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Back on that, can you assess his mental fitness for office? >> absolutely. we did do a cognitive assessment as part of the exam. i did not intend to include that, per all of the guidelines out there, its not indicated at this time. a lot of the guidelines suggest that you do cognitive screening questions, and if you have a positive or concerns answer then you engage with a cognitive screening tool. i didnt feel i needed to do that because i did not feel it was clinically indicated. i have spent ...

And psychologist that utilize these things will tell you that they will pick up stuff, you know, that even the patient sometimes is not aware of. so i think that theyre great screening tools and i think short of having any type of issue with that -- with a cognitive screening tool, i would recommend doing anything beyond that. >> are you saying -- this is my -- are we saying that because of reagan, all right, we had issues with reagan, and the issues about this presidents cognitive testing, ment...

See what tall it entaall it ent. it does rule out the need to do any other cognitive testing. thats the reason you do it. its a screening tool. if you do well on it, i think anything above 26 is normal. if you do certain -- if you get a 30 out of 30, i think you can, you know, you can confidently assume that youre done on the cognitive workup for now. >> do you have any concerns about the presidents use of twitter? >> no. i dont -- you know, twitter doesnt involve me as a doctor. i dont have any...

In charge for u.s. immigration and customs enforcement in los angeles. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you for the invitation. >> lets talk about this process. because were told that tashfeen malik not only was interviewed but that she went through the investigating of five different agencies. we are also learning that she possibly gave a completely fake address on her application from pakistan. where does this break down? because there are thousands of people making the same track...

>> thats the system we dont have set up. people talk about changing the system but we have to think about this social media piece. its a great screening tool. >> three contacts with the police. they didnt connect the dots. if they had connected the dots -- im not pointing fingers here. we have to change the system. on that third contact when they did the welfare check, they would have said maybe something is amiss here and they didnt have a mental health professional helping them in the screenin...

About a job you had in your past and they can tell through a credit check sometimes about a source of income, whether someone has lied about a job they had. they say these credit checks are an important screening tool and they dont want this bill to go through. >> whats the expectation? how likely is it the bill will become the law? >> thats a little unclear. senator warren introduced the bill yesterday. were told it does not have bipartisan support in the senate yet, but this just got introduce...

Important? we have so many out there. >> when youre buying a college education youre spending a lot of money. maybe $225,000. you can get a harvard legal of education at a good state school and good state school education at harvard. its what you bring into it. since you dont know exactly what youre buying, outside viewpoint is crucial for consumers. >> i argue it identifies the newcomers you might consider in the future. you got new features that help parents make a choice, right? a little engi...

The video. >> probably not. these are the clearest shots of their face, but again there could be something theyre holding back as a screening tool. these people could be international, be out of here, be in a foreign country, being protected by that country right now. so all the people looking for them, all the people calling in these fingers its not going to have any lead generation from that, because theyre gone. >> greta: all right. and of course flights from boston to heathrow, once you get ...

There might be something the fbi has, some information, mae another picture, they dont want to release to the public right now, and thats done on purpose, because they want to use that as a screening tool. youll get calls all over the place. people saying "the guy in the white hat looks like a guy i went to school with." what school? graduated from 2008. i dont know his name. is that something to look at in more detail? maybe. if they have a screening tool, some other information they can ask, d...

The video. >> probably not. these are the clearest shots of their face, but again there could be something theyre holding back as a screening tool. these people could be international, be out of here, be in a foreign country, being protected by that country right now. so all the people looking for them, all the people calling in these fingers its not going to have any lead generation from that, because theyre gone. >> greta: all right. and of course flights from boston to heathrow, once you get ...