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Media, all while manipulating the levers of government to make a lie retroactively true. thats whats going on here. the alabama mess was not a small story, some trivial distraction. no, the letters on screen should say, the president misled the public about a hurricane for a week. much of the news coverage actually helped trump. a lot of the coverage minimized how serious this episode was. i see this happening all the time. the words we use, the framing we choose treats the absurd and the aberra...

Give us an update here. a lot of people commented that this has been the presidents focus, on this, on the alabama matter, sharpie-gate, focused on this devastating storm. >> reporter: im sorry, david. is that -- yeah. listen, who cares? honestly, who cares? heres the situation. i want to show you drone footage we got in courtesy of kerry sanders, photo journalist bill angel angelucci. these islands were stripped of everything. they want to get people off the islands, here to nassau. we want to ...

Is we dont have a new generation in the top tier yet. why is that? >> again, i think it is early. people want to win so badly, right? they look at the names that they know. the people that have been around a while. and it is going to take this fall and these next five, six months. thats a long time in politics, for them to get to know the rest of us. >> afghanistan, its obviously talks are now off. you have heard this. this is a bipartisan exhaustion when it comes to afghanistan. you heard senat...

A 5% to 10% chance that alabama would experience tropical-storm-force winds. >> at no point hurricane-force winds. let me clarify that. and the reason people who are at the national hurricane center there in birmingham put out to members, they were getting frantic calls from people, residents saying should we be evacuating? this is dangerous stuff. >> yeah, thats right, and thats why noaa issued a statement that said, hey, this is the best reporting we have, 5% to 20% tropical-storm-force winds ...

The u.s. and one of the things that has been up until now in the case the tory standing by essentially this line. it broke this week. what is the significance of that happening this week? >> oh, theres so much significan significance, chris. you el looquently explained in r introduction. the craziness in britain is beyond disbelief. were in six days of sharpie gate. every time you think american politics couldnt get worse uk says hold my beer. i say this to you, youre right to say that the ameri...

Hurt him with independent voters in the general election, and hes going to need more than just republican voters to win re-election. >> but heres what -- yes. but heres what they have to understand. they have to understand the contrast. people say that donald trump cant pay attention or doesnt pay attention. he pays attention. hes paying attention to whether thornbury is doing well. he spent a ten-minute commercial talking about the wonders of doral. but heres what he doesnt pay attention to. he...

This about a lot more than a petty tit for tat. its not personal. its about a pattern. theres a new twist on sharpie gate and were going to talk about it in the great debate, next. at t-mobile, we cant give you unlimited summer, but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that comes on our newest signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. so you can... share more sunsets. stream more videos. and stay connected with friends while you slide in...

Trump repeated the lie over and over. faking a map in the oval office. thats the sharpie gate. forced the farce on other parts of the government. tonight a new press release. no name attached. says quote information provided by noah in the national hurricane center to president trump demonstrated tropical storm force winds from hurricane dorian could impact alabama. quote the national weather service is sunday morning tweet spoken absolute terps that were inconsistent with probabilities from the...

The opposite was true. within minutes, the national weather service of birmingham part of noaa. pointed it out. alabama will not see any impact from dorian. then came the next page. the party keeps repeating. two and two is five. trump repeated the lie over and over. he faked a map in the oval office. thats the sharpiegate. forced the farce on other parts of the government. tonight a new press release. no name attached. says, quote, information provided by noaa in the national hurricane center t...

Sharpie gate far from over. the presidents obsession escalating tonight with this, noah disavowing the tweet from the national weather service saying the field office spoke in absolute terms that was inconsistent with the best available forecasts at the time. ask me -- answer me this question, why would noaa correct a suggestion that wound up being accurate? have they ever done that before? the answer is no. thats the start of tonights great debate with karen finney. the president of the nationa...