Case without calling any witnesses. But that came after a 2 1 2hour delay. A sealed hearing today between the judge and jurors. Meaning we dont know what they talked about. But it has spurred plenty of speculation. There is fear of a tainted jury. And maybe you remember a fivehour long delay last week that put the former Trump Campaign persons trial on hold. Wow, its all coming in fast, julia. What more do we know about that sealed hearing today . So, chris, it seems this sealed hearing might have thing to do with the jury. While we waited outside the courtroom, waiting hours to get in, we did see individual jurors going back into the room. We know from speaking to a Security Officer the judge was in that room, judge ellis, probably questioning them individually. As you would want to do to figure out if any one of them has been tainted. Whether they talked amongst themselves or with people from the outside. That would also be likely because this jury is not under sequester. Ive seen them in the elevators. In the lunchroom. This is a very highprofile case. You know the media saturation is high. So it would be an obvious Defense Strategy to say we think these jurors have been tainted or one of them has perhaps tainted the entire bunch by talking about the case. And therefore we should move to a mistrial. We know just a few hours ago, actually, probably less than an hour ago, the government filed an opposition brief under seal. They filed that opposition to something that started with the defense which is likely the kind of motion that you would see if the defense was moving towards a mistrial. So as we know, theyre not calling any witnesses. So it could be the defenses best strategy right now to try to dismiss this entire trial and then start over again because right now it doesnt seem that they have evidence or witnesses to come speak on behalf of their client. Closing arguments set to begin tomorrow morning. What can we expect . So this judge has been allowing things to move a long, even while this side issue takes up a large portion of the time here. We can expect closing arguments from both sides. Hes limiting it to two hours. Again that doesnt preclude the idea of a mistrial. If we move to that, that doesnt mean the mistrial is definitely a closed and shut case. We can expect to hear from the government trying to show Paul Manafort was a desperate man financially. He committed bank fraud. He committed tax evasion at times, inflating his income, in order to get loans. At times deflating his income in order to evade taxes. And of course not declaring the many, many Bank Accounts he had overseas. The defense on the other hand is trying to quietly or subtlety undermine every piece of that evidence. We saw that during cross examination. Where they started to ask yesterday, for example, a man who worked at federal savings bank, thats the bank that gave Paul Manafort 16 million. They said you wouldnt have approved this loan based on what Paul Manafort gave you, correct . He said thats correct, but i did so because of my boss. So theyre trying to prove in that case that this loan was actually given to Paul Manafort not because he lied on his loan applications but in return for a favor. And without lying, that couldnt be bank fraud. You see these little pieces theyre trying to rip apart so that a jury going through each of those counts in the indictment might have a reason to doubt. All right, thank you so much, julia ainsley. For more, im joined by the former u. S. Attorney and former Deputy Assistant attorney general during the clinton administration. Danny cevallos, an msnbc legal analyst. Let me start with the questions being raised with the jury not being sequestered. Do you think the judge is thinking maybe i should have done it . I mean, it does seem very obvious. Yes, i think thats right. This is all surmise, chris, but it seems to original from a jurors having seen a stray piece of paper on a counsel paper last friday and possibly talking to others. He had the long hearing on friday. And he had the juror by juror examination today. There are some alternates there. And probably at the end of the day its something hell probably permit to go forward, he has some discretion. But as julia says, this might be best shot now for the defense to really put on it hard. Judge ellis needs to make a good record for appeal. I think hell take it seriously but probably deny it. This is a serious guy, danny. From the beginning, this is on what they called the rocket docket, which means he wanted this thing to move along. It had been moving along. Two hours only by the way for your closing arguments. I think they wanted it for. What do you make, a fivehour delay, i think it was friday. Now a 2 1 2hour delay today. Should we not make too much of it . In any highprofile case, you have to safeguard the sanctionty of the jury. In a run of the mill case, even in the federal government, that the media doesnt care about, you just dont have that concern at the forefront as you do in a case like this. One juror, one tainted juror can ruin the entire jury and the entire trial. So its worth