the election warning about the same types of things that milley was worried about. tell us, why were you concerned? >> well, i think it had become increasingly clear that trump was so fascinated with this notion that he was spinning that the election had been stolen that there were things that he would do we probably -- none of us would have predicted but in an effort to try and reverse the election. now, i'm not saying i foresaw anything like what happened, but i think people were nervous, and i think milley and others were properly nervous too. it's been reported that he and mark meadows and mike pompeo began holding morning calls for what was called the landing the plane exercise. now, that may have been one of those situations you mentioned a moment ago where milley said he spoke with meadows and pompeo, i don't know. but i was sure he was in regular contact with them and i think that was simply a very prudent