#POTUS:The hasty, unscripted, alarming press conference of Thursday 15 February & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
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#POTUS:The hasty, unscripted, alarming press conference of Thursday 15 February & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelore at Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution writing in American |
| 0:07.0 | greatness about the president's handling of classified documents when he was not the vice president. It all comes to |
| 0:14.8 | several hundred pages in the Her report named for a special prosecutor named by |
| 0:19.8 | the Department of Justice and it turned on a presentation by the president last |
| 0:26.8 | week suddenly a press conference called hastily we're told the media was |
| 0:32.4 | given 20 minutes to get there and there |
| 0:34.2 | was not the usual setting of press remarks by a president at the White House. |
| 0:38.4 | And the president's remarks were peeved and direct and blunt and strangely odd given the circumstances. |
| 0:51.0 | Victor since then, again and again, I see this quote from Robert Herr about a well-meaning |
| 0:57.7 | man with an elderly man with a poor memory. |
| 1:01.2 | Victor, that describes me. |
| 1:03.2 | Exactly. I'm a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. I have to write things down. |
| 1:08.3 | You're not as old as I am, Victor, but you can feel it now in your seniority that those will be the days when people help |
| 1:14.8 | you remember things. Why is the president so exercised? He's healthy for a man of |
| 1:20.6 | his age, very healthy healthy yes he is but I think what he knows and what the |
| 1:27.0 | American people know is being president is not driving an oover or being a lawyer |
| 1:31.5 | or being a teacher or being a broadcaster public intellectual or an editorial writer. |
| 1:36.0 | It's the toughest job mentally and physically in the world and it requires somebody to show and demonstrate their top of their mental and physical health |
| 1:46.0 | and that category he's not. |
| 1:48.8 | It's not about age alone. |
| 1:50.8 | And so he had this press conference very quickly and was to show us that he was in |
| 1:55.0 | control but of course he lost his temper he was on even he said things that were |
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