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Use of nuclear weapons, and, of course, the procedures that nancy pelosi and the chairman of the joint chiefs talked about in the phone call that jamie reported. what we have here is a place in american history where the extraordinary, the unusual, the unprecedented has happened. and that is that the president himself apparently cannot be trusted by the authorities in the military and by the authorities in congress to fulfill his duties in the proper constitutional way. that is a significant dev...

According to the book milley said if you get calls, no matter who theyre from, theres a process here. theres a procedure. no matter what youre told, you do the procedure. you do the process, and im part of that procedure. ana, milley may be criticized by some who feel he overstepped his authority. but according to woodward and costa, he felt he couldnt trust trump and needed to take all necessary precautions to prevent him from doing something dangerous. he had a phrase for it, woodward and cost...

He says to pence, if these people said you had the power to overturn the election, wouldnt you want to do that? and pence replies no, i dont have the authority to do it. and then there is this exchange in the book. trump, but wouldnt it almost be cool to have that power? pence, no. ive done everything i could and then some to find a way around this. its simply not possible. trump then loses his temper and yells, no, no, no. you dont understand, mike. you can do this. i dont want to be your frien...

No ucmj, uniform code of military justice command authority. and that is the kind of issue where you could make the argument that he overstepped his bounds, but he really did the right thing in this case. if all of this reporting is correct, he needed to step in to preserve the country and to preserve our relationships and frankly, preserve the military forces that we have. >> speaking of relationships to that other detail that jamie reported about milley reportedly holding these back channel di...

Troops at the airport, including the armys 16 air assault brigade. and there are smaller contingents from nato members including france, germany and turkey. nato says it has about 800 civilian contractors still on the ground — most of them at the airport. so at what point do you start pulling them all out. lets bring in retired army brigadier general mark kimmitt. im army brigadier general mark kimmitt. starting tot commander im starting to think of this us commander on the ground who has to s...

Determination of the uniformed chiefs, and, for that matter, the fbi director and cia director. >> general milley also reportedly praised the fact there was a peaceful transition of power, saying, the line bent but didnt break. i mean do you agree? you talk about how the systems held, but are there lessons we should learn from this so we dont come close to breaking that line again? >> i think he is quite correct. you know, we ought to be proud we got through this perilous procedure. by the way, ...

Statutes only allow the chairman to advise the president.he he has no command authority whatsoever. >> tucker: it because he was not elected by anyone, thats how the system works. power vested with people and the public chooses to represent them. so if hes trying to control of the next cia director is preventing you from getting a job as it happened, but so far outside of what we would call, i guess, democratic norms. i wonder why no one has said anything about it? >> you are totally right and i...

For leaders of all stripes whether theyre in the military or particularly political leaders to make sure that they keep faith with the troops, especially those who are deployed and we increasingly have people who have been deployed for dozens of tours. theyre far away from home. theyre defending 250 million americans with actually a very small percentage of the american public in uniform. they know they have an extremely difficult job, that there are threats around the world and we may not be ca...

S.e.a.l.s, the command of the navy s.e.a.l.s, and he understand what admiral collin green, the commander of the ceils is going through in this situation in terms of an administrative elimination of eddy gallaghers trident pin. this is so extremely confusing, its just another night in trump world. and its unfortunately bad for the civil-military relations and an understanding of what command authority has to do within the military. >> without trying to figure out all those pieces who knew what, w...

Bush and obama. whats your take on what he said there? >> the same message hes been putting out for the campaign and the election, claiming credit forgetting rid of isis. the president adopted the formula already in place under obama. its something the obama administration -- you can criticize them as being slow to put this together, but they put together a coalition of more than 70 countries with kurdish fighters on the ground, no american foot soldiers, no infantry on the ground. we carefully ...