over tax reform, jake tapper, dana bash will moderate the debate. among those months rating, bernie sanders, ted cruise, maria cantwell. that's it for me, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. president trump calls eliz berth warren polka hon tass. the navajo nation responds. and president trump reportedly saying the access hollywood take isn't real, not authentic. yes, that tape. showdown at a government agency. two rival bosses saying they're in charge. there's a restraining order in the offing. >> good evening i'm erin burnett. prejudice, that's the word the president of the navajo nation

is using after president trump's use of the word pocahontas today. >> i want to thank you, because you're very very special people. you were here long before any of us were here although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, they call her pocahontas. you know what, i like you, because you are special. >> only he calls her pocahontas. referring to elizabeth warren. who claimed native american heritage while she was a professor at harvard law school. >> they used their native languages to encode top secret communications during world war ii. it fell to the white house press secretary to defend the

president and, of course, she said there was nothing wrong with what he said. >> why did he feel the need to say something that is offensive to many people while honoring the navajo code talkers? >> i think what most people find offensive is senator warren lying about her heritage to advance her career. >> she said it was a racial slur. what is your response to that? >> i think that's a ridiculous response. >> and then sanders as usual doubled down when pressed, saying she does not think pocahontas is a racial slur. >> why is it appropriate for the president to use a racial slur in any context. >> i don't believe it is appropriate for him to -- >> a lot of people feel pocahontas is a racial slur. why is it -- >> i don't think it is. i don't think that was the president's intent.

>> like i said, the most offensive thing. >> does he see political value in calling people out racially? why use that? >> look, i think that senator warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career. >> senator warren has long stood by and still stands by the fact that her parents were forced to elo elope, because her father's family wouldn't accept her mother, because she had native american heritage. today senator warren did not stay quiet for long. >> it is deeply unfortunate that the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur. >> boris sanchez is out front. the white house standing firm, that what the president said was appropriate today. >> the white house making no

apologies. instead, attacking senator elizabeth warren. the president has used that pocahontas nickname about elizabeth warren for some time now. she was attacked for making this will claim in 2012. she was criticized by republicans and native american groups because she couldn't provide any documentation. sarah sanders larged that attack against elizabeth warren. saying, the majority of people find it offensive for her to lie about her heritage opinion doing it in front of a picture of andrew jackson who oversaw the forcible removal of native americans from their lands back

in the 1800s. the white house saying it is elizabeth warren who should be ashamed. >> thank you very much, boris. i want to go do van jones. and jack kingston, who is former senior adviser to the trump campaign as well. calling someone pocahontas at an event honoring native american war heroes is what? >> it's completely unacceptable. people are going to argue, is it a racial slur, is it racially insensitive, it's inappropriate. you have people -- people do not give honor and recognition to native american con contribute uses in this country enough. the code talkers, it was impossible for our enemies to understand what they were saying, and it let us win that war. that saved possibly hundreds of thousands of lives. give them a moment of due respect. it's not a time for frats boy jokes, for racially insensitive

stuff. and yet he does it. he can't help himself, it was wrong. >> congressman kingston? >> i don't think it was nearly as offensive as the trump critics are trying to make it out to be. saying that it's racial is way off. i don't know where that came from, if i call someone einstein, i'm not being anti-semitic. you're a great picasso, sarcastically, that doesn't mean i'm saying something about spanish people or you call somebody flanders -- >> try again, puddy -- >> don't interrupt me, van. let me say this, what the president has successfully done is change the topic. i did not know from 1986 to 1995, elizabeth warren listed herself saying she was a native american. you define your enemy before your enemy can define him or herself. that's what the president has done. a lot of people didn't know about this, now they know. the president was probably deliberate.

