that at no point was he trying to usurp or circumvent authority with that. what i was struck by, though, today, hallie, is senator masha blackburn pushed general milley on his conversations with the authorities and acknowledged that he spoke with a number of the authorities of those books. that's something we've not heard about before. he admitted he spoke with authors for these anonymous books. the hearing went on and just a couple of moments before we went on the air, just now, it just ended, but senator josh hawley was asking him again about it and he insinuated that general milley was so busy talking to author and is worrying about his reputation that he was too busy to worry about what was going on in afghanistan and he called on general milley and secretary austin to resign. it was a tse moment in that hearing. probably one of the higher