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Milly had witnessed up close how trump was routinely impussive and unpredictable. making matters even more dire milly was certain trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election. milly had misled general li when he claimed the united states was 100% steady and the january 6th riot was just an example of sloppy democracy. to the contrary milly believed january 6th was a planned, coordinated synchronized attack on the very heart of american democracy designed to overt...

Army. general milley knew from extensive reports that li and the chinese leadership were stunned by the unprecedented attack. was it collapsing? what was going on? was the u.s. military going to do something? milly said in response, quote, things may look unsteady. quote, but thats the nature of democracy, general li. we are 100% steady, everything is fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes. quote, it took an hour and a half, 45 minutes of substance -- excuse me. it took an hour and a half, 4...

And immediately thereafter. and we know it was fraught and dangerous. we had our national capitol come under violent attack. but the thing that is so bracing and nerve-wracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. so, again, this comes out next week. we have obtained a copy of it. this is how the book starts. quote, two days after the january 6th, 2021 violent assault...

Them to take there, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff isnt in the chain of command for a nuclear strike. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs doesnt have the authority to either call a nuclear strike or block one. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff advises the president. he said it himself in that phone call with nancy pelosi that we now mysteriously have a transcript of. general milly told pelosi i really dont have the authorities. he doesnt. no one, not the chairman of the...

Milly decided to act, immediately summoned senior officers from the national military command center. this was the war room used in the -- excuse me, this is the war room the pentagon used for communicating action orders. the president or his successor on military action or use of military weapons. milly said he wanted to go over the procedures and process for launching nuclear weapons. only the president could give the order, he said. but then he made clear that he, the chairman of the joint ch...

Joint chiefs decides he needs to call them secretly and tell him he the chairman will let them know if that threat becomes real. he promises it wont be a surprise. but the fears about what president trump might do with his military powers around the election and around the attack on the capitol, those were not limited just to other countries. we know, for example, that house speaker nancy pelosi called general milly, chairman of the joint chiefs two days after the january 6th attack to discuss h...

That is how -- thats the start of the new book. so first of all the january 6th attack on the capitol freaked out the chinese military who believed that trump might start a war or something that would lead to a war with china in order to cling to power. bob woodward and robert costa reporting in this new book it freaked out china and lots of foreign powers. and the united states top military officer felt the chinese were so freaked out he had to conduct his own secret back channel cool down chat...

"peril." quotes, pelosi, what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating hostilities or from the launch codes for a nuclear strike. i cant say any of this publicly because i dont have the authorities and it would be misconstrued in 50 different directions but i can assure you the united states military is steady as a rock and were not going to do anything illegal, unethical or immoral with a use of force. pelosi, who knows what me might do. hes crazy. dont say you...

Russian propaganda, saying the u.s. military is emasculated. we see a former member of the armed services yesterday attacking the military as woke. just again, just showing complete and utter ignorance. and general milley setting him straight. >> joe, there are so many things about general milleys presentation that was so impressive, among the most impressive was oddly enough the cut away to congressman gaetz shaking his head at general millys testimony. but general milley spoke from the heart, ...

Main door because that was booby trapped. and there was something really amazing to see. general milly, vice president pence and others inside the situation room. we watched it so clearly. >> so theres no question about it, all of this is very good news for the fight against terrorism. but the question is objecvious, what now? what strength does isis still have left? did they get any intelligence at the compound that may lead them to clues about what they next need to go after? and u.s. troops, ...