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Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the governments response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent...

Seen it. He has uncanny ability to connect with their hopes and their desires. And like reagan, he reminds americans that what makes us special is our people. Its our freedom. Its not our government. And as for the socalled smart educated people who are now criticizing trump, i have a few questions. Was it smart to enact policies that ended up enriching the repressive regime in china at the expense of american workers, American Companies and American Security . And was it smart to leave our bord...

Going to be honest about everything going on there including the things you just said, i have to be willing to do that about myself too. >> most people who write books they end up being the star of the book and also the best person in the book. you talk a lot about your faith and how important that is and how that is probably the most important thing in your life, how you live your life. >> definitely. >> and yet you look back on how you changed in this white house, how being in this environment...

Won the presidency or whatever? is he going to be like the rest of us and want to have those personal connections he hasnt had in his life in my view? its a deeper question for all of us. and i think for me too its something i took away from my time there. >> you know something about the whole tweeting system. the covfefe thing. any insights? >> i dont know exactly what happened. >> can we finally admit that was just a mistake? sean spicer said that a core group i think it was knows what it is. ...

Those policies. >> but you can look past that. as a person of strong faith ub look past the affairs, the allegations of affairs, all the tweets, everything, as long as what hes doing serves a greater good? >> i dont think that you look past it. what i try to do in this book, though, is try to help people get inside his head and understand what makes him tick. one of the things you have to understand about donald trump is while everyone is raised with a certain moral hierarchy, the things that th...

Trump white house was one of the first inside accounts to portray chaos inside the administration. wolff claimed the president himself authorized his access. among other revelations, wolff portrayed the white house staff as doubtful of trumps ability to lead the country, with close advisers calling him an idiot and a deep. trump said the book was full of lies, writing on twitter, "i authorized zero access to white house for author of phony book." >> its what i saw and what i heard. in front of m...

Tweets. i havent seen any -- i havent been sent anything on that. just kind of wait and see on that. >> why do you think the president is so upset? >> i think it probably has honestly more to do with the coverage of the book than it does the book itself. >> because he hasnt read -- >> he hasnt read it. he wont read it. and thats okay. i think that its a point for him of frustration, the portrayal of the white house as being chaotic. and i do portray that in certain scenes. i think actually if he...

>> reporter: the trump campaign later filed arbitration against manigault newman for breaching that contract. well, again, this new book is "team of vipers." the author cliff sims joins me now. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> ive got a lot of questions for you. weve got a good amount of time. you -- in the book you write about how you sometimes drafted possible tweets for the president. did you ever expect that you would be on the receiving end of one of his tweets? >> defi...

Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com another former member of the trump white house is speaking out tonight, telling the story of what he saw, and the boss isnt happy about it. the book is called "team of vipers: my 500 extraordinary days in the trump white house." author cliff sims is here with me now. well be talking to him shortly. earlier today as he was being interviewed on cnns "new day" the president was weighing in about the book as we...

Woodward who wrote this book, which is all next. >> reporter: the abrupt firing of fbi director james comey four months after trump took office was featured in both woodward and wolffs books. but comey told his own version in his memoir, "a higher loyalty: truth, lies, and leadership," which published in april of last year. it was the first inside account from a former administration official. comey didnt hold back, calling the president "unethical and untethered to the truth." another insider, ...