Hi, this is Luke Colling from one of Minnesota's 11,842 lakes, where I'm out paddle boarding right now and thinking about who I'm going to be voting for in this week's primary election.

This podcast was recorded at 11 a.m. on the 13th Monday of August.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this. All right, here's the show.

Don't drop your phone. I know and I think I would want to be thinking about something like the water or the fish or something other than elections when I'm out there paddling.

This is stand up paddle boarding I imagine. That is the word nation this guy has.

Core strength. All right, hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast and tomorrow is another primary day.

We've got Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress and I'm Danielle Kurt Slaven political reporter.

And we are going to help our dear paddle boater by discussing paddle border.

Oh, sorry, I'm being about to.

We will check. Come on. We will help our dear paddle border figure out what's up in Minnesota.

But first we have to start with this thing that has consumed the weekend and has now blood into Monday.

Amarosa, Managult Newman, former top high level White House aide, former reality TV star, apprentice contestant, has a book coming out.

She is on tour and you've been covering this. Tam, what is going on?

Yeah, not only am I covering it, I've even read the book covered a cover.

So this morning she as part of her book tour was on the Today Show. And she provided to NBC's Today Show some audio that she recorded of herself talking to the president of the United States the day after she was fired.

Amarosa, what's going on? I just saw a news that you think about leaving. What happened?

And General Kelly, General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave.

No, I nobody even told me about it. Nobody, you know, they run a big operation, but I didn't know it. I didn't know that.

Yeah, I don't love you leaving at all.

That's pretty stunning. I mean, this is the only thing she's recorded, right? That's right.

There are a lot of Amarosa tapes, including she actually recorded sound of herself being fired. Now in an interview with NPR, she said she wasn't fired. She was forced to resign.

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