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>> well, i can't say that helps. if you have to stand up and say that you're stable, i guess that raises questions about your stability. look, the president made an error in judgment by bringing steve bannon into his orbit in the first place. bannon kind of represents anihilism and a disruptive way that i think is very unhealthy for the country. and it's good riddance that he is gone, but the fact remains that the president brought him and he's going to bring in great people and brought in steve bannon who is not a good person nor type of work, bottom line is the issues raised in that book do ...

>> i spoke with democratic congressman dan kildy last night who said this -- >> what i worry about is that privately you laer republicans -- i do all the time saying many of the same things we hear in this book, and publicly and officially, they are falling all over themselves to protect this president from legitimate inquiry and from legitimate oversight, and that is very dangerous for this country. >> congressman dent, when you mentioned the mental fitness. >> i read excerpts from the book, i haven't read the book, but excerpts from the book. the whole notion of lack of focus, lack of policy...

Of discussion among the staff. how would you handle it? >> it's strange. a lot of things about this presidency are unprecedented. we're dealing with issues for the first time we've really never dealt with. one of those issues, of course, is the president's ability to change the course of conversations in the blink of an eye. sometimes i see these tweets that he does like the one today and i try to put myself in his shoes, and today, think about it, he's endured 72 hours of the most brutal news cycles you can endure. this book and the subsequent coverage has questioned his fitness for office, h...

Meeting in trump tower was purely and simply about russian adoption policy. that was what discussed period. period. >> as the book alludes to, the setup for that meeting, the dangle, if you will, by this publicist who set up this meeting between had russian lawyer and russian american lobbyist, jared kushner, donald trump jr. and paul manafort was that there was the possibility that this russian lawyer had dirt from the russian government on hillary clinton that she was going to offer. so that e-mail and donald trump's reaction to it -- donald trump jr.'s reaction to it, "i love it," which was...

Steve bannon at this point? he has nothing to bring to the table. >> other than jared kushner, though, bannon was the guy who was closer to the oval office, closer than reince priebus. now listen to how the president is talking about him. >> did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? >> i don't know. he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all that much. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to him. that's just a misnomer. thank you. >> what might the fallout of this book do to the growing republican divide? >> that'...