Sustained winds in excess of 175 miles an hour. That makes this the strongest storm 234anywhere on the planet this year. And just take a look at the image on your screen. You see an expanding eyewall moving straight towards great abaco island. It will be making landfall in the minutes ahead. And the National Hurricane center is now warning residents on those islands that extreme winds, quote, from the eyewall of dorian in excess of 180 Miles Per Hour will affect the islands in the next few hours. The National HurricaneCenter Center saying take cover now. We can show you the warnings box for the bahamas, also warnings up for parts of florida because this track remains uncertain. We know that the storm is slow going down will which cause more catastrophic damage to the bahamas. And there are some crackatiare aces occurring in florida. Allison chinchar has the latest. And unfortunately some of the numbers you gave have all since changed and not for the better. Winds sustained now up to 180 miles an hour. The wind gusts are 220 Miles Per Hour right now, the Forward Movement is still due west, but it has slowed ever so slightly now down to 7 Miles Per Hour. But the storm itself is still intensifying. Pressure continuing to drop with this particular storm and no weakening really in sight. There is nothing really around this area at play to help diminish the storm from where it currently is. We will keep a very close eye on where the track is because it is expected to maintain a category 5 strength as it moves across the bahamas. And begins to head towards florida. The ultimate question becomes when does it turn north. It will turn north, we just dont have a finite idea of when it will turn north. So that becomes a question of what impacts are there to a place like florida. And in any subsequent area such as georgia and the carolinas as it continues up the east coast. Brand new at the top of this hour, we now have hurricane watches and hurricane warning just along the east corner of portions of florida. We have already had the hurricane warnings across portions of the bahamas, that is going to stay. We are likely to see more hurricane watches, Tropical Storm warnings and things like that begin to to expand up the east coast of florida, perhaps even into other states once we determine when that storm makes that sharpen turn to the north. The majority of the tracks still do want to hover the east coast and go north. However, i would like to point out, the last couple of model runs, you do still have some that are trending further west. Which is why the cone of uncertainty still keeps states like florida, georgia as well as the carolinas in there because none of them can be ruled out at this point. Seems like all the news is bad right now. This storm is growing in size and in wind speed. And according to the National Hurricane center, this storm will just sit there and basically roil these islands in the bahamas for the better part of 36 hours . Yes, and that is the unfortunate part. We expect to slow down. Storm surge is expected to be about 15 to 20 feet across the xwams. Y bahamas. Where you talking 15, 20 inches of rainfall total across a widespread portion of these islan islands and those numbers could go up if it stalls everyone more because when it sits, it can dump more wr5i7b. We learned that from harvey and florence. Alice son thank you so much. And this is a category 5 hurricane and well bring you the latest this hour and throughout the day here on cnn. Ahead on reliable sources, jeff write goldberg sharing hour james mattis really feels about president trump. Plus another White House Reporter heads to court fighting trumps decision to suspend his press pass. Well get the latest on that lawsuit coming up. And later, wreck niding tre limits of journalism when it comes to cases like jeffrey epstein. But first, the most complicated relationship in quaug. One that affects all of us. It is trump and fox, fox and trump. The president gets his briefings from fox, he gets led by fox, often misled by fox. And he firms up his base through the network. But he has also been complaining about the network. In fact more than 20 times this year by my count. This week he claims fox changed so much that the network, quote, isnt working for us anymore. What an even credincredible 5. Fox really thinks that trump longs to him and his supporters. Fox really thinks that trump longs to him and his supporters. I think the antimedia messages lastly against fox and post and cnn reflect insecurity. With the Reelection Campaign 00 his mind, he doesnt want voters to know about the messy reality of life in the trump white house. He hates the leaks and he really hates when people especially on fox cover his democratic rivals. So he lashes out. He sees segments like this with the dnc 130s woman being interviewed on fox. His own spokesman was on the air a few minutes later, but he hated seeing the democratic spokeswoman. One minute promoting a book and next day saying that fox is so bad that we, again, we, have to start looking for 00 new news outlet. And then what did he do the next day . He called in to fox news radio she. This is trump whiplash. Caused by his impullisiveness a need for attention. Look at what he said. Im not happy with fox. People take fox they say fox is it for immediate. Sean and laura and tucker has really been very good. I used to say you are a solid sikts, maybe six, maybe a seven, but