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The president's first instint was to blame california and threaten federal funding this weekend. hours later he mentioned the victims. there are 8,000 firefighters working tonight, best wild land firefighters in the world. most of them well past the point of exhaustion. here in new york, the empire state building is in blue and gold for california because it's at least someway of saying publicly we care. what a helpless feeling we now have as we watch this slow motion disaster on the other side of our country. for us, that is our broadcast on a monday night as we start a new week. thank you so...

The president's first instint was to blame california and threaten federal funding this weekend. hours later he mentioned the victims. there are 8,000 firefighters working tonight, best wild land firefighters in the world. most of them well past the point of exhaustion. here in new york, the empire state building is in blue and gold for california because it's at least someway of saying publicly we care. what a helpless feeling we now have as we watch this slow motion disaster on the other side of our country. for us, that is our broadcast on a monday night as we start a new week. thank you so...

Embarrassing or damaging truth, the white house first instint is to lie about it. for more now, the reaction that i alluded to it, let's bring in jim acosta who is at the white house. do we know why general kelly would choose to rehash this today several weeks after the original reaction from the white house? >> reporter: i think he wanted to put the matter to rest, but by all accounts that we are hearing from officials here, this was sort of a four-star foul up on the part of the general. just a few moments ago, he said he did not become a wear of these red flags of porter's background until ...