Gen. Kellogg: Trump’s Comment of ‘I’ve Got a Bigger Red Button and It Works’ May Be Funny But It Worked Against North Korea

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KELLOGG: “We have to be very, very stern with him and tell the Russians, 'Don’t go to this nuclear posture.' We made a mistake, Sean, by when they raised their nuclear level, special combat readiness, we should have responded in kind by raising our nuclear readiness. We are normally what’s called defense condition, we are normally at a 4. It’s 1-5, 1 is the highest you can go. We raised it to 3 during 9/11, everybody took notice. We went up to 2 during the Cuban missile crisis. Just raise it and say, look, you need to understand — President Trump told Kim Jong-un — when he said it, it was pretty funny — when Kim Jong-un said, 'I have a red button,' remember President Trump said backto him, 'Well, I’ve got a red button, it’s bigger than yours, and mine works.' And I think we just need to tell Putin that. Don’t go to this level."