"What Little We Do Know About PEADs Comes from References to Them in Other Documents"

"They originated in the Eisenhower administration as part of an effort to try to plan for a potential Soviet nuclear attack,' Goitein said. 'But since then, they've expanded to address other types of emergencies as well. No presidential emergency action document has even been released, or even leaked. Not even Congress has access to them, which is really pretty extraordinary when you consider that even the most highly-classified covert military and intelligence operations have to be reported to at least eight Members of Congress, the 'Gang of Eight.'"

Ted Koppel at CBS Sunday Morning discusses the threat of Donald Trump using presidential emergency action documents.