debbieing he was involved in white house efforts to clear his name after he falsely and repeatedly claimed alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian. "the new york times" reports his chief of staff directed commerce secretary wilbur ross to have noaa issue a statement disputing the national weather service after it contradicted the president. which noaa did but with no name attached. as trump claims he was right about the weather, he's also insisting he fired john bolton. >> and he sat right in that chair and i told him, john, i wish you well but i'd like you to submit your resignation. >> reporter: the president still blames his hawkish former national security adviser for interfering in talks with north korea. >> when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong-un, that was not a good statement to make. you take a look at what happened with qadhafi. >> reporter: the leader was overthrown and killed shortly after agreeing to give up his nuclear ambitions and the north koreans were offended after