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'Unite the Right' demonstrators were outnumbered by counterprotesters.

ByBrad Mielke, David Rind, and Kelly Terez
August 13, 2018, 5:01 AM

It's Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Here are some of the stories we're talking about on ABC News' new daily podcast, "Start Here."

1. Counterprotesters outnumber 'Unite the Right 2'

One year after violent clashes played out in Charlottesville, Virginia, at a "Unite the Right" rally, a far-right group tried to organize another event in Washington, D.C., just steps away from the White House. A small group of people came out for the encore on Sunday, but they were faced with thousands of counterprotesters.

"Even though we only saw about 20 people at that Unite the Right rally in D.C. yesterday, it doesn't mean that those hate groups are not out there in full force and they've got the numbers," ABC News' Kenneth Moton, who covered the protests, tells us.

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2. Former White House staffer claims she signed nondisclosure agreement

Over the last week, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman made a number of explosive claims against President Donald Trump and his White House while promoting a new book.

ABC News White House correspondent Tara Palmeri says Manigault has a recording of her firing from the White House, which she claims was taped in the Situation Room.

PHOTO: Omarosa Manigault speaks at the Women's Power Luncheon of the 2017 National Action Network convention in New York, April 27, 2017.
Omarosa Manigault speaks at the Women's Power Luncheon of the 2017 National Action Network convention in New York, April 27, 2017.
Richard Drew/AP, FILE

3. Ground worker steals plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

This weekend in Washington, a plane went down on an island, about 40 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The man at the controls died; no one else was on board.

But that plume of smoke was just the ending of a bizarre story.

ABC News aviation analyst John Nance examines how someone without professional training could take control of a large aircraft.

PHOTO: An empty passenger airplane, stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma airport, makes an unlikely upside-down aerial loop, then flying low over Puget Sound before crashing into the sparsely populated Ketron Island in Washington, Aug. 10, 2018.
This frame grab shows an empty passenger airplane, stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma airport, making an unlikely upside-down aerial loop, then flying low over Puget Sound before crashing into the sparsely populated Ketron Island in Washington, Aug. 10, 2018.
John Wauldron/AFP/Getty Images

4. University of Maryland investigating allegations of abuse

Amid reports of a toxic culture within the University of Maryland's football program, the school has placed head coach DJ Durkin on paid administrative leave as it investigates the allegations and the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair.

ESPN's Heather Dinich is a part of the team which broke the story: "What we learned along the way was just a culture of humiliation, verbal abuse and questioning players' masculinity."

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