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Launch authority and he doesn't launch them alone. and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. there are processes, protocols, and procedures in place and i repeatedly assured her that there is no chance of an illegal, unauthorized, or accidental launch. by presidential directive and secretary of defense directive, the chairman is part of the process to ensure the president is fully informed when determining the use of the world's deadliest weapons. by law, i am not in the chain of command and i know that. however, by presidential directive...

This, but if you look at -- these are reasonable precautions. we found no evidence, and bob costa and i had months to look at this, that milley had done anything other than what he felt in a crisis moment was, i'm going to do the maximum amount to protect the united states. >> protect the united states and make sure no lives were shed unnecessarily. general milley, let's talk about his conversation with house speaker nancy pelosi who was worried that trump would go rogue and launch nuclear strikes. take a listen. >> she was concerned and made very -- or made various personal references, charac...

Basically that general milley believed and he wasn't alone, other people in president trump's or bit who believed he was becoming unhinged and more erratic after he lost the election, so milley was asked about that conversation that he had with speaker nancy pelosi about, are you sure everything's going to be okay, because nancy pelosi was basically saying, he's crazy, you know? referring to donald trump. here was general milley's response today. >> she was concerned and made very -- or made various personal references characterizing the president. i explained to her that the president is the ...

>> susan, i thought that today's hearing was really fascinating because the generals didn't say no comment or i can't get into that, they pretty much gave details that we didn't know about. here is general milley talking about what has come out in the bob woodward book about how he was so concerned about president trump's mental state and how erratically he was behaving after he lost the presidential election that general milley felt compelled to call his chinese counter parts to try to appease or assuage, i guess, their anxieties. here is that moment. >> she was concerned and made very or mad...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didn't address the issue that you made -- if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we g...