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Next year, americans will not have to pay a penalty for being uninsured. Early start continues right now. White house on the offensive. Aides slamming the senior official who wrote the New York Times oped and bracing for the bob woodward book which comes out tomorrow. And the east coast is bracing for a hurricane when florence hits this week. And cbss long time chief executive is out amid new allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Reports from damascus and the white house. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. We start with the author of the scathing New York Times oped. Appearing on the sunday talk shows supporting the president s claims saying whoever wrote it is guilty of criminal behavior. Vice president mike pence is denying any involvement and calling on the one to come forward. Let me be very clear. Im 100 confident that no one on the president s staff was involved in the editorial. I know my people, margaret. They get up every day and they are dedicated as much as i am as advancing the president s agenda and doing everything for the people of this country. Whoever this was, they should do the honorable thing and resign. The author claims white house aides discussed trying to remove the president from office. The Vice President was asked about that. One of the claims made in the oped is discussion of invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. Have you ever been part of a conversation about that . No, never. Why would we be, margaret . A source close to the white house tells cnn aides believe they narrowed down the search for the author to just a few individuals. We get more from ryan nobles. Reporter dave and christine, hello from the white house. No doubt it is driving the administration crazy to a certain degree. Kellyanne conway, one of President Trumps senior advisers, on the sunday morning talk shows attempting to spin and destroy the credibility of the individual before the identity is revealed. She took it a step further when she suggested perhaps the media may be partially to blame for the problem. What does concern me, jake, apart from everything others have said, for a media constantly talking about facts and accuracy and transparency, the authority was viewed as long as the message is antitrump, it is believed to be credible. That should concern everyone. Im with the Vice President on this. The person should resign if the person truly is an appointee and taken an oath to the constitution. Reporter the question is this week is how far will the president and administration go in attempting to find out who this person is. Vice president mike pence suggesting over the weekend that perhaps a crime may have been committed. If that is the case, does the department of justice get involved . The president has suggested he believes attorney general Jeff Sessions should look into this. At this point, the Justice Department will not comment. Dave and christine. Thank you. The white house is bracing for the bob woodward book which is due to be released tomorrow. The early excerpts have been released already. Here is how the author sees it. You look at the operation of this white house and you have to say lets hope to god we dont have a crisis. In his book, he describes a white house where top advisers removed documents from the president s desk to prevent him from enacting dangerous policies. Woodward also weighing in on the anonymous New York Times oped saying he would not have issued the claims if they were presented to him. Not have used the claims if they were presented to him. If there was a person in the white house or administration who wanted to tell me whats in that oped piece, i would say okay name me who was there, what is the specific incident as you know from having read my book. Their dates and times and participants. I wouldnt have used it. It doesnt have the standards of describing specific incidents. Specific incidents which are the Building Blocks of journalism as you know. President trump calling woodwards book a con on the public and accuses the author of being a democratic operative. Barack obama on the campaign trail. Former president heads to ohio this week after a stop in california. Over the weekend, mr. Obama calling the midterm elections a critical moment in our american history. Where theres a vacuum in our democracy, when we are not participating or paying attention or stepping up, other voices fill the void. The good news is in two months, we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. Some republicans believe mr. Obamas reemergence will fire up gop voters. The president and Vice President pence are trying to neutralize the impact. I was very disappointed to see president obama break with tradition of former president s and become so political and roll out the same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the last eight years. Im sorry i watched it, but i fell asleep. I found hes very good, very good for sleeping [ laughter ] i think he was trying to take credit. Take credit for this incredible thing thats happening to our country. President trump heads to missouri and mississippi to campaign for republicans this week. Florence bearing down on the east coast as a cat two hurricane. There are concerns it could make landfall thursday night or friday morning as a category three or four. Florence is expected to rapidly intensify over the next few days and forecasters are fearing it could bring catastrophic flooding. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri with the update. We have an update on the category two Hurricane Florence. 1,500 miles east of the United States. We think this has everything to become a category three or major hurricane by tonight. You notice very little going on ahead of the system. We know with the water level, warm waters. Lower 80s. The mid80s where it is slated to move and it will move into upper 80s. It has a chance to become a major hurricane. The steering environment is such that it guides the system directly toward the east coast of the United States. We still are looking at potentially a strong category three or a category four landfall with the system. The model guidance is high confidence heading in to the state of North Carolina or down to south carolina. The variation is shifting to North Carolina or virginia. I got a note within a fourday period before landfall, on average, a 200 mile margin of error. The guidance wants to shift it farther north and the concern beyond that is what happens after landfall as we think it slows down dramatically. If that is the case, with a slow moving system, it could produce tremendous rainfall which is the highest threat of life is flash flood potential thursday night and friday and saturday. As much as 10 to 15 independents into the weekend. 