Lawrence: Donald Trump Making 'Increasingly Incoherent' Russia Statements | The Last Word

>> JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP HAD ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST
IN POLITICS, NO INTEREST IN EVER WORKING IN GOVERNMENT AND THEN
IVANKA'S FATHER RAN FOR PRESIDENT.
SUDDENLY JARED KUSHNER WHO KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT ANY
KIND OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, NEVER MIND THE MOST COMPLEX OF
ALL PRESIDENT RECALL CAMPAIGN ,
WAS RIGHT THERE IN THE THICK OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
WHY WAS HE THERE?RECALL CAMPAIG WAS RIGHT THERE IN THE THICK OF
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. WHY WAS HE THERE?
IF HE WANTED TO HELP HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S CAMPAIGN, WHY
DIDN'T HE HELP HIM FIND SOMEONE TO HIRE WHO ACTUALLY KNEW
SOMETHING ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS.
WHY DO IT YOURSELF WHEN YOU CAN AFFORD TO HIRE AN EXPERT WHO CAN
DO IT BETTER THAN YOU CAN? DONALD TRUMP NEVER HAD ANYONE IN
HIS FAMILY PILOTING HIS AIRPLANES AND HELICOPTERS.
HE HIRED PROFESSIONALS FOR THAT. AND THEN, AFTER COMING IN SECOND
IN THE VOTE COUNT BUT FIRST IN ELECTORAL, DONALD TRUMP FOUND
HIMSELF IN TRANSITION. JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA DECIDED
TO GIVE UP THEIR COMFORTABLE LIFE IN MANHATTAN, UPROOT THEIR
CHILDREN AND MOVE TO WASHINGTON TO WORK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
NO DOUBT AS SURPRISED AS THE REST OF US AT THE OUTCOME OF THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE, NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAD EVER GIVEN ANY
THOUGHT OF EVER GOING TO WORK IN A GOVERNMENT BUILDING OF ANY
KIND. WHY WOULD JARED KUSHNER DO THAT?
WHY WOULD IVANKA TRUMP MOVE THE KIDS TO WASHINGTON?
TAKE AN OFFICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
MY FIRST GUESS ABOUT WHY THEY WERE DOING THAT MIGHT BE TRUE.
BUT IT'S NOT THE WHOLE STORY. THE WHOLE STORY IS SOMETHING I
DID NOT SUSPECT. I DID NOT SUSPECT JARED WOULD

MY FIRST GUESS IS THAT THE KIDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT THE OLD MAN.
KIDS WERE WATCHING ESPECIALLY OVER RECENT YEARS IN DECLINE IN
DONALD TRUMP'SRUMP'S EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.
NEUROLOGISTS WILL TELL THAT YOU IT HAPPENS TO MOST PEOPLE HIS
AGE. USUALLY IN WAYS THAT ARE BARELY
PER SEPTEMBERIBLE. FORGETTING THE KEYES.
FORGETTING NAMES. SOMETIMES WAYS THAT ARE GLARING.
WHAT NEUROLOGISTS CALL EXECUTIVE FUNCTION INCLUDES BASIC MENTAL
PROCESSES LIKE ATTENTION CONTROL, COGNITIVE INHIBITION.
DECLINE OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION IS THE PROCESS THAT LEADS TO YOU
TAKE THE CAR KEYS AWAY FROM DAD. HAVING PERSONALLY WATCHED DONALD
TRUMP BECOME INCREASINGLY INCOHERENT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL
YEARS MY FIRST ASSUMPTION WAS THE KIDS WERE GOING TO
WASHINGTON BECAUSE THEY KNEW DAD WAS UTTERLY INCOHERENT MUCH OF
THE TIME AND FORGETFUL AND INATTENTIVE AND SO IN THE WHITE
HOUSE, SOMEONE HE TRUSTS WOULD HAVE TO WHISPER IN HIS EAR WHAT
HE SAID YESTERDAY OR WHAT HE SHOULD SAY OR REMIND HIM WHY HE
IS HAVING THIS MEETING AND TO ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE IT TRANSLATE
THE PRESIDENT'S INCOHERENCE TO PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND
CABINET. IN EFFECT THE PRESIDENT'S
TRANSLATOR. THAT'S THE JOB I THOUGHT JARED
WOULD HAVE. AN INTIMATE JOB.