it could be connected to this consumer finance bureau connection debate, i don't know. >> senator warren stands by her heritage and her family lure, i don't want to turn this into a debate whether she is or isn't. >> she absolutely did not. she did it for a period and then she denied it. yes, no, yes, no. i did not know that. i did a little research for tonight. >> this is the tragedy of today. you finally had an opportunity for american heroes to be honored. this is not a time to take a cheap political shot at your opponents. even if you're correct. >> your analogy has so many holes. >> because you were complimenting those people, not insulting them. even if you're correct that he

was using this as a moment to attack and define someone. what does that have to do with world war ii. what does that have to do with these people in their 80s and 90s. why does he always have to be an insult comic in the middle of the white house. this is inappropriate. and this whole thanksgiving season and time period is a chance for us to reflect on native americans, who frankly have given up way too much for way too little for this country. it's the wrong season, the wrong tone, it's just wrong. >> van -- >> sometimes when the left over reacts to everything trump does. then people go back to their own groups and say, well, what the heck. i think that's what we're seeing here. not a good format at all for this. but it's not nearly as offensive as people are making it out to be. i think the president has now

defined elizabeth warren, if she has presidential ambitions, this is going to be an issue. why did you lie for nine years on a law school directory. >> i make the point that i'll call this out every time. we don't know whether it was a lie or not. we simply don't know in this case, what her family was and what she said, so just to be clear. i'm not trying to litigate whether she is or isn't. it's about whether he did the right thing today. i want to play for you, congressman. this is what it comes down to. he sees it as inappropriate. is it racist, a racial slur, as you heard the reporter question. and as you heard elizabeth warren say. the president has made ethnic remarks before, and racial remarks playing off stereotypes. we all flow them. mexicans, jews, african-americans and we'll start with asian-americans. >> when these people walk in the room, they don't say oh, hello, how's the weather, so beautiful outside.

ssht it lovely. they say, we want deal. >> look at my african-american over here. look at him. are you the greatest. >> you're not going to support me, even though you know i'm the best thing that could happen to israel. or you're not going to support me because i don't want your money. isn't it crazy. when mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best, they're sending drugs, rapists, and some, i assume are good people. >> when it all adds up, is that all funny or is that racist? i didn't even include the muslim ban. >> elizabeth warren has been calling him a racist for three or sfour years now, one -- her exact quote was, he's a thin skinned racist. she's already played that card. what happened in american particularly for republicans. any time you're called a racist, you're supposed to go cowher in your bunker, i don't want to be a racist, those of us who grew

up in integration, those of us who have been mixing and mingling with other races and other groups all our lives, we're not intimidated by that, i think the president coming from queens has been brought up in an international city. i think he's not afraid to come out and talk in terms that some people are bothered by. but i don't think that makes him a racist. >> van, final word. >> i don't want anyone to feel intimidated. if anyone came out and talked about white people the way he talks about other groups, that person would be highly criticized and rightfully so. you can't call every group you want to, whatever you want to, and he always associates by the way, unfortunately nonwhite people with the worst in their group. the mexicans are rainists, and the muslims are terrorists, you never hear him say anything kind

about the people in those communities that are doing a good job. when you put those two things together. i think he's an exceptional case. some people are called racists who shouldn't be. absolutely. if he's not a racist, and those comments are not racist, the term has no meaning at all. >> he's not a racist. i think his style is what's offensive to you. he's not a racist. next, chaos at a federal agency, rival bosses in a showdown tonight over who has the top job. one of them just appointed by president trump, the other appointed by the man in the center of this, my guest. >> president interrupt's new favorite conspiracy theory. saying that infamous access hollywood tape is not real. and the white house tonight cannot seem to spin its way out of this one. roy moore speaking at a rally in bama. this as the white house reveals whether president trump will campaign for roy moore.

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breaking news, chaos and confusion, a showdown intensifying inside the nation's top consumer watchdog agency. right now there are two dualing directors. and one is claiming he's in charge. one is filing a restraining

order against the one who was handpicked by the president of the united states. the other is mick mulvaney, who the president is sending over to run this bureau to leave the white house budget director position. mulvaney showed up today. with doughnuts and a note to say, please disregard any instructions you received from english. english send her own e-mail. this partisan power struggle is new going to court. a judge is delaying a decision as to who is in charge. out frofrnlt now, richard cordray. i appreciate you're being with me. richard, let's get to the big question about what's happening right now. you have two people showing up to work, sending -- telling the

staff what to do. one of them is trying to get a restaining order against the other one. not even allowed to show up on the premises. what is going on inside that agency tonight? >> so we have an unsettled question of law, and an important question of law, how to handle the succession of the agency like this, until the president nominates and gets a nominee confirmed by the senate, which everyone agrees is an appropriate way to handle this, in the meantime, we have two laws that are inconsistent with one another about the law that created this agency says there will be a deputy director, and the deputy director shall serve as acting director. there's another general law that provides for success if there's no provision. the court is finding this a serious issue, is thinking about it overnight. and you have two laws on the face clashing with one another. >> what are the odds you get your pick to win here? the judge who is going to rule

