I see teacherken has already rung the alarm bells here, but screw it, this needs 50 diaries because Good God Almighty, what has this country done? How could we really let someone get THIS CLOSE to The National Command Authority and OPLAN 8010? This should really be headline news.
Fast forward to 0:52 and hold your breath.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert...on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked...at one point ‘if we had them why can't we use them?’”
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Listen to the stunned eerie silence, broken only by the stammered disbelief of Mike Barnacle. Witness the horror frozen on Harold Ford and Willie Geist’s centrist faces. Soak in Mika’s damaged voice squeaking out “Be careful America….”. Comprehend the gravity of what you just heard.
Because these are the f***ing stakes, people.
We must either love each other, or we must die, and Donald Trump isn’t fit to tie Barry Goldwater’s shoes. Goldwater was a mentally sound individual who actually believed in things other than his own personal greatness. Trump makes Goldwater look like goddamn Lincoln.
Scarborough then asked a hypothetical question to Hayden about how quickly nuclear weapons could be deployed if a president were to give approval.
"It's scenario dependent, but the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. It's not designed to debate the decision," Hayden said.
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