general milley. those calls to the pentagon were not secret, they were routine. i can tell you that frequent munication is not abnormal at all and those communications are routine, they are staffed, they are coordinated, and they are transparent. the u.s. military s top general also because his russian counterpart as well, and general milley called as russia s top general back in march when russian forces amassed outside of the ukraine and there was concern that invasion was about to take place. general milley talks buchman defended the two calls to china with keeping with those duties and response abilities and saying don t like feigning reassurance in order to maintain strategic ability. it wasn t just general milley making phone calls. officials say they delayed in a major training exercise, and
i mean, it s just a remarkable thing. four days out, election hasn t even happened and they re all feigning election fraud. and i think it s important to highlight that because i have been making this point. what s going on in this country is frustrating. so if this pattern holds and becomes a game of managing expectations, leading up to election day and beyond, and looking ahead to the regular gubernatorial election next november. the polls in california close tuesday at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. 8:00 p.m. local. alicia. scott cohn, as always, thank you. with me now, former california senator, barbara boxer. senator, thank you so much for joining us. tell me where you think this election stands two days out. it looks good for our governor. it looks good for the democratic party here in california. but i do feel it s important to say that polls aside, it s critical that people get out and
avoided this degree of chaos, and the administration did not. period. and today president biden, frankly, sounded like president donald trump, feigning that what we re all seeing could not have gone any better. no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. i don t know how that happened. they say they were prepared for all contingencies. clearly you were not prepared for all contingencies. clearly could you have gotten your people out first and done this early. and if this president doesn t grasp the urgency of doing more and better here, some words of his may come back to haunt him these.
now, in terms of why we are here, president biden did not start this fire. it is fair to say biden was given a bad hand by trump and co. they made the deal with these terrorists and then they started a major pull-out even when the taliban didn t do what they promised in that deal. trump s own secretary of defense, esper, says as much. but today it all shifted. biden could have changed the deal, could have planned differently, could have likely avoided this degree of chaos, and the administration did not. period. and today president biden, frankly, sounded like president donald trump, feigning that what we re all seeing could not have gone any better. no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the
it s not so much clever as it is devious. sean: joe chonca, the most honest media we have. i hope you get your own tv show with us on fox. you stand apart. thanks for doing that. i have asked this question many times. if the last name is trump and it deals with millions with no experience with burisma and the first lady billion dollars and chinese national shopping sprees and ties to the chinese military and you replace the name trump with biden, your friends in the media on twitter would be feigning out rage every minute