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And keep in mind as a current launch approval process is the judicial branch and the legislative branch are completely taken out of it. it relies solely on one person, and that's the president. and now people are realizing he may be unhinged. >> as i reported on this program, on an incoming nuclear attack from china or the soviet union, currently the only possible origins of such an attack on us, the president could have as little as six minutes to make a retaliation decision before that strike hit us. how could we expect to tie a president's hands in that situation and say you can't do it wit...

Nuclear trigger. that should scare us all. it's why we reintroduced as legislation to restrict his ability to launch a nuclear first strike. >> in the nuclear age with intercontinental ballistic capability, it's hard to think of a more unstable person who has had this. it really would be in the soviet union, russia, china, or the united states for all practical purposes, france, the uk. they have this capacity. we've never once, never once worried about who that person is who has this. >> that's correct. we always trusted our commander in chief to be the check on the use of those weapons in te...