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Use of nuclear weapons, and, of course, the procedures that nancy pelosi and the chairman of the joint chiefs talked about in the phone call that jamie reported. what we have here is a place in american history where the extraordinary, the unusual, the unprecedented has happened. and that is that the president himself apparently cannot be trusted by the authorities in the military and by the authorities in congress to fulfill his duties in the proper constitutional way. that is a significant deviation from the norm and a significant deviation from the way in which we've handled military chain ...

According to the book milley said if you get calls, no matter who they're from, there's a process here. there's a procedure. no matter what you're told, you do the procedure. you do the process, and i'm part of that procedure. ana, milley may be criticized by some who feel he overstepped his authority. but according to woodward and costa, he felt he couldn't trust trump and needed to take all necessary precautions to prevent him from doing something dangerous. he had a phrase for it, woodward and costa write, he called it the darkest moment of theoretical possibility that trump could go rogue....

He says to pence, if these people said you had the power to overturn the election, wouldn't you want to do that? and pence replies no, i don't have the authority to do it. and then there is this exchange in the book. trump, but wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power? pence, no. i've done everything i could and then some to find a way around this. it's simply not possible. trump then loses his temper and yells, no, no, no. you don't understand, mike. you can do this. i don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this. it's a rather surreal scene. >> i don't want to be your frien...

No ucmj, uniform code of military justice command authority. and that is the kind of issue where you could make the argument that he overstepped his bounds, but he really did the right thing in this case. if all of this reporting is correct, he needed to step in to preserve the country and to preserve our relationships and frankly, preserve the military forces that we have. >> speaking of relationships to that other detail that jamie reported about milley reportedly holding these back channel discussions with his chinese counterpart who is worried about the chaos in washington, how extraordina...

Troops at the airport, including the army's 16 air assault brigade. and there are smaller contingents from nato members including france, germany and turkey. nato says it has about 800 civilian contractors still on the ground — most of them at the airport. so at what point do you start pulling them all out. let's bring in retired army brigadier general mark kimmitt. i'm army brigadier general mark kimmitt. starting tot commander i'm starting to think of this us commander on the ground who has to somehow over the next few days continue this remarkable pace that they've set for bringing people...