Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190204:13:53:00
The missiles could destroy cities within ten minutes of being launched had been deployed throughout europe and the soviet union. the inf was a crowning success and it cooled tensions at a critical moment, the cold war. nearly 2700 nuclear missiles were destroyed between the u.s. and soef union. why would we ditch it now? the russians have not been honoring the treaty. putin criticized it as early as 2007 and was producing new weapons systems during the obama years drawing a stern diplomatic rebuke but little else. a treaty isn't worth much when the other side isn't respecting it. it made sense...