being careful. About the rocket docket, federal court in general is one big rocket docket compared to state courts. But even for federal court pace, this trial has moved exceptionally quickly. But at the same time, a delay of five hours, very reasonable, when youre investigating any potential juror misconduct or jurors accidentally seeing or hearing or clicking on something that they should have avoided. And hes the kind of guy who wants to make sure hes covered all his bases. Let me go back to, if i can, the defense resting without calling a single witness. Are you surprised . What do you make of it . Well, a little startling. I think people who saw the trial expected manafort not to testify. Im not sure though that the jury and maybe the viewers did. He couldnt have afforded to, given what would have happened. But people nevertheless expect to hear him. Once they decided not to call him, it might have been a strategy. It will be interesting to hear what danny thinks about this. To call a couple witnesses to break the momentum. Instead, they chose not to do it and i think go into closing tomorrow, trying to portray a kind of bravado about, well, the government just hasnt made its case and we didnt have to do anything, much less call manafort. So it was a strategic call on their part. Im sure they had a couple little witnesses they could have gone forward with. But theyll try to coudo a compe burden of proof. Do you think the defense really thinks that the prosecution has not made its case . Its such a difficult decision to not put on any case for the defense. Its agonizing. But you commit to it and you say listen, were going to go with the theme of the government, theyve got nothing. If we start putting on witnesses so the opening line in your closing . Right, we didnt put on a defense because we didnt have to. They havent met their burden. We dont have the burden. By not putting on a defense, you highlight the fact that the burden is not the defendants, its the government. With everything he through at us, they still kididnt come up with anything. It is such a difficult choice to rest, calling no witnesses, especially least of all your own client. Its always a gambit. A difficult decision. But sometimes in cases, you dont have an alternate theory. All you can do is chop away at the governments case and hope you poked enough holes for the jury to hang a not guilty verdict on. We heard julia reporting you agree, danny, they couldnt have called manafort, right . They could not have called. He had a constitutional absolute right to testify. That being said, wild horses would have held him away from that stand if his attorneys but as a matter of the legal profession, right, if he goes to his lawyers and said, i am absolutely going to testify, theyve got to let him on the stand, right . He has a constitutional right to get up there and take the stand. However, his attorneys have another right to get him in a head lock and keep him from getting on that stand because it would be a disaster. If you have a client with credibility issues, then putting them on the stand as much as the jury wants to hear from him or her can just devastate your case. If there are credibility issues, generally speaking, your clients better off sitting right where he is. Legally, chris, there are things you can do when he takes the stand that you cant do otherwise to really impeach him. Im sorry, go ahead. No, i was just going to say, we are it seems like everything is in some sort of slow motion, just because of the pace of news any more. Its not that long ago we were talking about the way that Paul Manafort spent his money. Thats the way they sort of began the case. Heres a guy who made tens of millions of dollars consulting on politics and blew through it all by the time he went to work for the president. He didnt have any money left. Theyve got a Legal Defense fund. Word is its not doing very well. Im just curious if either of you guys have a guess how much this is costing him . The Paul Manafort defense fund would need how much money to pay off these lawyers . This isnt the end for it either. Youre asking me to guess at what other Defense Attorneys are making . This is hearsay in the defense part. I can tell you a lot. Its in the millions. Billing aside, its all the any experts theyve used, all the document review. Everything. Its a heavily document intensive case. These white collar cases how much they spent on all these experts, they couldnt put a single one of them on the stand. Thank you. Decline in dignity. The president just called his former staffer omarosa a dog. Now his campaign is taking legal action against her to keep omarosa from spreading stories of racism and lying in the white house. Plus, ladys night. In the year of the woman running for office, most of the women running are democrats. Where are the republicans . Why theyre hearing from key advisers to wait it out. And struck out. A top fbi agent fired after antitrump Text Messages surfaced. Will he sue, though, to get his job back . Attention homeowners age sixtytwo and older. One reverse mortgage has a great way for you to live a better retirement. Its called a reverse mortgage. Call rfree information kityour with no obligation. It answers questions like. How a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money and more. 