A TRUSTED FAMILY MEMBER MAKES SENSE FOR THE JOB.
IT HAD TO BE JARED INSTEAD OF ERIC OR DON JR BECAUSE SOME
THINK JARED IS SMARTER THAN HIS SONS.
GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT JARED KUSHNER, THAT MAY BE ONE OF
DONALD TRUMP'S MANY MISJUDGMENTS.
AS FAR AS WE KNOW, JARED AND ERIC NEVER SET UP A CHANNEL
DIRECT TO MOSCOW THAT TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM COULD USE AT THE
RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON. THAT WAS JARED'S IDEA.
NO ONE EVER MADE A STUPIDER SUGGESTION THAN THAT.
THAT JARED'S IDEA. IT WAS DONALD TRUMP JR.'S IDEA
TO INVIT INVITE MANAFORT TO AN IMPORTANT MEETING.
RUSSIA CLINTON PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.
THE NO, TIMES KNEW ABOUT THAT MEETING THREE WEEKS AGO.
LAST NIGHT IT WAS REPORTED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP PERSONALLY
DICTATED THE WORDS OF DONALD TRUMP JR.'S FIRST PUBLIC
STATEMENT ABOUT THE MEETING HE GAVE TO THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
WHEN THE TIMES ASKED HIM ABOUT IT.
WHEN THE NEWS OF THAT MEETING WAS FIRST REPORTED THE
PRESIDENT'S LAWYER SAID THAT PRESIDENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
DONALD TRUMP JR.'S STATEMENT EVEN THOUGH THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
REPORTED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS CONSULTED IN THE DRAFTING OF
DONALD TRUMP'S STATEMENT. TODAY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
SECRETARY SAID THE PRESIDENT WEIGHED IN.
>> HE CERTAINLY DIDN'T DICTATE BUT HE, LIKE I SAID, HE WEIGHED
IN, OFFERED SUGGESTION LIKE ANY FATHER WOULD DO.
>> OKAY. LET'S FOR THE MOMENT, PUT ASIDE
WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WEIGHED IN OR DICTATED EVERY WORD OF THE
STATEMENT AND CONSIDERED THIS DEMONSTRATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S
FAILURE OF NEUROLOGICAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTION WHEN HE WAS
SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LAST
WEEK. THIS IS LAST WEEK.
THE PRESIDENT SAID TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THERE IS NO ONE
ON THE CAMPAIGN WHO SAW ANYONE FROM RUSSIA.
WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA.
12 DAYES BEFORE THAT, THE PRESIDENT TOLD DID-BEFORE THE
PRESIDENT TOLD THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THERE IS NOBODY ON THE
CAMPAIGN, THAT SAW ANYBODY FROM RUSSIA.
12 DAYES BEFORE THAT THE PRESIDENT SAID THIS.
ABOUT HIS SON'S MEETING DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN TRUMP TOWER WITH
RUSSIANS. >> IFULLY A PRACTICAL
STANDPOINT, MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT MEETING.
>> THE SAME MIND IT WAS OUT THERE PUBLICLY DEFENDING DONALD
TRUMP JR.'S MEETING WITH RUSSIANS, 12 DAYS LATER SAYS,
THERE'S NOBODY ON THE CAMPAIGN THAT SAW ANYBODY FROM RUSSIA.
DOES THE PRESIDENT HAVE ANY MEMORY AT ALL?
OF WHAT HE SAID 12 DAYS EARLIER ABOUT THE SAME MEETING.
THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTANT INTOE
INCOHERENCE THAT IT NOW PASSES WITHOUT COMMENT.
