Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump appeared to be unaware that Omarosa Manigault Newman was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to an audio recording of a phone conversation aired on NBC's "Today" Monday morning.

"Omarosa, what's going on? I just saw in the news you're thinking about leaving. What happened?" Trump is heard asking

Manigault Newman, who was fired from her White House job last December replied, saying, "General Kelly -- General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave."

"No. Nobody even told me about it," the President replied. "You know, they run a big operation but I didn't know it. I didn't know that. Damn it, I don't love you leaving at all."

NBC News aired the new audio but cautioned that the organization does not know what was said before or after the segment provided.

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