Barnicle: Trump ‘Demeans Himself, the Country, Diminishes the Presidency’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Mike, the past 48 hours have been particularly horrific --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Disturbing."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- and disturbing, and feeds into what the 'New York Daily News' said, that the president does not appear to be mentally fit for his job. You saw what he did at the Navajo ceremony. You saw the fascist tweets that he retweeted yesterday and then attacked the British prime minister. You saw all the other tweets that he's — I would say he's spiraling out of control. He’s out of control. What -- what -- what is the next step for people close to him? What is the next step for Republicans in Congress? How long do they sit back and let him behave in such an abhorrent manner?" 
BRZEZINSKI: "And reward it." [crosstalk] 
SCARBOROUGH: "Because he is destroying the Republican Party. There is going to be —" 
BRZEZINSKI: "I think just the Republic." 
SCARBOROUGH: "— nothing left but ashes in 2018." 
BARNICLE: "It’s -- it's bigger than that, Joe."
BRZEZINSKI: "Yeah."
BARNICLE: "We have a president of the United States who cares nothing about himself, not the country, not history, not the world, not 1.6 billion Muslims, only about himself. We are on the edge of 2018; 50 years ago, 1968 was a particularly chaotic climatic year in American history. In 1968 16,212 young Americans were killed in Vietnam. It's an average of 320 a week. People getting knocks on their doors, telegrams, telling their son or father is dead. Fifty years later we at a point in our history where the president of the United States demeans himself, the country, diminishes the presidency, surrounded apparently by no one who can say no, stop! You’re wrong, and that’s wrong! And that’s what we need now. Fifty years ago Robert Kennedy ran for president. One of the threads of his campaign that he used to articulate, he said that his campaign was a search for the national soul. That’s what we need today, a search for the national soul."