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Take a listen to what he had to say this morning. >> there was an agreement the forces would come out on day 1st, had we not begun that process, which is what the president did and the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban and been back at war with tens of thousands of troops having to go in because the 2500 troops there and the air power would not have sufficed to deal with the situation as we see the hollowness of the afghan security forces and by the way from compe...

Fears of a cue. mark milly believed there was something afoot and he saw evidence of it. second, milly and his joint chiefs all began planning secretly for what they would do to try to block donald trump from taking some terrible action with the military to maintain his grip on power or to just create chaos. milly was very worry the, as you know, now from reading our book that there were a lot of comparisons between the way donald trump was acting and adolf hitler had, you know, consolidated pow...

Youre beginning to see some of the -- and democrats as well, sort of a venom sort of leak out of a lot of it. weve got to get beyond this. >> meanwhile, a big piece of bidens agenda has been temporarily blocked in the senate. its a mess like everything in the senate. republicans all voted to oppose a test vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which is still being worked out. it now looks like that vote will take place next week. we also heard an extraordinary defense of the u.s. militarys ...

This repeated itself several times this afternoon. when the racehorses gets too agitated you bring the stable pony in to calm him down. obviously there are only a few people who could have told the reporters this. what are we to make of ivankas role? >> not only are there a few people, but throughout the book if there is a controversial quote or scene, it is very clear these two authors went to that person and said is this try or not? mike pompeo denies a quote through a closed source. theres no...

Carol and phil, my wife and i have done reporting on this as well for our book which wont come out until next year. and there was a concern at the pentagon about what was going on. it was heightened by the fact that the president had installed his own loyalists there at the pentagon in the days after the election. remember he fired mark esper, secretary of defense, put in chris miller. and elevated a couple of loyalists there at the pentagon at the last minute. there was talk about firing chris ...

Election fraud he believed had taken place. and his increasing determination to hold on to power through any means possible. thankfully, individuals with integrity and commitment to the democratic principles of this republic like general millie decided they were not going to be used as a pawn in donald trumps chess game. and so thankfully we had individuals like mark milly and others who stood up to donald trump and unfortunately there were too many times throughout the course of the four year t...

Government and military lead hear from the president. joining me now is our msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst john brennan. great to you have back on the program. i want to read you another excerpt from the book. mark milly says parallels between trumps rhetoric of election fraud and hitlers insistence to followers at the rallies that he was a victim and their savior. this is a right stack moment, milly told aide. he was openly ready to defy the commander in chief in order ...

Lockdown. i know because i was there. and the military took a -- the national guard and the d.c. police took a major role. and i remember on several occasions, speaker nancy pelosi meeting, talking with general milley and other military officials to make sure that they were going to protect the capitol and protect the city on that day. so this really does fill in some of those details about what was going on behind the scenes to protect the capitol from another insurrection. >> cure curious what...

You read a lot about temperature u.s. general mark milly and how he clashed with trump and administration and what i thought was so amazing so you revealed his realtime reaction when trump staged the photo op at lafayette square where people were taking place after floyd os murder and in quotes you write what the f star ck as sivanka stepped towards her father with the bible and patrolled washington streets with his troops until well past 2:00 a.m. and you reporting this in your book that milly ...

They were -- there was a lull in the action today. that day they were monitoring protest. there wasnt much happening in the afternoon. milly was in his fatigues. he was going to visit with national guard, the national guardsmen stationed around the city that might. barr knew they would push the perimeter out at some point that day he wanted to see what the pr progress was so they decide on heck, lets just go to the white house moment and what happens they both end up in one of the most controver...