And these actions may only be the beginning. We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the course of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. President john f. Kennedy addressing the nation at the apex of the cuban missile cr in 1962. He said we are not prematurely or unnecessarily going to have a nuclear war, but we might have to have a nuclear war. We wont shrink from that if it must be faced. Russia put missiles in cuba. The u. S. Threatened a nuclear war to get those missiles out of there. The russians did ultimately get them out of there without a nuclear war. But we were on the bring, october 22nd, 1962. Exactly, exactly 25 years after that on the 25th anniversary of the closest we have ever been to Global Nuclear war, the United States air force made an announcement. They announced that something had happened in cheyenne, wyoming, that was a little unusual. T
Is required and it is under way and these actions may only be the beginning. We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the course of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. President john f. Kennedy addressing the nation at the apex of the cuban missile crisis in 1962. He said we are not prematurely or unnecessarily going to have a nuclear war, but we might have to have a nuclear war. We wont shrink from that if it must be faced. Russia put missiles in cuba. The u. S. Threatened a nuclear war to get those missiles out of there. The russians did ultimately get them out of there without a nuclear war. But we were on the bring, october 22nd, 1962. Exactly, exactly 25 years after that on the 25th anniversary of the closest we have ever been to Global Nuclear war, the United States air force made an announcement. They announced that something had happened in cheyenne, w
Exactly, exactly 25 years after that on the 25th anniversary of the closest we have ever been to Global Nuclear war, the United States air force made an announcement. They announced that something had happened in cheyenne, wyoming, that was a little unusual. This is an American Nuclear missile silo. See that thing on the ground there that kind of looks like a squished star wars fighter or something, kind of that oddshaped angular thing there . Thats a blast door. It weighs 90 tons. The silo holding the Nuclear Missile is underground and the blast door sits on the ground on top of the opening of the silo so if for some reason the missile blows up underground, there is that handy 90 ton blast door tamping down the explosion and basically holding the whole thing in. The United States air force announce quietly to the local press in wyoming that there had been a bit of trouble, a little bit of trouble with one of these, with one of these Nuclear Missiles and with the silo and one of these
Changed. The Ethics Office remains untouched. We wonder whether paul ryan is going to touch on that in his comments. But hes got a lot to address, including whether or not they are going to tackle obama care on day one as promised because this is day one for the 115th congress. Or whether or not they have got another option. He is also surely going to talk about tax cuts. Something he has been trying to get done for some time. Another promise that the republicans have made about coming into office and dealing with almost immediately. But there is tension between the house gop and the president elect. He didnt like what they were doing on that ethics operation. So we are going to talk about that, too. Before we hear from House Speaker paul ryan as heoves to the front, nbcs Halle Jackson is where the action is. She has been at capitol hill all day. And here to help us make sense of it, steve kornacki. Halle, lets start with you. Speaker ryan about to make his address. Its not quite the t
House democrats on the Judiciary Committee said two things. They dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members of get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director, the cia director and the director of the nsa. All of these individuals have played some role one way or another in this russia investigation. The reality is, what we have seen over the last couple weeks is all questions will be deferred to the special counsel, bob mueller. Thats the posture