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It was never in danger. why is the president of the united states spending time on this. its a remarkable thing and reveals a huge flaw in the way he represents the presidency. its about him, its about me not the we. alison? >> i think he has said he was trying to illustrate the cone of uncertainty and mission accomplished. i think we all feel we are in the cone of uncertainty. >> he did that. >> chris cillizza, thank you for taking us through it. now to this very upsetting story. the estrange...

The president drew the black sharpie line on the map. however, the president later denied knowledge of the alteration. >> that map you showed us today looked like it had a sharpie -- > i dont know. i dont know. i dont know. >> reporter: after ward, the president tweeting this map to try to bolster his argument. but that is dated august 28th before the forecasts became clearer and four days before the presidents initial tweet. in small print at the bottom, a disclaimer reads county emergency mana...

Been worse so someone extended the cone with a black marker. a source would not deny president trump personally drew the extension. >> an archived projection from last thursday shows dorian veering left. it does not show dorian. one forecast showed 1/10th of one county was included in one model but that map bears little resemblance to the one president trump used on wednesday. almost resident of tim apple calling this a mistake. he brought this back up and the acting homeland security secretar...

The president keeps tweeting about this as opposed to what hes going to do for the people who are really in harms way. >> thats one of the troubling aspects. another is that they were getting the wrong information about a deadly serious storm from the white house. and you know, one of the things that the white house and the president said is that he was trying to illustrate the cone of uncertainty. metaphor alert, we are all in this cone of uncertainty because if you cant trust a hurricane forec...

Earlier projections. someone extended the cone with a black marker. some wouldnt deny. >> an archived map from last thursday showed dorian veering left from florida but it did not show alabama affected. last friday 1/10 of one county in extreme southwest. >> for what its worth, its a federal crime to publish a phony weather report, which is essentially -- >> just admit you made a mistake. it wouldnt have been that big of a deal. >> the president mentioned that alabama was in the path. that was n...

Desperate situations here on the island of grand bahama. patrick oppmann, freeport, bahamas. pay no attention to the man in the white house if youre looking for an accurate hurricane forecast. president trump in the oval office showing an early prediction of dorians trajectory. a closer look shows someone extended the target area to include alabama. its a false narrative the president has been peddling for days. that map was handed to him by the acting homeland security secretary. by the way, ...

Scenario? could it take a left-hand turn? still possible? >> you can see the wobbles. you could bring hurricane force winds inland. whether its a cat 2, 3 or wobbles a little bit this onshore flow pushes the water, miles inland. the other important part is some of that water gets in early as as the onshore flow takes place. as the center moves north the winds shift, the sound side in some of those areas could get that water, the storm surge even after the eye passes. really important to pay atte...

Our hats off to a woman named jane on twitter tonight who has given us an alternate version with sharpie of the cone of uncertainty map of this hurricane. john, what is it we are covering here this evening? >> im a big fan of the medics. ive also never met a meta i didnt love. i want to say hearing you do huntsville, alabama the weather. waff, the nbc affiliate in tennessee valley first alert breaking news and weather center, i hear theyre looking for weathermen. youre great. natural for that. >...

Given us an alternate version with sharpie of the cone of uncertainty map of this hurricane. john, what is it we are covering here this evening? >> im a big fan of the medics. ive also never met a meta i didnt love. i want to say hearing you do huntsville, alabama the weather. waff, the nbc affiliate in tennessee valley first alert breaking news and weather center, i hear theyre looking for weathermen. youre great. natural for that. >> back pocket. >> i also want to talk about protuberances beca...

As weakness to accept a basic fact, that the hurricane is now on a path nowhere near alabama than to think about the fact that there are people in the path of danger that the u.s. should be playing some sort of role in, for example, giving aid to the bahamas, which was absolutely decimated by this storm. instead were talking about the sharpie and this lie because thats where we are. >> yeah, i hope the u.s. coast guard, by the way, does the job in the bahamas that they did after katrina because ...