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This morning, filed a civil arbitration claim to put the stop on her tellall tour. Quote, when you give a crazed crying lowlife a break and give her a job at the white house, i guess it just didnt work out. Good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog. The twotime apprentice stars new memoir was officially released today. She also released a new state that would seem to back up a central claim in her book. Cbs news obtained the secretly recorded conversation. Nbc news has had no access to the tape which does contain an edit and we do not know what came before or after the exce t excerpts presented. We only know that omarosa says this call occurred between Campaign Aides in october 2016 and she says they were discussing a longrumored tape of trump using the n word. Today, the president denied the existence of any such tape. He says that word is not in his vocabulary. We had a Conference Call and we talked about what we would do. Katrina pierson said she thought he actually said it. No, that did not happen. Sounds like shes writing a script for a movie. Im trying to find out at least the context. To help us maybe figure out a way to spin it. I said, well, sir, can you think of any time that this might have happened . And he said no. Well, thats not true. How do you think i should handle it . And i told him exactly what you just said, which is, well, it k depends on what scenario youre talking about. He said, why dont you just go ahead and put it to bed. He said it. Hes embarrassed. You have everything you say in the book backed up by tape or email . Absolutely. If you see it in quotes, it can be verified. Last hour, one of the aides you just saw released a statement. Katrina pierson writes in part, in her secret tape recording of me, it was one of many times i would placate omarosa to move her along because i was weary of her obsession over this alleged tape. Nancy cook, a White House Reporter for politico. Danny cevallos is an msnbc legal analyst. John me chum, let me ask you a big picture question. When you see whats going on. When you see people taping each other, including in the situation room, when you have the president tweeting and calling a woman a dog. It goes on and on and on. What does it say about the culture of this white house, john . Its not recorded whether jefferson and washington taped each other in washingtons cabinet. My pictures a little fuzzy. This is exhibit 6,012 so to speak but whos counting . Exactly. Of this hobsian world that the president has brought to the highest levels. It is an absolute free for all. Its the world frankly that hes most comfortable with i think. This is someone whos comfortable with manufactured and often elective chaos. And remember the New York Times reported very significantly i think that during the transition, trump said to aides, lets treat every day of the presidency as an episode in a tv show where i vanquish my rivals. He needs this conflict. He needs this kind of struggle. A, because it takes away from having to actually do anything substantive, which is hard. And, secondly, this is how he began. This is how he rose to prominence. Was through this kind of just ferocious fighting. And i dont think its ever going to change. Yes, and, i mean, just when you think youve seen everything, you have these two people who became famous through Reality Television basically, going at each other like the battle of the Network Stars or something. And the president , nancy, has been on a bit of a twitter tear about this. I want to read what Eugene Robinson wrote today. He said, its hard to take omarosas word for anything but, lordy, she has tapes. And they offer vivid proof that Donald Trumps white house is part clown show, part nest of vipers. We heard omarosa say if its in quotes in her book, she has a tape or email. How nervous are the people in the white house about this . I feel like they werent nervous last week. There was a lot of eye rolling over omarosas book coming out. I think once they realized she had the tapes, they started to take things more seriously. Omarosa has really been going one for one with the president in terms of trying to dominate the news cycle. You know, theyre sort of out manning each other. He called her a dog on twitter. She released a tape. I feel like what has caught the white house a bit unaware is they are basically entering into a multiday news cycle. When i think originally their plan was to roll their eyes at it, try to cast omarosa as an uncredible source and basically to not really acknowledge or respond to it. Yes, it gets a lot more dicey for the white house when people deny things, but then they turn up on tape. Well see exactly what she has. Again, these tapes that shes released, were only seeing the little bits of them she wants us to see. Lets talk about these ndas. You know, if trumps got people signing