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President trump is back at the white house today after a vacation at his new jersey property. He tweeted this out today. Democrats want open borders and crime. So dangerous for our country. We are building a big beautiful new wall. I will protect america and the democrats dont where to start. Washington journal talk to an author about President Trumps impact on voters. Host we want to welcome back henry olsen, author of the book the workingclass republican, Ronald Reagan and return a bluecollar ...

Offered as not credible or practical or something. Right. They specifically reference to try to reach him including through the lawyers and made sure to say that. I mean, what i think the bottom line is that they havent spoken yet. That there does not appear to be a lack of will on either side that they should speak and a matter of them each side recognizing the recognizing the desire for the meeting and interview to happen and i think at least from the steel side they it looks like they want th...

Burr said yesterday hate brick wall in terms of Senate Investigators to talk to him, that we were able to report tonight that at least from the steel side of the equation, hes willing to talk and so we may yet see him speaking with those investigators, as well. I read that you provoked a response from chairman burr and vice chairman senator warner tonight and ive read their written response. And im wondering if theres some gray area where its sort of true that they havent gotten the cooperation ...

Possibly imagine, but insult to the mentally ill to say that the reason he shouldnt be in office is mental illness. hes a bad person, ignorant, impulsive, hes been like this his entire life. to think that the people who america elected to office will be removed because of a psychiatric opinion is absolutely ridiculous. theres no chance in the world that hell be removed under the 25th amendment. and its dangerous to do this because it distracts from the political work of the congress, of we the p...

Were in agreement that he is unfit. were in agreement that that is a danger. that every man, woman and child in the world is at risk of dieing because this man is so woefully unfit. he is unraveling and deteriorating. so whether you want to get bogged down in the fine points of diagnosis or not, the big picture is hes unfit, hes deteriorating and if we cant do a diagnosis from a distance, then for gods sake lets do one up close. >> do you agree with dr. gertner, his words that its a scandal? tha...

We have to compare people to their own baseline and were seeing dramatic cognitive deterioration and were not even inquiring whether this might be the expression of something much more serious and dangerous. >> just to be clear, dr. gertner, you have not treated him or met him? >> no, but the people who do work with him on a daily basis are concerned and a lafrmd about this. >> dr. frances, you think its not only wrong but dangerous to try to be diagnosing this president. why? >> well, i think t...

Dr. alan francis, author of "twilight of american sanity." thanks so much to both of you. dr. gertner, let me start with you. is it fair for people who have not treated the president personally to suggest that he is not mentally fit to hold the office of president? >> well, what weve learned from michael wolff is the people who interact with him daily, up close, 100% of them think that hes psychologically unfit and they discuss the 25th amendment on a daily basis. i think its a scandal that dona...

Blood pressure and not look at what may be a degenerative, a neurological disorder that were seeing clear signs of, accept ra from t -- separate from whether he has a personality disorder. we are looking at hard signs of mental, physical, cognitive deterioration. why wouldnt we test for those things? >> i just want to point out, look, we at cnn have not verified that claim in the book, that hes repeating himself or not recognizing people. newt gingrich told reporters presidents get good lines an...

There are about 4,000 members of the coalition that we had named to warn. we have 63 thousand signator ris to a petition that john gertner had created, and when i was compiling this book we couldnt include everybody because there were so many people coming forth. this is just a representative sample. >> you have lance donaldson here. tony, i have a question for you that is about policy and the psyche of donald trump, and its the crucial question of the day or the week for next week, and that is ...

In writing, but after the conference hundreds of mental health professionals got in touch with me saying their same concern. the assessment was almost unanimous, that they were all concerned and did not know of a way to speak about it. there are about 4,000 members of the coalition that we had named to warn. we have 63 thousand signator ris to a petition that john gertner had created, and when i was compiling this book we couldnt include everybody because there were so many people coming forth. ...