you. >> great. >> i guarantee that that intelligence was disseminated to -- in the president's pdb, the vice president, the dni, the director of the cia, the secretary of defense. assistant to the president for national security affairs and others. that was significant and there was a lot of it. >> reporter: the photo from last summer at lafayette square thrust milley into the political limelight where he remains whether he likes it or not. >> what happens when a military general becomes a political figure? >> you would agree that's dangerous? >> i think it's dangerous and i've done my best to remain personally ly apolitical. i made a point of that from the time i became the chairman and especially beginning last summer. >> reporter: milley acknowledged he spoke to a number of authors who wrote about the final months of the administration. >> general milley, did you talk to bob woodward or robert costa for their book "peril"?