Annie Jacobsen

Furthermore, we have a policy called launch on warning.

So when he's told that there is an incoming nuclear missile on its way to the United States, which is how this begins...

he must launch on warning.

That is policy.

We do not wait.

That is a quote from former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry.

Now, before taking office, many of these presidents say that they are going to change that insane policy because it essentially creates this volatile situation where every foreign leader knows that

They're going to launch on warning, and so am I. They say they're going to change the policy before they take office.

This is documented.

You know, Clinton, Bush, Obama, not Trump.

And then they don't, and no one knows why.

Why do you think that is, that you would have a position before becoming president of such an extreme policy needs to change?

And then

And then change your or become silent on that.

But whose narrative is that?

Like, in other words, is it the previous administration?

Because if that's the case, if the previous administration is briefing you, the new president, the incoming president, on all of these state secrets that are so terrifying you have to throw your old promises out the window for the most part.

Wouldn't that change every – that's where I'm lost.

It's like – and also it's so tiring reading these presidential manuals, which say – or memoirs rather, which then say absolutely nothing original to any of us, the citizenry, about what's really happening as president.

Well, because those are just designed to make money.