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Is it crazy to diagnose the president's mental health?

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Several thousand psychotherapists have signed a petition describing President

Trump as a malignant narcissist calling for his removal from office. Others in their profession

call that narcissistic and unethical, based on the false presumption that mental illness can be

diagnosed from a distance. It's an issue that hasn't been raised in politics since the 1960s,

but Trump's behavior has brought it back into the public arena.

Will it help Congress decide if the president's fit to serve? Or will it politicize and discredit a profession to the detriment of both therapists and their patients?

On today's talking point later, liberal activists challenge oil company power in a town near San Francisco.

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When columnists for the New York Times and the Washington Post called President Trump obviously mentally ill and just plain crazy, nobody took them seriously.

Now, thousands of psychotherapists say a personality disorder makes him unfit to serve.

Will that discredit their profession? More than it will, America's elected chief executive.

Today's talking point, Richmond, California is a largely minority town in the Bay Area, dominated by a gasoline refinery.

We'll talk with a liberal activist from New England, who says community organizing has made a real difference there with the Trump era just beginning. First, this news

update, Donald Trump used to criticize President Obama for taxpayer-funded getaways to play golf.

Now that he's president, the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and even the Coast Guard, are racking up expenses like they've never seen before.

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