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That contradicted the president. mr. trump told reporters he didn't instruct mulvaney to do that. >> i never did that. that is a whole hoax about the fake news media. >> reporter: the acting head of noaa issued a statement backing away from the national weather service tweet reassured forecasters they are not under attack. >> no one's job is not under threat. not mine, not yours. the weather service team has my full support and the support of the department. >> reporter: earlier in the day the president marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and discussed his recent decision to host t...

The president's twitter account. they pressured normally a political national weather service to put out a statement backing up the president and really undercutting their own officials. so, it was clear that this was done under duress and there were ramification of this are starting to continue into a second week as members of the national weather service pushed back and say that they're not comfortable with the idea of having their service politicized by the white house, by the commerce department or by anyone in the administration. >> it seems what happened here is that several days before,...

But it doesn't change the fact that this president has been mired in this controversy that he keeps perpetuating and how similar it is and how much this has all of the components of sort of everything that we've seen go wrong with this presidency from the beginning. first of all, his instinct was to highlight a red state. that's where this started, no question, alabama. and then continue to not back down in the face of facts that changed things. and instead not only say that he is right, but force people who have very important jobs, i don't know, like his homeland security advisor who should ...

Unexploded mine from the whole of the ship. iran denied playing any role in the attack. the bridge government issued a statement backing the us conclusion that iran is to blame. the iranian's put out a press release that they rescued all 44 sailors on the two disabled tankers. one of the tanker crews were detained after being rescued by another merchant vessel. those sailors remain in iranian custody and there are no plans to release them to dubai. the u.s. navy rescued the other 21 sailors from the tanker rescued by the uss bainbridge. they were released to their ship. us officials say four t...

Or any other investigation. >> of course, our reporting wasn't that he made any promises. our reporting is that the president was venting at him and frustrated about what was going on in new york and at the justice department. the justice department has just put out a statement backing what whitaker's testimony had been there, reiterating that he didn't make any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation and saying he stands by his testimony. brooke. >> laura jarrett, thank you so much. we will analyze what you all laid out there. a former...