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Bow williams. mark ed enter ordered a top policy advisor to send a back channel message to beijing to reassure them. that message and order before the october 30th call that milley made to his counterpart and that, the point of this was according to this top former official a two-step process to avoid any unnecessary confrontation that could lead to con conflict. erin, you may remember esper was fired but milley continued his out reach with the chinese. >> the white house today standing by the country's top general amid accusations he had gone too far at the end of donald trump's presidency in...

Very important to the -- to the interests of the united states, that's not for your average person on the street. >> yeah, they don't care. >> and, frankly, if you are going to appeal to those people on the street you wouldn't go there. you would just simply say this is american policy and the irregulars were not pursuing that. this is an argument to box in those half dozen, seven, eight -- >> that is very interesting. >> who are going to be faced with a very difficult vote. because if they vote against donald trump donald trump's not the type of person who is going to say i'm going to release...

The plug 10 minutes before they were set to go down, this after iran shot down a u.s. navy drone flying over the straight of hormuz. we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sites when i asked how many would die. 150 people was the answer from the general period of 10 minutes before the strike, i stopped it. not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. i am in no hurry, our military is rebuilt, new, and ready to g go. air force correspondent is joining us live here in studio here in new york. >> good morning, president trump saying he called off the strike ...

Because there was a back channel message to the white house saying, if you do that, that will be a signal that war is imminent. so that didn't happen. i think pompeo was right. we're the so much better to be talking. the intelligence people say in a very direct way, north korea is not going to get rid of their nuclear weapons because that's their leverage. but keep the dialogue and its of thea path that takes decades fine. >>chris: with just 44 days until the midterms, there are very interesting numbers in the polls. on the generic ballot question, who do you back in your district? 49 percent ...

Because there was a back channel message to the white house saying, if you do that, that will be a signal that war is imminent. so that didn't happen. i think pompeo was right. we're the so much better to be talking. the intelligence people say in a very direct way, north korea is not going to get rid of their nuclear weapons because that's their leverage. but keep the dialogue and its of thea path that takes decades fine. >>chris: with just 44 days until the midterms, there are very interesting numbers in the polls. on the generic ballot question, who do you back in your district? 49 percent ...