correspondent for yahoo! news. guys thanks for coming back. any indication the white house pressured noaa to do this? >> look, i have not -- i'll be completely the transparent. i have not been following sharpy gate as closely as i should have. it's been dominating conversations inside the white house press corps as everyone has been chatting about this. the president doubled down essentially saying there was a forecast path that the hurricane dorian ultimately could have impacted some other states, but, you know, to be completely transparent i've not been following this as closely as i should have been. >> there's a lot to cover with the this white house. i completely understand that. you got a bunch of issues to look at here. brittney, the president tweeted on friday that this has never happened to another president, suggesting he's waiting for someone somewhere perhaps the immediate where a to apologize. but my question is why does the president continue to dig into this because we have many other