Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171110:07:44:00
>> there are none. there are no fail safes. the president has the sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons. if he wanted to use any other form of the u.s. military, he would have to give that order to either the secretary of dwents or to the chairman of the joint chiefs and that would have to be communicated in writing to the combatant commanders. in the case of nuclear weapons the president can puck up the phone, call the deputy director of operations at strategic command or in an emergency even call down to the individual missile sigh lows employ orlando the release of nuclear weap...