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"For the President to claim that people don't die days and weeks after a storm is just insulting. It's disrespectful to the dead and it's disrespectful to the living." - @AndersonCooper join @DonLemon to discuss Trump's denial that nearly '3,000 people did not die' in Puerto Ricopic.twitter.com/S1IYre5HnJ

"Hurricane Florence slowing to a crawl as it absolutely batters the Carolinas tonight and it's going to get worst. ... Landfall is expected early to midday tomorrow." - CNN's @DonLemon reporting from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina https://cnn.it/2OjoL8m pic.twitter.com/6k1SoIwu81

"I'm getting shark teeth" - Lucy, a Myrtle Beach, SC resident, is not evacuating ahead of Hurricane #Florence. Rather, she's strolling the beach collecting shark teeth and showing them to @DonLemon https://cnn.it/2OgH0Lv pic.twitter.com/Hw9RuSYL77

"President Trump is lying, even about good news" CNN's @DonLemon discusses President Trump's top economist acknowledging that a tweet the President issued earlier in the day about GDP and jobs was not, in fact, accurate. https://cnn.it/2CIaYqr pic.twitter.com/Nh079uH2x4

"How the Republican party has changed." CNN's @DonLemon plays flashbacks of Republican attacks on presidential candidate Donald Trumppic.twitter.com/BJ5PDSkO4z

"I was not trying to protest." This high school student was nicknamed #PlaidShirtGuy after he was asked to leave a Trump rally after making animated facial expressions during the President's speech. He speaks to CNN's @DonLemon. https://cnn.it/2NmTiVF pic.twitter.com/zbyqLc7pXs

'It wasn't me': The highest-ranking officials in the Trump administration are publicly denying they or their offices authored the infamous anonymous op-ed in The New York Times, an indication of how deeply the episode has shaken the White House. http://cnn.it/2MREizI pic.twitter.com/YMbGrF3HIv

"We all know the history of the Nixon administration, but even during the worst of the Watergate times, nothing even comparable to this. This is totally uncharted territory for us," says journalist Dan Rather about the NYT op-ed by an unnamed senior administration officialpic.twitter.com/BdOzHSbOgM

"In the way that the President is reacting to it. He almost confirms the fundamental thrust of the piece. I mean he is childlike and reactive ... The real question is how does the work of the White House get done under circumstances like this" - David Axelrod on the NYT op-edpic.twitter.com/v8zUG62EHg

"What you see with the writer of the anonymous op-ed is a real cry for help. It's very different. Mine was reactive. This is proactive. This is somebody from the inside who is signaling help." - Former Ambassador to Panama, John Feeley on the unnamed NYT op-ed criticizing Trumppic.twitter.com/fe9JzW0RIX

Nixon White House counsel John Dean says President Trump demanding the New York Times turn over the op-ed writer is "frighteningly dictatorial," adding that "it's not going to happen in our system" https://cnn.it/2M1urBZ pic.twitter.com/CsBQIylpjU

An anonymous senior administration official claimed to be part of a resistance inside President Donald Trump's White House, thwarting parts of the President's agenda, in a New York Times op-ed https://cnn.it/2M1urBZ pic.twitter.com/abhbJFj6jW

"The fact that Donald Trump ignored it and then started screaming the word 'treason' and now wants the New York Times to cough up the reporter -- it smacks of Nixon and his war against journalism," says Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley about the NYT op-edpic.twitter.com/9z06ns4XhI