alabama wasn't. whatever. let's move on. we would not be talking about it right now. >> i was overcautious. i extended it too much. i just want everybody to be safe. he would have gotten a little bit of this. good, you're right. thank you for caring. we don't think you have a lot of empathy in these situations. you did here. even governor chris christie, he's a supporter of the president. it's harder for a guy like this to get to that point. it's a more real point when it's him. he says the apology is key, don. when you make a mistake, when you go too far, you apologize. we have never seen this president do that once. >> yep. thank you, sir. see you soon. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. here's our breaking news. of course we're talking about hurricane dorian battering the carolinas right now. and expected to remain a powerful -- very powerful hurricane with the potential for dangerous storm surges, life-threatening flash floods, okay? this is not over yet. a rough night ahead, especially for north carolina. we're g

later, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. here's the president sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, four days later quadrupling down on the lie. what is from your body of reporting about this president, what is it that makes him sort of reup a lie four days later and one correction from the national weather service later? >> mine, this one is truly a strange one because this is not a political adversary that he's going after and it's -- he punches back and he punches back harder than he got hit. this is -- you think the weather being corrected by the actual path of the storm, we would think you would say oh, what a relief we were mistaken and it's not going to hit alabama as we thought. but in general he doesn't like to concede any ground and admit he was wrong. you can count on one hand the times he had to be forced to apologize, didn't like to do it. but this was a strange one because it doesn't seem to be scoring any political points. in terms of taking it back. >> john heilemann, it's a story that broke at 33:55. people we

he claimed alabama was in the hurricane's path when it was not. did mr. trump draw that black circle him sefs? welcome to our viewers here and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. this is "the situation room." >>> we are following breaking news on the hurricane emergency in the carolinas as disaster relief is beginning in the bahamas. a new forecast shows dorian's eye passing 45 miles off myrtle beach, south carolina. it is hammering the coast with 105 miles per hour winds, unleashing destructive tornadoes as well. the streets of charleston are flooded, with up to 15 inches of rain forecast for the carolinas, and storm surge up to 7 feet high. in the bahamas tonight, more than 100 people rescued on islands decimated by dorian, but thousands are in dire straights now, without homes or safe living conditions, in urgent need of shelter, food, water. our correspondents, experts and other guests are standing biy a we cover this story. martin savidge is in south carolina. dorian is miles from myrtle beach. >> reporter: wolf, conditions here continue to deterior

it's called alabama. alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that. >> reporter: but that's not true. contrast what the president said sunday with this map provided by noaa, which shows at that moment that the storm was nowhere near alabama. >> i know that alabama was in the original forecast. they thought it would get it, as a piece of it. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the map was altered just before the president presented it to the public. white house aides know who did it, a problem for the president's team, as mr. trump has already said he doesn't know what happened. >> that map that you showed us today looked almost like it had a sharpie -- >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: and there's one more problem, as a fox news meteorologist noted, it's a violation of federal law to falsify a national weather service forecast. democrats are pouncing. >> i feel sorry for the president. >> i don't know if he felt it necessary to pull out a sharp

it's called alabama. and alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that. >> the original cone map compared to today's appendage shows somebody did something, and today the president was asked about that. >> you showed us the map earlier of the initial forecast, and it appeared to have been edited or something to include alabama. can you explain how that change was made? >> no, i just know -- i know that alabama was in the original forecast. they thought it would get it as a piece of it. but alabama was hit very hard. and it was going to be hit very hard along with georgia. but under the current -- they won't be. >> the map you showed us today looked like it was almost a sharpie. >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. >> we'd love to report this is over. it's not. just tonight the president sent out this map to bolster his case. it shows a strand going there on up through alabama. he insisted it was the originally projected path of the hurricane in its early

