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Fitness of a president who is so obsessed with proving himself right on this issue that it becomes a five-day story. i will also note at the same time i do begin to wonder five days into this story if theres not also a question to be on the medias fixation of this story. how much are we participating in a feedback loop and what are we trying to achieve? are we trying to demonstrate to audiences that the president and his administration are inept? dont we think so many years into this then statio...

That does not know the custodial role of being president, does not know the kind of exhortation role of being president, lets go put our coast guard to work in the bahamas to save the lives down there as they did after katrina, but those the fixation of drawing on a map and insisting he was right all the while? >> i dont think he cares about the presidency, brian. i dont think hes thinking about this as the presidency. i dont think hes aware of respectful of the majesty of the office. what he is...

That is about 175 miles from dublin, where the vice presidents official meetings were actually being held. pences aide said he stayed there at, quote, the suggestion of the president. that has now prompted congressional democrats to investigate the administrations expenditure of taxpayer money at trump-owned properties. then it was the presidents seeming fixation, a fixation that is in full force at this hour on a claim he made sunday about hurricane dorian. that was when trump on twitter stated...

Re-litigate something that you were wrong about in the first place. its compounding an error with real-world consequences. >> and lets not forget, abby, shortly after the president sunday scared the people of alabama that they might be in big, big trouble because of this hurricane, the governments own national weather service put out a separate statement saying, alabama, dont worry, youre not in any trouble. >> thats the main issue here. if this was an innocuous mistake about something that didn...

Barbara resch joins me now with michael crowley, and thanks to everybody for being with us. barbara, let me start with you. this fixation on the trajectory of the hurricane, the map, alabama, do you have a sense just seeing him up close through the years? have you seen a tendency in him? have you seen anything in his behavior that would explain why that matters so much to him? >> im trying to figure this out, because generally when he does something like that tells a lie. i think he knew it was ...

Days. how do you respond to that? >> no, its just the presidents typical inhumane approach to immigration in general. he wants to demonize anyone whos from another country. we need more work visas, not fewer. i spent a lot of time in the western half of the country in the last cycle. you could not staff the agricultur agriculture industry without people people coming from the mexican border. you ask businesspeople, theyll tell you that. the presidents use of the immigration issue and his fixatio...

Project or environmental concerns or the possibility of lawsuits, the president has really pushed things faster, urged them to move forward, and told officials in these meetings, dont worry, ill pardon you. the white house says that he makes such statements in jest, that hes joking when he says that, but it certainly led to, you know, a lot of confusion and those who have attended these meetings certainly interpreted that as a serious statement. >> weve heard that explanation before, that he was...

Stuff going on. >> saturday morning on twitter. >> its like the response of a 6-year-old boy, you know? just blow it up. >> instinctively. michael, the last word. go ahead, mike many. >> one thing. you asked the question about why this fixation on nuclear weapons. remember what were talking about. were talking about a man who grew up in the 50s. he grew up in that time, so he sees these weapons a lot differently than we do today. and hes kind of stuck in that space about, about a lot of things. ...

That should be the top story. >> thats true, but part of dealing with it, the opposite thing that i see now is you see these stories that hes increasingly x. we say on the show that the increasingly -- is the adverb. yes, this week was bad, but weve had 20 of these week, you know what i mean? >> i feel like something has to give -- >> since day one and the thing thats given is us, right? its given, like, our kind of sanity and our capacity to remember what a normal country and a normal presidenc...

Innert, and i struggle, how do you figure out whats worse when the baseline is already total chaos, total ineptness. ive gone back and forth over the course of the week. the greenland thing, in part because it wasnt even id logical. it was sout of left field. it was a weird fixation. it was a fixation somebody would have when theyre really losing touch with reality. then i talked to tim obrien on this network who wrote a book about trump, and he says hes always been like that. >> right. >> but i...