Roy Cooper: “It's a shame that President Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting nominated in today's Republican Party. If you…”

“It's a shame that President Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting nominated in today's Republican Party. If you look back at what President Reagan said, he called for the abolition of ``all nuclear weapons.'' Furthermore, he went on to say that these weapons are ``totally irrational, totally inhumane, good for nothing but killing, possibly destructive of life on Earth and civilization.'' Now, no one on this side of the aisle is calling for abolition, but we are calling for the United States of America to live up to its legitimate treaty commitments as passed by an overwhelming majority of the United States Senate. Now, I know there is very little love lost for the other body, but it was an overwhelming vote, and it was just 2 or 3 years ago. The treaty is supposed to be implemented in 2018. Why the other side of the aisle is not more interested in reducing Russian nuclear weapons, I do not know, but this just simply allows us to live up to our legitimate and legal treaty commitments. The other side is welcome to have suspicions of all sorts of things, but we should obey the treaties that we have ratified. So this calls for $70 million to do that. We can always question offsets. I've worked very hard with the other side to try to find appropriate offsets. But the key is let's restore the $70 million that our own military wants so that we can implement this treaty which could reduce nuclear risk in this world as President Reagan called for.…”