15 to 15 inch into the weekend. Guys. Thank you. Ford says it will not move production of the hatchback wagon to the u. S. Despite the Business Advice from the president of the United States. Building the focus in the United States is not profitable because sales are fewer than 50,000 u t units. Ford responding to the president s tweet. New taxes on the chinese impo importing meant it could move to the u. S. The car can now be built in the u. S. And ford will pay no tariffs. Ford will not do that. This doesnt make business sense. Ford is cancelling the plan to produce in china. 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Two law firms were hired to investigate. All of this was going on amid a corporate tugofwar with moonves and shareholder of cbs. Now fast forward six weeks. Farrow heard from more women who were concerned that cbs was not taking action. Not holding moonves accountable. Farrow published a new story on the new yorker web site. Within a few hours, moonves was out. The caveat here is that negotiations for him to leave were already under way at that point. It seems clear the new harassment allegations which included allegations of assault, which were more disturbing than the first set of allegations. All of that is a major factor in the sunday night announcement. Moonves is one of the most powerful men in tv. One of the highest paid executives in the media business. This is leaving a lot of aftershocks. There will be developments for days to come. Including about how much moonves will be paid on the way out the door. Normally he would be paid over 100 million if he just been forced out one day. Because of the allegations against him, it is a more complicated and legal conversation. Moonves has admitted to mistakes in his past, but denies abusing his power and appalling allegations of assault of forcible sex that were detailed in the story on sunday. All of this happening at a time of dramatic change in the broadcast business and now cbs moves into a new era without moonves in charge of the company. More to come on this story, but it is a climactic moment in the me too moment. Brian stet stelter brian stelter, cnn, new york. Thank you, brian. President trump praising north korea for the lack of missiles in the parade on sunday. He said this is a big and positive statement from north korea. Thank you, chairman kim. There is nothing like good dialogue from two people who like each other. In case of military might with the intercontinental ballistic missile, the norths 70th celebration focused on development and future of the people. Cnns will ripley is live in pyongyang. You are live there. What a difference a year makes. Reporter it is extraordinary, christine. When you think about the parade i watched here in pyongyang, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles were on display. And now you have the glowing tweet over the weekend. Think for a moment about what kim jongun has managed to pull off just by not putting his nucleartipped missiles on display. He still has them. He hasnt agreed to give them up or agree to be transparent with the United States of how many weapons he possesses. He just did not put them in the parade. By doing that, he gets praise from President Trump. He and xi jinping with a show of solidarity with north korea and china. Saying it wants to increase Economic Cooperation with north korea. By the simple act of not displaying the missiles he still possesses, he wins points with two super powers, United States and china. He hasnt had to give anything up. It is extraordinary if you think about it. The message here in north korea is deliberate. Another moment at the mayday stadium with the mass games. Almost like an olympic opening ceremony. They played a video of kim jongun embracing moon jaein who is coming next week for a summit. The crowd erupted in applause. Now you talk to people in the streets, christine, they say they fully support what is happening. A complete 180. Only in north korea can this happen. Will ripley, thank you. Remarkable developments there. The first sunday of the nfl season in the books. Aaron rodgers made sure it was one packers fans will never forget. Lindsay czarniak has the Bleacher Report next. Intece, ge covering virtually every part of your business. So this wont happen. Because youve made sure this sensor and this machine are integrated. 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And cbss long time chief executive is out amid new allegations of Sexual Misconduct. First fortune 500 ceo in the me too era. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. We start with the author of the scathing New York Times oped. Appearing on the sunday talk shows supporting the president s claims saying whoever wrote it is guilty of criminal behavior. Vice president mike pence is denying any involvement and calling on the author to come forward. Let me be clear. Im 100 confident that no one on the president s staff was involved in the editorial. I know my people, margaret. They get up every day and they are dedicated as much as i am as advancing the president s agenda and supporting everything that President Trump is doing for the people of this country. Whoever this was, they should do the honorable thing and resign. The author claims white house aides discussed trying to remove the president from office. The Vice President was asked about that. One of the claims made in the oped is discussion of invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. Have you ever been part of a conversation about that . No, never. Why would we be, margaret . A source close to the white house tells cnn aides believe they narrowed down the search for the author to just a few individuals. We get more from ryan nobles. Reporter dave and christine, hello from the white house. No doubt it is driving the administration crazy to a certain degree. Kellyanne conway, one of President Trumps senior advisers, on the sunday morning talk shows attempting to spin and destroy the credibility of the individual before the identity is revealed. She took it a step further when she suggested perhaps the media may be partially to blame for the problem. What does concern me, jake, apart from everything others have said, for a media constantly talking about facts and accuracy and transparency, authority. The authoritativeness was viewed as antitrump and is believed to be credible. That should concern everyone. Im with the Vice President on this. The person should resign if the person truly is an appointee and taken an oath to the constitution. Reporter the question is this week is how far will the president and administration go in attempting to find out who this person is. Vice president mike pence suggesting over the weekend that perhaps a crime may have been committed. If that is the case, does the department of justice get involved . The president has suggested he believes attorney general Jeff Sessions should look into it. At this point, the Justice Department will not