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Today looked almost like it had a sharpie -- >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: and there's one more problem, as a fox news meteorologist noted, it's a violation of federal law to falsify a national weather service forecast. democrats are pouncing. >> i feel sorry for the president. >> i don't know if he felt it necessary to pull out a sharpie and change the map. i don't know if one of his aides believed they had to do that in order to protect his ego. no matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country. >> reporter: the alabama blunder...

President of the united states. >> i brought my sharpie. i'm going to draw a new line here. no one is admitting yet who actually distorted that map by drawing that line to include alabama. >> right. i mean, someone did this. i mean, we have images of the map that doesn't include that. so someone did it, right, and he clearly wanted to show this off. he holds it up to reporters to prove again that he was right, even though he wasn't right. to gloria's point i think we've seen this before. this feels like the ridiculous when we talk about charlottesville and things, but we've seen the lack. dona...

Will never acknowledge wrongdoing unless he is caught. until then, the president will double down. and that's essentially what he's been doing throughout all of this, wolf. >> basically, just to be clear, the president's statement from the president's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, rear admiral peter j. brown, says that he was briefing the president, but he certainly wasn't necessarily drawing with a sharpie that line. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and it goes on to try to explain why the president might have said this on sunday, but again, wolf, and this, we have to remind...

Statements that hurricane dorian was posing a threat to the state of alabama. it was a reality-bending move that appears to jump the sharpie. leaving what may become an indelible mark on the trump presidency, it was hardly a master stroke. now the white house is dragging its feet admitting who just altered the weather map held up by the president in the oval office falsely showing alabama in the path of hurricane dorian. aides refused to say whether it was doctored by the president. >> that was the original chart. and you see it was going to hit not only florida, but georgia. it could have -- ...

It's not an easy job, but, you know, we saw it on day one with the pictures of the inauguration. and then it has continued from there. >> yeah, he obviously can't let it go. he claims that it's because we, the media, won't let it go, but we're not letting it go, first of all, because it was an unbelievable thing for the president of the united states to hold up a map, never mind if it was right or wrong, but clearly there was a sharpie on it to prove a point that he tried to make several days earlier that turned out to be inaccurate. which wasn't that big of a deal, it's a hurricane, it moves....