after january 6, milley calls general lee again and they write this the book li remained unusually rattled putting the two nations on the knife-edge of disaster. so that is the context and now we have the statement from milg milley s spokesman saying he was so concerned about china misreading us that he did call china and russia and a number of other maybe 20 other countries i was told. he is now under attack not just from president trump but marco rubio calling for him to be fired. you ve seen the drumbeat. you ve watched decades of white houses and foreign policy from moscow and other posts overseas. your takeaway. yeah this, was chairman of the joint chiefs, highest military virz to the president try doing what chairmans had done before which is to make sure that there are no accidents, make sure that we don t spill into could be flikts
them together and said, hey, look if you get any direction from the white house, let me know, pull me into this. who is it coming from in the white house. is it coming from the president? is it coming from a couple guys who drafted this notice that the secretary of defense or the national security adviser didn t even see? hey, let me know because those new one-star generals could be intimidated by a call from the white house. so, we don t know who general milley talked to when the author says he talked to a bunch of generals. maybe that s further ewillabora in the book. when you re talking about launch procedures. there are two major types and this is unclassified. there s the launch procedure which says, hey, there are inbound missiles from an enemy country. we have to respond right now. and in that case the president, the secretary of defense with chairmans advise really talks about what they have to do. there s the other type of potential exercise and this is
piece is that is going to decide if this is going to move ahead or not, how to pay for it? oh, absolutely. i think that is the most difficult part of it. i mean, we could all come up and talk about highways, we could talk about water projects, we could talk about the infrastructure that we need to address, that could be worked out, what amount, but how do you pay for it is the most difficult. i ve seen that. i ve seen so over the years with different chairmans of the infrastructure, transportation and infrastructure, they could come up with a bill but how do you pay for it is the most difficult part of it. let s talk about the immigration crisis at the border right now. kamala harris is headed to the border tomorrow. something you have been asking her to do for months. i heard you say this morning that you think that she s going to the wrong location. what do you mean? well, i wouldn t call it the wrong location. i m glad that she s going down to the border. but if you want to se
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March 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Just ahead of the crucial election of the Senate chairman and deputy chairman, Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday held a meeting with leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) coalition parties.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal, MNA Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Minister for Housing Tariq Bashir Cheema, Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Information Minister Shibli Faraz and Planning Minister Asad Umar.
Current political situation in the country and coalition issues were discussed during the meeting, says a statement issued by PM Office. The ruling coalition parties expressed full confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The forum reiterated full support for PM s decision on chairman and deputy chairman.
fixation on the debunked theory that ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election for some time from the president and what is really noticeable now and is that a lot of the republican allies in congress are deflecting attention toward that debunked theory. you ve seen an increasing number of senate republicans talk about this. house republicans. you ve had chairmans in the senate launch investigations and demand documents into ukraine s again debunked theory. and i think as the senate trial heats up, i think you ll have some republicans try to deflect to that even when national security officials sufficient as fiona hill said that is not true. are senate democrats in lock-stop on impeachment. we ll ask one senator facing a tough fight in a ruby red state.