nondisclosure agreements and now hes going to court basically to say shes got to stop, who may have the legal upper hand here . Probably omarosa. For a number of reasons. First of all, nondisclosure agreements are not impossible in the context of Government Employees, but theyre not just realistic. Government employees dont have the same First Amendment rights. That doesnt mean they have no First Amendment right whatsoever. Sometimes in the case of sensitive information, that may be governed by a different legal set of principals. But the way donald trump used nondisclosure agreements in his former private life simply wont be as available to him in his public life because if you make a nondisclosure agreement, it can infringe on a Public Employees not only their First Amendment rights but their whistleblower rights. We have a strong incentive in this country that if a Government Employee sees wrongdoing by another government official. You wrote about these. Quote in senior staff meetings, the white houses top attorney don mcgahn. As a nudge to push them to sign it, according to two of the people familiar with the agreement. So if trumps top well, we dont know. Does he really believe that theyre not enforceable or was he just trying to get them to sign these agreements . What can you tell us based on your reporting . Well, i feel like trump has used ndas for years. Yes. He used them as a businessman with the trump organization. The campaign had one which is a stricter one that included a nondespairment clause. I was told trump was the one behind the scenes really pushing the then chief of staff Reince Priebus and the white house attorney don mcgahn to make these ndas happen. Other lawyers from the White House Counsels Office and different briefings really urged people to sign them and they left the impression that this was something that the president wanted, but it wasnt really enforceab enforceable. That was the takeaway for white house staffers. Not everyone did sign them. Like everyone in this white house, was kind of a hodgepodge. It would be hard for them to enforce it across the board because of that. The way one National Security official put it, john, about the tapings, is the sanctity of the situation room was violated, not to mention security. There it is, i dont use this word nicely. A certain reference paid to the white house in my experience to people who work here to its history, to its reputation as a world as a symbol of dom i. Do you think everything going on there now has changed that, maybe even been shattered by this administration . Will it will we look at the white house and what goes on there differently ten years from now, 20 years from now, because of what were seeing . Its a great question. Its unknowable. My own sense is that however unpleasant or undignified, which really doesnt begin to capture it, the moment the institution itself culturally has a power of endurance that, in fact, i dont depending on who comes next, i think we can restore that. Its important to remember that 44 years ago this month, a lot of people, as Richard Nixon went to san clemente, thought we would never have that kind of respect for the white house again. President ford very quickly restored that. What everyone thinks about carter and reagan and bush, you did have a pretty quick restoration of that respect. I hope that continues again. But the president is making this as difficult as possible. John mechem, much appreciated. In the next hour, omarosa will join us live for a oneonone interview to discuss the campaigns call for legal action and the potential she might release more secret recordings. Right now, voters in four states casting ballots in key primary races. And there are a Record Number of female candidates running. But not a Record Number of republican women. Why many of them are sitting this election cycle out. Olay ultra moisture body wash gives skin the moisture it needs and keeps it there longer with lockin Moisture Technology skin is petal smooth after all, a cleansers just a cleanser unless its olay. Going to be some interesting stuff tonight. Voters heading to the polls. Primary contests for the midterms today. Democrats hoping for a blue wave will be tested in two key midwestern primaries. Minnesota and wisconsin, given president s appeal among working class voters. Msnbc National Political correspondent steve cokornacki joins me, a long with jennifer limb, the cofounder of republican women for congress. Okay, steve, lets start with the key races to watch in these midwestern states. Yes, lets take a look and lets start on sort of as background for this. Remember the dynamic in the battle for the senate this year. The democrats, they only need a net gain of two seats. The problem is, theyre on defense in so many states that donald trump won in 2016. One of those, you just mentioned it there, wisconsin. Tammy baldwin, democratic senator. Shes up for reelection in one of those states in the upper midwest that made donald trump president. The good news is the polling right now suggests that, hey, in the trump midterm, theres a bit of maybe a bit