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"washington post," who has a great front page story this morning all about this. so now we know why the birmingham office sent out a true tweet saying alabama was safe. they did the right thing. they warned the public not to take trump's tweet seriously. this is not sharpiegate. forget about the sharpie. this is lying about a hurricane gate. he shared incorrect information about dorian's path once, twice, three times last sunday. and when tv networks pointed this out, he wasted the week trying to prove he was right. and we said things like doubling down, tripling down, quadrupled down. it soun...

I just wonder your thoughts about how the trump team is spinning this map snafu and fund-raising off of it, trying to capitalize off of it. >> trying to capitalize on it. we've seen that before, but nothing on this scale for something like this where the president -- >> not embarrassed. >> well, in actually trying to get over the embarrassment by not only doubling down, tripling down, but this is just a reminder to a lot of people out there. listen to your local weatherman and weather report. they have a better technology than a sharpie. but i think they are, look, they're trying to get -- tur...

Tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. >> we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time. now a prominent meteorologist in birmingham is sp...

This week, as the storm has continued all week, we're talking about a sharpie. what is the sense of folks around trump in the white house? do they think he is achieving something here, or are they saying this is something he should not be doing, in their view? >> well, he is turning this story into really a roundabout way to attack media, which is kind of the overarching narrative of this white house. now it's that the reports about his mistake are inaccurate. he's trying to get all these ways to show no, i was right, and it's the media reporting on me that once again is wrong. we saw at the s...

Classic trump doubling down, tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. >> we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time. now a prominent mete...