called alabama. and alabama could even be in for at least some strong wind. and something more than that. it could be. this just came up. unfortunately. it's the size of the storm that we're talking about. so for alabama, just be careful. >> the american people, you, need to rely on your president. to tell you the truth. shouldn't you? come on. shouldn't you be able to rely on your president to tell you the truth? here's a question for you. do you believe this president? certainly been a bizarre week of lashing out by the approximate. we'll discuss that. alice stewart, max boot and mike d'antonio next. through other 's vacations, or you can be the kind of person that books their own vacation. a booker. scootin' through life at seven miles an hour. awesome. you see, bookers just go for it. they book a surfside resort, order a fourth taco even though three was plenty... 'cause bookers don't make bucket lists. no booking way. they make memories. just like this guy right here. be a booker at booking.com. the world's #1 choice for booking accommodations. you may b

louisiana, alabama. mississippi. you need to be on the lookout. >> that's the forecast as it actually aired. it was more nuance. he gave different scenarios about what if it went there. several tracks. blah, blah, blah. he's a meteorologist. he explained it better. trump campaign tweeted it out. including the date. august 28. a day when there was a possibility of a threat to parts of alabama. no dispute about that. there never was. it's a fact. when the president tweeted tonight, guess what? the date was mysteriously or maybe not so mysteriously missing. taking the clip out of context. the issue isn't what happened on wednesday. it's what happened on sunday. when that forecast had been updated at least 15 times. yet the president tweeting this that alabama was among the states likely to be hit much harder than an fatesed. it was about 20 minutes later that birmingham, alabama branch of noah tweeted in no uncertain terms alabama would not see impacts from dorian. and now the row sources of the federal government, thin

, it would have been georgia, alabama, et cetera for alabama, please be careful also. is going to get it a piece of it it looks like. >> just didn't happen and it was never going to happen when he said it. chris cillizza is here with his number of the week. how is 14 and why and what? >> okay, 14, let's start with this, 14 to your point, eight tweets, six on camera comments, eight and six, 14 times donald trump -- i don't know, double down, triple down, i don't know what 14 times down is, but 14 times went back to this thing that was not true at the start. i don't care how many times he tweets about it, i don't care what kind of statements he gets his administration to put out. it wasn't true then, it isn't true now. >> why does this matter? >> it matters a couple things, i think the big reason it matters is because donald trump doesn't tell the truth. we know that. that's a given. but this involves people's well-being, telling people that they need to be worried when they don't. and number two, if you are so obsessed with being right, chris, while people are in danger

, that alabama might be in danger.are the facts, shep. >> shepard: it is. weird times. thank you, john. stunning new images from dorian's destruction. man, it is apocalyptic said one official there. so many houses and everything destroyed. the scariest part of this, there's 20 confirmed dead. there's reports of thousands of people missing. that happens in the aftermath of hurricanes. happens all the time. communications are down. people can't get in touch. they're in a shelter. thousands of people. it is very frightening. there was a 23-foot storm surge on part of abaco around marsh harb harbor. if there were people in there, i mean, you don't even want to think about it. entire communities are piles of lumber. it's so resembled south mississippi after katrina. that came in with a 32-foot storm surge. waveland, the whole coast just rubble. that's what it looks like where that eye came ashore in abaco. this is what is left after the flood waters rose 23 feet. the winds were 185 miles an hour sustained, 220 miles an hour

and yet the president is mainly talking about alabama. why?dent who does not and seems to be unable to admit that he was wrong. this is a president who as we saw from the very early days when he came into office when he was so focused and preoccupied on the size of his crowds at the inauguration that he was ordering up visual evidence to try to sort of support the false claim. and it's really, you know, striking now poppy, because as you said, you know, there are lives that have been lost, lives that are at stake. this is still a very serious storm. and the president is now in day 5, you know, talking about how right he was when he wasn't right. look, people to be -- we all like to talk about the weather. but this is a very strange preoccupation of the president, his need to show that he was right about a weather forecast, you know, again, when the storm is very serious when there are serious issues facing congress like background checks on gun control, he can't get off it. >> patrick healy, thank you very much. >> thanks, poppy. >> outfront n