on this was nominated by president trump, the top lawyer with your own agency says the president has the authority to name its octobering director. do you think leann dra english will win and mick mulvaney will not be the director? >> judges are conscientious. they know they wear the rope it's not like lawyers who give opinions. we all have opinions. but it's judges who have to decide this. in either side disagrees with the judge's ruling, we'll go to the court of appeals where this may be decided further. that's the way the rule of law works, and it's appropriate. >> what's the point you're trying to accomplish. it's only a matter of time until he gets the person in that he

wants. mulvaney has made no secret about his views about this agency over the past. he's voted in favor of actually getting rid of it, let's play a little bit about what he's had to say about the cfpb in the past. >> it turns up being a joke. that's really what the agency is. some of us would like to get rid of it. >> eventually he's going to win. i mean, the president wants him in there, he's going to get him in there, you're admitting that yourself, right? >> no, i'm not. i'm not, erin, mick mulvaney will not be the director of the cfpb. he's confirmed to be the director of the office of management and budget. it's a big job. this interim period we're talking about here, someone else -- not mick mulvaney will be nominated for this job. >> clearly, the president supports -- you think that person could not get confirmed? >> i don't take that as a given

someplace someone has to go in front of the senate, and the senate weighs their points of view and convenient tals, i had to go through that process, it took me two years to push my way through that process. it's a serious legal matter, it should be weighed carefully. it shouldn't be partisan pickering or name calling. this is something that should be handled through the courts, in a respectful and responsible way. that's the proper way to resolve these disputes. >> your goal is, you think he'll be forced to nominate someone who is less anti- -- less wants to destroy this than mick mulvaney? that's the point. >> clearly i'm a believer in the consumer bureau, i helped set it up, i ran it for six years, i believe we did a lot of good for the american people who want someone to stand on their side

and see they're treated fairly when they're mistreated. we got $12 billion back to 30 million consumers. i think that was good work. you get cheated out of 20, 50, you can't do much about it. we gave them a place to go to get their complaints heard, problems fixed. those are good things, americans want that, i believe that. >> i want to play for you what sarah sanders said today. she took a swipe at you and how you ran the agency, here she is. >> we think that a lot of the past practices under the previous director and under the previous administration were used more to advance political ambitions and not about protecting american consumers. >> that was sarah sanders, the wall street journal more direct saying you're trying to raise your name recognition to run for the governor of ohio. what do you say? >> here's what i'd say, if the argument here is over who's better going to serve consumers

who's going to better serve the earn the of consumers and have them protected, i think people have different points of view on how to handle that set of issues. the fact that consumers deserve to have somebody looking out for them, somebody seeing that people are playing fair, that the rules are being enforced evenly, so that the bad players can't crowd out the good players, that's an important thing in our society, that's the way markets work, that's how people are protected and benefited, that's what we stood up for at that agency. >> thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. next, the access hollywood tape, it's back in the news. because it may be the only thing the president has publicly apologized for, now, reportedly he says it isn't real. person who broke that story next. trump's attacks on the media, even as he's promoting conspiracy theorists.

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tonight even his constantly spinning press secretary can't seem to find a way to back that claim up. >> does the president still accept the authenticity of the access hollywood tape. >> the president has addressed this. he's made his position clear at that time. >> would he acknowledge its authenticity, and that position hasn't changed? >> the president hasn't changed his position. >> okay, she says it hasn't changed, trump has not changed his position, in case you're not sure what that was, he was very loud and clear about this one, for probably the first time ever this clear. listen for yourself. >> i said it, i was wrong, and i apologize. >> that was about a year ago, he admitted that he said it, and now he is saying that it wasn't authentic, so let's just listen to it again.

