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(all talking at once) >> this is rudeness and the point i wanted to make to you is it is not me. go to the fox poll. its only like a quarter of americans who think this president has empathy. he goes to a fema headquarters. he is self absorbed talking about himself versus president bushs performance... >> can we just step... >> absolutely something that he shouldnt talk about. i would be delighted. >> okay, now lets get to the point where it matters. if you are having emergency surgery, do you w...

Humanitarian climatological event. and being the devils advocate does it matter what donald trump says about this? if its handled well on the ground, does it matter whether hes tweeting mildly or severely inappropriate things over the weekend? >> to my mind and to other people the first -- the last couple of days were a collision of contrasts. you had the president of the united states tweeting in a self-absorbed way. you had general mattis the secretary of defense standing in front of the troop...

Watching them talk to the press for the first time in a long time. >> you saw a level of chaos thats been unmatched. you saw a president of the united states literally trying to go into doing something completely crazy that would change our world forever. you saw a president of the united states that doesnt understand the concept of legislating in washington, d.c. that you do need at some level a friend. some friend to help you. you saw a level of self-absorption. he indicating he was speaking t...

Pre-twitter. how do you think "seinfeld" would fall today if we were watching it? >> well, i think it would do well because it really was kind of the beginnings of the recognition of self-absorption. and we seemingly have stayed self-absorbed ever since. >> just backstage, you know, when the cameras werent rolling, did you all get along? any good gossip you want to share all these years later? its just us talking. >> no. not really. i think that, you know, there was a -- it felt like it was an o...

Grant. hes now in charge of our country and the fate of the world. so certainly beware of the fact that he has these features, but dont call him psychiatric names. psychiatric name-calling wont help him, and it very much harms people who do have real mental illness. >> thats not to say that you dont have strong feelings about the president. because you go on to say, hes been richly rewarded rather than punished for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. why do you say that is stig...

Northern star. at the end of the day, he will surround himself of whatever and whoever he wants and he wont care about the consequences. >> during the campaign, there were talks about when well see a pivot. is this a trump pivot. there were times where we use a te telaprompter more. >> a lot of ways hes a very personable frat boy and his appetites were food and deals and women and celebrities and attention and hes constantly feeding these things. the animating force in donald is this self absorp...

Could decide a contested election. it would just be a 4-3 ruling. and if justice ginsburg were the recusal, it would be a republican majority 4-3 split, donald trump win. >> justice ginsburg made some very, very inappropriate statements toward me. >> when donald trump answered a question what is important about the supreme court and he immediately answered by attacking justice ginsburg for something critical she once said about him, im not saying that wasnt a shocking display of raw narcissistic...

If that happened, and if the supreme court was narrowly divided like they were in bush versus gore, we wouldnt have the option this year of getting a 5-4 ruling. if the justices broke on partisan line, we would in fact get a 4-4 ruling. so if one justice could be persuaded to recuse from a case involving a contested presidential election, then a closely divided supreme court could decide a contested election. it would just be a 4-3 ruling. and if justice ginsburg were the recusal, it would be a ...

>> when donald trump answered a question what is important about the supreme court and he immediately answered by attacking justice ginsburg for something critical she once said about him, im not saying that wasnt a shocking display of raw narcissistic self absorption in terms of whats important about the supreme court. but it also may have been him laying the groundwork how he would contest the election if he can get it close enough or wild enough of that the election results somehow winds up i...

>> one thing that struck me about it, you listen to the way he talks about the family in such a unifying way. and you contrast to the pettiness of the conversation on the family in this country, its always about the rights of straight people and gay people, its never about the duty of people to each other. were so hung up on rights in this country. thats not part of his lexicon. he talks about responsibilities that we have toward each other, and thats whats brings people together. not this self-...