of buyers remorse factor there in wisconsin. Baldwin up double digits over both of these perspective republican opponents. We will see. We will see which one emerges tonight. Whoever does, theyve got their work cut out for them. In a state that trump won narrowly, baldwin up double digits in the polling. The most interesting state, for my money, is going to be there in minnesota. Why . A couple things going on here. One, a story were familiar with. These republicans incumbents here. Paulson lewis sort of getting close there to the twin cities. We know this story. Paulson represents a district thats traditionally republican. Swung to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Lewis, trump won it but only by two points. We know about these districts where republicans are on defense. We have those in minnesota. The difference is, you have something in minnesota you may not have anywhere else in the country. Democrats on defense. Take a look at this. These three districts, that kind of ring the state here. Rural. They kind of go around the perimeter of the state. All represented by democrats. But trump won this by 15 points. Trump won this by 15. Trump won this by 31. Each one of these, 81. These are districts that are probably 50 50 in terms of which party will win them. Colin peterson, he survived a lot in that district. Republicans have their eye on two, maybe in a best case scenario, three seats in minnesota. Hard to find any other seats in the country where republicans could not okay democrats. So minnesota has a little bit of everything. The other thing were looking at in minnesota, its the race for attorney general. We dont usually talk that much about state ag races. You certainly know keith ellison. Keith ellison, lastminute allegation here from a former girlfriend of abuse. He faces the voters today. Crowded field there for a. G. We will see if this story had an impact when the results come in tonight, chris. Some people had already voted i think by the time this broke. Steve, thank you so much. Jennifer, look, youve got all these women running. I think its 183 running for just congress. Yet am i right that your group is saying to republican women maybe not this year . So thats a great point, chris. And, you know, when you have a president and a party that isnt supporting you as women, republican women this year are put in a really tough spot. Because they have to answer for everything that the president does and everything that the party isnt responding to. Lets talk about everything the president not just does but he said. Today when he calls Omarosa Manigault newman a dog. The way that he has called names to so many different women. Called out so many different women. If you are one of the republican women whos running, how tough is it for you right now . Its, you know, im not going to lie, its not a great year for republican women. And yet we see so many amazing republican women who are trying to break into Republican Leadership and try and bring their voice to washington, d. C. , which, you know, as you can see from the president s tweets today, you know, we have a president calling women dogs and its 2018. You know, when you look at the primaries, only 13 of republican women are winning their primaries compared with Democratic Women at 42 . And, you know, what weve learned, our group, republican women for progress, is republican women arent being supported at very early levels. And thats something that we really want to change. Thats something we think could put the party going in the right direction. When you say arent supported at very early levels, arent being given the money, arent being given the backing by the state party, the rnc, all those things . All those things, chris, especially at the preprimary levelle. They cant get enough money. Weve seen instances of old boy net works telling these women not to run. State parties historically, and we can see this playing out now, are much more to the right. And so theyre looking for somebody whos going to be very pro trump and just kind of rubber stamp everything the president s doing and saying. Yes, i mean, the New York Times sort of put it this way. By the way, only 14 of Republican House candidates are women. Republican women running in swing districts are left to carefully carve out the separation between themselves and mr. Trump. A president who was elected with the biggest gender gap ever recorded and who regularly dismisses female Office Holders as crazy and low iq. Those running in districts where the president is popular have been punished for so much as criticizing him for incivility. What are your expectations come november . You know, its tough, right. You know, we know how important women are this year, especially since everybodys talking about this as being the year of the woman. And, you know, our expectation and hope is that come elections, you know, people are sending a really strong message that theyre not going to support folks who are saying, you know, things like donald trump is right now. And not support candidates who are continuing with this messaging. And that, you know, out of 2018, we see a real turnaround in how things are going. Jennifer lynn, but thank you so much, we appreciate you taking the time. An fbi agent fired after sending andy trump Text Messages. 