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Than most. he co-authored "the art of deal" and is now donating the money to immigrant groups. >> what is the thing that he apologized for and said is maybe a ohio valley. that he is decompensating. a psychiatric term. what it means in simple terms, he is losing his grip on reality. his reality testing is really poor and i believe that's exactly what's going on. >> you have known him for quite some time. you collaborated in a way that's unusual. he is no stranger to the media. but in a lot of bites that he tends to he exert control over. you wrote the book but you are not on the same team. t...

And though his vision was narrow from the start, i think it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and it would allow him to say even more outrageous things than he's already said, including for example today, i'm winning in the poll. >> yes, yes. >> what reality testing is that about? it's just really extraordinary. i think he's living, you know, i have said before, he lives in a tiny little narcissistic universe, but if it was this, it's now this. so i don't think he's seeing very far outside that right now. >> do you expect him to concede if he loses? >> i do not. >> i don't want him to...

>> compared to the number of things he's feeling eviscerated by and depressed about, the prospect that there are lawyers out there that will take cases pro bono is a puzzle to him. what i think about his vision, and this is something that happens neurologically. as the threat looms larger, your vision, that's the flight or fight response narrows. and though his vision was narrow from the start, i think it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and it would allow him to say even more outrageous things than he's already said, including for example today, i'm winning in the poll. >> yes, yes....

Because elliot rodger convinced them that there was not a problem, a san diego that enough, and fine, go back to the business and all is good, and we are not the mind police. >> this is the problem, because it is difficult even for the best mental health trained professionals to predict violence and let alone somebody else who is not this the mental health arena, but when you have a person who is albeit socially awkward and socially awkward and premeditated planning and reality testing and recognizing that my wishes and desires to kill people may not be in line with society, i have to say x-y-...

Sexting, this sort of thing, kind of what you heard about in this anthony weiner case, and that patient was running for mayor of new york and there were 44 days left in the campaign and all of this was happening, what would you recommend that patient would do for his own mental health? >> well, i think it is a great question -- >> thank you, i worked on it all day. >> but i also think he is not necessarily thinking about it in the way of mental health. i think the way he is sort of speaking to the media, he is acting as if this is something that is quote unquote behind him. and i don't think h...