an easy argument for washington to make aligning this issue of, you know, climbing up the escalation lad we are the kremlin. frankly, jonathan, the reason ukraine needs better air defenses is because of russia s constant bombardment using cruise missiles, iranian drones against civilian areas and critical infrastructure including power grids, substations and so on. for the last several months ukraine has been suffering from rolling blackouts, water shortages, millions of people are affected heading into a very cold winter. they don t have power. so, you know, it s an easy argument for the biden administration to make to say we have to protect ukraine skies and we have to be able to give them the capability to interdict these incoming russian missiles. so what the kremlin is saying is exactly what it has said every step along the way for the last year whenever the united states or any nato country for that matter decides to provide ukraine with a better more
this that safe. that is me as the battle watch commander and my strike adviser. nobody else can touch it. one of us has to be in this room at all times. reporter: general hyten would be one of the first to know if president trump orders a nuclear launch. he asked me very hard questions. he wants to know exactly how it would work. reporter: but for the general and his team, success is never taking the nuclear code out of the safe because that means deterrent has worked. if somebody launches a nuclear weapon against us, we launch one back. they launch another? we launch another. you re on an escalation lad they re ends up nowhere. the key is to stop that behavior before it gets bad. thank you. we ll take a short break here. but still to come, bill gates is using his clout to push for change in nigeria. the message the billionaire is sending the government that is next. back in a moment. i wanted to get new blinds, and i was talking with my mom