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Nancy Pelosi: “I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2021
I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.
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Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · California
Source
msnbc.com

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Speaker Pelosi discusses measures to prevent the president from using nuclear weapons.

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