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In a series of morning tweets, the president railed against the now fired fbi agent whose antitrump texts have been a lightning rod for conservatives against the mueller probe. Pointing once again to an old foe. Quote, strzok started the illegal rigged witch hunt. Why isnt this socalled probe ended immediately . And why arent these angry and conflicted democrats instead looking at crooked hillary . Plenty of people on strzoks side though. Within a single day, his supporters have raised more than 299,000 to help him with his legal costs. Nbcs intelligence and National Security reporter ken dilanian joins me. Ken, last night, we heard from atone goldman who was Peter Strzoks attorney. I want to play that for our viewers. Why was peter strzok fired . I dont think you can reach rationally any conclusion other than it was ppolitical. When are we going to hear from strzok . Is he going to speak out publicly in the way that james comey did . He is considering his options. So is it possible that strzok could fight this firing . It certainly seems from his lawyers comments theyre headed in that direction. Im not sure theyre going to be successful. It looks to me like the fbi had every right to do what it did in every single current and former official ive spoken to about this thinks it was the correct move. I know this is not what some viewers want to hear but what pete strzok did was indefensible in many ways. While he was in charge of two of the most highprofile counterintelligence cases. Fbi folks say that subjected him to blackmail. And then he texted in a very inflammatory and biased way about one of the subjects of the russia investigation, donald trump. Yes, you would find if you pulled the text of other fbi agents, you might find similar texts. These were the ones who were exposed. They brought discredit upon the bureau. And many people ive talked to thought the fbi had no choice but to take this action. As you know, the president has been trying to make the case that the russia investigation has been comb pra itpromised by. Does his firing in some way help trumps case by i guess giving credence to the idea he did something very wrong . I think sadly it does. Even though the Inspector General found no evidence that this misconduct and this bias infected the investigation. And caused any unfairness towards trump. The whole strzok saga has given them ammunition and its unfortunate. The polls show Robert Muellers public image has taken a hit in part over this stuff and in part over trumps relentless attacks on him. The polls also show the majority of the American Public gets this. Only a third of the public according to a recent poll approves of Donald Trumps handling of the russia investigation. 70 want him to testify before robert mueller. While a certain segment is eating this strzok stuff up, i think most people understand what the reality is. So youve got comey gone, mccabe out, now strzok. Three highlevel departures. I just wonder in your cati conversations with those fbi agents still on the job, are they keeping their head down and moving forward or has this had a profound effect on the agency . I think with those three individuals you mentioned, theyre able to set that aside and continue to do their jobs. Because, look, they are professionals. Theyre not wedded to any one personality. James comey was a popular fbi leader but so is Christopher Wray in his own way. You know what im hearing from folks is that theyre trying to put aside all these political machinations, put their head down and investigate the cases as they would any other. Ken delanian, thank you. Pulling the curtain back on a Mysterious Group of conspiracy theorists. How they pushed the Movement Forward and might be making money off of it. Or psoriatic arthritis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. 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Theres three people weve honed in on. Theres a woman named tracy diaz, who was in the pizza gate conspiracy, pushing all that stuff as well. Kind of pushed stuff on youtube after the q post. Which was just a random post. This started from a random guy. She pushed this out there on youtube. A bunch of people who i would say are power users on websites like reddit, they kind of took her under their wing. This whole thing took off. Where does the money come in . They make money in a coupleo where does the money come in . They make money in a couple of ways. This man Coleman Rogers and christina ursow created a paper soap box that they exclusive ly took on and they decipher and recuse, and they also have a p paper site to take checks by mail if you are interested in helping them. So coleman and christina have over time, and people have poll pointed to a different thing, and it is a 24hour live stream, and so they say a lot of thins. S at one point it appears that at one point he is posting