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The commanders and predictably cnn is peddling another tale. >> general milley consulted with both defense secretary's in october. that would've been then secretary esper, who wanted this call made, and then with acting defense secretary chris miller in january. >> laura: my next guest says it is milley's defenders who are twisting the truth. joining me now, cash patel, advisor to president trump. cash, can you clear this up here? did chris miller walked back his initial denial today? because that is how it was being reported. >> you cannot coordinate your way into a violation of the law which...

Making calls behind donald trump's back, the chief of staff chairman denies he did anything illegal saying the calls were within his purview. chris miller denies he gave general milley the green light to make the calls was the former chief of staff doubling down on his former buys's claim that he followed the law. >> the law prohibits the chairman from operational command authority anywhere. we can't coordinate it. any instance, attempting to deflect, there was never permission granted to chairman general milley to tip off the chinese because it would have been illegally. todd: the committee a...

Include usurping the power of the president of the was known in the code as sedition. aiding the enemy which is providing advanced intelligence to a foreign adversary and finally, arguably, espionage for providing top-secret classified information about military planning. adversary think milley did not seem to understand that he had no authority whatsoever to do any of that. chairman of the joint chiefse thatpe he is nothing more than n advisor to the president and the security council, nothing else, zero. and in fact, the law specifically prohibits him from having any operational command auth...

Schlessinger. it was what he needed to maintain the tightest possible control of the lines of military communication and command authority. the move is referenced to jace shes jer not to follow orders that came from nixon facing impeachment. this doesn't see quite as defiant, but constitutionally trouble and problematic, not that i would have done something differently. this is not great waters to be in. >> no. i mean, if you are the chairman, you are a political officer, your duty is to the constitution and not the president. you are not a political operator. you are not supposed to get in th...

Include usurping the power of the president of the was known in the code as sedition. aiding the enemy which is providing advanced intelligence to a foreign adversary and finally, arguably, espionage for providing top-secret classified information about military planning. e-uppercase-letter foreign adversary think milley did not seem to understand that he had no authority whatsoever to do any of that. chairman of the joint chiefs that he is nothing more than an advisor to the president and the security council, nothing else clicked zero. and in fact, the law specifically prohibits him from hav...