the new book by robert woodward, some calling for milley to be tossed out or court marshalled over the fear general milley was fearful that secretly called his chinese kaunt part twice to reassure him the united states would not strike china. that s treason. i ve had so many calls today saying that s treason. general milley s office defending his calls with his chinese counterpart saying they were part of a series of calls with america s allies and adversaries at that time. quote, in order to e maintain strategic civility. those calls were not done in secret and followed the same protocols used by other chairman of the joint chiefs. woodward and costa report that after the insurrection on the capitol, milley call a meeting.
how political was this? general milley is a political general, awoke general. there s real issues of his competence in the afghan fiasco and the withdrawal. now looks like he would have given this interview to bob woodward after the election. was he trying to curry favor? i don t know if what is in this book is true. i know from personal experience, probably bob woodward bends the truth. but this is a very serious accusational the sitting chief of staff and if true, he could be court marshalled. martha: strong wards. general milley did not relation the conversation to president trump. that s one of the things that jumped out here at people. whether or not there s reason for the level of alarm that we
it is, without question, the most sought after decoration in the u.s. navy. so 250 earn it puts you in very elite company. so the story is of a navy chief petty officer a combat veteran with significant military awards on the battle field. but he was convicted of posing with a corpse. ee was accused of even worse war crimes. acquitted of those. the navy, appropriately, in my view, has moved towards a process to remove his s.e.a.l. pen from him. it s kind of like any profession like a doctor losing their medical license. it takes away who you are. so the headline is the navy has been for seeding down a path appropriately and the way we always would for anybody who was court marshalled and convicted which chief petty officer gallagher was, we then look at
state who testified alongside valuable and and does so taylor today large ly wouldn t by because of his own engage with some republican personal agenda and not that of theories about the case. the public good or the troops, which make up the bulk of the what is that? is that actionable? president s defense at least i would say yes. i would say it s treasonous and right now. now, republicans tried to wall off the president by noting much i definitely would think that of taylor s knowledge of the that soldier would be court quid pro quo scheme came from marshalled. and i think that alone is, to ambassador gordon sondland who spoke with trump directly about me, is something that the it. american people can understand. you had said to me a couple so what i m wondering is, where d you get this clear understanding? sundays ago that you you as i testified, mr. jordan, believed in this more narrow focus of this impeachment this came from ambassador proceeding. focused on what you v
by the relative parameters of humanity, who s humanity are we able to visible recognize and who s are we not. there are examples of this even when we talked about i ve given to students in class about the melee, massacre and the fact that children were killed. there are very many americans who felt that the soldiers who were court marshalled as a result of that had given unjust treatment whereas we would have it would be incomprehensible that there would be any defense for anyone that would kill an american child under any circumstance, under any circumstances and so it is simply fundamentally this and i think that the question is, ask yourself, republican, what is your relationship to your child? what would you do to protect that child? how far would you go to make