Lawmaker Questions Trump's Mental Fitness in Clash With Secretary

And it pains me to even have to ask this about our president, but my constituents' lives

are at stake.

Do you believe that the president is mentally stable enough to be the commander-in-chief?

Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years?

Mr. Secretary, Joe Biden is not the president.

Mr. Trump has been president for a year and a half, and I'm asking you right now—

You did not, and I won't even engage with the level of disparagement that you're putting

on the commander-in-chief, who indeed is—I mean, every—

Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, Biden is not the president.

He's the sharpest, most insightful commander-in-chief we've had in generations, and you want to

compare—I mean, you want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended

Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn't know what day of the week it was?

Mr. Secretary, as you know—

He governed through an auto pen.

When—

He had a secretary of defense who went AWOL for a week.

I can't keep on—

Mr. Secretary—

—for ten days—for ten minutes—

I will reclaim my time—

Good lady's—good lady's time.