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This is a president for whom discipline and process are anathema, and in a crisis that relays disaster. >> president obama, for example, served on the senate armed services committee. donald trump, there is no evidence that he's ever even read an article about any of the subjects that presidents have to deal with on a daily basis. there was certainly no evidence that he had read any "new york times" article or "washington post" article or any basic reporting when he was in presidential debates leading up to election night. and so the ignorance we knew about. the willful ignorance that john wal...

Committee of the house of representatives. john walcott, i want to start with you, and the sources you're using here are people who -- some of them are people who have actually been in the room briefing the president, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> and they are telling you that among other things they have to try to reduce it to a couple of sentences, that there is an attention span issue? what other challenges did they face in that room? >> surely there is an attention span issue. i think many of us know that from various sources. second, there is a problem getting a president up to ...

Intelligence assessments in congress. >> mr. whipple, john's reporting reveals something the president was being briefed on and it involved islands in the indian ocean that are extremely crucial, and the president's only question about it was -- about those islands were, are the people nice and are the beaches good? is that something you found in your study of past presidencies? >> no. i have to say i've never seen anything like that. we're used to throwing around adjectives like "unprecedented" and "never heard of before" and that's certainly the case here. at the end of the day, if the presi...

Ask yourself, what did donald trump do today to change the minds of about 20% of those people who have decided to vote against him? because that's what donald trump has to do to win reelection. he has to change the minds of people who have already made up their minds that he does not deserve reelection and that they definitely are not going to vote for him. donald trump did nothing today to change any of those minds. and these leaks from inside the trump administration this weekend will do nothing to change those minds. one of those leaks reinforces the image of donald trump as a reckless man ...