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Partisan, calling into question the presidents fitness for office, particularly invoking the nuclear codes, which has been a concern of some for a long time. and i suspect that he was echoing private concerns that hes heard among national security and intelligence people. the only reservation i have about this, anderson, one of my concerns about the president is hes been so reckless about delivering these hammer blows to our democracy, to the legitimacy of the courts, the congress as a co-equal ...

Thats elitism and thats the trump administration. youre right, though, fundamentally. youre right fundamentally that this is likely to hurt corker politically so why is he doing it? the rarest thing in washington, political courage. hes doing it because he means it. because he really is worried the presidents unstable, and since he made that comment, the president has proved corker right. the president -- you saw it this week. he was unhinged. he is unstable. and hes obviously incompetent. were ...

Figured why not? everything that weve read of how they approached and how they cultivated different contacts, this is classic kgb fsb play book. >> valerie, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> lets continue the conversation with democratic congressman andre carson of indiana. hes a key member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, wolf. >> as you know the former director of national intelligence, james clapper has expressed concern a...

I really question his ability -- his fitness to be in this office. having some understanding of the levers president can exercise. i worry about frankly, access to nuclear codes. >> sean: really? let me see if i remember correctly. is that the same james clapper who lied about surveillance to congress? who originally said he saw zero evidence of so-called "trump-russia collusion"? he should change his tune. i guess thats what you have to do if you want to get a job over at the fake news network,...

Washington, d.c. did not. our movement is a movement built on love, its love for fellow citizens. >> movement built on love. you can just roll that one around in the old brain pan in a moment. serious people of all political stripes, some have begun to worry out loud about the presidents fitness for office. listen to retired james clapper. this is what he said after the presidents speech when asked if president trump is a threat to national security. >> well, he certainly could be. again, having...

Presidents stability. and that was a really remarkable moment for corker who is known as sort of the stoic voice on capitol hill, not one prone to hyperbole. its a remarkable conversation to have. the fact that were here talking about the idea of someone hiding the nuclear codes from the president as a precautionary measure and doing it soberly and sincerely is truly a remarkable conversation to have. but people who are serious and who have thought about this feel like its an important one and i...

United states and we have a responsibility, i think, to be people who help reform and help change and help modernize our strategic forces and those capabilities as much as needed. but i think the sort of thing that jim just said pushes the envelope beyond where it ought to be. >> do you think the president of the united states has a responsibility to act accordingly to befitting of the office and not to waffle. theres one thing to say that, well, you know, i think that someone is weak or maybe n...

>> having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about, frankly, you know, the access to the nuclear codes, in a fit of pique, he decides to do something about kim jong-un. theres actually very little to stop him. the whole systems built to ensure rapid response if necessary. so theres very little in the way of controls over, you know, exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary. >> you saw there in the corner, that was a moment last night on live tel...

Old thing. some people in the press afterwards came out as if prompted by the president and went way over the top in their commentary and suggested he was suffering from dementia or was psychologically demented. >> bret: part of that coverage included the former national intelligence director who said this. >> i just find this extremely disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i really question his ability, his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder ...

Qualities that you see in a president that i see in every president that are lacking in this one. presidents that ive known have been calm and controlled in a crisis. they have been able to unite the country, even when their personal popularity has been down, and they have taken responsibility for things even when something thats happened is not directly their fault. on the nuclear codes -- and i dont see those qualities in the way this president behaves in that rant, sort of self-pitying rant t...