Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded.

So there's this book that recently came out by former White House staffer,

Amarasa Manigal-Newman.

And she says a bunch of stuff in the book, but the one thing that everybody has been talking about

are these tapes.

Recordings of Donald Trump using a racist word on the set of the apprentice.

That she says she has heard.

Remember, Manigal-Newman was a contestant in the first season of the apprentice.

We begin tonight with the war of words involving President Trump and his one-time White House

advisor, Amarasa Manigal-Newman. Tonight she's claiming she's heard a recording of Trump during

his apprentice days using the N word, and that his own campaign advisors had been concerned about

it. No one doubted that he said it, and in fact they had worked to try to suppress this tape

for so long, and everyone says he said it, he's embarrassed.

This is actually something that we have reported on.

The accusation is in that first season of the apprentice, Trump called another one of the

contestants the N word, and that there's an audio recording of him doing it.

Mark Burnett, the executive producer of the apprentice, denies this.

Via Twitter, the president said the executive producer of the apprentice assured him there

are no tapes of him using such a terrible and disgusting word. Adding, I don't have that word

in my vocabulary and never have. But then White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders was asked about

the tapes, and so this.

Under the N word, I can't guarantee anything, but I can tell you that the president

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