. >> and it may get a little piece of a great place it's called alabama and alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more. and so, for alabama, just please be careful, also. >> reporter: not long after that, the national weather service corrected the president, saying, "alabama will not see anymore impacts from dorian." the president, who canceled a trip to poland in order to monitor the storm, spent much of today at his golf club in virginia. cnn capturing these images of him playing golf. we haven't heard anything from the president about the hurricane since that fema bri briefing yesterday, but white house press secretary stephanie grisham says that he has been getting updates every hour all day long, presumably, david, including while he was playing golf. >> jon karl with us on this labor day.

alabama will not see any impacts. now, an uproar after the national office scolded birmingham backing the president over some of its own scientists one former noah staffer calling that statement moral crowdedness. those birmingham forecasters showing support. now noah's chief scientists is calling the response political and a danger to public health and safety and investigating whether it violated ethics standards according to an email obtained by "the washington post." president trump was supposed to see some of the damage from dorian in north carolina today, but bad weather forced him to cancel that tour and hold a briefing on air force one instead. lester >> hallie, thank you. >>> the death toll following dorian is at 45 expected to rise sharply. tonight the focus is handling the influx of evacuees and getting them the aid they need. gabe gutierrez is in nassau tonight. >> reporter: tonight, plane by plane, evacuees are streaming into the bahama capital, a humanitarian exitos. >> it is bad we don't know what to do.

so very strong winds, he said, in alabama.s is saturday, 12:30, or even something more than that. wow, something more than that. today's statement admiral brown said, and i quote, the statements were based on that morning's hurricane briefing which included the possibility of tropical storm winds in southeastern alabama. you notice he didn't say anything about something more than that, as the president tweeted hours before. quote, be hit much harder than anticipated. so in addition to that, cnn learned late today the white house called fox news john roberts into the oval office to argue his case shortly after roberts did a live shot debunking the president's claims. this is how the commander in chief spent a good part of the day with the death toll rising in bahamas, risk their lives in the carolinas, good people everywhere donating supplies and expertise, others wondering how they can help, what they can do. the president of the united states spending time making sure no one ever forgets about the one thing in this entire ter

pete: by the way, alabama -- he said alabama would be grazed. that's his comme.ou had a piece looking at how some senior white house people assess his summer. it said the two months between independence day and labor d offered a fresh and vivid portrait of theresident as seen by trump's critics, incompetent, indecisive and ineffective. what werehed steps? the re-election campaign gets going. they try to broaden their appeal. they lay a foundation. and trump according to some ofw his advisors missed that opportunity. he spent his suer attacking the squad, the fr congresswomen ofolor. assaulting his visit to baltimore. and boted visits following the shootings. and we could go on and on and it was whip-saudi plow massy. it was a seriesf consequences and controversys that he in large part created himself that his allies and advisors feel it was a period of self-sabopege. : what about the possibility impeachment? that's another i that was not on your list. is the house going s toiously move on impeachment? and what about this thing that the house wan to look into abou

the added bubble made it look like alabama was in danger from alabama.y pathetic. >> when he does something frankly this dumb. >> reporter: ladies and gentlemen of the internet, uncap your sharpies. and this modified picture proves that trump never met jeffrey epstein. the size of the president's inaugural crowd got bumped over and over. the size of president trump's hands also got a makeover. trump tower towers over everything in manhattan. and the president's approval numbers are skyrocketing. and all because of -- >> sharpie-gate. >> sharpie-gate. >> reporter: there were so many sharpie-gate jokes that two late night comics told the same one saying president trump wanted to give the hurricane a bigger bosom. >> this is category 5. actually, no, it's a ten. >> before i did that, it was a category 5. now she's a category 10. >> reporter: and twitter kept churning out more in a rush. trump releases photos showing how windmills cause cancer. >> after this i have to wonder if his high school report card was legit. >> just because you sleep with somebody na