>> i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them, it's like a magnet. and when you're a star they let you do it, you can do anything. >> whatever you want? >> grab them by the -- you can do anything. >> so this brazen attempt to say that the tape may not be authentic isn't authentic, left the president's press secretary today in a total tailspin. >> does the president acknowledge saying that what was on the access hollywood tape -- >> what he didn't like and what he found troubling were the accounts that are being reported now. >> what accounts are being reported now that weren't reported last year? >> what are you talking about? >> the ones that are current that he's questioning. >> what accounts is she talking about? there was a tape on which trump admits to talking about assaulting and harassing women. those were the accounts then, those are the accounts now.

let's go to our panel opinion white house correspondent for american urban radio networks, april ryan and mark preston. alex you're with me. you and your colleagues reporting the president says the access hollywood tape is not authentic? what is that? >> that's kind of the reaction that the folks he made the comments to had, disbelief and discomfort, why is he saying this, how can he possibly be saying this? let's try to move on. in context, it doesn't sound any better than the way you're describing it now, that what the president essentially said is, you know, look, we're not even sure that that tape was real, we're looking into that. as far as our reporting -- >> that's what he said. we're not sure the tape is real, we're looking into it. >> that is not a verbatim quote. that was the effect of the paraphrase, casting doubt on something that as you pointed

out, he admitted in realtime last year, there's really no question about the factual -- >> no, there certainly isn't, not even i can't believe we're having this conversation frankly, billy bush, the other person on that tape admits the tape happened exactly the way the tape plays out, it did happen. april, you were in the room today, even sarah sanders could not defend this, saying that he stood by what he said before, but what he said before is that it was real and he apologized, she had to say there was some new reporting about it. >> yeah, current reports, yeah. >> the question is, when she said that, zh to head off something that could be coming? is this to just downplay what's already there, the 12 plus women who are accusing this president in the midst of the president supporting roy moore, sarah looked very uncomfortable in dealing with this, as well as the other big issue today, with the native americans, it's an issue that is confounding to all

of us, when the president acknowledged he said it, not only that, the president even said it was locker room talk, he acknowledged it again, billy bush was fired for this. tictac came out on twitter and made a statement about how inappropriate this was. you can't change history. we saw them come out of the van or the bus, whatever -- the access hollywood vehicle, the president met with a woman who some considered possible prey for the president after he made these comments. it's a very confusing confounding issue but the president has acknowledged saying it, it could be a smoking gun for those women who are accusing him of sexual misconduct. >> what do you think the game is here. >> alex is reporting multiple people, the president's ultimate message was, we're not sure the tape is real, we're looking into

that. >> well, a couple things, can we acknowledge that president trump never likes to be wrong? he never likes to be at fault? he always thinks he's right. i think when he says it over and over and over again, he starts to believe it, he wants others to believe it. this is a term we use on tv, very often since president trump has come into office, it's called gaslighting, you're trying to manipulate the thoughts and take control over somebody. that includes denying ever saying anything, or denying ever doing anything even though there's empirical evidence. constantly lying over and over again, trying to get the recipient of who you're doing this to, to come under your total control. i think he has been successful in working this kind of strategy so far in his presidency. >> what are your sources saying, how recently and what do they

think his motive is, why is he saying this? >> it's a comment he's made a number of times. this season the just something that he's begun saying over the last few weeks, and at least the interpretation of the folks we spoke to for our story, it's not that there's a precise political motive at work here. you can't rewrite history. the president has a habit of going back and try to relitigate and rewrite events where he came out on the losing end. >> this is a case of the president saying something, it's just a fact, okay? it happened, he did it, he's admitted to doing it. it's not the first time. take this example. >> you said today you had the biggest electoral margin since ronald reagan. in fact, president obama got 365. >> i'm talking about republican.

>> president obama, 332, george h.w. bush, 426. >> i don't know, i was given that information. actually, i've seen that information around. but it was a very substantial victory. >> there's that, and when he said he appeared on the cover of "time" magazine, which is similar to this example here he is. >> i have been on their cover like 14 or 15 times. i think we have the all time record in the history of time magazine. >> at the time he said that, he had been on 11 times. you still have nixon who have had more, reagan, clinton. he doesn't care about the facts when he comes out and says something like this. to many people that becomes their reality. >> right. right. if you say it, perception is reality, reality is perception. this president's take on reality is about his branding, to make

himself, he is one of the greatest branders we've ever seen. that brand has taken him to the highest office in the land. can he accept history and really deal with it? he is resaying history, the history books say it, we have facts, just look at today, you know, history shows, and i'm just going back to this piece today with the issue with the native americans, at the white house. he had them in the white house and behind the backdrop was andrew jackson who was andrew jackson to native americans? that's history, the truth in history is there, you know, yes, he forced the removal of native americans in this nation. history is history, you cannot change it, some people don't understand history, and, therefore, they may take what he says. when you're a student of history, and you've watched what's going on over and over for decades, you know what's going on in that white house and

