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Unusually rattled, putting the two nations on the knife edge of disaster. >> it's in the after math of that that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. >> also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls milley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike. milley ends up assuring her, i know the system and we are okay, the presi...

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...

Who called milley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors, what precautions were available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike milley ends up assuring her, i know the system, and we are 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 initially sought a way around counting the electoral college votes, calling dan quayle who had played that role in 1993, who tells pence, mike, ...

What the f am i dealing with milley asked mcmaster. the conversations put milley on edge and he began informally planning with other military leaders on how they would block president trump's order to use the military in a way they deemed dangerous or illegal. if they wanted to gain control, they would need to gain sway over the fbi, cia or defense department where trump already installed allies. they may try but not they're not going to succeed milley told deputies. the book reports. >> it says how milley confronted then white house chief of staff mark meadows about rumors that the president ...

That anything less might give trump some shred of a reason to call out troops. esper, the authors wrote, wanted biden to win for the good of the country. >> and we are learning act more of this now because almost six months have passed since the end of the trump administration. more sources feel more free to talk, but they're still mostly speaking only unanimously. it will be important to see some of these officials and aides and advisers start to speak on the record so everybody has a full accounting for history of what went wrong at the end of the trump era. john, brianna? >> thanks to brian...