new efforts to defend president trump's incorrect warning about the danger dorian posed to alabama. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the latest for us. jim, a top trump adviser is coming to the president's defense. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. white house officials are digging in their heels over president trump's use of altered map to justify false statements that hurricane dorian posed a threat to alabama. the white house put out a carefully worded statement saying his comments were based on briefings from officials, aides won't say if it was mr. trump that changed the map in what's become a game of cones for the president. leading what may become an indelible mark on the trump presidency, it was hardly a master stroke. now the white house is dragging its feet, admitting who altered the weather map held up by the president in the oval office, false falsely showing alabama in the path of the hurricane. >> that was the original chart,

he tweeted nine times about alabama. even a white house released a statement defending the president's claim. yesterday afternoon, the president tweeted maps from august 29th and all 30th writing just as i said, alabama was originally projected to be hit. the fake news denies it, he writes. he went on to say, i was with you all the way, alabama. the fake news media was not. here is what shep smith of fox news had to say about that yesterday. >> why would the president of the united states do this? he decries fake news that isn't and disseminates fake news that is. this is one where he can apologize and just move on. that map was from the day hurricane became a hurricane. eight days ago. august the 28th. it was four days old at the precise time he said alabama would likely be hit harder than anticipated and by then it was fake news defined on a very serious subject. this morning another statement, what i said was accurate. it wasn't and it isn't. >> and according to cnn's jake tapper, president trump called the fox news c

alabama would be hit hard. today eyebrows were raised when president trump referenced a map to include an addition showing the storm affecting part of alabama claiming that was the original forecast, but jake, a similar image released by the white house last thursday did not include any impact on alabama and its forecast. a white house official offers this explanation saying there was a discussion before today's briefing at the white house about the early models and an official in the room grabbed a black sharpie and prompted it could have been worse by drawing on the map. jake? >> interesting focus given all the hundreds of thousands of americans whose lives are on the line right now as the hurricane comes towards the carolinas. pamela brown, thanks so much. thank you for joining us. cnn special night of climate change continues with former vice president joe biden after this break. dough made from scratch, every day. sauce from the original giammarco recipe. and authentic toppings like crispy, old world peppe

alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. all of this for some at home may seem small but the president's words matter. in this case he reportedly doctored that map to prove his argument instead of simply acknowledging a mistake. last night he tweeted out the spaghetti line models from the south florida water management district that came with the series of disclaimers. one of them read, these are automated products that have not been quality checked. the bottom line here, steph, in times of natural disasters people in the affected areas look to the president and federal government for credible information and confidence and this episode you can safely say is undermining both. >> without a doubt. joining us now shannon pettypiece, former congressman ryan costello who represented the state of pennsylvania, and my dear friend ben white politico's chief economic correspondent. ben, to you first. there are many people, americans, specifically in south carolina. we just saw my partner ali velshi, they are in the storm's path, stil

back in washington, new fallout from the president's claim that hurricane dorian was threatening alabama. >> alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that. >> reporter: this morning there are new calls for commerce secretary wilbur ross to resign after "the new york times" reported ross threatened to fire employees at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for contradicting the president by saying dorian was not threatening alabama. the commerce department calls "the new york times" report false adding secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and

, alabama, alabama, alabama, mississippi, you need to be on the lookout.ie: we cut it off too soon, august 28th when the projections were less clear. video while clarence is talking. my question to you is this going too far or is this entertainment at this point? >> you're talking about the president going too far? >> the cnn global -- >> there we go. howie: had to show to america. >> the president has blurred line between that and serious politic, but the situation is one in which the spaghetti model the president followed early on they call it showed multiple tracks, including touching alabama and delighted the hurricane didn't get that far. thank you, that's the seriousness. we are talking about hurricane, a lot of people lost their lives. >> you're talking in the bahamas. >> trump shouldn't have played two rounds of golf over labor day weekend when dorian was hitting the bahamas and heading to u.s., opposition party that says the president shouldn't play golf during crisis. >> when president trump started calling the media opposition party or using har

