in and of itself, is that of concern? >> look, first things first, i don't think we know everything that happened in that phone call. it's incumbent on general milley to give us his side of the story, tell us what happened. that's very important because we certainly don't want a call like that to play out exactly as it was described. but that misses the bigger issue here. the bigger point isn't that milley was calling his counterpart, they talk to their foreign counterparts to keep communication open. the bigger issue is that for some reason the president's top military adviser was worried about us maybe going to war with china. why was he worried about us going to war with china the middle of transitions. we don't have anything on the books that we should have been on the cusp of a nuclear war with chinese. world war i could have been prevented if there was better communication and less miscalculation. someone like mark milley takes it upon himself in a position like that to say if the country