encaping with what the chairman of the joint chiefs should be able to do. i think he did the right thing. so let me just go through the timeline of these calls for you so that you can explain a couple of details. so-call one from milley to general lee in china happens on october 30th before the election and that is the call where milley says don t worry, i would tell you if we were going to attack it s important we say that because that call was made in consultation with the defense secretary esper. so that s important to note. call two is where there are questions because it happens on january 8th, ed ensper is no lo the acting defense secretary is christopher miller hand picked by trump. a man who oversees a purge at the defense department where senior posts are filled by trump loyalists and miller now tells cnn today quote, i wouldn t have approved of anything of the nature portrayed in woodward s
that call from milley was on october 30th of 2020. and there was one more call after that. this a call from milley to the same chinese general on january 8th this year. significantly, january 8th is two days after the insurrection. now, this is according to a new book by the reporters bob woodward and robert costa. we learned the calls were not secret. not like milley got on the phone and called his counterpart and now it s leaking out. not at all. we learned there were 15 people on each of those two calls. during the discussion on january 8th. he said we re 100% steady. everything is fine. democracy can be sloppy sometimes. according to the book milley went as far to promise his counterpart he would alert them on a strike to the u.s. in the october call approved by esper.