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>> you think the character issue is in some way worse? because you're saying that the bigger problem for you is that you think he has character flaws and maybe there is something wrong cognitively, but that's not for you to judge. do you think the character issue is a bigger issue? >> well, there's clearly something -- i'm not concerned about, as i said, about his pathology. i'm concerned about his behavior. his behavior is troubling. it is erratic, it is impulsive. he doesn't seem to be familiar with the job he's been called to do. he says things -- he's dishonest. he says things that are unt...

Do you think the character issue is a bigger issue? >> well, there's clearly something -- i'm not concerned about, as i said, about his pathology. i'm concerned about his behavior. his behavior is troubling. it is erratic, it is impulsive. he doesn't seem to be familiar with the job he's been called to do. he says things -- he's dishonest. he says things that are untrue all the time. he claims now all of a sudden, apparently, that that voice on the "access hollywood" tape wasn't him. even though he acknowledged earlier that it was. this is the sort of behavior that you might call delusional. a...

>> was it a character issue or did we underrate the picture sepgs of a character problem on the clinton side? i can't note but parallels of bill clinton in the '90s and how many times we thought character would trip him in '92, '96, 2000 and george w. bush almost elected because of it. >> putting them on the same footing. trump and clinton. that was tough. she'd never got out of that but i think the deeper challenge is to hold their nose, recognizing all the character flaws and something -- a deeper undercurrent happening in the country. >> this is where it's an amazing agreement on this. we h...

This is a character issue. finally, republicans are seeing the moral standard they have held their leaders to for the past 20, 25 years, especially related to bill clinton, they have to hold republicans to that standard, and they're being called on the carpet for it, and they need to stick to principles as conservatives they have always touted for years and years. >> last question to you, you left the republican party, became a democrat. what was it that made you decide to do that? is there something the party can do that shows it's willing to engage with some of the things you cared about? wh...

Sur certainly we often do not speak with such fire. "usa today" tries to be a practical centrist newspaper, and we try to keep our fire reasoned and -- and focused on the issues. but with donald trump there has become such a glaring and growing character issue that we felt it was time to speak with a little bit of a louder voice. >> what do you make of trump's sinatra-esque, i remember when a columnist went after him, max ien cheshire i think it was, he called her a $2 hooker, that kind of language when you disagree with them politically or editorially, he seems to have that quirk, his mind th...