days of the trump administration. cnn s brian todd has the details. reporter: president biden backing joint chiefs chairman army general mark milley. i have confidence in general milley. reporter: following new revolutions in the new book peril. former president trump and some republicans in congress calling for milley to be tossed out even court martialed over the courting in the book that general milley was so fearful that president trump would start a war with china that he secretly called his chinese counterpart twice to reassure him that the united states would not strike china. that is treason. i ve had so many calls today saying that is treason. reporter: general milley s office defends his calls saying they were part of a series of calls with mirkamerica s alleys adversaries. a defense official says that the calls were not done in secret and followed the same protocols used by other chir air men of t
reviewed on whatever frequent basis that he wants to do that. reporter: woodward and costa also write that after the protests in june 2020, trump accused then defense secretary mark esper of trying to take away his authority. and screamed at others in the room, quote, you are all fed up, everyone one of you is fed up. former president trump in addition to calling milley s reported actions treason has issued a statement calling the joint chiefs chairman a dumb ass and would fox news says con kobl docked a fake news story. trump says he never thought about attacking china, a possibility alluded to in the book. and that the people who told that story are, quote, sick and demented and those who 3rprinte it just as bad. brian todd, cnn, washington.
joint chiefs. and the book also says milley called a secret meeting at the pentagon to review the process for military action including launching nuclear weapons that milley instructed top officials not to take orders from anyone including then president trump unless milley was involved. the writers write milley was certain that trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election with trump all but manic screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies. that doesn t cut it with marco rubio. it is the essence a military c coup. at a minimum he should be fired if this is true. it is completely appropriate for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as the senior military adviser to both the secretary and the president to want to see those protocols
after nearly a year. that suits some parents in this 82% white district just fine. i don t want my daughter growing up feeling guilty because she is white. reporter: that sentiment is spreading. at least 27 states have passed or considering policies strictly defining what students are allowed to learn about race. one expert says the york ban is something new. this seems pretty egregious. i can see how certain trainings or workshops that some parents take exception to seem really outside what a history class can be expected to do, but the kind of texts that are being banned here make me feel that there is now just sort of an allergy to anything that mentions race or racism. reporter: this is about more than a book or a movie or even a curriculum some veteran teachers say. in york they worry that it is a war on their profession. i m not an enemy of the state. i m here to take care of your babies when they walk into my classroom and there are some of
banned a list of books. it has a lot of bad ideas and books that i would not want in our district. i do not feel it is balanced. reporter: and that list includes a children s book about rosa, parks. sesame street town hall on racism. racism? what s that? reporter: and much, much more. this is hidden figures. the movie was reporter: like from the movie. yeah. reporter: it is frustrating for the students. this is a board that after hearing their student s concerns about diversity in the district, hearing my struggles with race being indian american and consistently feeling like i didn t belong, after all those conversations for weeks on end, they still pursued this book ban. i want to learn genuine history. i don t want to learn a white wash version. i want to hear all of it. i don t want everyone to worry