And the Trump White House now looking for a partial ban after vapingrelated illnesses claim another life. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. The Washington Post reporting this afternoon that it was, in fact, President Trump who instructed his staff to order the national oceany anityic and advertise administration or noaa to uncontradict the president s false forecast two sundays ago and that Hurricane Dorian was about to hit alabama much harder than anticipated and information from the president that was inaccurate and outdated and quickly corrected by the Weather Service. The New York Times said after talking to Mick Mulvaney, commerce secretary wilbur ross Whose Department overseas noaa threatened noaa leaders with firings if they didnt fix the contradiction. Now President Trump has always had a tenuous relationship with facts and truth and sometimes these are fringe, even racist beliefs such as his campaign to suggest the first africanamerican president was born in africa, or his ridiculous claim that he saw on tv thousands of arab americans in new jersey celebrating 9 11. Those are claims that are inaccurate and bigoted and indecent. There are too many to go through but we all remember of course his campaign or im sorry his presidency began when he took issue when the National Park service clearly demonstrated that his inaugural crowds were smaller than that of his predecessor. But this this is something else. The president is now using, ordering the u. S. Government not just his press secretaries, but the u. S. Government to further his falsehoods. When noaa put out a statement siding with the president over its own scientists last friday, that was not merely the latest example of the president s disdain for facts that he does not like. As assistant noaa administrator craig mig clain put it, an unsigned press conference from noaa that contradicted the National Weather service forecaster was not based on science, but on external factors including reputation and appearance or simply put political. Craig wrote that press release compromised the ability of noaa to convey lifesaving information necessary to avoid substantial and specific danger to Public Health and safety. If the public cannot trust our information, he wrote, or we debase our forecasters warnings and products, that specific danger arises, unquote. And it is a danger being caused by President Trump. Cnn credit cakaitlan collins ree president is denying all of this. No, i never did that. I never did that. Reporter President Trump 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, hes also insisting he fired john bolton. And he sat right in that chair and i told him, john, i wish you well but id 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 jongun, 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 bolton said this last year. I think were looking at the libya model of 2003, 2004. The president was furious at the time. And i dont blame kim jongun for what he said after that. Reporter but he kept bolton around for another 16 months. Until abruptly firing him yesterday. He made some very big mistakes. Reporter no prior president has ever had four National Security advisers in their first three years. But trump will name his in a matter of days. But there are five people that i consider very highly qualitied. Reporter his last meeting with bolton turned into a bitter fight over his decision to invite leaders of the taliban to camp david. Talks trump brought up at the pentagon today as he marked the 18th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. I called them off when i learned that they had killed a Great American soldier from puerto rico. Reporter though he left out where he planned to host them. Now, jake, during that same oval office appearance the president sounded open to the idea of easing sanctions on iran to secure a meeting with them saying, quote, well see what happens. If he did that, it would make a pretty big change in his maximum pressure strategy with iran. Something that john bolton would have opposed. Kaitlan collins at the white house. Thank you. Lets chew over this. Let me start with you. So the Washington Post is reporting that President Trump complained about the alabama tweet from the National Weather service, the accurate one contradicting his inaccurate one as evidence on his twitter feed. What do you make of this, the lengths hes willing to go to have the National Weather service uncontradict him. Well Rudy Giuliani said truth isnt truth and if you are a dictator in the middle east youre saying right on. If the weather is weaponized to protect donald trump and his narsism, what else is he lying about . He took out the map, the outdated map added on alabama with the sharpy, sharpy gate and the second time we think about it, people rely on the weather. National security relies on the weather and businesses rely on the weather and imagine this hurricane that devastated the bahamas and youre sitting in alabama and like, wait a second, birmingham just said im safe and now my president is saying this is going to attack us. Now trump is doubling down and now there is sharpi e gate. And Vladimir Putin did a social Media Campaign and what they want to do is make us lose trust in our institutions and make us lose trust in our democracy and who better is helping him right now than President Trump with sharpie gate. And that is the fear at noaa. If people stop believing their forecasts because of this people actually could lose their lives. That is the bottom line. Obviously improper to pressure any Government Agency to make that change. But if it is something that is possible to cause harm to people in harms way, were in bad shape. It is obviously wrong. President trump denied the report that he told his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to tell noaa to disavow the forecasters who said alabama was not in Hurricane Dorians path but this comes as a time with a new poll showing 71 of American People dont trust most of what they hear from the white house. Well, look, i think were used to it. Im supportive of President Trumps policies