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Maybe it wasn't just a peaceful march and maybe it wasn't just as andrew clyde called it just normal tourist day at the capitol. it was a siege in terms of john eastman and what he described. that said, what does this tell us about the pressure that mike pence was under to overturn this election? >> that email exchange reported by "the washington post" was between greg jacob, pence's lawyer and john eastman. that was not just an isolated exchange. as our reporting shows, john eastman circulates his memo which we recovered, and what many people are calling a blueprint for a cue coup de tas. man...

Going to use the word that they love -- they pounced on that, right? they pounced on that reporting from you. do you think now, with the benefit of this testimony, the benefit of reading your whole book now, that generals -- general milley's actions and explanations are more clear and justified? >> whether it's a senate republican or a democrat or an independent, i would urge them to read the whole book because the reporting's context is so important. chairman milley, our reporting shows, did not make these calls in a vacuum. he is reading in and briefing other officials. the head of the nsa. ...

Going to use the word that they love -- they pounced on that, right? they pounced on that reporting from you. do you think now, with the benefit of this testimony, the benefit of reading your whole book now, that generals -- general milley's actions and explanations are more clear and justified? >> whether it's a senate republican or a democrat or an independent, i would urge them to read the whole book because the reporting's context is so important. chairman milley, our reporting shows, did not make these calls in a vacuum. he is reading in and briefing other officials. the head of the nsa. ...

We detail tt position of milley in the book. he does not believe the president is an interventionist. at the time, presidenttrump. he does not believe trump wants to have war. but as our book shows and our reporting shows, even though he has that belief, thathe president is not itching for war in any way or trying to attack china in any way, and we spell that out, he has concerns about the president's conduct to the point of believing the president is in serious mental decline during the transition. these are the dynamics. complicated dynamics. you can, on one hand, think a president doesn't w...

Needed to send a signal to the chinese to cool down tensions. milley was following his lead. this spoke to what milley said whether we warned the chinese we were going to attack. milley will have to address. this was not mark milley. what happened was the pentagon and the white house weren't talking to each other. and that the head of the pentagon mark esper decided to do something on china by himself and mark milley was following that. that's a less sexy story but it has the added benefit of being the truth. >> you say milley wasn't freelancie ing but you make it clear dod was freelancing her...