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Acuity. and sarah said stay up there until those questions are answered. going forward, would you recommend presidents undergo that time of testing? >> i dont think so. im comfortable with the algorithms out there. most of them start with personal observation. and observation of the physician and the patient and the family and the patient. then they go to screening patients. and then they go to a screening tool like the one we used. if thats -- then they go to other times of more detailed testin...

Tool, i wouldnt recommend doing anything beyond that. >> are you saying this is -- this is my ignorance. are we saying that -- we had issues about this presidents cognitive testing and mental acuity was not part of the exam? >> as far as i know, no president has had a cognitive assessment as president of the united states. this is the very first time its ever happened. if anybody is aware of it happening before, they have information i dont have. because i looked extensively. not to mention i kn...

[laughter] sarah is telling me to wrap it up. one more question from somebody else. one more question. back there. >> could you give us a sense of how involved the first family is, the first lady, his daughter, others in encouraging him to be -- step up on the exercise? >> sure. theyre involved in it. his daughter, ivanka and mrs. trump are both proponents of eating healthier and exercising. so theyll be partners of mine in, you know, working this out. so theyre involved in it, absolutely. sorry...

Jackson. >> simple question. >> okay. sarah is going to wrap it up. >> with the questions that youve asked -- >> im going to take one for question from somebody else. one more question. >> here. >> back there. >> okay. thanks. so could you give us a sense of how involved the first family is? the first lady, his daughter, others, encouraging him to be, step up on the exercise. >> sure. yeah, theyre involved in it. you know, his daughter, ivanka, and mrs. trump, are both p proponents of eating hea...

And the nigerians will never go back to their huts. "the new york times" was told that the haitian immigrants have aids and now this. jeff, you talk about the fallout, but the silence from the republican leaders. we have asked mitch mcconnell and paul ryan for comments on this. >> and im sorry they are getting tired of being asked questions like this. because of what happened earlier this week, when the president had the meeting at the white house with other lawmakers, 55 minutes, when he talked...

It makes us all a little bit uncomfortable. but we have to get used to, i think, the reality of what is happening and face it forthrightly. this is not a normal man, normal president, in this white house now. and its a danger to the nation. >> well, i think its interesting, because when it comes to -- im not saying that this president has any of those symptoms or if hes dementia or whatever his fitness is, but when it comes to mental issues, we have such a stigma with these issues and i think as...

Comprehensive immigration reform equals amnesty. >> no question about that and just the amnesty for the dreamers will cost our economy more than building a wall. hell have to explain that in the days ahead, but here are the demands says the president republicans in this bill. they want border security, how that looks, were not sure. is it a wall? is it not? chain migration, they want to end that. the visa lottery they want to end that in exchange for a deal on daca. this is kind of the art of th...

Some point that rendered him unfit. he is unfit, and that is for all to see. were not used to talking about presidents this way. it makes us all a little bit uncomfortable. but we have to get used to, i think, the reality of what is happening and face it forth rightly. this is not a normal man, normal president, in this white house now. and its a danger to the nation. >> well, i think its interesting, because when it comes to -- im not saying that this president has any of those symptoms or if h...

While his critics bantered about west wing drama and he twitter sparred over the issue of mental acuity, some who have thrown rocks within the g.o.p. tent have not circled the wagon to shout down this noise coming from the michael wolf book. >> i dont think hes crazy. i think hes had a very successful 2017 and i want to help and where i can and we should all want him to be successful. >> i can tell you hes got the wherewithal to do thing that no politician has been able to do and in a good way. ...

Willing enough to corroborate that through subpoenaing bank records or text messages or cell phone records, and again, i think thats the wrong direction. >> i want to ask you about something in the "washington post" today. who write about the white houses frustration that theyre now dealing in the white house press briefing at the presidents press conference at camp david over the weekend, with questions about the presidents mental acuity, about his fitness to serve, i wonder what you made about...