ANYBODY PUBLICLY INCOHERENT WOULD CONSIDERED A CRISIS,
PROFOUNDLY SERIOUS CRISIS RIGHT IN THE STRIKE ZONE OF THE 25th
AMENDMENT ENACTED TO REMOVE PRESIDENTS WHO WERE UNABLE TO
DISCHARGE THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE OFFICE.
THAT AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN IN ANTICIPATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS,
MENTAL DISABILITY AS WELL AS OTHER DISABILITIES.
THAT WAS WRITTEN FOR PRESIDENTES WHO SOUND LIKE DONALD TRUMP.
IS NOW LISTEN TO EVERY WORD THAT PRESIDENT SAID WHEN THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL ASKED HIM LAST WEEK WHETHER HE WILL TRY TO FIRE
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR ROBERT MUELLER.
SESSIONS RECUSED HIMSELF BUT IS BOB MUELLER'S JOB SAFE?
THERE IS SPECULATION. PRESIDENT TRUMP, NO.
WE WILL SEE. I MEAN, I HAVE NO COMMENT YET
BECAUSE IT IS TOO EARLY. BUT WE'LL SEE.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE. SO WHEN ASKED IF BOB MUELLER'S
JOB IS SAFE THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST WORD IS NO.
MEANING, NO, HIS JOB IS NOT SAFE.
WE WILL FIRE HIM. THEN WE WILL SEE, WHAT THAT
MEANS IS MAYBE. HE GOES ON TO SAY IT IS TOO
EARLY BUT WE WILL SEE. WE'RE GOING TO SEE.
WE WILL SEE MEANS I DON'T KNOW RIGHT NOW.
IT'S POSSIBLE. THAT IS A STUNNING ANSWER ABOUT
THE FUTURE OF A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.

WHAT IF DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE WORDS HE'S
USING AND WHAT THEY MEAN WHENEVER EVERYBODY ELSE USES
THEM. WHAT DOES WE'LL SEE, WE WILL
SEE, MEAN TO DONALD TRUMP. THE MOST REMARKABLE THING ABOUT
THAT INCOHERENT ANSWER IS THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, THE
PRESIDENT SAYS, I HAVE NO COMMENT.
THEN HE SAYS, WE'LL SEE. WE'RE GOING TO SEE.
NOT REAL EYESING THAT THAT IS A COMMENT.
THE INCOHERENT PRESIDENT GIVES A VERY IMPORTANT COMMENT WHILE
SAYING HE HAS NO COMMENT AND IT IS LARGELY IGNORABLE BY THE NEWS
MEDIA BECAUSE THEY HAVE GREN ACCUSTOM TO HAVING AN INCOHERENT
PRESIDENT. A PRESIDENT FOR WHOM WORDS MEAN
NOTHING. A WHITE HOUSE WHERE WORDS MEAN
NOTHING. AND SO WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE
TODAY CLAIMS THAT THE PRESIDENT WEIGHED IN ON DONALD TRUMP JR.'S
FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH RUSSIANS DURING THE
CAMPAIGN, THE ONLY THING THE WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON WILL
SAY IS THAT HE WEIGHED IN. A PHRASE THAT HAS NO
SPECIFICITY. NO MEANING.
DID HE WEIGH IN ON EVERY WORD? DID WEIGHING IN MEAN HE DICTATED
SOME OF THE SENTENCES AND NOT ALL OF THE SENTENCES?
THIS MORNING, MATT LAUER ASKED REPUBLICAN SENATOR LINDSEY
GRAHAM ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE PRESIDENT DICTATED THE
WORDS OF DONALD TRUMP JR.'S FIRST STATEMENT ABOUT THAT
MEETING WITH RUSSIANS. >> IT SOUNDS LIKE THE PRESIDENT
HIMSELF WAS TRYING TO COVER UP THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT MEETING.
>> IF THAT'S TRUE, THEN THAT WAS A BAD DECISION BIT PRESIDENT,
WHICH WILL MAKE US MORE QUESTIONS.
WHEN YOU GET CAUGHT IN A

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