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The things laid out in there neral milley really pushed back on. i think the biggest thing we heard himefense himself against was the idea he was doing thi outside his existing authorities. this i something that he made it very clear was something tha as the chairman the joint chiefs, it's within his role to condt these phone calls with his counterparts. he didn't speak as much about this nuclear process meeting that's also laid out in the woodward book, but he did also fend his role in that and explained that, in fact, he called members of h staff together. they were going through the process...

And he can essentially do whatever he wants. certainly there are new details in there. most of it is really information and stuff that we have bee hearing for the last several months from the legal team. rudy giuliani has been talking about some of this. it seems that their position hasn't really changed. the other thing is it is clear that mueller is not buying any of this because they are still negotiating a sit down and fighting over this sit down and whether or not mueller is going to enforce it. we know in march there were indications that mueller threatened to subpoena the president. >> ...

>> so is it appropriate for the president and u.s. ambassador haley to issue threats like this or is this exactly what president trump's base wants to hear. >> it's not sur prizing considering trhetoric we've bee hearing, to try to cut the funding up to 50% was one of the goals, you see not much desire in congress to do anything of that sort and when they pass spending bills and congress is controlled by republicans you want to keep that funding at obama era levels and in many cases raise that funding even higher. there's plenty of criticism it had is not the time to be making threats like thi...