities. It is he fuels support for himself. And were coming up on the one Year Anniversary of his notorious remark that there were good people on the both sides of the nazi and antinazi riots in charlottesville a year ago. So this froth and a degraded state of poll is tick itics tha such that were all thinking about omarosa is what it is, but it does resonate with issues that are very real about the era were living there. And betsy, omarosa also claims after she was fired, the
trump campaign offered her a contract for i think it was 15,000 a month to remain silent. The offer made by the president s daughterinlaw laura trump. The book also claims the book used racial slurs around Kellyanne Conways husband who is of filipino descent. He denied those allegations. Does that make omarosas memoir less credible than Everything Else that youve mentioned . To be fair, George Conway wouldnt necessarily be in a position himself to know about whether or not the president had made those remarks. But i think it certainly raises questions about the accuracy of what omarosa wrote in the book, the being a roaccuracy of the a. And on omarosa wasnt in the white house during the window of time when fwornlg cgeorge conwa tweeting criticism. He has a very active twitter feed where he sometimes defends the mueller probe, where he will
be critical of the president , critical of policies that the president is undertaking. But that vocal approach that George Conway took didnt seem to overlap with omarosas time in the white house, so it is unlikely that the president would have been in a position to use potentially racist terms against conway, that conway would have been on his radar when omarosa was in the white house working there. That said of course as charlie pointed out, the president has a record on race that speaks for itself particularly when it comes to the way that he character Lizs Thriseizekrook characterizes the intelligence of africanamericans. And i want to ask about the president slamming the Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and the Russia Investigation on twitter. He had this to say, The Big Story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is low life Christopher Steeles many meetings with bruce ohr and his beautiful wife nellie. It was fusion that hired steele. Do you really believe nellie worked for fusion and her husband still work for the department of justice. Never seen anything so rigged. Our ag is scared stiff and missing in action. It is all starting to be revealed. Not pretty. Ig report soon . Witch hunt the president said. Dig into that 37. A mouthful. A lot to unpack. But look, i think the point here is that the president is trying to make the point that he does make explicitly, he says Jeff Sessions is missing in action. Well, Jeff Sessions by being mia is doing his job because remember, he recused himself from the Russia Investigation. This is all part of the president s larger attempt to discredit the russia proefbe. Again when he makes the pork that Tsteele Dossier is what prochltded t prompted the investigation into
russias attack on our democracy, that is not true. We know that the russia probe started after the fbi officials received word from an australian diplomat that George Papadopoulous was bragging after a night of heavy drinking about an offer he received of dirt on Hillary Clintons campaign. So if you peck you pick apart a those statements, what you come back to is the fact that so much of it is unsubstantiated and plainly not true. And charlie, ill give you the last word. What do you make of the president s comments in that tweet . I think that he knows that were nearing a climax with the Manafort Trial. We dont know exactly what mueller will do in terms of subpoenaing him with his charade that he maybe will talk to mueller if they can negotiate a little bit longer and what seems pretty clear he doesnt actually want to talk to mueller, which could set up a Subpoena Fight very soon. Or there could be a report to congress at some point about Obstruction Of Justice and or
co collusion. So he has to keep the steady drumbeat of trying to discredit that Probe Heading into what could be a very climatic period this fall. All right. Jeff, betsy, charlie, thank you all. And this note for you, omarosa will be doing the rounds to promote her new book, you can catch her on nbc on tomorrow on meet the press. And then monday, she will be right here on msnbc on hardball at 7 00 p. M. Now to new information in a bizarre and deadly plane crash in washington state. The fbi is now searching for black boxes from the wreckage of a small passenger plane stolen by an Airline Employee from the Seatac International airport in seattle. That employee was airborne for more than an hour before crashing into a small island. He was killed in that crash, but not before air Traffic Control operators and military Fighter Jets Trid Ed to direct the employee to land safely. Authorities believer the man acted alone, but havent
determined a motive. I have dozens of personnel out at the crash site right now. I had 30 to 40 folks involved overnight out interviewing coworkers and family members. And i just want everybody to understand this is going to take a little bit of time. So please be patient with the fbi. And at this point no word that anyone else was injured in that incident. Still ahead, President Trump is attacking Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions. Is it an attempt to distract the public from Robert Muellers sfl . And now that Chris Collins has dropped his bid for reelection, republicans are scrambling to have his name removed from the ballot. Ill spell with the democratic contender. I love my grandma. Anncr as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. Learning from him is great. When i can keep up anncr thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. Dads got all the answers. Reaction to mr. Collins dropping out of the race. I think it is good news for western new york. It is good news for america. It is good news for ny 27. I think he should take a step further and resign from congress. Im not sure why he is continuing to hold on to his position. But i think that he needs to move on. And this era needs to end for all of us. You say good news for a lot of people. Is this good news for you . How has this affected your campaign . You had