joint chiefs of staff took secret action to potentially limit then president trump s ability to order a nuclear strike or other military strike. he feared that the commander in chief was erratic and potentially would go rogue. this is one of the headlines from the new book peril. cnn special consrespsq corret jamie gangel got a copy of the book. he s concerned about trump. it s two days after january 6th and these were precautions. he was trying to make sure the guard rails are in place, but it is an extraordinary meeting. he calls in the generals and the colonels that run the pentagon war room and says to them, according to the book quote if you get calls no matter who they re from, there is a process here. there is a procedure. no matter what you re told, you
new book peril. pelosi, what precautions are available to prevent and unstable president from initiating military hostilities, or from accessing the launch codes in ordering a nuclear strike? milley, this is one of those moments madam speaker where you re going to have to trust me on this. i guarantee. i m giving you my word. i can t say any of it publicly because i don t have the authorities. i can assure you that the united states military s study is iraq, and we re not going to do anything illegal, immoral or unethical with the use of force. we will not do. it pelosi, who knows what he might do. he s crazy. you know he s crazy. he s been crazy for a long time. so don t say you don t know what his state of mind. is he s crazy and what he did yesterday is further evidence of this craziness. but anyway i appreciate what you said. general milley, madam speaker i agree with you on everything. here s what s bob woodward
procedures in place in an effort to ensure that everyone within the chain of command was clear, what lawful and unlawful orders entailed, general milley visited the pentagon s op. center to review procedures. he also spoke to the joint chiefs in the wake of the phone call with speaker pelosi. separately, i m told that general milley had multiple calls with his chinese counterpart and nato allies in the wake of january 6th. in order to reassure them that the u.s. government was stable and to reassure china that the u.s. did not plan a surprise attack. all of this in an effort to lower tensions with china during the tumultuous interim period between the election and the inauguration. the washington post account from the book peril says millie told his chinese counterpart he would let him know if the u.s. planned to attack. that is not true according to multiple sources. what millie did say, i m told, was that there would be no surprise strikes and that if there were a build up of tensi