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Moment where general milley is trying desperately to persuade the chinese. because general li would talk right directly to president xi. that this is not going to happen. and its what in the military they call deconfliction. lets calm everybody down. and it was successful. as general li said to him, okay, im going to take your word for that. five-year relationship. they were able to lower the temp significantly. and for people to say that milley somehow was treasonous in doing this, you look at ...

What milley is trying to do, this is a moment, in a moment where he has a practical problem. how do i protect the country? how do i deal quickly with the chinese? >> bob woodward, i want to -- i want to really understand what you are reporting about, why. you lay out two rationales. one, that he thought donald trump could and would wag the dog. and two, that he also believed unrelated that he was unfit, that he was impulsive and can mental decline. i want to read from the book, quote, milley wit...

Presidents trigger point is, milley told senior staff. when might conditions come together to cause a president to order military action? what you detail is a chairman of the joint chiefs who your writing describes trump as a threat to the country. is that how milley saw and sees donald trump? >> certainly. and the chinese part of this -- this all happened in one day, on january 8th, two days after the insurrection, which, of course has set washington and the country, and it turns out, the world...

Capital and sometimes even will among top republicans to speak out against president trump, to counter him in any way. >> bob woodward, i want to come back to something particularly haunting in the book. on page 416, there is this passage "had january 6th -- >> sounds like you really read it. >> i did read it. i have read all of your books. i have to say, i love this collaboration with robert costa. but i want to ask you about this, i want to ask you what you think milley means here. >> had janu...

At the same time. this is one of those almost shakespearean moments. there is the convergent problem of nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, calling milley. and we have a transcript this call in the book. i mean, you ought to -- maybe want to read some of that. extraordinary. the speaker of the house is telling milley, we need guarantee has the president will not launch nuclear represents. and milley is saying, we have procedures. and the procedures should be followed. but then he realizes pe...

In this section that bob described. page 274. politically began to draft a public memo to the military, january 6th was a direct assault. on january 20th, 2021. president-elect biden will be inaugurated and will become our 46th commander in chief. it was not traditionally the job of the chairman to make such declarations. milley took a draft to a confidential tank meeting at the pentagon. he handed out copies to the joint chiefs. you dont have to sign it, he said, i can sign it by myself or myse...