sure. the question is, is he changing nuclear policy? is he calling on the united states to expand the number of nuclear weapons? that is unclear. we don t think so. at least his aides tell us that is not what he was saying. he was talking perhaps about strengthening the force, modernizing the force, but bob kuzak, this gets to the point of the limitations of twitter? where donald trump started this. right? where he started this conversation about nuclear weapons and left it open to interpretation and explanation from all of his aides. yes. i think that he s going to be continuing to use twitter, because he s gone after the media and blamed the media for not getting his message out. it does, there s only so much you can do in 140 characters on twitter. an interesting question you ask, john, about what his policy is, because he mentions this issue about an arms race and obviously since the cold war we ve been trying to reduce nuclear weapons have enough to blow the earth over 1,000 ti
but to your point about one president at a time, we have never seen anything like this having the president-elect making foreign policy and intervening in real, realtime foreign policy questions before their sworn in. right. matt, alice, bob, thanks for being with us. great to see you. thausnk you. merry christmas. with no surprise overages, you can use your data worry free and even carry over the data you don t use. and right now get four lines and 20 gigs for only $40 per line. you ll even get the iphone 7, the samsung galaxy s7, the pixel phone by google, or the motoz droid absolutely free. hurry, these offers end soon. get the best deals and the best network, only on verizon.
chief of the hill bob kuzak. alice, let me start with you. if someone asked you what s donald trump s nuclear policy, how would you respond? clearly, he wants to remain strong. clearly the united states is the strongest in the world when it comes to nuclear capabilities, but he wants to maintain that status as the front-runner, and with regard to this, his statement yesterday in response to vladimir putin was simply to say, look, we are going to continue to focus on keeping our nuclear arsenal strong, and that was part of his policy as we will continue to see of peace through strength. and that s just the first step in a long process, and as this has continued to escalate with letters and tweets throughout the last 48 hours, he continues to show that he wants to remain strong with regard to russia and the world and specifically in terms of nuclear arms. i m not sure there has been a u.s. president who did not want the united states to remain strong. i mean, that s a fairly consiste
take action if necessary, and, look, no one is mistaken reading between the lines of vladimir putin s letter that it was an attempt certainly to be friendly to donald trump, but also his desire to put the nuclear weapons conversation on the table and get a response from donald trump, and that s exactly what he did. donald trump made it quite clear that he hopes for the same thing. he hopes that there are peaceful relations moving forward, but if not, he made it quite clear he s willing to take an alternate path, which we no decision right now what that would mean, but it s clear he s not going to be a doormat for vladimir putin like a lot of people have been saying all along. i think that, as i have said, when someone is a threat to him as i learned with ted cruz, when someone s a threat to him, he punches back. we might be beginning to see the first steps of that with putin. we ll see on that. bob kuzak, let me ask you about what s going on with the current white house, the future
post-debate coverage where many news articles kind of came in agreement that the gop field kind of turned that debate back around on the moderators. bob, what do you think? we ve heard heidi s analysis. so much has been said of what might come of tonight s meeting as they try to say this is what we want from our debates. could there be some whiplash here? could, in the end, they look not so well because of them asking for these changes now, bob? yeah, i definitely agree with heidi. they have some leverage but they have to watch it about how far they are going to go. these are debates, life is not fair. not everyone gets the same amount of time. you have to deal with reporters. and there are tough questions. i don t think they want to get into a situation where they complain. as far as opening and closing statements, candidates like that. as a journalist, those opening and closing statements are a waste of time because they don t make any news. front-runners don t want a lot