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But you remember the beginning he says one is it could go into the gulf. eight days ago. four days before the president made his -- its just. im tired. >> not me. >> im tired. im tired of the you know what and the lies and the distractions. and whatever. and the mind is bigger than yours. my sharpie. come on, man. lead the country. stop being so petty. take some criticism. if youre the president of the united states, youre supposed to be able to take criticism. it goes a long with the job. stop ...

And whatever. and the mind is bigger than yours. my sharpie. come on, man. lead the country. stop being so petty. take some criticism. if youre the president of the united states, youre supposed to be able to take it. it goes a long with the job. stop being so thin skinned. and just take it. youre the president of the united states. youre supposed to take the high road. the high road. not the lowest road. not the one underneath. not the tunnel. you take the high road. live up to the job of presi...

President trump points to an altered weather map to make his claim that dorian threatened alabama. did he personal use a sharpie marker to redraw the cone of uncertainty? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> breaking news. the new forecast is just in as hurricane dorian hammers the carolinas with powerful winds and torrential downpours. up to 15 inches could fall, while sturges driveorm surges d of water ashore. along with that life-threatening combination, the storm has spawned ...

He tweeted this afternoon that i was with you all along and the fake news media was not. i mean, this is a president who always seems to be focused on the people who voted for him. that may be why he wanted to express to the people of alabama that he was worried for them, even though they were not necessarily in the storms path. but at some point, youve got to let that go, because hes compounding problems for himself. the white house, at this point, is now keeping the story alive for five days. ...

Today looked almost like it had a sharpie -- >> i dont know. i dont know. i dont know. >> reporter: and theres one more problem, as a fox news meteorologist noted, its a violation of federal law to falsify a national weather service forecast. democrats are pouncing. >> i feel sorry for the president. >> i dont know if he felt it necessary to pull out a sharpie and change the map. i dont know if one of his aides believed they had to do that in order to protect his ego. no matter how you cut it, t...

President of the united states. >> i brought my sharpie. im going to draw a new line here. no one is admitting yet who actually distorted that map by drawing that line to include alabama. >> right. i mean, someone did this. i mean, we have images of the map that doesnt include that. so someone did it, right, and he clearly wanted to show this off. he holds it up to reporters to prove again that he was right, even though he wasnt right. to glorias point i think weve seen this before. this feels l...

Will never acknowledge wrongdoing unless he is caught. until then, the president will double down. and thats essentially what hes been doing throughout all of this, wolf. >> basically, just to be clear, the presidents statement from the presidents homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, rear admiral peter j. brown, says that he was briefing the president, but he certainly wasnt necessarily drawing with a sharpie that line. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. and it goes on to try to explain ...

Statements that hurricane dorian was posing a threat to the state of alabama. it was a reality-bending move that appears to jump the sharpie. leaving 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 just altered the weather map held up by the president in the oval office falsely showing alabama in the path of hurricane dorian. aides refused to say whether it was doctored by the president. >> that was ...

Its not an easy job, but, you know, we saw it on day one with the pictures of the inauguration. and then it has continued from there. >> yeah, he obviously cant let it go. he claims that its because we, the media, wont let it go, but were not letting it go, first of all, because it was an unbelievable thing for the president of the united states to hold up a map, never mind if it was right or wrong, but clearly there was a sharpie on it to prove a point that he tried to make several days earlier...