Welcome to prime time. The woodward book drops tomorrow. Trump calls bob woodward a liar. Woodward says, america better wake up to trumps attack on truth. Who will readers believe . We have the latest on which way that might go. Inside the white house, they are chasing down the anonymous oped writer. Outside, theyre doing their best to tamp down the impact of that, the book and the mueller probe. One man trying to do all three for the president has some skin in the game himself, roger stone. A ninth associate of his just questioned by the mueller team. Does he think mueller really is out to get him . All these political storms are nothing compared to whats headed straight for the east coast. Hurricane florence. Now a category 4 and growing. You have to look at its size and think about what will come early and what will be there after the eye. Theres a warning for you, all Authorities Say the same thing. If you are in the path, heed the warnings of your local leaders and get out if you must. We have the latest path, the power potential and preparations. All together, lets get after it. Bob woodward warning americans saying, people, quote, better wake up to the reality of president trumps reality. Behavior. The book goes on sale tomorrow. The publisher says its racing to print enough copies to meet demand, demand being fuelled by the president s fury. This morning he called the book a joke and an assault against him. Whats the impact going to be . This as the hunt continues for the Senior Trump Administration official responsible for the anonymous New York Times oped. That echoes the themes of the book. Lets check in with roger stone. Sir, welcome back to prime time. Thanks for having me, i think. Does caputo know something you dont . Do you think you know who wrote the oped . This is the most popular parlor game right now. I have a theory no one wrote it. Its a fabrication. What i do think is that the president s ordering Jeff Sessions to investigate it is a waste of time. In fact, the entire issue is a distraction. The president should stay focused on continuing to deliver the good economic news. Wage growth, job creation, gdp growth. At record levels. Right. African and hispanic unemployment at the lowest point ever. I think those are better themes to run on for the 2018 election. I frankly think thats the president s strong suit. Why dont you think he spends any time instead of who wrote it, about thinking about the message, its consistent with the book, its consistent with so many things we heard leaked out of the white house . Why not have selfreflection and figure out why this message keeps getting out there . Well, actually, if you read the actual oped, it would argue that the adults are in charge. In all honesty, chris, the adults were in charge for the last 30 years. What did it get us . Foreign war which cost us billions and many lives without our National Interest being clear. A stagnant economy. The erosion of our civil liberties. A broken immigration system. Trade deals that were onesided and benefitted our partners. Sucked the jobs out of america. I dont think we were better off when the adults, the establishment, was in charge. These are his guys. They are his guys, roger, and women. They keep saying the same thing. He doesnt do the homework. He ignores the homework. He takes messages from fox and other sources instead of from us. We worry about his competence and his judgement. Its an unusual level of rancor and criticism from your own. You are right. He has hired a number of the wrong people. I dont understand as an outsider, as a noninterventionist president , somebody who is outside the two party that has run the country into the ground, why he made some of the personnel choices that he has made. I disagree with many of the picks. Now i think unfortunately, some of the chickens are coming home to roost. What i would point out is the people you refer to, they dont say these things on the record, unless, like they have been fired. You have a certain level of cowardice here. If you disagree with the president , you should resign. Dont take the high government position and then hide behind the anonymous quote. They say they need to be there. I have heard that from sources of my own. Obviously, we would always rather have people on the record, of course, that ignore as a reality of journalism that often sources are anonymous because theyre trying to protect themselves, their station or other things. When you look at the woodward book, its not just blind quotes. Its context of meetings and events with dates where he puts you in the room. It doesnt sound like a list of he said he said. Its what happened and why. With all due respect, bob woodward has a longtime credibility problem. My own book, woodward and bernstein, the godfathers of fake news, will be available tomorrow. Mr. Woodward has been misleading about his role as a military intelligence briefer in the nixon white house. He claims he interviewed former cia director bill casey in his hospital room after casey had been hit with a stroke and had lost the capacity for speech. Theres a number of disparities and untruths throughout this mans career. He has to answer for himself. Wait until my book hits. Lets be honest, when woodward wrote the obama book, you liked him. When bernstein wrote the Hillary Clinton book, you liked him fine. They are not men where you got a lot of space to go after their integrity. At journalists. Its not like its done by some hack. I have to respectfully disagree with that. I think there has been a complete pattern of fabrication in both of their work. I like carl bernstein. I think hes a great guy to have a beer with. A story he put on here because his source misled him turns out to be incorrect. He should now say, my source misled me. I was incorrect. I think it would be the story was accurate as reported. Theres a disparity between the sworn testimony to the