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Play out in real time but waited until after to write a book. >> the trump administration was full of people who could have called out the president in real time for instances like this one. for areas of, you know, national security, frankly, when he treated vladimir putin in one way and pretended he was treating him in another way. they failed to do so. this was not an administration full of profiles in courage. now, there is stephanie grisham making money out of a book when it's too late to have an impact to say he said one thing when, actually, he was meaning another thing. it would have be...

Step back and talk about stephanie grisham. she was for eight months the white house press secretary. you can forget that because she never gave a formal briefing to the press during that eight months. but this is someone who was there from the beginning. some people have dipped into the trump orbit, come out, and tried to claim some of the glow off that or write a book off of it. she was there from 2015 right through january 6th. she saw all of it. she participated in all of it. what do you make of this book, why she's doing it, and some of the content of the book, do you believe it? >> yeah....

Testimony yesterday? >> it's so important, whether you're a house republican today or a house democrat, to read the whole book. the context is there in the book. to not cherry-pick a paragraph and say, "well, that defines the entire story." no, the book is the entire story of a dangerous transition. in particular, page 129 of the book details the whole conversation on october 30th. that whole conversation shows, based on our reporting, chairman milley telling general lee that, you need to calm down. it's not some kind of tip-off about an attack. he's saying in historic context, you'll always s...

There's not a lot of other things to do. politics are ongoing, but this is going to be an issue for schumer to figure out. there's just no sense that mitch mcconnell is going to help him out. >> all right. now, the latest information from t trumppresidency. stephanie grisham, presint donald trump's third press secretary and chief of staf to former first lady melania tmp is out with a new book next week, that according to the "washington post" alleges a litany of misdeeds by the 45th president. from ogling a young female staffer t orchestrating lies for e pubc to attempting to ban the ns medi...

Like, no, wait, i can't believe melania did that. donald trump? ner. it's exactly what you think they'd do, and it's behavior we've seen time and time again. >> jim vandehei, thank you very much. anna palmer of punch bowl news, thank you, as well, for your reporting. great to have you both on this morning. still ahead on "morning joe," facing fierce criticism from republican lawmakers. general mark milley defends the phone calls he made to his chinese counterpart in the final days of the trump administration. we'll be joined by the "washington post" bob woodward and robert costa, who were fi...