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We have to compare people to their own baseline and we're seeing dramatic cognitive deterioration and we're 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 it's not only wrong but dangerous to try to be diagnosing this president. why? >> well, i think that dr. gertner's motives are laudable. who am i to spoil that with a finger on a nuclear button....

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 we've learned from michael wolff is the people who interact with him daily, up close, 100% of them think that he's psychologically unfit and they discuss the 25th amendment on a daily basis. i think it's a scandal that donald trump is not going to receive a neuropsychological exam during his presidential fitness test. ...

Blood pressure and not look at what may be a degenerative, a neurological disorder that we're 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 wouldn't we test for those things? >> i just want to point out, look, we at cnn have not verified that claim in the book, that he's repeating himself or not recognizing people. newt gingrich told reporters presidents get good lines and they repeat them. it sounds to many, dr. gertner, he never finished a sentence maybe his mind w...

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 couldn't 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 it's the crucial question of the day or the week for next week, and that is we have a report saying that the president is going to announce that he is going to

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 couldn't 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...