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Being fired from a railway carriage. our correspondent in seoul, laura bicker, has more details. this is the first time that north korea has fired a ballistic missile from a train. the images are extraordinary. you see two ballistic missiles being fired from a carriage on the tracks in the middle of the mountains. now, when you see and speak to analysts, they tell you that this actually makes sense for north korea. this is a very mountainous country, it would enable them to take these missiles t...

Scott miller i am absolutely sure made it very clear his concerns. im also i believe so did mark milley and so did lloyd austin, who -- we worked together and they worked for me. he got it. i dont think he cared. >> we lost 13 service members on the way out, which is absolutely tragic. if a decision was made by the president, he should own that decision. you know, respect the fact that his commanders argued differently, which we now know based on reporting that weve done and others have done. ge...

Unusually rattled, putting the two nations on the knife edge of disaster. >> its in the after math of that that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. >> also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls milley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and o...

I think, in particular, of women judges who are now in hiding from the men they jailed. they have been put at risk for their contribution to justice and the rule of law. >> tonight evacuation flights from the afghan city of masri shareef are still grounded by the taliban. this as the u.s. state department is telling visa applicants they have to either apply in a neighboring country or online. neither positive news for those looking to leave afghanistan. bret? >> bret: i would say. trey yingst, l...

All over this one for us. thank you very much. this morning, you got more and more republicans calling for the firing of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. why? because general mark milley has some explosive revelations in a new book on the final days of donald trumps presidency, at least that are shared in this book. it is called "peril", from bob woodward and robert costa, you probably know his name if you watch the show. they write the nations top general believed donald trump was s...

And trump was berating china for the coronavirus. >> we must hold accountable the nation which released this plague on to the world, china. >> reporter: two days after the insurrection, miley called li again. putting the two nations on the 95s edge of disaster. >> and its in the aftermath of that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. >> reporter: also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls miley to a...

Alike. and a little secret, brianna, ill tell you, dont tell anybody this, but i actually talked to my russian counterpart, military counterpart on several occasions, much the same way general milley did to his chinese counterpart. >> i have to set the scene for some of these discussions that were going on before we discuss whether this was the correct way to address some of this, but one of the things had to do with this was the situation where after the election donald trump had actually signe...

>> none at all because what ill tell you is milley probably did not just pick up the phone and say, hey, get general lirks on the phone. i need to talk to him about how the united states is not going to attack. he was likely getting intelligence from the national security agency and the cia saying that various countries were probably very concerned about what was happening and the instability of the united states. how do i know this? because i had to do the same thing. i often got phone calls fr...

Costas book "peril," joint chiefs chairman mark milley called his general li twice in the closing months of the trump presidency to tell him the u.s. would not strike china. milleys first call last october 30th was prompted by intelligence that china thought the u.s. was prepared to attack because u.s. carriers had carried out military exercises in the south china sea and trump was berating china for the coronavirus. >> we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the wor...

Accountability. and of that goes to the issue you raised. the president has been coming out, his administration telling things that are not true. he said that we are get every american out who wants out of afghanistan. that wasnt true. he said that al-qaeda is gone from afghanistan. that is not true. he said that our allies were fine with the august 31st deadline to leave. that wasnt true. he said we have a great over the horizon capability. its been dramatically diminished. people are seeing th...