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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Donald Trump is really angry at Marjorie Taylor Green right now, and it's because of this.

In an improbable turn of events, Green has emerged as a very effective critic of the president.

A remarkable new CNN interview demonstrates why. In it, Green said that Trump is mentally unfit for the presidency, that the people around Trump really need to rein him in, and that Trump is

catastrophically failing. This is a watershed moment. Trump's

disastrous Iran war and his threat to obliterate Iranian civilization are clearly pushing Republicans

to look past him. Salon's Amanda Marcotte had a good piece arguing that in some basic sense,

Iran is breaking Trump.

So we're talking to her about this obvious sun setting that we're seeing in the president.

Amanda, always nice to have you on.

Thanks for having me.

So Trump had this really stupid and juvenile tweet about Green.

He called her Marjorie Trader Brown because Green turns to Brown under stress,

he said. Trump claimed she's deranged and even suggested that she smells. On CNN, Green was asked

to respond to this. Listen, you don't respond to bullies and you don't pay attention to people when they're

failing. And President Trump is failing right now. And so he's a man that's lashing out. I mean,

after all, this is the man that threatened to wipe out an entire civilization of people. You can't,

you can't respond to someone like that. They're mentally

unstable. Amanda, I think the kill shot there is that Trump is failing. Everybody knows this

is the case. At this point, Trump is making Marjorie Taylor Green look like a stateswoman,

which I didn't see coming. What did you think of all that? Yeah, what's funny is like

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