Joe Manchin actually said...

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?

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...

I am not advocating that we should have shot the plane down, but I understood that Secretary Kerry described it as a reckless, provocative, ...