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breaking news, roy moore holding a rally in bama. the first time we are hearing directly from the republican senate candidate in days. the election is just about two weeks away, and alexander

marquart is with the campaigning. there would be no questions, no disturbances whatsoever. so moore gave his speech and took no questions. >> no questions, this was a rally for his supporters and right off the top, he acknowledged the fact that this has been what he called a grueling race, he said that he has been ready for the end for a while. now, he addressed these allegations by now. eight with women head on, calling them false, ma lishsz and a sign of immorality in our time. he said the effort to get him out of the race has been led by the establishment. >> they're aware of my past.

i have my own mind. they don't want that. they want to do what they've been doing for years and not get anything done. >> after that, we've seen malicious and false attacks. >> that's what we've been hearing from a lot of moore supporters here, in particular, speaking with a conservative activist today. a moore supporter who said alaba alabamaians hate it when washington gets involved and they're told what to do. the voters are only being fired up and energized. i asked many people here why they would prefer to have an alleged child molester in the senate, than a democrat like doug jones. they want to see their conservative agenda advanced. they want to see president trump's agenda advanced. doug jones can help them through

that. >> let's go to bill crystal now. your reaction of voters telling alex, look, we care about the agenda. we don't care if he's a child molester. you're going to rile up the base with these allegations. >> the allegations were made by citizens of alabama, living in bama. no one is challenged. the bulk of them anyway, they're lying, but he won't sit down for an interview and explain what happened and maybe explain that he made some mistakes and he regrets it, that would have been one way to go, right? that would have given people plausible. they would have had a plausible way to say, he's changed, it's 40 years ago, it's a different person. he hasn't done that, he's just flat out lied. can we say that? >> if people in bama want to feel sorry for themselves? roy moore is a liar, it's

evident he's lied about it. they want to elect someone like that to give donald trump a 51st vote instead of a 52nd vote in the senate? >> richard shelby has said he voted absentee. he did not vote for roy moore. presumably he wrote in someone else, that's just my assumption. does that matter? he's a long time senator from that state. >> i think that matters more than someone from out of state. more people from the region would step up. it would be interesting if shelbey made a pitch to voters there. i'm not for democrats and i'll fight with doug jones on some issues. it's one thing to have someone you don't agree with on policy. there's something sick about taking policy differences or politic differences. >> they call him an extreme

liberal. >> on some issues he's more liberal than the bama democrats would like. but whatever, i mean, there's nothing weird, sort of sick about taking policy differences and letting them trump fundamental judgments about someone's character. >> using the word trump, the president has come out and said, moore says it didn't happen, so i guess it didn't happen, he's clearly endorsing him, he's now saying he doesn't have the time to campaign for him. >> still, he's all in for moore. we don't like democrats. if every republican senator said, we're distancing ourselves from roy moore. you should not vote for roy moore, you should vote for someone else. you don't have to vote for doug jones, vote for this marine colonel. don't -- i mean, if they

affirmatively say we are republicans, we carry as much as you do, believe me, about the republican agenda. mitch mcconnell cares a lot about -- he's gone to quite a lot of effort to support trump's nominees and get them through. i care about that and a lot of other senators could step up and say that including rick sell by, don't send us roy moore. if they send roy moore, it's a disaster for the republican party, i think. he's there, i doubt if they'll expel him. maybe they'll try to. i hope they do, i think go ahead with hearings, try to consider expelling him. but if they don't do that, he is there, and he becomes the face of the republican party for 2018. >> which would be a very bad thing for the republican party coming into midterms. new details about michael flynn and the russia investigation. is flynn cutting a deal with the special prosecutor? >> trump tweeting out a link to a list of his accomplishments. that link connects you to a page run by a conspiracy theorist who