obviously by sunday when he was saying alabama was threatened, alabama was not threatened. the national weather service knows that. the incredible workers there that have been keeping the public safe note that. that's why it's a shame today noaa, this government agency, put out a statement trying to support the president's lie. that's really disturbing. whenever we see government agencies doing this. our taxpayer dollars are being wasted in this way by the white house press secretary who is out there misleading the public, by these government agencies that are trying to prove trump's falsehoods true. that's ultimately why this story matters. it doesn't matter that, you know, the president got it wrong three times on sunday. it matters that we've spent a week seeing government agencies employed with our taxpayer money trying to prove it right. >> this is -- charlie, this is -- my gosh, this goes to susan's point and i guess to your point, and i guess to everybody's point on this panel. but the absurdity of it all, the trump campaign is promoting, charlie, this marker that yo

he sent the alabama tweet out. we can take the weather map and show, that morning he sent the tweet about four hours before it went out, this was the official forecast. most people in a position of power would see this and, pretty obvious. maybe he missed it. after we went through all this nonsense that you just said today, the president tweeted out this map saying that this was his proof of why alabama was in the cone. all the lines are computer models. he has us. look, even some go to louisiana. and mississippi. i don't know why he left louisiana and mississippi off. let's take a closer look. the date is august 28. he tweeted that out on september 1. this was four days before he sent the tweet out about alabama. why would you pick four days before the tweet? why would you pick a map? let's see what the spaghetti lines looked like. this is hours before the tweet what the lines looked like. >> the same map. >> same kind of map. >> it's the day he actually said alabama. >> hours before he did it. none into alabama.

i think it's a big deal that he can't admit he was wrong about alabama.happened in the middle of a big hurricane. frankly, i think this is going to be in the history books. it's going to be a lie in the history books. >> it's another black sharpie. thank you, brian. appreciate it. from one reality to another. ten of the democratic presidential candidates joined cnn for a special event. back-to-back town halls all focused on the climate crisis and their prescription for how to tackle it. it was big, ambitious and plans. they differed on the details. they all agreed that man made climate change is real and an immediate threat to the condition tri and the world. something the president has called a chinese hoax before he took office and since he took office declared that he doesn't believe and doesn't even believe his own government's report offering alarming warnings about the impact of climate change. the candidates did not hold back when it came to president trump's position here, listen. >> he's dead wrong across the board on basically everything. i mean

state of alabama want to stop a near total ban on abortions we look at the pressure already faced by those seeking health. and well include cruft thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has called the impeachment inquiry launched by congressional democrats a joke but the latest details are no laughing matter or read out of a july phone call but. tromping ukrainian president a lot of mir the lenski shows trump wants in the ukrainian leader to investigate democratic presidential candidate joe biden u.s. house democrats are calling his actions a quote an ambiguous damning and shocking abuse of the office of the presidency. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine's fellow to me as a lenski using a familiar line and the which aren't continues but they're getting hit hard in this which aren't because when they look at the information it's a joke. impeachment that i didn't do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn't do it there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to lo

that's where trump started talking about alabama.alabama did their job by calming residents. the president hasn't been able to put a period on this one. >> no, he absolutely hasn't. here -- so we talked about why it matters in terms of people's lives and their concern about a very real storm. let's talk about why this matters politically, this is "inside politics." this kind of chaos people a in and around republican circles say someone of the main things that contributes to the president bleeding support among women, suburban women. take a look at this, the president versus a woman in 2016 won white women by 9 points. look at where he is. so that's plus 9. look at where he is against biden and sanders. he is down 18 points among white women among those two and also double digits among the three contenders below. that is a huge potential problem for the president. >> right. and it's a problem that he certainly has not been making any better this week. we know that these white suburban women, as you point out, they don't like the chao

