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These allegations arent true, and that should also be taken into account. >> well, here to discuss, jack kingston, a former senior adviser to the trump campaign. political commentators nina turner and joseph pinian. hello, jack. jack, how can the white house still insist the president is troubled and concerned about the allegations against roy moore when he is tweeting his support, rallying 15 miles away from the alabama border. and the president has left zero doubt on where he stands here, no? ...

Since as you noted yasmin he acknowledged, apologized for that and its perfectly obvious that its his voice. how you judge between somebody who is deliberately saying things that are untrue for the purpose of misleading followers versus has somehow persuaded himself that some of these things are true, thats very difficult for a layman like me whos not a doctor to tell, but what we do know is that the president in many circumstances pretty constantly says things that simply arent true. >> is ther...

Very close to putin. trying to get a meeting with meeting with jared kushner. apparently he said lets not meet with him. and somehow he ended up at a meeting and i know they want to ask what happened and what was said. >> i appreciate it. thank you for joining me in new york. with four members of trump team, could the white house change tune on what it calls fake news? >> fake stories are being reported. a lot of bad things are being reported that arent true. hand you know i think to a certain...

But when you talk to them in private, you talk to them one-on-one, theyre pretty upfront about the fact that they dont take all the presidents words to heart. that they are kind of getting used to how he conducts himself and his disregard for the facts. thats a remarkable thing for an american president, for members of his own party in the congress to say, but its where we are. you know, im kind of used to it actually too now because you talk to members of the congress, and in private, they dont...

Not, you know, that has -- that has serious implications for the safety and security of the country. >> you think its possible that hes not sure whats real and whats not? >> well, i think -- >> i -- >> go ahead, david, i think we agree on this point. >> go ahead, david, i agreed with what you were saying earlier. >> david gergen, you think he may -- youre answering the affirmative on that? >> im answering the affirmative. i think we may persuade himself of things, as david axelrod said, that are...

His -- whats real and whats not, you know, that has -- that has sere implications for the safety and and security of the country. >> i think its possible hes not sure whats real and whats not? >> well, i think -- >> i -- >> go ahead, david, i think we agree on this point. >> go ahead, david, i agreed with what you were saying earlier. >> david gergen, you think he may -- youre answering the affirmative on that? >> im answering the affirmative. i think we may persuade himself of things, as david ...

Making this kind of statement about something that he knows is authentic, it lends an understanding into why he finds it so easy to cloud the water the way he does on issues that matter. you know, he is okay calling into doubt things he has no reason to call into doubt. the russian investigation, how could he call it a witch hunt. this is how. this is how his head works. >> as you know from covering this president, this approach is not new for him. he wrote in his book which i believe is called ...

In the blank. whether its luther strange, maybe not jeff sessions. but it would be so easy for the president to do that and he chooses to go against everybody else on his team. >> we heard the president speak out of both sides of his mouth yesterday on these allegations of sexual assault. he was talking about roy moore in a completely different category from all of the other allegations, when he was asked what he would say to women at this moment in our history where theres reckoning with sexual...

Things that turn out not to be true. >>well, i dont know what you mean by that. but -- well, we certainly dont want him to tell us things that arent true. >> right. >> and maybe he has a faulty memory. so there are a lot of excuses one can make, but at this stage, hes got to narrow his recollections. when he comes before the committee, again, he has to be precise. and it has to be accurate. >> one of the things that has been going on the last couple of days has been president trump seems to be t...

Gets a lot of leeway when it comes to telling your committee things that turn out not to be true. >> well, i dont know what you mean by that. but -- >> well -- >> we certainly dont want to tell things that arent true. >> right. >> and maybe he has a faulty memory. so there are a lot of excuses one can make. but at this stage, hes got to narrow his recollections. when he comes before the committee again, he has to be precise, and it has to be accurate. >> one of the things thats been going on the...