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Hes a, quote, very stable genius. Hitting the road today, the president had this message. Oh, are you happy you voted for me. You are so lucky that i gave you that privilege. The president s grandstanding and selfpromotion coming as hes calling friends and allies and telling them to choose, him or steve bannon. Bannon, of course, is a central voice in the bombshell book that has put trumps mental state front and center. Republicans are now standing up for their man, even his fiercest gop critics now doing complete about faces. I just have to show you because its pretty incredible. Lets start w...

Possibly imagine, but insult to the mentally ill to say that the reason he shouldn't be in office is mental illness. he's a bad person, ignorant, impulsive, he's been like this his entire life. to think that the people who america elected to office will be removed because of a psychiatric opinion is absolutely ridiculous. there's no chance in the world that he'll be removed under the 25th amendment. and it's dangerous to do this because it distracts from the political work of the congress, of we the people, of the press in containing this. >> dr. gertner? >> well, i don't want to really get bo...

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....

What i'm talking about is not an evaluation by a psychiatrist, i'm talking about an evaluation by a neurologist. he may have alzheimer's disorder. they should give him a neuropsychiatric battery, this is a physical disorder. we have tests and procedures for testing it and why the heck are we giving him a physical exam and looking at his blood sugar and not looking at his cognitive function? >> dr. frances, can i ask you a question separate from the fact that neither of you have treated him and to speculate on his mental health, you know, in your view would be inappropriate, but do you think it...