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Your assessment of his fitness for office? >> i think myself and many others would prefer somebody else. sitting in the oval office. making these decisions with the nuclear codes. but donald trump was elected president of the united states by the american people last november. and we have to respect that. that said, i feel much more comfortable if it was another republican even who was in this position. >> is there anything congress do? as you watch this happen. the president has nuclear codes a...

More inflammatory or go on twitter to continue baiting kim jong-un. >> have the presidents statements on this issue changed your assessment of his fitness for office? >> i think myself and many others would prefer somebody else. sitting in the oval office. making these decisions with the nuclear codes. but donald trump was elected president of the united states by the american people last november. and we have to respect that. that said, i feel much more comfortable if it was another republican ...

Members of congress, democrats it wrote a letter expressing concern about the way that donald trump is talking about north korea threatening, profound concern over the statements hes made that raise the specter of nuclear war. one it particular congressman from long island asking the speaker of the house to debate legislation that would block a nuclear strike without a congressional okay. that is terrifying. >> it is. underlying all of this, joy, is the fact the president of the united statess h...

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And in his first interview after the inauguration, the president told david he was confident he would do the right thing. >> let me ask you, right after the oath of office, they gave you the nuclear codes -- the biscuit. >> right. >> how somber? >> very somber. >> sobering moment? >> when they explained what it represents and the kind of destruction youre taking about, it is a very sobering moment -- yes. very, very, very scary in a sense. >> does it keep you up at night? >> no, but its confiden...

Knock em/sock em way he was a candidate, but people inle polling expected something different. yes unorthodox, but not dangero dangerous. >> i did focus groups with a british polling outfit. even the most hard-core trump supporters, the number one fear was his loose talk would get the country in world war iii. >> someone with his temp rarmt knowing the nuclear codes. last night north korea doubled down on their threat to guam. we have this report. >> reporter: the north korean mill want is uppin...

Dealing this problem for decades now and its bedeviled every president, havent been able to solve it and trump has inherited a problem where we have run out of good options, we only have a series of bad options. john mccain joking around about a beach boys song, also reagan, when he was caught on a mike joking about bombing the soviet union, it fed into this narrative that reagan was a warmonger and couldnt be trusted with the nuclear codes and then trump, i dont think it was shocking what he sa...

This time with an unpredictable liar in north korea and for the first time in american history, the united states has an unpredictable liar who is in control of the nuclear codes that could instantly create fire and fury like the world has never seen. there is no indication that the white house or president had any intention at all of making any comment about north korea today. what the president did say was in response to a shouted question bay reporter and thats when the president of the unite...

>> well, i have no doubt, wolf, that he is doing his best to convey to north korea exactly whats on his mind. and one should never forget that this is a man, who in the first six months in office, has pulled the trigger twice already. and hes a man who in his pocket has the nuclear codes. this is a serious situation. >> but is it smart -- >> he states whats on his mind. >> i agree with you, senator, this is extremely dangerous right now. given an unstable regime in pyongyang, is it smart for the...

President of the soviet union and turned over the nuclear codes to the new top man, russias boris yeltsin. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: society has been granted its freedom, has been politically and spiritually unchained, and thats our biggest achievement. >> theres a saying about a revolution devouring its own children. in russias case it devoured its own father, gorbachev. >> translator: i wish you all all the best. ♪ no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy...