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The president's psychological state, but just in terms of deeds and his words, he is impulsive, he's childlike, he's narcissistic to a degree, he's incapable of sympathetic behavior, certainly not empathetic behavior. and many of those impulsive actions are dangerous. dni clapper and i talked about that. the fact that he gets into this heated exchange with the leader of north korea about large buttons. it's dangerous. he puts people at risk. he could start a war with this kind of behavior. yes, it's absolutely a great concern. >> but is it dangerous at all for the world to watch our nation's l...

There are dozens of interviews to be scheduled? i can't get an answer, and that tells me there may be marching orders from the top. we've seen steve bannon, president, and others amp up the heat on congress to shut us down. the republican senators are acknowledged the president weighed in with them to get them to shut down the investigation. >> they're contacting like there's pressure from the white house. i want to play you something we heard from the former director of intelligence. at its core is a question about whether russia tried to influence the election, whether russia has undue influ...

Called a good man, and, of course, the controversy now back home with vladimir putin saying he believes that he is sincere when he says he did not interfere and russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. the president now saying, of course, that he backs the current intel community after a lot of criticism of intel and, in fact, calling two former intelligence community leaders political hacks. well, they fought back, dni clapper saying i don't know why there is ambiguity about this. the threat is real and has been for a while. the cia's john brennan saying this morning it's very clear tha...

>> say it. >> with you, howard -- >> say it. >> good for you. >> another big story today, is the president clarifying his remarks about his conversation with vladimir putin. he says now that he believes our intel agencies, 17 of whom said they have determined russia did, indeed, meddle in our election. how do you think he came to that clarification? >> i think probably some of his people who are with him said, mr. president, you got to go take this back and he sort of fumbled through doing it as he often does. this is a guy as i said with the roy moore situation, a guy who will say what he thi...

Same thing when the president tweeted about the transgender ban. the chairman and joint chiefs had to say, we don't know what the president is talking about. hold their place. so too with north korea. the president is talking about military action, the likes of which, as you referenced earlier, the world has never seen. the commander of chief has not given the pentagon the word to put or forces in position, to do anything militarily. this is a lot of dangerously empty rhetoric. >> eugene, you write a lot about the country and the world, and so you know this. dni clapper was on tv talking about...