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Take a listen to what he had to say this morning. >> there was an agreement the forces would come out on day 1st, had we not begun that process, which is what the president did and the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban and been back at war with tens of thousands of troops having to go in because the 2500 troops there and the air power would not have sufficed to deal with the situation as we see the hollowness of the afghan security forces and by the way from competitors around the world, there is nothing they would like to see more is us in afghanistan another 1...

Fears of a cue. mark milly believed there was something afoot and he saw evidence of it. second, milly and his joint chiefs all began planning secretly for what they would do to try to block donald trump from taking some terrible action with the military to maintain his grip on power or to just create chaos. milly was very worry the, as you know, now from reading our book that there were a lot of comparisons between the way donald trump was acting and adolf hitler had, you know, consolidated power in the 1930s. by creating fear. >> you know phil, i know i invoked your name in terms of that que...

You're beginning to see some of the -- and democrats as well, sort of a venom sort of leak out of a lot of it. we've got to get beyond this. >> meanwhile, a big piece of biden's agenda has been temporarily blocked in the senate. it's a mess like everything in the senate. republicans all voted to oppose a test vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which is still being worked out. it now looks like that vote will take place next week. we also heard an extraordinary defense of the u.s. military's tradition of steering clear of party politics today. and it came from a key figure cited often ...

This repeated itself several times this afternoon. when the racehorses gets too agitated you bring the stable pony in to calm him down. obviously there are only a few people who could have told the reporters this. what are we to make of ivanka's role? >> not only are there a few people, but throughout the book if there is a controversial quote or scene, it is very clear these two authors went to that person and said is this try or not? mike pompeo denies a quote through a closed source. there's no denial of that here. so we have to assume ivanka trump was aware. if i had to guess, this comes f...

Carol and phil, my wife and i have done reporting on this as well for our book which won't come out until next year. and there was a concern at the pentagon about what was going on. it was heightened by the fact that the president had installed his own loyalists there at the pentagon in the days after the election. remember he fired mark esper, secretary of defense, put in chris miller. and elevated a couple of loyalists there at the pentagon at the last minute. there was talk about firing chris wray. the justice department, where attorney general barr eventually resigned and there was talk ab...