his colleagues when they go over ten minutes, and urging them to stay on the floor so this can get done as quickly as possible. this is, again the senate coming in days ahead of deadline after the house haggled over this death deal for weeks between speaker mccarthy and the white house. i do think that thing that is striking about it, and you and i have watched so many of these late night procedural hurdles is the fact that this one is sort of being done halfheartedly. most of the republican senators who were agitating for amendment votes we re doing it knowing that, a, their amendments were going to fail, and be, the fact that this debt deal was going to pass anyway so, even though we are doing this the long way, it is still being done in the shortest way possible. and it s almost done in a halfhearted fashion, because everybody here expects that this bill, by the end of the night, is going to be passed on all the way to the president s desk. yeah, and a rare moment of bipartisa
mark milley. i could get general milley, if i could show you these documents that conflict with his alleged claim that i wanted to always planning to attack iran. and forgive me, alex, a moment for a second. the irony the second irony here, in addition to donald trump not being consistent, insisting on something that now actually in snares him the other irony here is, it s my understanding from sources that we spoke with over the last 48 hours that mark milley did not produce a document, a memo to donald trump, in which he recommended invading or attacking iran. and so, really, donald trump, if he was shaking around a classified document, as he alleged, in this recording, it was a pentagon document that merely probably recommended against. one of the many options of
have tapes, the recordings that phil rucker, my colleague and i, made of our interview with donald trump, which came out at precisely this time, in july of 2021, when the president the former president was complaining about mark milley. and i will say that it was the pattern and practice of former president donald trump to also tape record any media people that were coming in to visit him. he wanted, basically, a record of what those conversations were, it just too sort of fact check and make sure nothing was taken out of context that he said. and the irony here is that researchers who sat down with him for mark meadows book have the president the former presidents own words in which they did not miss quote him and they had evidence of now, also, we no trump s
administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in this series of escalating maneuvers, which ultimately resulted, of course, in the attack on the u.s. capitol. so is during that summer, july 2021, when the new yorker published this explosive story. you are going to have an effing war. mark milley s fight to stop trump from striking iran. the very attention grabbing headline was one of the series of reports published around that time, detailing how mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under trump how general milley had spent the last days of the trump presidency frantically trying to stop the president from starting war, to keep himself in office. for several months, milley had been engaged in an alarmed effort to ensure that trump did not embark on a military conflict with iran as part of his quixotic campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain in power.
in the summer of 2021 really seems to have gotten under trump skin, so much so that trump s reaction to all of these articles may just be the smoking gun in the special counsel s mar-a-lago investigation. as we have reported here before, multiple news outlets, including nbc, are now confirming that the special counsel s investigation has obtained an audio recording of donald trump from that summer, july 2021. in that recording, trump is angry. he is angry about that article about mark milley. and he is reportedly doing everything he can in this recording to prove that he never wanted to attack iran. instead, trump claims the person who really wanted to attack iran was wait for it general mark milley. and as evidence of that trump has, on the tape he says he has, in his position, some sort of classified