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telling them they would no longer share information as they have been doing for months. that change could mean that flynn is cooperating with prosecutors, or negotiating a deal that could end with flynn pleading guilty. >> when flynn notifies the others in the group, i'm no longer aligned. it means he's got something different going on. in this case, it's either plea negotiations or plea negotiations and cooperation agreement. >> at the same time, president trump's lawyer is putting new distance between general flynn and the president, stating, it's important to remember that general flynn received his security clearance under the obama administration. notwithstanding that it was donald trump that named flynn his national security adviser. >> as of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. >> reporter: sources interviewed by the special counsel tell cnn that flynn is under scrutiny for failing to disclose paid lobbying he performed during the presidential campaign on behalf

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>> but when investigators pressed him, flynn changed his answer to say that he didn't remember. that episode led to his ouster from the white house. >> raise your reasoned, please. >> concern that he had lied to the fbi, then acting attorney general sally yates made this stunning judgment. >> we believe that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> reporter: a key witness to the special counsel's investigation of flynn, the former cia director, james woolsey, who also advised the trump campaign, also showed up at mar-a-lago this weekend for dinner with president trump. politico first to report that. and had a lengthy conversation with the president. woolsey's spokesman would only say that woolsey has served multiple presidents, erin, and has never shared the contents of his conversations with them. >> thank you very much, jim. and next, trump touting his many achievements. the problem was that in doing that, he including a link to a website run by a conspiracy theorist. you know, the one who's talking about a hillary clinton sex tape. as you can clearly see,

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new tonight, president trump stepping up his attacks on the free press, today tweeting, we should have a contest as to which of the networks, plus cnn and not including fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt, and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite president, me. they're all bad. winner to receive the fake news trophy. yet at the same time, the president president is endorsing a far-right publication. >> president trump wins tons of praise from his favorite shows on fox. >> you guys want to start with good news? we do have some good news. >> go ahead. >> you don't get a lot of good news in the media. >> well, you don't get so much. >> reporter: but sometimes he wants more. enter magapill. it's a website that pushes links to right-wing conspiracies about the seth rich murder, pizzagate,

and john podesta's e-mails. the story starts here on twitter. over the holiday weekend, trump tweeted a promo for fox and a dig at cnn and then he apparently scrolled through the replays, where he saw magapill. that's short for make america great again pill. the site was cheering him and touting his accomplishments. trump was impressed, tweeted in response, wow, even i didn't realize we did so much. wish the fake news would report. oh, really? magapill was just an obscure, pro-trump aggregator of articles. but with a presidential thumbs up, its web server crashed. and the president was criticized for, once again, promoting a source of conspiracy theories. >> a lot of these sites are powerful, because there's a kernel of truth. when you look at it, a lot of it is conspiratorial and a lot of it is demonstrably false. these conspiracy-laden charts, they are extreme fringe. now, we don't know if trump clicked through t eed through t

fact checked any of its claims, but promoting a little-known big fan like magapill has been a theme of trump's first year in office. he calls real news fake -- >> you're fake news. >> reporter: while propping up illegitimate sources. a year ago today, trump claimed that millions of people had voted illegally. his voter fraud panel has found no proof of that. and you know his other conspiracy theories. president obama's birthplace, muslims celebrating on 9/11, ted cruz's father and jfk. wiretaps during the campaign. with reporters constantly scrutinizing trump's fact thf frthf -free claims, web entrepreneurs see a market opportunity. that's why magapill was tweeting at the president. and today trump saying he wants to hold a fake news contest, complete with a trophy. hmm, there's a contender for that title living right here. and all of this, the attacks

against the real news outlets, the promotion of these random websites, the suggestion the "access hollywood" tape could have been faked, all of it goes to that uncomfortable question that bob corker and others have raised, is he fit for office or is something wrong at the white house? >> right. thank you very much, brian. and thanks very much to all of you. "a.c. 360" begins now. good evening. a lot to get to tonight. and frankly, hard to know where to even begin. that's because we heard several things from this president today and this holiday weekend that were either misrepresentations of the truth or at least in one case, an outright lie. let's begin with the reporting by "the new york times" that president trump has, on at least two occasions, said that the "access hollywood" tape, which came out back in october of last year, in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women was in the words of "the new york times," not authentic. this is a part of that tape. >> i got to use some tic tacs, just in case i start kissing her. you know, i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. like a