Joe Manchin actually said...

If you cannot make the changes that you made--if someone--I think we gave legislation that you could fire some of the people who are----

Does the President of the United States have the absolute ability and the power to call for a nuclear strike without any input from Congress...

So, there's no checks and balances. You don't check with someone else to make sure.

that person, whoever the President may be, has the sole ability to call for a nuclear strike?