after january 6, milley calls general lee again and they write this the book li remained unusually rattled putting the two nations on the knife-edge of disaster. so that is the context and now we have the statement from milg milley s spokesman saying he was so concerned about china misreading us that he did call china and russia and a number of other maybe 20 other countries i was told. he is now under attack not just from president trump but marco rubio calling for him to be fired. you ve seen the drumbeat. you ve watched decades of white houses and foreign policy from moscow and other posts overseas. your takeaway. yeah this, was chairman of the joint chiefs, highest military virz to the president try doing what chairmans had done before which is to make sure that there are no accidents, make sure that we don t spill into could be flikts