place. >> that was the original chart. >> even after the national weather service officials tweeted the correction, president trump persisted. >> that was what was originally suggested. >> somebody, possibly the president, i don't know, somebody in the white house took a black magic marker and extended the cone, if you will, of warning into alabama. the infamous sharpie gate. it could have died there. it probably would have. >> yet sharpie gate extended into a fire storm when noaa released a statement publicly siding with the president. according to some media reports, trump's staff measured noaa to declare his lies to be true. >> no, i never did that. i never did that. that's a whole hoax by the fake news media. >> you were with noaa for more than 30 years. you've seen a lot of presidents.