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It's Tuesday, October 31st, 2017, from Slate.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

As the delightment over the indictment takes hold in liberal circles and

countering prosecutorial action with distraction,

characterizes the strategy of the Trump camp.

I've been surveying the rest of our government to see if they've been doing their job.

You know, there are times when the government actually isn't dysfunctional.

If you look hard enough, you have faith that our country will be delivered from destruction

by competent people doing their jobs.

Now, two of those competent people, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake,

Republican senators have announced that soon they will be giving up their jobs,

bummer, but in the meantime, they are two key members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

There, yesterday, talk turned to Donald Trump and the button.

Not the one Mark Send attached to the blue bird of Twitter,

the one that could launch a nuclear weapon.

And Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, as Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis,

could President Trump launch a nuclear weapon without the approval of, well, anybody?

I'll play the entire Q&A.

Again, I'm coming back to this question of whether or not there is a scenario under which a first strike

using nuclear weapons could, in fact, be used by the President of the United States

without consulting any member of the United States Congress,

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