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Departure. the president is now referring to one of his highest paid aides here in the white house as a whacky low life, tweeting several times about omarosa this morning, saying she was not liked in the white house, that she was not smart but vicious. he said she would rarely see her, but that she was constantly saying bad things, missing meetings, and that when john kelly suggested getting rid of her, the president asked him to try to work it out because she said nice things about him. that last point is a remarkable one, jim, because of course the president is essentially saying that he pai...

Columbia j-school question. maybe it is just that i just don't want to play tapes of omarosa. like should we be playing tapes of omarosa? should we be talking about it? is this where reporting has come? is there really anything to gain from it? >> secret tapes made of white house officials is definitely news. you have omarosa, despite whatever people think about her, she is someone who was in the white house, getting paid something like $179,000 a year, of taxpayer dollars, and she now has these recordings. i think it is absolutely newsworthy. the fact that just yesterday we heard john kelly f...

Office. she writes vividly of walking in there, seeing the president with michael cohen. she alleges the president eating a piece of paper, god knows what is on it. how do you regard him as an alumna of the administration? >> she is a shameless opportunist and she always has been. it worked for her in reality television and she came to public consciousness 15 years and she remained there because donald trump employed her. she made $179,000 a year working for the white house. that's as much as sean spicer, steve bannon and reince priebus. she made a significant amount of money. again, it was mu...

Encouraged president trump not to react and give oxygen to the claims made in the book. that seems to have held for several days but today something clearly irritated the president over this and he had his press secretary issue this statement. >> what exactly was omarosa's role in the white house? >> reporter: she was actually a very high up employee. she had the title of assistant to the president, a top earner making $179,000. but her role was not very well defined and aides often complained that they didn't exactly know what it was that she did in the white house. that was clearly something...

Inmate will have earned $179,000 less than someone who has never been incarcerated. >> every time the prisoners have gone to court seeking to be paid for their labor, seeking to be compensated for their labor, the court's response is, you're slaves, you're slaves of the state. that's the exact words of court after court after court for the last 120 years. prisoners are slaves of the state and as such they're not entitled to any compensation at all. >> i read in prison legal news companies like victoria's secret and starbucks have used prison labor. paul wright exposed those stories. >> what pe...