alabama was in the path.president said alabama was in the path was days after alabama was no longer in the path, period. those are the facts, period. >> right. >> how you view this is how you view the trump presidency probably. this is why it matters. the president's words in times of national crisis, in times of international crisis, must matter. they must carry weight, they must be accurate. this is just one more example of, a, he must be at the center of everything. why he was talking about alabama and the forecast in the first place was not all that necessary. it's not really his job at that point. b, what the president says has to be credible so all of these words, every sort of passing month of this administration, can you believe him, can you not believe him? i think that's why this is the big deal. not specifically the sharpie. a lot of people are saying the media is making too much of this. the reality is the president's words must be true. in this case they're not. >> hogan gidley, the president's d

alabama's own kaitlan collins, thank you so much. appreciate it.ou wrote an entire book about this, about how president trump gaslights the american people. look, no one disputes that a week ago there were some projections that showed a possible slight affect on a small sliver of alabama. the point is that on sunday, by the time he started warning alabama, those were outdate and the projections no longer said alabama was in the zone, as the national weather service a few minutes later said so. why is he doing this? >> i think all of this is done in service to his ego. he wants to constantly present himself as this chosen one, once in a lifetime president who can only defeat the most historic threats we've ever faced, right? so if he has the chance to hype the storm as something bigger than it is, of course he will do so, even if he has to take out a sharpie and extend the map westward. >> we don't know for a fact that he did that -- >> it definitely wasn't the guy with the sharpie on his desk, okay. >> on other occasions, he hyped the humanitarian

he sent the alabama tweet out saying alabama was at risk along with florida, south carolina and north carolina and georgia. we can take the map out. that morning he sent the tweet, four hours before it was out, this was the official forecast. most people in a position of power would wake up to see this. pretty obvious, right? maybe he didn't see it. 5:00 a.m. in the morning, maybe he missed it. so after we went through all this nonsense you just said today, the president tweeted out this map saying that this was his proof of why alabama was in the cone. all those squiggly lines are our computer mott els. oh, he's got us. even louisiana -- even louisiana and mississippi. if that's the case, i don't know why he left louisiana and mississippi off, alabama. let's take a closer look at this. oh, the date is august 28th. wait, he tweeted that out on september 1st. this was four days before he sent the tweet out about alabama. i said, why would you pick four days before the tweet? you know, why would you pick a map? so i said, okay, let's see what the spaghetti lines looked like. on the weat

risk >> alabama's dpo aing to get a piece of it, it looks like >> alabama, please be careful also >> reporter: president later display add map with hot apoored to be a sharpy line around alabama. >> i know alabama was in the original forecast. >> reporter: the danger had passed the state day businessfore the president brought it up. prompting this tweet "alabama will not see any impacts "now an uproar after ever the national office scolded birmingham for speaking in absolute terms inconsistenl cowards. an forecasters receiving a show of support and a standing ovaugz. noaa's chie calling it a dachger to public health and safety and investigating whether it violated public it standards >> meanwhile it appears the trump 20 twbt campaign is cashing in on this they're selling the official fine point markers with the tag line -- >> and holding its annual product unstraling event in california we're expect tootds gelt news on three iphone models. there is also a new version of the apple watch and for the first time kroul rr be able to watch the apple ntonogle >> year a few months away from

. >>> and alabama rebuked. a government agency backs president trump over its own scientists before the president misstates the hurricane's threat to alabama last sunday. >> that was what was originally projected. >> as people in the bahamas grow more desperate, why is the president still talking about alabama? >>> and counting down. only ten democrats get a shot at the debate stage this week. >> we're going to win by being bold. >> i want to be the president for all of america! >> with key early states up for grabs, do the front-runners have cause for concern? senator amy klobuchar and former secretary julian castro join me coming up. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is finding ourselves still capable of being shocked. president trump tweeting last night he planned to be meeting with leaders of the taliban this weekend here on u.s. soil at camp david for peace negotiations. yes, we are just days away from the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. the president, however, sai

