The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Charlottesville where Heather Heyer was killed. Rather than condemn the bigots or beliefs today, the president took aim at a protest, a small group of nfl players calling attention to Racial Injustice and inequality last night. He tweeted the nfl players at it again taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. A Football Game fans pay so much money to enjoy is no place to protest. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for the National Anthem or be suspended without pay. This is an issue that President Trump has said he believes to be a winning one for him and while it may, in fact, rally many in his base its another example of this president seeking to divide a country that in some places, frankly, seems to be fraying at the seams. Few acts can prompt a president ial tweet as predictably as a nfl player
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aides encouraged him not to hire her when he became president and he did so anyways and insisted on doing so and spoke with her and invited her into the oval office so they did have a close relationship despite the white house saying that what she says in the book isn t true. all right. ka kaitlan collins, thanks so much. omarosa not credible? i understand. but to be honest, there are a lot of people with credibility issues associated with the white house. especially if you speak out against the president and the administration. then you have a whole then all guns are blazing toward you. so, some she does have some of these conversations on tape. she was taping them in the oval office? taping them in the oval office. and so, and i daily beast reported that. jack dawson said he listened to it and matched up with the quotes in the book. some of this is very much valid
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 that made her clash with john kelly, the chief of staff coming into the white house last fall trying to weed out people he thought didn t have well defined roles. jake, i have been on the phone with current and former officials that worked with omarosa saying she was glad she left the white house and thinks the claims in the book unfounded and absurd and did concede a close relationship with presid
they love our long visits. not sure about their parents, though. call unitedhealthcare and ask for your free decision guide today. welcome back. turning to politics lead now, the white house is fighting back against salacious claims of former assistant to president trump. omarosa. the reality tv star was the highest ranking african-american woman in the west wing before being fired in december. she was offered a $15,000 a month job on the trump campaign that would, of course, require to keep quiet about her time in the trump administration. some are casting this as hush money. before the election, every critic and detractor will have to bow down and now calling him a bigot.