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 alli. this is why still a week later 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?
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
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