Intelligence Community thats on him and his people. Thats not carls problem. Right . Thats why carl should throw him over the side. Say the story was incorrect. I know a lot about the reporting in that story. I dont know what carls specific sourcing is. You dont out of source. You dont go bad on a source because of the reaction to the reporting. Put that to the side. Talk about you specifically. Nine of your people now have gone before mueller. Thats a lot of smoke. What do you think the chance is that he indicts you . You know, look, i have no idea. He has no evidence of russian collusion. He has no evidence of wikileaks collaboration. He has no evidence that i knew about the acquisition and publication of John Podestas emails. Theres a story on the cnn site that again takes my tweet but omits the word the. Referring to john and tony. The coincidence, roger im not saying its proof. Im not saying he has you. I dont know what he has. I dont know what your people have been telling him. I dont know the truth of what you know. The timing, july 22, wikileaks publishes the hacked emails. August 4. Saying that was puffer. You said you were kidding. I will give you that august 21, the tweet you are talking about, trust me, it will soon be the president be the podestas time in the barrel. You say, its a typo, you meant both of them. I will give you that. Plural possessive. It may be correct now that i look at it. On august 14 they write about the involvement in the ukraine working for the same Political Party as paul manafort. In april of 2016, in the panama papers, the podesta brothers are involved in russian business, including banking, aluminum, all of this is public. Sure. Theres no state secret here. Yes, it is a coincidence, there is no evidence to the contrary. Their activities and having proof of emails being taken is some coincidence. But its a coincidence. Theres no evidence that i knew in advance that anybody had acquired the email. I read them when they were published. Did the tell the president that you knew bad emails were coming for anybody . No. Actually, no. I never discussed this matter with the president. I told chuck todd that on meet the press. He seemed incredulous. That is the fact. Every week i have to be hit with this. Theres an email between you and steve bannon. No, there is not. You told the president on a phone call that he put on the speakerphone what was coming. No, that didnt happen either. Theres a lot of fake news. You have to be careful about what you report. I report what i know. I ask questions about what i dont. You do have thats a subjective situation. People are going to have to piece it together. We will see what there is and not in terms of anything provable. You had a situation you are trying to clean up. I think people should hear your answer on this show. You met with a man who went by the name greenberg. He had a hat on. He had a shirt. The first time you talked to investigators, you neglected to mention that meeting. You subsequently sent a letter to them mentioning the meeting. How did you forget a meeting with a russian like that . Pretty simple. I didnt know that he was a russian. Second, a more serious question, he was an fbi informant. He is convicted of murder in russia who is in the country with nine separate visas that are approved by the miami office of the fbi. The real question is, why was an fbi informant approaching me in may of 2016 when the fbi says the investigation into potential russian collusion and donald trump didnt open until june . Yes, i concede that i forgot that assumes he was there for the government. Even if he were lets say he was a total spy for the united states. You still forgot to say anything about it. Even though it looked like a big red flag. I did. Well, not really, because nothing illegal happened at this tenminute meeting. Nothing happened as a result of the meeting. What would be my motive to not remember this . I did nothing wrong. As the Washington Post reported, i rejected his offer to sell me information on Hillary Clinton flatly. Then he told me what the real game was. I dont want your money, he said. It was 2 million. I dont want your money. I want Donald Trumps money. Smells like a setup to me. Mr. Stone, i appreciate you coming on to speak on this show as always. Chris, this was great. Many thanks. Good luck with your new show. Appreciate it. Big story for you. Mandatory evacuations. Forget about the political storms. Lets get to the real one, Hurricane Florence is no joke. She just keeps growing and growing. Now you see the number on your screen. 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Bracing for impact from the carolinas to maryland. Much of that coast as it trails up east and north is vulnerable. Tom seder tracking the storm. Good evening. I know what im saying, ive been hearing you say. Your big concern at this moment . All indications, chris, this storm has not reached its peak. It was a Tropical Storm a little while ago. By tomorrow morning, a category 5. I suspect that by tomorrow morning, we will have a hurricane watch in the carolina coast. Maybe a storm surge watch. Well get updates every three hours. If you go back to the satellite era and find the exact latitude and longitude it was yesterday, not one storm in history made it to the east coast. They typically go north toward bermuda. This is bath water right now. The water for the first part, the first half of our season was colder than last year. Everything has changed. Its moving into temperatures that are mid 80s and upper 80s. Most likely, this will intensify to a category 5. 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With that anonymous oped seeming to reaffirm some of whats in the book, whom you can trust . Lets debate it. Jennifer. And rick santorum. Trump didnt talk like that about woodward when he was on the phone with him. Says, you are always fair. When he wrote the obama