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From this and realize how abnormal and how concerning it is that we even have to have this conversation about the mental acuity or mental fitness of our president, how serious of an issue that is. the truth is were not going to know. there are experts that are credentialed to make these kind of judgments. most voters, and i do not possess that kind expertise, but i will tell you that as voters, all of us as citizen, we have to make judgments about our leaders and about people who wish to be our ...

It must be added, the president himself sort of made an appearance in the briefing room today by video. >> what was that? >> even though the oval office is only 30 yards or so down the way. he has never once stepped foot in the briefing room to field questions from reporters. were seeing this. though he certainly does take questions from time to time on the lawn before he goes to marine one, hes only had one full-fledged press conference since taking office. and all-his tv interviews, in depth o...

Thats from michael wolff. the book is full of gossipy details, yes, david, but the thread throughout it is donald trumps mental acuity, his ability to lead, his ability to take in information, to process the information, and then to go out and act on it. is it alarmist for people to seize on this? is this too much? if critics are coming out and saying were making a big deal about this, what would you say to those critics? >> alarmist, sure, but more importantly its a grave conversation to have a...

The book is full of gossipy details, yes, david. but the thread throughout it is all about donald trumps mental acuity, his ability to lead, to take in information, process the information and then to go out and act on it. is it alarmist for people to seize on this? is this too much? if critics are going to come out and say were making a big deal out of this, what would you say to those critics? >> a largist sure, but more importantly its a grave conversation to have as a nation. in law there is...

And still went ahead and disclosed against the nda. the non-disclosure agreement, what are you going to do about it? americans love the law, are law-abiding we think the agreements of self-executing. if i promise not to disclose something, i wont disclose something. you have to ask as a lawyer, whats the impact, the effect, the punishment if you break the agreement and go ahead? in this case, the punishment is almost nothing. >> also at this press conference a question and hallie mentioned about...

Charge and the book goes to the heart is he stable enough to be boss. thats what the book is fun. i know the steve bannon is fun and cheese berger is funny. but the book is about his stability. and its going to come out to whether trump wants it to or not. >> what about speaking of the president, gloria, we havent seen him publicly since he came back from mar-a-lago and here he is pops up on this giant video screen behind sarah sanders, its like he wants to talk to the press and the world, but h...

Psychiatrists raising questions about the presidents mental health. >> its never good for the president when a question about his mental acuity is raised at a presser with his press secretary as happened today. and i think one of the most devastating parts of this is that this is now part of the national conversation. sarah sanders swatted it away and said it was ridiculous and part of the, you know, trash book et cetera, et cetera, but that has now become part of the conversation. you could mak...

Legal part of this. are there other similarities, whether it is questioning a presidents mental fitness, whether its his fitness for office, whether its a white house in chaos, where you draw parallels to watergate? >> i dont think so much watergate because there wasnt an issue of mental acuity on the part of president nixon, but youve had this problem arise, the question arise, not a problem, but the question arise with fdr before the 25th amendment when he was sick and his wife essentially too...

>> how could this have happened? a black white supremacist. >> one of the greatest sketches, top of all time, all time, is that klansman sketch. the blind klansman sketch is fantastic. in is juxtaposition after juxtaposition after juxtaposition in that sketch. >> we dont like your kind around here. >> you better get out of here before something bad happens. >> thats right. thats right! tell that ni dprvegs tell that nigger! >> come on, clayton. we got to go. >> oh, that monkey was beating my hoo...

And white people with the same amount of acuity. >> good evening and welcome to the first and maybe only racial draft here in new york city. folks, this is for all the marbles. what happens here -- >> seated behind me on the stage here are the various representatives and believe it or not, the blacks have actually won the first pick. >> we choose tiger woods. >> no surprise there. >> many of those jokes are frontal attacks on racism. what hes really saying is we know this is going on. stop kiddi...