you are getting much better. Congrats, you are a nine now. Here is what happens. When trump gets ticked off, his friends at the network try to remind him that all the highest rated shows on fox are the pro trump shows from pox and friefos to the ingram angle. And he heard that reminder he again and that led to this tweet on saturday. He went out there congratulating sean hannity on his ratings. Trump wants sick owe fans on the air, not reporters. He lashes out when he sees reporters on fox. Owe fans on th air, not reporters. He lashes out when he sees reporters on fox. He wants shows that look like news but they are not really. They are blow trump cheer leading. Trump wants absolute loyalty. Maybe he thinks that needs to win reelection. But that is the truth about the fox trump relationship. Lets get analysis now from elaina plott, David Zurawik and julia. Julia, you have studied russia. Does the way trump views fox remind you of how other leaders view their state run Television Networks . Absolutely. Only difference is that ton you their tearian leaders are more subtle. They will just quietly fire people. But it is all the stuff that you mentioned, all 9 rotating door between the Trump Administration and fox news. You know, he would be forgiven for thinking that it is part of the white house and it is not running the way he wants it too. To. 00 preta pretty twisted relationship. He ralashes out when he sees ac of journalism on fox. And signs of a fraying of this relationship i think are there to a little bit, but im really skeptical of this. This is a dance that trump does. And fox does. Dont forget, fox was founded as an i had i had yoe logical relation ship. That is so deep, so sick, so twisted that they wont break up over having the democratic guest on or somebody saying unpleasant about trump. Look, fox wants trump to be elected in 2000. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. W20. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. 0. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. 0. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. 20. Trump wants to be reelected in 2020. They will keep going steady. . Maybe that is why fox never comments when trump posts tweets. He is attacking journalists. But fox never comments. Why do you think that is . Well, it really is astounding because fox knows that it has the leverage in this relationship. I think that if donald trump were to try to command his supporters to, what, go start watching oann exclusively . No, it wont happen. So it is one of the few moments i think when you look at the president s dynamic with any entity person that they are the ones that actually hold the cards here and i think that fox will rest pretty comfortably that with an impulsive president , you know, as you pointed out, the whiplash means that his opinion will change the next day and they will stay the same. So fox is just waiting until the next day for his feelings to change. Let me show you one sound bite that really sums up the week. Joe walsh asks if the president has ever lied stewart, do you believe that this president lies . No. You didnt believe that he has ever lied . He exaggerates and spins. Okay. Do you leave he has ever told the American People a lie . No. Okay. David, your reaction. You want state run tv behind the iron curtain in 1961 . That is it. It is astonishing. Lou dobbs is the same and trump loves lou dobbs on that business channel. That is it. But that is one of the great that is an astonishing clip. You know, he thinks he is being smart by saying no, it is a spin. Can i just add something . Yeah, please. You know, you said that the president doesnt appreciate how journalism works. I think he does appreciate how journalism works. He hates it. And this is why he has said, you know, he said i try to discredit you people on purpose so that when you write unflattering things about me, no one will believe you. See understa so he understands completely it works and he twri he tries to a at the source. Fox is how he wishes that it would work. Destruction of a shared reality is the big story. All right. A quick break. Everybody stick around. Weve been talking about media on the right. Lets talk about media on the left and lawyer wrerence odonns reckless report caused damage to real journalism. Well have the details. Termites, feasting on homes 24 7. Were on the move. Roger. Hey rick, all good . Oh yeah, were good. Were good. 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But if you listen carefully, you will see that he also left wiggle room. Watch. Tonight we are retracting the story. We dont know whether theinaccu. But the fact is we do know it wasnt ready for broadcast and for that, i apologize. So how did it get on the air . We still dont know. Msnbc and nbc news has not commented. And odonnell was back on the air the next night so not seems that he was being disciplined from going on the air with this tip from a i thisingle source t was by all evidence incorrect. Robert mueller spent two years investigating trump and russia. He didnt find anything about these loans. There is no evidence that odonnell was right about this story. And yet he is still out there saying we dont know if it was and i think really. David, how irresponsible is this . This is as irresponsible as it gets in terms of legacy journalism. You know, Lawrence Odonnell 2k35 da gave donald trump ultimate greatest gift he could have