and trump was berating china for the coronavirus. >> we must hold accountable the nation which released this plague on to the world, china. >> reporter: two days after the insurrection, miley called li again. putting the two nations on the 95's edge of disaster. >> and it's in the aftermath of that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. >> reporter: also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls miley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities over accessing the launch codes and orring a nuclear strike? miley ends up assuring her, i know the system and we're okay. the president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons. one person can order it, several people have to launch it. and the book reports mike pence