contributions coming in more steady you now . There is a surge of excitement for our campaign. I see the excitement in the small towns were visiting. It has been a great time for us. I think a lot of people understand that when i was out there getting hammered for attacking this man on his record, when i was out there telling people you need to listen and look at what he has actually done for western new york, a lot of other people werent doing that, they were saying this is all okay. They were trying to hide his record, trying to celebrate this man who did not deserve to be celebrated. You cant ignore the fact that new yorks 27th had voted solidly republican in recent years. What is your strategy going to be to try to turn that trend around and to win this seat . Well, i think times are changing. Once upon a time just listening to the party and people would vote that way, but they are realizing the party has put forward people like mr. Collins, they are realizing the party system is broken. And really i think today the divide is not between left and right. It is between power and no power. It is between people who are hard working and honest and good and those who cheat and get secret deals like 34r comr. Col was engaged in. So i believe that my message is reflective of the people who live here. Im a working class guy. Worked my way up. Worked my way through school. And i think my message will be for fighting for the middle class and fighting for people to have access to health care and health care rights. A th and that message Raez Natuesona anybody regardless of party afternoon fill ya affiliation. Do you know who you will face . I dont know. I think it will be difficult to get mr. Collins offer the ballot. I think the maneuvers will raise a lot of eyebrow, this he will have to reach deep into the bag of tricks to get there to work. It looks like they will have to have him run for another position and that is a curse on the town or jurisdiction that will have to take on such a candidate. This is all wrong. The thing is i want to emphasize, people knew this was wrong before. This has all been in the public record. I felt like paul revere but no would be was list one was listening. Weve known that he was engaged in this type of activity. There has been ethics investigations b s bipartisan findings. I cant believe he was endorsed. And again, he was endorsed by a crooked system, a system of party bosses and people trying to get a little bit of piece of the dirty scheme. And they put forward this man. And i think that type of system needs to end and it also needs to be held accountable. Let me ask you about democrats now. You are one of 51 democrats either in or trying to get into the house now who said that you would not support nancy pelosi for democratic leader. Why is that . Well, i think if you look at the history, we have every Single Branch of government now controlled by people who do not have the best interests of working americans. We need to fight back. We need new leadership across Board Republicans and democrats a alike. Were not that different. We both are republicans and democrats in our homes. But but right now this country needs leadership that reflects a new generation of people, a new generation of thinkers, people independent of the party system and that is what we need right now. Do you think democrats have a Strong Enough message, a strong
enough National Message to win control of congress this fall . Well, i am not part of those meetings where we craft those National Messages. It has been hard to get their attention myself. They havent been paying attention. Hundreds of people come to our events and i say are you paying attention . Im running against this man with ethical violations and there is no support. But my message is middle class, middle class, middle class. Ill fight for families like mine, ill fight for my neighbors, the honest and decent and good people of ny 27 and they deserve leadership that is honest and decent and good. Not cheater, not party bosses, not people who kiss the ring. All right. Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time. And nancy pelosi will be a guest on a. M. Joy tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. President trump condemning racism on twitter as we approach
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for trespassing an another for public intoxication. And the mayor and police chief, both of whom are new, say they do not want to see a repeat of what happened last year. And folks are telling us there is an underlying tension this weekend. Take a listen. If there is a rally here, if there is a rally in d. C. , we still have work to do in this community. So just for me personally, there is a sense of maybe a little bit kind of a different kind of anxiety because we dont know exactly what is going to happen. We dont know how many folks might show up. I think that some of the peoples actions that would be here werentarrant a State Of Emergency. Im hoping nothing terrible happens like last year. I do understand the precaution
so there is funding if need to protect people. Reporter now, that is a Big Change From Last Year in the sense that the city of charlottesville denied a permit to Unite The Right for holding another rally this year because they were trying to. And this is part of the reason why they are having a rally now in washington, d. C. Tomorrow that the park across from the white house. But again, a lot of uncertainty here in charlottesville about what tomorrow might bring. And i want to ask you about this statue, the statue of the general robert e. Lee that was the focal point of last years rally. We know a judge has ruled that the statue should remain as it stands. Are there any new updates on that . Reporter so there is a state law here in virginia that basically stops the removal of any confederate monuments. And the statue is still there. Now, the park itself has been renamed. It used to be robert e. Lee park. Last year they renamed it Emancipation Park and since then they have renamed it again, it
is now called Market Street park. In part because it is on Market Street. But again, the statue is still there. There are a lot of fencing that have been put up around the perimeter of the entire park. We cant really get close to the park at all at this point. A huge change from last year when frankly people ha