Kyra Phillips, a CNN reporter, was on the job today in New Orleans covering Bush’s trip. During his speech, Phillips apparently went to use the restroom and left her live mic on! Yes, that’s right. Her entire conversation was picked-up by CNN and all of its viewers as the President was delivering remarks:

Transcript courtesy of Wonkette:

We’re working on a rough transcription, but until we finish it, just enjoy this video of Kyra Phillips chatting, seemingly in the bathroom, with an unidentified co-worker (Daryn Kagan?) while Bush blabs about levees or something.

Update: In case you’re unclear on what you’re hearing, some of the better bits are written out after the jump. As always, we welcome corrections and better interpretations.

Highlights: The clip starts with what sounds like “ASSHOLES.” Then Kyra talks about, presumably, a boy of some sort: “No ego… you don’t understand., just a really passionate, compassionate human being. And they exist! They do exist. They’re hard to find—”

COWORKER: “Yep.”
KYRA: “But they… are out there.”

Thankfully, “Mom” seems to approve (“good vibe”)

Then, Kyra again: “Of course brothers hafta be, you know, protective. [ZIP] Except for mine. I gotta be protective of him. Ugh, yeah. He’s married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.”

Then the best part:

WOMAN: Kyra—
KYRA: Yeah baby—
WOMAN: Your mic is on.
ANCHOR: All right, we’ve been listening in to…

As we learned earlier, President Bush did know about the potential damage from Katrina prior to the storm. He then sat on national television and in typical Rovian style, blatantly lied to the American people. Now that the truth has come out, the White House is leaking Newsweek transcripts from FEMA conference calls that supposedly show Bush in control. The problem is, these are the same transcripts that they had refused to provide to Congress in its investigation of Katrina. Newsweek reports:

…the administration initially told Congress that the transcript for the Aug. 29 call—the call congressional investigators were most curious about, given that it occurred as the hurricane was actually battering the Gulf Coast—did not exist, with officials initially telling Capitol Hill that someone at FEMA or Homeland Security forgot to push the button on a tape recorder.

“Everybody has been looking for that transcript,” former FEMA chief Michael Brown said Wednesday.

A White House official unexpectedly e-mailed the transcript to NEWSWEEK earlier today Wednesday morning—initially without explaining that it was the missing transcript.

This came in from Jane over at Firedoglake who sums it up succintly:

I can’t recall offhand how many times the Administration has invoked the “dog ate my homework” excuse this year, but I’d have to take off my shoes to count them.

So what’s the over-under on exposed Bush lies today?

E&P reports:

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn’t ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: “We are fully prepared.”

In the video, meteorologist Max Mayfield warns Bush and others that the levees being overtopped in New Orleans is a “very, very grave concern.” Even Heckuvajob Brownie seems worried, stating that this will be the “big one” and expressing concern over using the 12 feet below sea level Superdome as the shelter of last resort. Bush doesn’t ask questions. You’ll remember that several days after the devasation on the Gulf Coast begain, the president told Diane Sawyer, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”

Crooks and Liars has the video.