"He's not senile, he's just saving his breath"

No, I didn’t watch the Mueller Circus — I have a life — so I won’t opine on whether or not he seemed befuddled and confused. But the MNBC hostess’s defense of his mental faculties: “he was perfectly capable of handling questions that only required a one-word answer” would seem to confirm the reports. That’s the best she could do in his defense?