to go over the procedures and processors for launching nuclear weapons. only the president could give that order, he said. but then he made clear that he, the chairman of the joint chiefs must be directly involved. again, let's consider the context, here which is something we used to think about a lot during the cold war, and don't think about now, but it's this still the same. as it stands right now, the president of the united states, that used to be donald trump, possesses the unilateral ability, to uninitiated nuclear conflict, that can kill billions of people. that's just a plain fact. so imagine increasingly erratic president. that wants to stay in office. and wants to strike china or iran, a country with hundreds of nuclear weapons. it would all but lead is total catastrophe and untold loss of life. at one level, where republican which civilian control of the military is pretty important, donald trump was legitimately elected president. so he is the one that decides.