and i think those the people who support trump agree with most of his policies. They may not like his style. They may not like his the things that he says when he said things that are not true, but they still like his policies. Im not going to defend his comments about the storm heading towards alabama. Agree with what you just said but at the end of the day when it comes to voting people will look at policy. And there is Foreign Policy and lets turn to iran one of the big disagreements between the president and john bolton his National Security adviser no more. He was asked about a potential meeting with irans leader at the u. N. Later this month and this is what he had to say. Mr. President , are you arranging a pleating with iranian president rouhani . Im not looking at anything. That is the u. N. General Assembly Later this month. That is not secretary of state mike pompeo said on this very question just 24 hours ago. Listen. Can you foresee a meeting between President Trump and the iranian leaders later this month surrounding the united nations. Sure. Would the president support that and do you support that . The president made it clear hes prepared to meet with no preconditions. And this is a pattern weve seen over and over and over again where trump said one thing and his staff will say another thing and we go back and forth for several days and probably in a couple of days well find out what the truth actually was. But, jake, so on Something Like that and going back to the question about noaa, right, now were seeing that his lies are a cost. It was sort of ridiculous when it was as you pointed out in the beginning it was crowd sizes and that is silly. But okay. But now were talking about things that could really endanger peoples lives. And i would also add, as we know from jim sciutto this week, there are question about the president s ability to determine when he shouldnt say certain things in the meetings with the russians. So maybe he was not supposed to say that he was meeting with the iranians, maybe he was supposed to say he was meeting with the iranians. Who knows what is true. Everyone stick around. Our next guest is one of the senators trying to get answers about President Trumps war on the truth when it comes to noaa and then we have breaking news. A new cnn poll on 2020 race and only three of the Democratic Candidates are in doubledigits. 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Senator, your reaction to President Trumps comments today and the news the white house was directly involved. Once again, how you could trust anything that comes out of this white house. Because you have a president who lies every single day. And on Something Like this, this is Serious Business when youre predicting that a state might get hit by a very big hurricane. This is not any time to be fooling around and so it could have ended if the president said, oops and they move on. But no, they create it entire drama around trying to make the president look good. And this is par for the course for this administration. And you have the commerce secretary calling the head of noaa from greece no less to tell him you better fix this. And that led to their statement and now that the chief scientists said they very much disagree with this, not relying on science and facts as to where a hurricane is going to hit and he wants to do his own investigation. So the chaos continues. By the way, mulvaney who i think is at the heart of a lot of this, aside from mulvaney is very much oriented to protecting the president being a yes person to the president at every attorney. But mulvaney is the same guy who when the u. S. Department of agriculture, for example, began to move some of the researchers and scientists to the west coast where they dont want to be said this is a good way to get some of them to retire. Which is a good thing. No, it is not a good thing when the scientists and the people who are actually doing the fundamental work of these departments retire because of this kind of shenanigans. So that is when i call mulvaney to resign and i renew my call for him to resign. So senator, your part of a group of Democratic Senators demanding answers from the department of commerce Inspector General about whether secretary ross pressured noaa to back the president. What specifically do you want the Inspector General to do and uncover . I want the Inspector General to tell us whether or not there was undue political influence or whether these kind of actions were based on a political political politically driven as opposed to something that is factbased. I would say that the conclusion is pretty clear. But when you start threatening people with being fired or if they dont do what ross wants, then you create a situation where you need to get to the bottom of it and that is why i had the letter signed on by quite a number of colleagues in the senate. Greg mcclain said he is investigating why noaas leadership backed trumps claims and whether noaas scientistic integrity was violated. Have you spoken to mr. Mcclain at all . No. But i certainly share his concern. So that is part of what i would like the Inspector General to determine, whether or not this kind of response to what the president did is unwarranted and in fact it compromises noaa to a very great extent and the Weather Service and the Science Behind their information that they impart to the public. Hawaii has been hit by hurricanes before. We had a huge one in 1992. Hurricane iniki and were still recovering so this is Serious Business when you start changing maps to indicate that a hurricane is going to hit a state. Democratic senator mazie hirono of hawaii, thank you so much. Good to have you on. Breaking news now. New cnn polls on the 2020 race and the one thing that potential democratic voters all agree on. Stay with us. Wednesdays. At outback, theyre for steak and beer. Walkabout wednesdays are back get a sirloin or chicken on the barbie, fries, and a draft beer or cocacola all for just 10. 99. Hurry in wednesdays are for outback. Outback steakhouse. Aussie rules. 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