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I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. he strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on. i don't think he's medically unfit to be president. i think he's morally unfit to be president. a person who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believe it -- that person's not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds. >> you don't h...

We've seen a ferocity in the last week in advance of this book rollout not just from the president, but sarah sanders, the press secretary at the white house podium the other day gave a scathing sort of character assassination of james comey that the president helped her craft. the republican national committee, the political party is attacking comey left and right. so there's a real effort here to play hardball politics. >> chuck, i ask you as not just an fbi veteran who got quite a bit of exposure to james comey, but as a lawyer yourself, when you look at him with george stephanopoulos in th...

Is attacking comey left and right. so there's a real effort here to play hardball politics. >> chuck, i ask you as not just an fbi veteran who got quite a bit of exposure to james comey, but as a lawyer yourself, when you look at him with george stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he can't answer that fully? well, he's holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? >> not that much, brian. i think it's right that there aren't a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation ...

I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. he strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on. i don't think he's medically unfit to be president. i think he's morally unfit to be president. a person who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believe it -- that person's not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds. >> you don't h...

Stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he can't answer that fully? well, he's holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? >> not that much, brian. i think it's right that there aren't a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation that came out of the stephanopoulos interview. that said, i've read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear friend of mine. he was my boss. he was also my colleague. but like all human beings, he's flaw...