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Would not deny that it was president who drew the black sharpie line on the map. hmm. "washington post" is reporting tonight that guess who drew that line on the map. more on that in just a few minutes. you want to stay tuned for that. guess who drew that line on the map. thats what "the washington post" is reporting. were going to have more on it. but i want you to listen to the presidents answer when he was asked how that map came to be altered. >> you showed us a map earlier of the initial ...

It at great length in your book about mike pence. the president was so rattled by his loss of the popular vote that he declared there were millions of illegal votes, then he appointed a commission, a federal commission to study and prove there were illegal votes. it never did and it was disbanded without any further word. thats very similar to drawing with a sharpie. its like -- why does he do this? >> what is that? >> what is it? its a kind of pathology. as michael said, its totally un-presiden...

And then there was yesterday. things got really interesting. the president in the oval office showing reporters a clearly doctored map, one that falsely showed alabama in the path of hurricane dorian. and it appears to have been altered by someone scribbling on it. with a sharpie. >> that was the original chart, and you see it was going to hit not only florida but georgia. it could have -- was going toward the gulf. that was what we -- what was originally projected. >> danny, please, mr. directo...

When people say, well, why are you focussing on this and the president and a sharpie and dont you have better things to report on, what do you say to them? >> what i say to them is that the entire weather forecast enterprise, which is a public and private partnership, relies on the accuracy of that forecast that the president doctored. so when he changes it, it creates confusion in the system and then peoples lives really are at risk. and next time maybe the weather service wont tweet out a corr...

>> yeah. >> you know? and youve been there before in breaking news stories and on these stories. it is just unbelievable whats happening there. >> yeah, and the unknown is going to become a priority. theyre going to have to do their rescue and their searching and were going to have to stay on it and not forget because the need will only grow over time. it shines the light, don, why now is the time for leaders to be focused on things that matters. the last thing they should be focused on is thems...

So who was it, talu? >> well, my colleague josh dossy and i have reported that according to a white house official president trump, who is as you mentioned, is very well known as someone who likes to use sharpie, he likes to write on official documents in sharpie, that this loop that was created to show the hurricane sort of moving toward alabama, that it was the president himself who used his sharpie, which is very well documented and close to him in the oval office. he used it to write on that...

And you see it was going to hit not only florida but georgia. it could have -- was going toward the gulf. that was what we -- what was originally projected. >> maybe you just fell off the turnip truck. i dont know. lets take a look a little more closely, okay? see that? sharpie scrawl over alabama? now, we all know someone who likes to use a sharpie, right? could that be a coincidence? im just saying, you know, lets be objective here, loves a sharpie, promotes it, theres a sharpie mark on alabam...