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Reaction to it, the acting secretary of defense christopher miller, who was installed quite, quite, quite late in the trump years, trump term, was the acting sec def when january 6th happened we got news today came before the january 6th committee and talked to them for quite a while, betsy. do you have any reporting on that. >> that's right. what we know is a top priority for the select committee is looking are why it took the national guard so long to deploy members of the d.c. national guard to the capitol building after that attack had started. one key document that the committee has recei...

The justice department would look like they are playing politics. this is essential. and if they are not willing to do this, i think we need a new attorney general. >> jill, i want to give you a chance to respond to what jennifer just said there about the scope of this. >> the scope -- let me take it from a different perspective. with the subpoenas they have issued and the detailed information they cave in why they subpoenaed these people show they are reaching far and wide in terms of what they are investigating. i think that, you know, the people who are the best known, bannon, and meadows, ...

Theory to command that. but the one that bothered me the most was the secretary of defense was an acting sec def. there was nobody left. so i think what general milley was doing -- and by the way, routinely, the chairman, the service chiefs, the joint combatant commander routinely are in their counterparts globally. it's part of the deterrence of unwanted combat. i think he felt it important to not end up with a world war i start of a war through miscalculation on the part of the chinese. though again, we ought to be fortunate, we've got this princeton grad, tremendous combat officer, extremel...

Absolutely. under the constitution he had complete authority. there's only two civilians who can give instructions to the operational commanders of the armed forces, the secretary of defense, who was an acting sec def, a sycophant from the trump white house, and mr. trump, who was obviously volatile, out of control, disobeying the law. by the way, the chairman does not have to be in the loop for a nuclear strike. he has authority to disseminate instructions and receive reports delegated to him by the secretary of defense. the president can pick up a phone and call a joint commander. if it's a ...

On anybody the nature, the sort of inane childish attacks on senior leadership. by the way, what we should underscore is our reliance on secretary jim mattis as a law abiding intellectual defense expert to keep the department of defense straight in terms of service to the american people. we better not end up with an acting sec def, an acting home and security, and an acting attorney general. that would be a concern to the security of the american people. >> it also seems when i look at that statement from mcraven, single out former presidents obama and george w. bush and talking about a sense...