but the way it is explained is that he talked to the members of the military about the process, because he wanted to make sure that he was clear on it, and they were, because they were the people making the calls, and getting on a conference line with senior people in this administration or in the previous administration if there was some sort of a strike coming, and general milley wanted to look each one of them in the eye and make sure they knew what to do in that case. so the two vignettes that have come out, yes, they are not denying them, but there is a little bit of the wiggle room of how they were carried out, geoff. >> and courtney, the context here accounts for a lot, and we should not lose sight of what general milley was trying to guard against according to the reporting that he believed that president trump was in mental decline as did members of the cabinet, and he said that you never know what a president's trigger point will be, and evelyn, setting aside the statement, in your view, did