given. And if you look at the way fox and friends talked about it, they started talking about ma nbc and by the time they were done, they were attacking cnn. And im going wait, how did you get to cnn on this . And by the t they were attacking cnn. And im going wait, how did you get to cnn on this . If there is a takeaway here, this is what happens when you hire politicos and let them host shows. No one with any journal policic training would have come near this story. Hey, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, this was Wish Fulfillment journalism. Russia oligarchs signs at deutsche ban for trump. Doesnt get any dirtier than that for trump. That right there should have put the brakes on and said lets not get two sources, lets get three, keep pushing to make sure that the story is correct. This is outrageous. And the fact that Lawrence Odonnell hasnt been disciplined at least so far and that that mbs news has in order said anything about this, it is really troubling because it really tarnishes all the excellent worknbmbs news has in order said anything about this, it is really troubling because it really tarnishes all the excellent workcmbs news has in order said anything about this, it is really troubling because it really tarnishes all the excellent work news has in orde said anything about this, it is really troubling because it really tarnishes all the excellent work good journalists do. Julia, do you agree . 100 . I was frankly surprised because i see programs like that as commentary shows. So not totally surprising that and he says he has a source and it was confusing. Right. Because i totally agree, no journali journalist worth hit or her salt would go with a story like this without at least having two stories, probably more because of the ammunition that it could hand to trump and his administrati administration. I do think that it is interesting that he was not disciplined in any way as far as we know because it is also the same network that disciplined Brian Williams not too long ago for fibbing on a story in comparison, it seems so annadine to this which is a massive blunder 37. Lets talk about moving from the stories that bill belichiy e biden, a navy captain who felt like a fail uhe because of losts in combat. The Washington Post says that in the space of three minutes, biden was conflating a bunch and got the time period, location, heroic act, the medal, Military Branch and rank of the precrecit wrong and as well as his own role. So he described a true event but getting almost all the facts wrong. And what is the response from the press . How seriously should these kinds of they are not gaffes, they are worse than gaffes. These kinds of falsehoods be taken when we are covering a president who makes it up every day. I mean, i think the fact that just then you had to pause yourself and say yes, it is actually worse than a gaffe means that our national conception, National Definition of what truly does make a gaffe or scandal these days has been altered so drastically under this president that looking at what joe biden did through the lens of a pretrump time, you know, we wouldnt be awarding him a gold star for getting the quote unquote core of the story correct. Is that really the standard that were suddenly holding the prospective leaders of the free world to . Putting it in 34r5i7b language like that, it is frankly ridiculous and the sort of thing that i did believe that we wouldnt be awarding trump any gold are stars for saying that he got the core of the story correct as we should not do. We should hold our leaders to standards that include very basic metrics such as why dont you get the entire story right instead of just portions of it. Completely agree with you. And yet i know a lot of people say what about trump, what about 2ru6r78, trump is worse. How do we just tune that out . What is the answer . It is true, and there is a difference at one level in if you want to talk about intention or frequency. But we are in a war in this culture, there is a war on truth. And be i think that it is coming out of the white house in large ways. But it is in other ways as well. And facts are the basis of fighting back against that. It is not okay to have a president ial candidate being so loose with facts. I mean not loose. Wonderful piece there from the post the way they nailed it with each factual mistake he made. But think of that, if these are the two candidates, we have two guys out there running around saying things that are often not true. One of them we think, oh, it is benign, it is joe. No, it is not benign. Being factually incorrect and telling falsehoods is never benign. But a lot of people want to say it is benign with joe biden. They do, but lets set the bar high and have the same bar for everybody. Shouldnt be too hard. To the panel, thank you so much. Quick break here and then the story of another journalist who has had to sue the white house because his press pass was taken away. His attorney will join me live right after this. All Money Managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. Fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. Some only call when they have something to sell. Fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. And while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. Fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other Money Managers. 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