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To sit down with the president united states one-on-one for an off record conversation and said that it would not be off record. >> harris: we had a problem early in the presidency with all of the elites of the phone calls at the president was having with the world leaders. but this is why specifically i ask you about the president in this instance given all that is happened in the last few days, he can flip the switch loudly and say, you know whats, im going to give you the notes to the america...

Quote, wholly lacking what in some obvious sense must be the main requirement of the job -- what neuroscientists would call executive function. >> the ability to distinguish cause and effect. the ability to adjust your behavior to different situations. the ability to organize and be orderly in the way you think. >> neurologists tell patients make sure you have your will and all that stuff done in your 60s at your latest because for all of us executive function is going to decline if we live long...

It comes back, this concept comes back from time to time throughout the book. you talk about trumps friends known him for a long time. very concerned that he was, quote, wholly lacking what in some obvious sense must be the main requirement of the job -- what scientists would call executive function. >> the ability to distinguish cause and effect. the ability to adjust your behavior to different situations. the ability to organize and be orderly in the way you think. >> neurologists tell patient...

Some obvious sense must be the main requirement of the job -- what scientists would call executive function. >> the ability to distinguish cause and effect. the ability to adjust your behavior to different situations. the ability to organize and be orderly in the way you think. >> neurologists tell patients make sure you have your will and all that stuff done in your 60s at your latest because for all of us executive function is going to decline if we live long enough. its the ability to make ch...

Donald trumps executive function. neurologists will tell that you it happens to most people his age. usually in ways that are barely per septemberible. forgetting the keyes. forgetting names. sometimes ways that are glaring. what neurologists call executive function includes basic mental processes like attention control, cognitive inhibition. decline of cognitive function is the process that leads to you take the car keys away from dad. having personally watched donald trump become increasingly ...

The whole story is something i did not suspect. i did not suspect jared would seize the white house. my first guess is that the kids were worried about the old man. kids were watching especially over recent years in decline in donald trumps executive function. neurologists will tell that you it happens to most people his age. usually in ways that are barely per septemberible. forgetting the keyes. forgetting names. sometimes ways that are glaring. what neurologists call executive function includ...

Administration trying to figure out a way we could get to the truth on fast and furious and so many other scandals where people lost their lives like brian terry. i have great respect for adam schiff but i heard them play the tape earlier where he said of the president fired bob mueller, congress would come back and the.him as an independent counsel, dont waste our time. i dont know what he has been reading but over the last eight years we have looked desperately for a way to try to get a fair a...

Trump as bumbling character. he gets to decide whats secret. >> its true. assume the rumbling we are hearing is true, melissa. that what happened here is that israel told the united states that isis had developed a new battery and computers that is a perfect bomb to bring down a commercial airliner. why wouldnt the president of the united states share that with russia? we have an enemy in common. isis is the enemy in common. the president of the united states is the person that gets to decide wh...

Colleague here. let me emphasize by saying, is it fair to say then that regardless of what your position may have been as a legislator, your approach as attorney general will be to enforce the law, regardless of policy differences? >> absolutely, mr. chairman. thats -- i dont think i have any hesitation or any lack of an ability to separate the roles that i have had to go from the executive -- legislative branch to the executive branch is a transfer of not only position but of the way you approa...

Colleague here, let me emif a seize but that regardless your position as a legislator, your approach as attorney general will be to enforce the law regardless of policy differences? >> absolutely, mr. chairman. i dont think i have any hesitation or any lack of an ability to separate the roles that i have had, to go from the legislative branch to the executive bran is a transfer of not only position but the way you approach issues. i would be an executive function, an enforcement function of the ...