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People in the united states congress, and its about time that we reclaimed that power. youre see ago bipartisan consensus forming right now around the presidents use of a first strike capability against north korea, but also the wars were fighting right now in syria, iraq, libya, and all over the world. its about time we once again think through what were asking american service members to do on behalf of this country. the lives were asking them to take and the lives theyre putting on the line a...

Terrorism has a military implication. >> it must end its missile development. >> reporter: the presidents rhetoric about north koreas nuclear weapons. >> they will be met with fire and furry, like the world has never seen. >> reporter: causing deep worry he might suddenly order a nuclear weapons launch. >> we are concerned that the president of the united states is so unstable, is so volatile as a decision making process that is so quick that he might order a nuclear strike that is wildly out of...

Whats going to happen? im going to say mr. president thats illegal. hell say whats legal and well come up with a mix of responsibilities to deal with the situation. thats the way it works. >> reporter: the weapon must be proportional to the threat, especially because nuclear weapons can kill tens of thousands of people. >> i think the generals remarks were forceful, plain spoken and blunt and also refreshing. its important for the american public to understand the types of safeguards, the types ...

Our commanders and say the lawyers say this might not be legal to do these things. >> reporter: all of this taking on more urgency because the u.s. intelligence community and the south koreans believe it is possible, sometime in 2018, the north koreans will have the ability to launch a long-range missile with a war head on top that could be aimed at the united states. jim. >> this is becoming a critical issue. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you very much. i want to get back to the congress...

For the sake of partship. there are differing opinions no one is coming out strongly saying we need to make an example of al franken and use him as an example of how the situations need to be dealt with. no one is ready to do that, but at the same time, al franken is acknowledging he did something wrong. >> just to switch back to the topic that barbara starr was talking about a few moments ago, this top general in charge of americas nuclear weapons saying he is going to refuse an illegal order f...

On the latter issue i think the generals comments are being somewhat overblown. the military has a long-standing policy of questioning, and ultimately not implementing, any illegal orders. so my sense is the general re was restating the policy op on whether president trump would order an illegal strike, in my experience working for two presidents, lawyers are part of the entire policy development process. so in this case, youd have pentagon lawyers, white house lawyers involved in developing nuc...

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