but this was not a joke to the folks in alabama who saw trump's tweet that said, alabama will much likely be hit much harder than anticipated. they started calling the national local weather service office, because they were concerned. that's according to the "washington post," who has a great front page story this morning all about this. so now we know why the birmingham office sent out a true tweet saying alabama was safe. they did the right thing. they warned the public not to take trump's tweet seriously. this is not sharpiegate. forget about the sharpie. this is lying about a hurricane gate. he shared incorrect information about dorian's path once, twice, three times last sunday. and when tv networks pointed this out, he wasted the week trying to prove he was right. and we said things like doubling down, tripling down, quadrupled down. it sounds strong, like he's winning a fight, but this mess really exposed his weakness. instead of doubling down, we should say, he continued to confuse people spreading bogus information. that would be a lot more accurate than saying sharpiegate day s

he said he was right about saying it was heading toward alabama.t and never was in any real way in any model we've ever been shown. this isn't about fact. it is about where we are in our discourse. this is where we are. >> right now, i'm much more concerned about preventing any other loss of life. getting people to safe places. and then we'll worry about the election. the election will take care of itself. >> it is not this is where we are. no. this is where we are. governor chris christie. do you remember during super storm sandy, i don't care about bush, i don't care about obama, i care about helping new jersey. i'll hug anybody who comes here to help us. that's what he did. he got criticism. he didn't care. he's been in the mix. now he's watching what's happening and he thinks it is too much. he's trying to bring civility back. we're going to talk problems and solutions. governor, great to have you here. i mean that. we have to remember that's what a leader does. the game stops when people start dying or are at risk. no more left, right. >> list

we are now on day six of the president refusing to drop his false claim that alabama was in the pathhurricane dorian, a claim that he made on sunday that he's continuing to make now even in the face of several meteorologists saying the president was not accurate when he made that claim. the president is going to great lengths to claim he was right even having his homeland security advisor, this person rear admiral peter brown issue a statement defending the president's remarks from last sunday when he made that claim where in a statement that is pretty interesting, brown said the president was briefed and that that had tropical storm force winds in southeastern alabama. all of the models show otherwise. the president is continuing to make this claim and clearly seems to be sensitive to this idea that his claim could be wrong, so wrong in fact that my colleagues are reporting that on the president on thursday afternoon summoned the fox news white house reporter to the oval office after he had been criticized on air for making the claim about alabama, that the president told the fox ne

starting sunday. >> it may hit a little piece of a great place, it's called alabama, and alabama couldin for at least some very strong winds. >> the national weather service tried to set the record straight. nearly every day so far this week the president has insisted he's right, despite all the corrections. chris cillizza is going to make sense of all of this. >> the ab sushdity is right. donald trump mentions alabama in that briefing. donald trump on monday, this is labor day. we run through these facts. he continues to reconstitute this story. i suggested yesterday that alabama could possibly come into play, which was true. they made a big fact about this when several scenarios corrected that alabama could receive some hurt. then we go to donald trump response, stephanie grissom trying to clean up the mess. we're told there was a lot of uncertainty. as the president, you don't say look out, fill in the blank state, uncertainty does mean it's coming to this place. then we had donald trump with reporters, this is the map that you showed that everyone is now familiar with, with this li

and then a sharp e over alabama. this is what he said when asked about it later. >> i know that alabama was in the original forecast. they thought it would get it as a piece of it. it was supposed to go. we have a better map than that. which will be presented where we had many lines going directly. models each line being a model. going through directly through. in all katss alabama was hit. if not likely in some cases pretty hard. >> again. that map he showed was thursday. again sunday and since then it when he was talking about alabama. it wasn't happening. and he now says he'll present another map. he'll continue this. this shouldn't everyone be a story. it continues to be a story. it's ludicrous we're talking about. the president continues to talk about it. and focus on it. and maybe that's to distract from the ignorance about existence of category 5 storms. but imagine time he and his staff have spent running around trying to think of ways to prove what he said which was wrong. really wasn't wrong. cnn senior whi

