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This comes up, but just to see americas top general as essentially the star witness, even though the defense secretary was here and some of the other combatant commanders were there, for milley to be there and to the point a moment ago we talked about it so lets just listen. in the book, in "the peril" book nancy pelosi said she was having this conversation is the president going to launch a military attack. you know hes crazy. thats what he said and nancy pelosi said he agreed with her. he says...

Launch authority and he doesnt launch them alone and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. there are processes, protocols, and procedures in place, and i repeatedly assured her that there was no chance of an illegal, unauthorized, or accidental launch. by presidential directive and secretary of defense directive, the chairman is part of the process to ensure the president is fully informed on determining the use of the worlds deadliest weap...

The call. >> reporter: milley responded that he spoke with house speaker nancy pelosi about president trumps ability to launch nuclear weapons. the authors also wrote that milley thought trump was in serious mental decline. >> i sought to assure her that nuclear launches governed by a very specific and deliberate process. she was concerned and made very -- or made various personal references characterizing the president. i explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority,...

President is the sole nuclear launch authority and he doesnt launch them alone. and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. there are processes, protocols and procedures in place and i repeatedly assured her that there was no chance of an illegal, unauthorized or accidental launch. by presidential directive and secretary of defense directives, the chairman is part of the process to insure the president is fully informed when determining the u...

January, speaker of the house pelosi called me to inquire of the presidents ability to launch nuclear weapons. i sought to assure her that nuclear launch is governed by a very specific and deliberate process. she was concerned and made very various personal references characterizing the president. i explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority and he doesnt launch them alone and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united stat...

Launch authority and he doesnt launch them alone. and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. there are processes, protocols, and procedures in place and i repeatedly assured her that there is no chance of an illegal, unauthorized, or accidental launch. by presidential directive and secretary of defense directive, the chairman is part of the process to ensure the president is fully informed when determining the use of the worlds deadliest wea...

This, but if you look at -- these are reasonable precautions. we found no evidence, and bob costa and i had months to look at this, that milley had done anything other than what he felt in a crisis moment was, im going to do the maximum amount to protect the united states. >> protect the united states and make sure no lives were shed unnecessarily. general milley, lets talk about his conversation with house speaker nancy pelosi who was worried that trump would go rogue and launch nuclear strikes...

Basically that general milley believed and he wasnt alone, other people in president trumps or bit who believed he was becoming unhinged and more erratic after he lost the election, so milley was asked about that conversation that he had with speaker nancy pelosi about, are you sure everythings going to be okay, because nancy pelosi was basically saying, hes crazy, you know? referring to donald trump. here was general milleys response today. >> she was concerned and made very -- or made various ...

>> susan, i thought that todays hearing was really fascinating because the generals didnt say no comment or i cant get into that, they pretty much gave details that we didnt know about. here is general milley talking about what has come out in the bob woodward book about how he was so concerned about president trumps mental state and how erratically he was behaving after he lost the presidential election that general milley felt compelled to call his chinese counter parts to try to appease or as...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...