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>> well, i think it is a great question -- >> thank you, i worked on it all day. >> but i also think he is not necessarily thinking about it in the way of mental health. i think the way he is sort of speaking to the media, he is acting as if this is something that is quote unquote behind him. and i dont think he is taking accountability or responsibility for his choices. the fact that he in any way engaged, which was publicly acknowledged, although it was not brought out into now in the media, h...

Here. >> and potentially, it is diagnostic, i havent evaluated him. so i cant give a clinical diagnosis. the reality testing. how is it that he thinks he is above that accountability, that somehow in his magical thinking, this wouldnt come home to roost. and somehow, he is above and beyond the accountability for that behavior. >> ari melber, and dr. flemming, thank you both for joining us. coming up, what the bradley manning case tells us about the ed snowden case. and rewriting the minimum wa...

Were so un-surprised. >> the thing that really strikes me here the most, clinically, the fact that this is repetition, the facts that he had resigned from office, had all of that public attention. and knew in his minds eye that he would be running this race and engage in this behavior. >> when you pay a public, humiliating price, even though you think the behavior is okay but you have paid that price and you want to get back into the public arena where they will make you pay that price again, th...

Such a shocking thing. good point you raise. >> exactly. were hard wired as human beings to obey legitimate authority figures. and what we need, you know, in terms of rebelling against undue influence and mind control is critical thinking and reality testing and having other people to bounce ideas over. if his brother said keep everything secret, im trusting you and the younger brother complied, it would be much more easy for him to do further indoctrinations or extremism, i think. >> thank you ...

>> i doubt that, that that would be enough in and of itself. but i guess id like to comment on a very famous social psychology experiment by stanley millgram who did a phoney shock machine. he took people and within an hour individuals were electrocuting others just because somebody ordered them to. >> you know, its funny, you said that, i had remembered that. i remember that now from psychology. i was shocking. such a shocking thing. good point you raise. >> exactly. were hard wired as human be...

Getting hurt. tell us a little bit about the survivors and five, six days on from this original event what people are going to be feeling, why some people could get it and why some might not. >> right. what we do know is that people who do have survivors guilt, these are individuals of course who are in reality blameless. it is not their fault that people that they know were hurt or may have been killed. so what we need to do with them is to work with them, debrief them, bring the reality testin...