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out of 572 this was from the Trump administration, which now faces the very real possibility that the real threat to the

president

may be Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former Trump aide, who released another audio tape this morning and made another round of appearances on television related to his new book there. There's no reason to believe she won't release a new recording every day for some time; in fact, Politico's Annie Carney is reporting exactly that fear from the West Wing tonight quotes that people are

terrified

, a former Trump aide said on the

tapes

absolutely

terrified

. Today's Sarap Tisha recording appears to capture her and two other campaign aides in October 2016 discussing a rumored audio recording of Trump using the n-word on the set of The Apprentice;

These campaign advisors have offered a series of denials and explanations regarding the circumstance. From that conversation Omarosa offered her own explanation as to why she needed to make this latest recording public. I wanted to have this type of documentation so that in the event that I found myself in this position where, as you said, they are questioning my credibility by saying that they never discussed the n-word tape, they had never heard these accusations, the

president

I had never heard these accusations when, in fact, this tape proves that they discussed it at high levels of the Trump campaign, as you have no doubt already heard and seen how the president responded. the latest revelations from him with this and we quote when you give a crying crazed criminal a break and give him a job in the White House.

I guess it just didn't work. Good job on General Kelly for quickly firing that dog after the president called. The former White House aide, a dog, questions about his choice of words and the president's attitudes on race dominated today's White House briefing. As you can imagine, press secretary Sarah Sanders was forced to try to explain what she meant to her boss. I think the president is certainly expressing her frustration. with the fact that this person has demonstrated a complete lack of integrity, this has

absolutely

nothing to do with race and guarantees that the American people will never hear Donald Trump use the n-word on tape in any context, I cannot guarantee nothing, but I can tell you that the president addressed this question directly.

I can tell you I've never heard of it. Kristen Welker had a particularly strong day in today's briefings. Today there were other bombs related to Omarosa. This one involves Robert Muller and the ongoing Russia investigation earlier. this network Omarosa spoke with Katy tur about her interactions with Muller's team. Let's talk about something you talked about with Chris Matthews last night. Muller's research. Did the special prosecutor interview you? I got it and what kind of questions did they ask you. Yes, as far as I can go to argue that. Have you sat before a grand jury? I won't be able to comment on that.

You told Chris Matthews that you have more

tapes

that Robert Muller might be interested in. If I call you again, what kind of tapes would you be interested in? You know, if he calls me, I will certainly participate in whatever he needs. I will provide you with whatever you need, but that's as far as I can talk. Omarosa was also there. Alleged Donald Trump had advanced knowledge of hacked Hillary Clinton campaign emails. According to his book, he was told to show the emails at every point he could at the end of Hillary Clinton's 20 emails from 2016, yes, that was our interlocutor, did Donald Trump know? about those emails before they came out absolutely he knew about them yes he knew what was coming out before WikiLeaks published them you are saying that Donald Trump had a back channel I didn't say you did but I will say that the corruption that continued in the campaign and in the White House I will continue to denounce everything that draws your attention just a few

hour

s ago the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani responded to Omarosa's statement about those Clinton emails I know she is lying because I was in the campaign longer than her.

I was closer to him than she was. I was there approximately from June to November. I was with him 24

hour

s a day. It's not in the book. I guarantee you she didn't tell the special counsel that. On that note, let's bring up our opening panel on Tuesday night's remarks by former Congresswoman Donna, a Democrat from the great state of Maryland, Phillip Rucker, Pulitzer Prize winner, White House bureau chief for the Washington Post, and Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for The Associated Press Phil I. I'd like to start with you, you've written and reported that people are nervous inside the West Wing and elsewhere.

Let's put it this way, all senior officials and, indeed, junior and current White House aides will go to bed tonight not knowing if they will. Listen to her voice on the surreptitious recording that will be released tomorrow, that's right Brian, the only way to go to bed without that worry is if you know you never had any conversations with Omarosa. I mean, she's made it clear now that she recorded many of her conversations in the West. Senior officials in the building don't know what she may or may not have on her recordings or when she plans to release them; is one of the reasons you've seen the president so clearly nervous if you look at his tweets in the past few days there has been an effort, a strategy in the White House to try to basically deprive Omarosa of any attention to prevent the president tweet and avoid participating in this book tour.

