stand down these weapons. it doesn t stop donald trump from firing them. it just stops him from firing them quickly. it would take hours or days, give you time for deliberation, give you time for consultation. right now he doesn t have to talk to anybody. he could just give the order and the missiles fly. right. that s one of the moments you just said that if a couple months ago someone heard on television, oh, donald trump can launch thousands of nuclear weapons or hundreds within four minutes, they d think they were in a movie. had is real life. thanks for sharing some of your expertise with us. thank you, ari. despite everything i said, happy new year. yes, let s all have a happy new year. appreciate your time very much. what do i want to tell you about next? well, president obama says he would have won had he been able to run against donald trump. this is a topic, as i mentioned, that he s priing up, which itself is kind of politically interesting other than the fact he wasn
now, on the one hand, the u.s. has a president you see there working on the delicate multi-year effort to reduce nuclear nonproliferation through soft powered diplomacy and hard powered treaties. on the other hand we have a president-elect mocking the u.n. as a quote club and tapping out policy on twitter. the u.s. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses about nukes, which is a scary enough thing for the president-elect to say weeks before he takes office. even scarier as it becomes clear that the higher echelons of the trump administration cannot really explain why he wrote that. the american position on nuclear weapons worldwide for a very long time now, not just as a partisan matter but over multiple presidents is that we are trying to lead the way in reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world. he s saying we re going to expand our nuclear capability. he s not necessarily saying
realizes that an arms race is exactly what the u.s. avoids in the nuclear arena, a basic premise shared by everyone from reagan to obama because for one thing the u.s. is already one of the top two leaders in that race meaning we don t need to taunt people into catching us with us, pretty basic, and for another, the biggest threat from nuclear weapons isn t the difference between having a hundred and 101, it s the different between having zero and one. that s why obama s worked so hard to prevent nuclear powers from surfacing like iran. trump seems to be implying a very different approach whether he realizes it or not. now, joining me now is president of the ploughshares that argues for disarmament. for those of you who don t follow nuclear proliferation all the time, generly different is what donald trump saying here different from what
bill of about a quarter of a million dollars. the sheriff tells us that he is looking to recuperate that money from the feds, but one thing is for sure. it is likely that this price tag for this vacation will be much larger since he ll be here through at least the 1st of the year. presidents and president-elect s doing have a way of inconveniencing people wherever they go, which is not to say the people of palm beach aren t thrilled to have the president-elect of the united states calling their town his home. but this isn t the first time he inconvenienced the residents of palm beach. first time quas years ago and had to do with a really, really big flag pole.
it certainly became a key issue. we had the clinton foundation on one side we were examining and the trump foundation on the other side. two very different things but the kind of thing that did certainly run a lot of headlines and intrigue. and part of the vetting that went on deep into the presidential campaign. and what did that find? it s fair to say this foundation didn t do normal charitable works. it had a lot of things that seem to overlap with his self-interests, which would have been fine for a business to do or a pac, a lot of rich people set up pacs where they say we have a political agenda. then you can donate to all the attorneys general you want. sure, there are all sorts of questions that came up. the new york attorney general was looking at it. it was sort of a fraught situation that, you know, exposed all sorts of questions and concerns about the way that this thing operated and how donald trump allowed it to operate. do you think that there is