offered $15,000 a month paid by the trump campaign if she signed a nondisclosure agreement and said nothing bad. it is a fact that there are several former white house officials who get $15,000 a month from the trump campaign. that is interesting, to use a polite word. and that s not normal. other administrations have not done this to essentially buy her silence and not really give her any real role in the campaign. though, nondisclosure agreements are interesting too. the beginning of the administration, that was something broached. it was in the white house, whether some officials ultimately signed that remains to be seen. it s also interesting, too, the president talking about firing a lot of people, but he doesn t do the firing himself. whether it s james comey or david shulkin or here in omarosa s case, the president claims he didn t know. it was kelly doing the firing, not the president. so the firing here was done by john kelly. it was done in the white house situation room,
daniels payment where it was giuliani who then put forward the notion that trump actually knew about this after trump said he didn t. obviously what giuliani is trying to do is muddy the waters here, trying to paint this almost as though he s on equal footing with mueller in these negotiations. i think it s an open question as to whether that s true. i think giuliani is trying to pretend like there are more conversations happening, more real negotiating happening than is going on. is it also a fair question that is rudy giuliani a good lawyer? i want you to listen to him. this selleriis earlier today on. if you re the president of the united states, this is a very serious investigation. even if you did nothing wrong, this is a serious investigation. listen to this. here s what happened. the president says i never said to flynn anything about i never said to comey. i never said to comey anything about flynn. comey says, and adds this at the very end, comey says he told me to s
stabbing. and nancy pelosi says bring it on. she fires back at republicans who are making her a big campaign issue and has this message for democrats in tough midterm races. i won t let the republican ads which are just flooding these districts and i say to candidates, do whatever you have to do. just win, baby. i know one in five children in america lives in poverty. we must win this. when the caucus decides, it will decide whose name they will send to the floor. then, only then, after the election will i ask people for their support. we begin with news that broke last hour. a major player in president trump s witch hunt conspiracy theory now ousted from the fbi. peter strzok, the agent who slammed the president and promised to stop his bid for the white house in a series of text messages, has now been fired. the washington post was first to report this news, and strzok s lawyer confirms it to cnn. that attorney says the fbi s deputy director overruled the bureau recommendatio
to answer that question, but i don t appreciate what was originally said being changed. i don t give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzok. i don t appreciate having an fbi agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016. you don t like donald trump, do you? fair to say i m not a fan, sir. and that s how it went for about ten hours. this was a really contentious hearing. i think people were surprised in the way that peter strzok struck back in many ways. you could see his emotion there. it has been interesting the way that the president sort of looks back and pitches for it. also interesting the way that people have rallied around him. republicans very much rallying around him basically thwarting and advancing the arguments he s making that this is a tainted investigation. to the extent there ever was a smoking gun in the tangle of conspiracy theories that trump has advanced and his supporters have advanced, it s peter strzok with
building. i just can t. previous white houses have had staff leave amid disagreements. there have been clashes inside. sometimes every now and then they write books. never can i imagine secretly, illicitly recorded conversations that get out. you re being fired because of use of government vehicles and other integrity violations, as the chief of staff is calling them. another integrity violation, secretly recording the white house chief of staff in the situation room as you re fired for integrity reasons. and she says there are more tapes. she s taking a classic page out of trump playbook, which is to dribble out revelations, in this case to sell a book. if she did record the president, general kelly, you can only imagine who else she was recording. a classic page out of her own playbook. she s a reality show villain. that s what she does. she learned from the master or he learned from her or they learned from each other. again, mr. trump is a businessman, known to listen in