in as q on the posts. And the post is nothing new and it is something that you can see everywhere and not hard to find on the internet, but Conspiracy Theorys are not anything new. And what about q that has made it so powerful . It absolves the president of everything that he has done wrong. And seriously, they take the typos that he writes and they say, oh, this is a secret code to the q supporters and if you put it this way, and not normal stuff, but like people are watching the movie that is their life and trying to make sense of peoples basic mistakes and things like that. It is a way to combine over the past 20 years of conspiracies all of them into one, jay helm and pizza gate, and reality is wrong and they are right. That is how a lot of the conspiracy philosophies with this sort of thing, that people say it is the last believers in the ordered universe. Oh, boy. Ben kol lin,collins, and peo should read this story. Thank you for coming on. Sure. We want to turn back to the big story today, Omarosa Manigault newman on the wild book tour and not just selling books, but providing plenty of fodder for the late night comedians. He is truly a racist. Omarosa how can you say that about the president , three years after we all said that about the president . Finally, we have proof that the guy who refused to rent to black tenants said that a nazi klan rally had fine people and called africa a bullpen hole is a racist. Omarosa said that she walked into the oval office after he was having a meeting with Michael Cohen and she sees the president chewing up a piece of paper and putting the note in miz mouth. Since trump is a germ phobe, i was shocked, because he appeared to be chewing and swallowing the paper. It must be something very, very sensitive. And the hunt for are trumps tax returns just got way grosser. Damn it. You are leaving. And you know when plans are canceled. And what . 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In just the last five minutes or so, the former Campaign Chairman of President Trump, Paul Manafort walked out of the courthouse no the podium and he says that he is going to be speaking to the media the next time he comes out of the courthouse, but the reason they did not call any witnesses is because he said that the prosecution didnt meet its burden of proof. We will see about that and keep an eye out there at the courthouse. Meantime,s dozens of people dead in italy after a bridge collapse in the city of genoa. Matt bradley is live in london with the latest. Matt, i know that one witness described this scene as armageddon, and what can you tell us . Well, chris, the main thing that we are hearing is that the number of dead and that is about 35 now, which is expected to rise probably dramatically over the course of the rest of the day, and the couple of days, because the bridge didnt just span over a body of water, but it was actually over an industrial area, an industrial campus, so that means that people were working underneath that bridge, and they are also among the dead and injured. So it all happened around noon italy time with a major storm of high winds. It collapsed right at the outset of italys Summer Holidays when a lot of people were to be driving across it to the south of france. This is mainland italy to south of france, and the middle part dropped out. 200 firefighters have swarmed to the scene. They are trying to peel away the layers of the bridge and looking for survivors and dozens of cars seen falling, but you can see it in the video nas you a videos are seeing, and it was refurbished in the last year, and still work being done on it. So along with this collapsed bridge, there is political fallout and politicians are trying to trade blame for this di s disaster and this sort of thing is getting worse. I know that we are putting it on the screen, and the eye tita Officials Say at least 22 people were kill can and you are saying at a least 35, and we know that the number will rise. Yes, they are expecting the nu number to rise and 35 is the number they have settled on in just the last about two hours. Again, chris, everybody is certain that this number is going to increase. Matt bradly, thank you so much for that. Appreciate it. And katy tur is going the be with you for the next hour. Thank you, chris. It is 2 00 eastern time. And omarosa is going to try to be silenced by a arbitration filing claiming that she violated her nondisclosure. And the context of this can you tell help us to maybe try to figure out i said, well, can you think of any time this might have happen and he said, no. Well, that is not true. And how do you think they should handle it, and i told him what you said, omarosa, it depe depends what scenario you are talking about, and he said, why dont you just go ahead and put it to bed. He said it. Katrina pearson who you heard at the end of that tape saying that he said it, he said it in that statement of the 2016 campaign and we heard rumors of an alleged tape from the apprentice and it is clear now that the rumors were being circulated by omarosa and her alone. In the secret tape recording of me, it