They knew the book was coming but they didn't want to. do anything that gives life to her accusations or promotes book sales or whatever, but clearly the president couldn't contain himself and has been tweeting for several days intensifying her attacks on her and Phil. I want to remind you. which, of course, you and Ashley Parker have published a newspaper article about this relationship tonight where you say that now, like in the Jurassic Park film series, where the dinosaurs turn against the scientists who helped create them, Manigault Newman has unleashed Trump's own tricks and tactics. Consider what we've already been discussing here tonight: the notion of unraveling parts of the story, continuing and interviewing to say what's going to happen and what you're going to do to this person who is absolutely right.

These are Trump tactics. and it's important to note that not only was she a White House staffer and a contestant on The Apprentice, but she was very much a protégé; Trump trained her for more than a decade on reality television to create drama and build a kind of personal relationship. narrative and brand to become a captivating figure in popular culture, she is known by a name Omarosa like Madonna or Prince and you also know that Trump is that, it makes her magnetic, but you also know how to play this game, she knows how to manipulate. the media she knows how to create suspense around her book and around the tapes that will come out next and it is one of the reasons why the president does not know what is around the corner, so, congressman , many people have walked away from their interviews. on television for the last two days and I heard your point that if I hadn't recorded all this stuff, I would be publicly destroyed and people in this time of Trump, I kind of say okay, that makes sense and also, there's a There is a conversation about his credibility, but that is somewhat neutralized by the fact that he has good tapes and his credibility is being questioned by people who have no credibility.

I mean, why are we surprised that he has tapes that the president has been denounced for? her own words to record people her lawyer recorded it why is it a surprise that Omarosa in an effort to protect herself did not record and I think she is right when she says that no one would believe her at all if she did not have these receipts she promised them and every time he delivers them, so you know, just because someone lies or exaggerates once doesn't mean they don't occasionally tell the truth and we certainly know that with the president they have been on record as having lied. you know it over 7,000 times but when he said he fired James Comey because of Russia we believe him and from time to time some of these lies and the liars actually tell the truth and I think here with Omarosa, first of all , what the president said about her. is absolutely despicable and has a habit of calling women, especially black women, these names that are very derogatory and very racist and I think it's time we call out the president every time he does that and the fact that Sarah Huckabee Sanders can take the podium and say he can't guarantee he didn't use the n-word.

I am one of the ninety-four percent of black women who voted for Hillary Clinton. We know she used the n-word. and we don't really need a tape to prove it, that was a certain moment in the history of today's modern presidency. Jonathan Lemire, you write today for The Associated Press about types of parachutes and parking spaces that split payments and the positions people can go to next. They have left Trump's world Omarosa was destined for one of those positions, right, it is certainly not unusual that there can be a confusion between an administration and a campaign.

What is striking about the Trump White House is, first of all, the frequency with which these departures occur. I've had more staff turnover in the first 18 months or so than any previous administration since records were kept on these things; Plus, when they leave, they all seem to land, whether it's the election campaign itself or a number of outside affiliated groups supporting their agenda or the vice president's agenda, there's the outside group that's the bigot and runs, but that's where these end. people and it appears to be for two reasons: One, rewards a staffer who, like many in the Trump White House, I have had trouble finding lucrative. job that West Wing assistants generally find without much trouble after leaving the administration, but second is the idea of ​​keeping your friends close but your enemies closer and there is a feeling that for several of these people who have left the White House who is the president and those closest to him are nervous because you attract them, pay them exorbitant Lee and in a way buy their silence and that was the idea here with Omarosa that she would receive $15,000 a month to remain silent, she obviously decided not to do that and our reporting backs up everything that Phyllis said, which really makes a lot of people in the White House nervous, has struck a chord with the president, who feels like remembering Donald Trump, the cardinal sin In his world it is disloyalty, he feels that he made her, that she is. a star because he put her on her show and she became, in some ways, some kind of cartoon villain, that cartoon villain has now struck back and the White House is struggling with how to respond.

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