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Rein him in, you give him a script, plead with him to stick to it and minimize the risk for an unforced error. you can call that a prevent defense approach. but theres a downside and weve seep it. the joe biden who looks down at his speech and reads from it is a different joe biden. there is a notable lack of energy in his delivery. theres no passion, theres no punch. he is 76 years old and when he sticks to the script like that, he seems 76 years old. theres a risk in that too. the alternative ...

That happens in old age is that, unlike younger people, where you have the command performances of either school or work, old age often is accompanied by extreme isolation, and then invisibility, and so we lose track sometimes of the most vulnerable older people. and they can be very, very vulnerab vulnerable, and nobody notices. >> you speak of this vulnerability. if your relatives aa -- doesnt have the mental capacity to explain or to tell you that theyre suffering or being abused, if they hav...

When general kelly comes out, says everything is fine in the white house, the people shouldnt believe stories about chaos or dysfunction, is that believable? and is he saying that as much for the president to hear as anyone else, since now jeff zeleny reported he was asked to go out. >> nothing says im not going to get fired like calling a press conference telling the press youre not going to get fired. i think its similar to when jeff sessions was under fire, and he called a press conference to...

So i do think theres tension there. you never know where you stand with this president. he doesnt actually like to fire people, despite some of his bluster, but he does like to keep people on their toes and sometimes even hang them out to dry. so you have these continued sort of humiliating command performances by top members of the staff or cabinet in order to curry favor, in order to your question, i think, to speak directly to the president through the media and to say, look, i have your back...