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I dont know if there is anything medical there or not. i talked to one of his closest friends yesterday who said this is not mental instability. its controlled and organized chaos. and thats how he chooses to manage. >> it is certainly the way the campaign went. i dont know if controlled chaos is the right way to call it. im not sure how much it was controlled. joining me now is former rnc chairman michael steele. good to see you. do you think that having the president do this meeting today wa...

Awards for the fake news later this week. spending a lot of his time focussed on that. and so, this comes, this bit of reporting comes at a time that this book is going on, but this reporting is -- was presented by a very good reporter with solid -- >> axios. >> and this is again an issue that the white house will push back on, but the fact that the president tweets about this so often kind of shows that he is watching a lot of television. >> and sarah, another thing on presidents agenda this we...

House correspondent jim acosta. the president went to extremes in claiming he has the brain power to be president. >> he absolutely did, wolf. trying to get back on message touting his economic agenda after spending the last few days defending his mental sharpness and acuity, but the presidents usual claim hes a genius has demonstrated how too much damage control can cause some damage. at a speech in gnashville president trump sounded if he was summing up his year in office as pure genius. >> oh...

Himself over these new questions that emerged about his mental state. all leaders of the party were behind and members of cabinet, members of the republican leadership and the house and senate. what message does that send? >> so i dont like the tweets. again, sending out a tweet about yourself and talking about your mental acuity, as a president theres things you need to be bigger than. at the same time theres something bigger at play here, which is it is very dangerous to question the mental ac...

Came out. look, the problem steve bannon has is its not about the apology. in the apology, he doesnt deny the comments that are in the book, and he certainly doesnt apologize for enabling the author to have the access he had in the white house to senior staff, and perhaps even to the president himself. that remains the fundamental problem that steve bannon has. this book remains a problem for this white house. its still getting a lot of attention and is still the best-seller. thats steve bannons...

It was head-on. was that the right way to handle this? >> i think if he didnt handle it that way once he was asked about it, it would be problematic. i think there would be two issues. one is his general intellectual competence. thats in one basket. and thats not something that the constitution considers or that our laws consider the people elect somebody, what theyre smart or not, given what weve heard about president trump through this book "fire and fury" and all of his aides saying that he m...

Ran for president one time and won. >> here to share their reporting and their insights, weve got julie herbville davis of "the new york times." josh green, mary katherine ham "the federalist" and cnns jeff zeleny. thanks to you all for being with us this morning. jeff, im going to start with you on this. really extraordinary that were talking about the presidents mental acuity, in that he was responding in the way that he is. >> no question. and were only at the end of the first week of 2018. s...

Camp david summit setting the 2018 agenda with the midterms in mind. >> ive never been more optimistic about an immigration reform proposal making it to the presidents desk than i am right now. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." im nia-malika henderson. john king is off today. to our viewers here at home and around the world, thanks for being with us. we begin the week with the fitness for office question. in a series of t...

Laughable. >> brian, you asked a follow-up question about whether it will include a neurological exam or a look at his mental acuity. was it uncomfortable for you to say that to the white house press secretary? >> very uncomfortable. i want to take issue with a couple of my esteemed colleagues that have already spoken. as far as carl was saying, we dont need any new type of reporting. we need to follow the story, follow his own advice in that regards. we need to follow this story. it is uncomfor...

Relationship that the president has had with the speaker from day one, paul ryan not shy of expressing his distaste for the candidate donald trump when the campaign was under way, what kind of relationship do they have now, who is he working with in congress, what is your sense of the working relationship between the white house and the congress? >> well, i think what is going on capitol hill, you do see some people who are very willing to work with the president, try to come to some agreement. ...