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Back on that, can you assess his mental fitness for office? >> absolutely. we did do a cognitive assessment as part of the exam. i did not intend to include that, per all of the guidelines out there, it's not indicated at this time. a lot of the guidelines suggest that you do cognitive screening questions, and if you have a positive or concerns answer then you engage with a cognitive screening tool. i didn't feel i needed to do that because i did not feel it was clinically indicated. i have spent almost every day in his presence since last year when he got into office, i have seen him every da...

And psychologist that utilize these things will tell you that they will pick up stuff, you know, that even the patient sometimes is not aware of. so i think that they're great screening tools and i think short of having any type of issue with that -- with a cognitive screening tool, i would recommend doing anything beyond that. >> are you saying -- this is my -- are we saying that because of reagan, all right, we had issues with reagan, and the issues about this president's cognitive testing, mental acuity testing is not commonly part of an annual physical with the president of the united stat...

See what tall it entaall it ent. it does rule out the need to do any other cognitive testing. that's the reason you do it. it's a screening tool. if you do well on it, i think anything above 26 is normal. if you do certain -- if you get a 30 out of 30, i think you can, you know, you can confidently assume that you're done on the cognitive workup for now. >> do you have any concerns about the president's use of twitter? >> no. i don't -- you know, twitter doesn't involve me as a doctor. i don't have any concern on that. >> thank you, dr. jackson. the president is the first lifelong tetotaler an...

In charge for u.s. immigration and customs enforcement in los angeles. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you for the invitation. >> let's talk about this process. because we're told that tashfeen malik not only was interviewed but that she went through the investigating of five different agencies. we are also learning that she possibly gave a completely fake address on her application from pakistan. where does this break down? because there are thousands of people making the same track every year. >> yeah. the problem with the k-1 visa process is the decisions on whether to approve...

>> that's the system we don't have set up. people talk about changing the system but we have to think about this social media piece. it's a great screening tool. >> three contacts with the police. they didn't connect the dots. if they had connected the dots -- i'm not pointing fingers here. we have to change the system. on that third contact when they did the welfare check, they would have said maybe something is amiss here and they didn't have a mental health professional helping them in the screening of that person. >> we'll have you both back to talk more about this. this is an ongoing conv...