alabama. that is what led to noaa issuing that long interesting statement on friday night that was not signed by any officials and rebutted their own claims about whether or not the hurricane could impact alabama. wolf? >> kaitlan, thank you. kaitlan collins in north carolina for us. the house judiciary committee is now poised to take a key step forward, this week, in its impeachment investigation of president trump. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. lawmakers will vote on a resolution defining the parameters of their impeachment probe. does that mean an inquiry is under way. >> reporter: democrats say it is in fact under way. that there is an impeachment investigation happening and thursday's vote, which will lay out how the hearings take place procedurally in the days and weeks ahead shows they're doing that. investigating whether or not to impeach the president of the united states. i just had a chance to ask the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, whether or not she agrees that they are

after showing reporters an outdated and hand-doctored hurricane map that you sharpie'd to include alabamaesident trump last night tweeted out a screen shot of early weather projections to justify the move. and i mean really early projections. [ laughter and applause amid reports of hurricane dorian, new articles have been published on fema's unofficial waffle house index for measuring storm severity, which tracks whether waffle house restaurants in particular areas are fully open, serving a limited menu or completely closed. [ laughter ] and from what i know of waffle houses, if they're closed, run [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause a former trump campaign aide has announced she's dropping her lawsuit accusing president trump of kissing her without her consent. she's also asked that we stop referring to her as a campaign aide [ audience ohs ] [ laughter and applause iowa representative steve king yesterday defended the conditions inside migrant detention centers and said he is not worried about reports that people have resorted to drinking from toilets, because he himself drank the toilet

alabama in the clear. the president has been on the defensive since he sounded the alarm for alabama on sunday. >> alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that, it could be. >> reporter: the national weather service even forced to correct him on twitter saying "alabama will not see any impacts from dorian." but today, the president still insisted. >> i know that alabama was in the original forecast. >> reporter: it is a federal crime to knowingly issue or publish a false weather forecast. fema and noaa today referring all questions about that seemingly doctored map back to the white house. where president trump said he didn't know anything about it. >> that map that you showed today looked like it almost had a sharpie -- >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. >> so, let's get to cecilia vega. as you reported there, fema and noaa both referring questions about that map and that ad-on to the map back to the white house. what's the white house saying tonight?

it's called alabama. alabama could be in for some very strong winds. >> reporter: that's not true. contrast what the president said on sunday, showing that the storm was nowhere near alabama. >> i know alabama was in the original forecast. they thought it would get it. as a piece of it. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the map was altered just before the president presented it to the public. white house aides know who did it, a problem for the president's team, as mr. trump said he doesn't know what happened. >> that map that you showed us today, it looks like a sharpie. >> i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: and there's one more problem. as a fox news meteorologist noted, it's a violation of federal law to falsify a national weather service forecast. democrats are pouncing. >> i feel sorry for the president. if he found it necessary to pull out a sharpie and alter the map. i don't know if one of his aides thought they needed to protect his ego. this is a sad state of affair for our country. >> reporter: the president is diverting funds to pay for his border wall, including money

sunday. >> may get a little piece of a great place, it's called alabama, alabama could be in for atst some very strong winds. >> the national weather service in alabama tried to set the record straight and calm any fears, stating alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. still, nearly every day this week, the president has insisted he's right, despite all the corrections. we're just going to take you through it so you can appreciate the full chronology. onnen mod he tweeted, it was correct, alabama could have received some hurt. then he went further. there was still a lot of uncertainty. his comments were simply noting those points and with alabama's proximity to florida it makes sense. not really. on wednesday, the president tweeted a map trying again to prove his incorrect point. the president was using an out of date map, there were much fresher forecasts, finally today comes this double tweet that says, what i said was accurate. the president has been asked repeatedly why he's falsifying the map. >> it looked like it almost had like a sharpie -- >> i don't know, i don't know