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>> think about the words we heard from top white house officials, erratic, unhinged, unstable, crazy town. i spoke to a senior republican official who said to me, no one should be criticizing milley. they all knew trump was bonkers. that's a quote. what milley did was stood up and took precautions to make sure nothing dangerous or illegal happen. the people who were around him, who were seeing him every day after the election, particularly but in the book it details really the last year of trump. saw behavior they thought was explosive and dangerous. >> jamie, thank you for all the reporting. ...

Now, milley telegraphing -- first, i don't believe milley would tell china we're going to attack them, right. we do have means of communicating with adversaries to avoid unwanted wars so you don't escalate to degrees you don't want to escalate to. i don't believe that that was the essence of what he was trying to say there. i mean, you can take issue with him communicating with adversaries. all i'm saying is it wasn't the first time they felt the need not to. >> this wasn't a rogue phone call. general milley isn't picking up the phone. there were translations involved, other intelligence peopl...

I suggest people read the book and look at it in context. it is true that he is not as chairman of the joint chiefs in the chain of command however he is the most senior military official. he is the adviser to the president. he has tremendous authority and what he was doing here was making sure the guard rails were up, that there wasn't some kind of accident. one senior republican source said to me tonight, quote, no one should be criticizing milley. they all knew trump was bonkers. that's a quote. milley stood up and took precautions to make sure nothing dangerous or illegal happened. he was ...