comment. Dave. Thank you. The white house is bracing for the bob woodward book which is due to be released tomorrow. The early excerpts have been sending shock waves through the administration. Here is how the author sees it. You look at the operation of this white house and you have to say lets hope to god we dont have a crisis. In his book, woodward describes a white house where top advisers removed documents from the president s desk to prevent him from enacting dangerous policies. He is also weighing in on the anonymous New York Times oped saying he would not have used the claims if they were presented to him. If there was a person in the white house or administration who wanted to tell me whats in that oped piece, i would say okay name me who was there, what is the specific incident as you know from having read my book. The dates, the times and participants. I wouldnt have used it. It doesnt have the standards of describing specific incidents. Specific incidents which are the Building Blocks of journalism as you know. President trump calling woodwards book a con on the public and accuses the author of being a democratic operative. Lets go live to washington and bring in politico reporter rachel. What is your sense of the oped and the woodward book on operations in the white house. How do they get this in their Rearview Mirror . It is devastating. There is a reason they are trying to find the writer of the oped. It is not to oust someone from the white house, but continue to do the work to consult with the president and advise him and have him listen. Republicans right now have tried to walk the president back on a number of issues that his gut instinct runs counter to the party. Russia and nato. And to shut the government down weeks before the midterms. And the ability to trust him and walk him back. If he thinks somebody in the room is out to get him and sort of stifle his agenda or has it out for him, which clearly he does, because he doesnt know theauthor. To get that person out of the room and get them to trust him again. And it is fascinating to listen to the bob woodward book excerpts and then the New York Times article. That was not sourced properly enough for him to have used it. He gives the fascinating real world example in the book where he talks about the president with the tweet and pulling all of the dependents out of south korea. And then that would be seen as an act of aggression by the north. I dropped my pen. That could lead to action. That is a real example of the crisis from the behavior of this president. That is right. The oped would not give a lot of specifics, but Bob Woodwards book would. It is a narrative and what we heard all along. Senator bob corker said im not surprised. I have known about this a long tim time. There are groups who are concerned about the white house and the president. Im curious if this affects the mid terms. The economy is doing well. This is totally drowned out by the drama in the white house. We heard great reporting by the New York Times where mulvaney said if it werent for the president , they could keep majority. He seems to be a drag right now. It will be framed with the midterms as obama versus trump. He was speaking out harshly against donald trump and policies and demeanor and decency in the country. Here is what mike pence said to cbs yesterday about all that. I was very disappointed to see president obama break with tradition of former president s and become so political and rollout the same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the last eight years. Pretty rich for President Trumps Vice President to speak about past political decorum. Breaking tradition . Yes. Lets try to put that aside for a moment. Clearly president obama is personally popular. Are his policies popular . Will it help . He is revered by liberals and progressives and democrats in general across spectrum. He can drive out the Democratic Base which is what they need to take the house right now. It doesnt hurt to bring him out. It helps them. I think it begs a question going forward. What will they do without obama . We dont have a clear 2020 figure. Nancy pelosi has her issues with the moderates not liking her. Who will lead the Democratic Party . They are looking at fall and obama is the best bet to turn out the base. Rachael bade thank you. 45 minutes past the hour. Florence bearing down on the east coast as a category two hurricane and there are growing concerns it could make landfall thursday night or friday morning as a category three or worse. Florence is expected to continues phi to intensify over the next week. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri tracking the storm for us. Good morning, dave and christine. An update on what is now a category two Hurricane Florence. 1,500 miles east of the United States right now. Strengthening quickly. This has everything to become a category three or major hurricane by later on tonight. You notice very little going on ahead of the system. What we know with the water level is warm waters. Low 80s where it is situated. Mid 80s where it is moving on and upper 80s as it closes in on land on thursday afternoon or evening. Still has the potential to become a major hurricane and remain there for the foreseeable future. The steering environment is such it guides the system directly toward the east coast of the United States. We are looking at potentially a strong category three or category four at landfall with the system. With the model guidance, very high confidence at this stage, heading in the state of North Carolina or south carolina. The variance is shifting to North Carolina or maybe virginia. I have a note within a fourday period before landfall on average there is about a 200mile margin of error. The guidance of this wants to shift it farther toward the north and the concern beyond that is what happens after landfall. We think it will slow down dramatically. 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Over the weekend, it is interesting after the summit we covered on friday with the turks and russians and iranians where no deal was reached for a ceasefire. There were more strikes on Idlib Province over the weekend. Oppositions say civilian targets were hit and the government saying it was the groups affiliated with al qaeda hit. There is grave concern that a lot of people could be at risk. The estimates are 3 Million People still inside Idlib Province. Civilians inside Idlib Province. The United States is very concerned about them. Again, warning russians and syrians if they take military action in Idlib Province, they have to make sure somehow those civilians are protected. At this stage, it is difficult, dave. Fred pleitgen, thank you. We have a new miss america, but a controversy about the competition last night. Thats next. Ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. 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