pat leahy called the blockade, quote, the most outrageous act of obstruction and irresponsibility he s seen in, count them up, his 42 years in the senate. others want a leveling up here that trump s picks be given the full garland treatment. senator dianne feinstein, quote, what goes around comes around. but does it? they re looking to stack the courts with heritage foundation approved picks not the candidates they demanded on president obama. democrats in washington and whoever takes over the dnc extract a price for that obstruction or simply turn the
we re still talking about this, why it s still sending tremors throughout the global national security architecture. what do our adversaries think then, in your view of this? they re afraid that he s about to overturn four decades of bipartisan cooperation, republicans and democrats, as you said, who have been steadily reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world. we re down from about 60,000, 65,000 nuclear weapons during the height of the cold war down to to about 15,000 weapons now. the u.s. and russia have 95% of them. so we re the big guys. what we do matters. if putin and trump are now both talking about strengthening and expanding, as trump said, their arsenals, that s a signal to the other guys to start their engines. what s china going to do? what s india going to do? what s pakistan going to do? that s what s so worrying about what donald trump is saying. if he s talking about a new arms ce, it s all the eight, nine
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, generally how different is what donald trump saying here different from what presidents have done in the cold war post world war ii era? night and day. in 24 days donald trump will take control of the american nuclear arsenal.
we cannot allow donald trump and the republicans to ramrod into this government these folks who want to bring us back to a bygone era as it relates to so many that we enjoy. we see what s going on in north carolina right now in terms of rolling back on right. i expect similar things to happen in our federal government. so what should your party do with regard to trump s supreme court nominee? it s time to roll up the sleeves and fight back. you know, there are so many of us that when the republicans took control in both the house and the senate who just begging the senate democrats to filibuster, and i m not just talking about the filibuster where they ll pull a bill from the floor and continue on with legislation, we re talking about
presidents have done in the cold war post world war ii era? night and day. in 24 days donald trump will take control of the american nuclear arsenal. this is by far the most destructive, the most capable death machine on the planet. he will be able to launch at his order one or 1,000 nuclear war heads almost as easily as he now tweets. no one can reprimand him. no one can pull those missiles back once launched, there is no self-destruct mechanism. it s extremely important that the president understand what s at stake here. every word that he says and now every tweet that he makes matters. so when he had those words last week, it s not clear that he understood what he meant. his handlers certainly didn t understand what he meant. nor did our adversaries nor did our allies. this is why still a week later