i appreciate you being there. thoughts are with the firefighters trying to battle the flames. and that s it for us. the news continues. we hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. florida ballot counting is taking a turn for the worst. again. this time it s two major races in the balance. governor separated from the senior senator by a razor thin margin. alleging there s cheating and fraud. the president agrees. are there facts to support the feelings. we ll go deep and test both sides. not trumping up charges about the florida election the president picked a fight with the former first lady. why michelle obama says she can never forgive trump. we have a new segment called don t be a sucker. the president is telling you to believe something and he should not be believed. what they are and what the truth is. so it s friday night. have one for me and let s get after it.
trump, been on the phone with trump, briefed trump. trump knows him. he s stepping away because whitaker is a problem. now, that bs video tweeted out by the white house of a cnn reporter at a press briefing. here s what the president said. nobody manipulated it. give me a break. see, that s just dishonest reporting. all that is is a close-up. info wars manipulated it. in fact, you get too many breaks for lying, like this reporting because it s dead accurate. that s the truth. and it s not just a close-up. it was sped up. experts looked at it. it was doctored to make it look like the reporter did something that he didn t, and the worst part is that sarah sanders would stoop to copying that jackass on info wars. that s what our white house has become? a very wise african-american woman, maya angelou, once told us when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
ii. so let s get a few things straight here. let s start with an easy one, the president of course, and his statements about his knowledge of matt whitaker, the newly installed acting ag. take a listen. i can tell you, matt whita r whitaker s a great guy. i know matt whitaker. i don t know matt whitaker. matt whitaker worked for jeff sessions, and he was always extremely highly thought of, and he still is, but i didn t know matt whitaker. so let s start with the obvious. one of those two statements is a lie. whi which? the second. the man has met trump, been on the phone with trump, briefed trump. trump knows him. he s stepping away because whitaker is a problem. now, that bs video tweeted out by the white house of a cnn reporter at a press briefing. here s what the president said. nobody manipulated it. give me a break. see, that s just dishonest reporting. all that is is a close-up. info wars manipulated it.
all right. former first lady obama rips into trump. writing quote the whole birther thing was crazy and mean spirited. under lying bigotry. hardly conceal. it was dangerous. meant to stir up the wing nuts and cooks. she adds what if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to washington. if the person went looking for our girls? donald trump with his loud and reckless innuendo was putting my family s safety at risk. for this i ll never forgive him. trump was told the quote said the former first lady was a credit to the country. i respect her service and opinion. i wish her and president obama all the best. ha. he didn t say anything like that. here s what he said.
claims? actually, he did not. these were stories that had been circulating obviously mother jones had carried references to some of this earlier. but it was not brought up in our original briefing this week. why was it important for the intelligence community to bring that brief to the attention of done add trump and president obama? i think that the community feels compelled to brief the president and in this case the president-elect on anything and everything they have been made aware of. they have been recipients of this information from news sources and from others in the intelligence community around the world. so it was incumbent on them to brief the president-elect about what might surface publicly. and in your mind, should the public know about this?