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Media, all while manipulating the levers of government to make a lie retroactively true. that's what's going on here. the alabama mess was not a small story, some trivial distraction. no, the letters on screen should say, the president misled the public about a hurricane for a week. much of the news coverage actually helped trump. a lot of the coverage minimized how serious this episode was. i see this happening all the time. the words we use, the framing we choose treats the absurd and the aberrant like it's reasonable, like it's normal. take the term sharpiegate. it's a funny term, i admit. ...

Give us an update here. a lot of people commented that this has been the president's focus, on this, on the alabama matter, sharpie-gate, focused on this devastating storm. >> reporter: i'm sorry, david. is that -- yeah. listen, who cares? honestly, who cares? here's the situation. i want to show you drone footage we got in courtesy of kerry sanders, photo journalist bill angel angelucci. these islands were stripped of everything. they want to get people off the islands, here to nassau. we want to clean up the islands. then we can return people. we came in on a flight yesterday with folks tryi...

Is we don't have a new generation in the top tier yet. why is that? >> again, i think it is early. people want to win so badly, right? they look at the names that they know. the people that have been around a while. and it is going to take this fall and these next five, six months. that's a long time in politics, for them to get to know the rest of us. >> afghanistan, it's obviously talks are now off. you have heard this. this is a bipartisan exhaustion when it comes to afghanistan. you heard senator blunt is not the only person who says if you stay, it feels like nothing is going to get bette...

A 5% to 10% chance that alabama would experience tropical-storm-force winds. >> at no point hurricane-force winds. let me clarify that. and the reason people who are at the national hurricane center there in birmingham put out to members, they were getting frantic calls from people, residents saying should we be evacuating? this is dangerous stuff. >> yeah, that's right, and that's why noaa issued a statement that said, hey, this is the best reporting we have, 5% to 20% tropical-storm-force winds like you said, they never said there was going to be a hurricane. i think it's better than everyon...

The u.s. and one of the things that has been up until now in the case the tory standing by essentially this line. it broke this week. what is the significance of that happening this week? >> oh, there's so much significan significance, chris. you el looquently explained in r introduction. the craziness in britain is beyond disbelief. we're in six days of sharpie gate. every time you think american politics couldn't get worse uk says hold my beer. i say this to you, you're right to say that the americans have a get out and the u.s. constitution provides get outs and it's true, donald trump is f...