we said he was. and many other republicans and democrats and independence said he was this dangerous. it seemed like hyperbole but it wasn t. this was even worse than what we thought. among the most jaw dropping of all, it comes from the washington post s book i alone can fix it. according to excerpts, general mark milley was so worried about the prospect of trump trying to use the military as part after coup attempt the general compared his rhetoric to adolf hitler s rhetoric. this is a reichstag moment, the gospel of the fuhrer. trump criticized mill yel saying if i were going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milley. but to you, david, how do you
oh, ruth, so prescient. it s like you had a crystal ball. let s talk about this new book by carol leonnig and philip rucker. they write about how general mark milley viewed trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. apparently he saw parallels between hitler s rhetoric as a savior and trump s false claims of election fraud. milley told aides according to the book, the gospel of the fuhrer. you study dictators. do you agree again, making it clear, this is mark milley s assessment, not my assessment or ruth s assessment. but do you agree with what he said? w w wl, yes. trump is an authoritarian leader. just because he couldn t wreck
stage a coup to stay in power. in their new book, i alone can fix it , washington post reporters phil rucker and carol leonnig write that joint chiefs chairman mark milley was so concerned, he called trump s former national security adviser h.r. mcmaster and asked, what the f am i dealing with? according to the book, as milley watched donald trump speak on january 6th, he saw echoes of adolf hitler. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. reporter: milley, the authors write, told aids, this is a reichstag moment. the gospel of the fuhrer. that was a reference to the burning of the german parliament in 1933, that helped hitler and the nazis seize power. general milley also saw parallels between the nazis and trump and his supporters in the immediate aftermath of the election, when trump refused to acknowledge he lost. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: after a november 10th briefing on a planned pro-trump
someone very tuned into the news did not quite put all the pieces together at the time. the latest reporting we are getting is a good occasion to revisit it all, look at it in hindsight. you have probably seen the news from the new book by carol leonnig and philip rucker, as they pushed claims about the 2020 election, general mark milley, of the joints chief of staff grew nervous telling his aides that the president might attempt to use the military to stay in office. milley described a stomach churning feeling as he listened to trump s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on germany s parliament building that hitler used as a pretext to establish a nazi dictatorship. this is a reichstag moment, the gospel of the fuhrer. now, throughout this awful era we went through with this terrible person as the commander in chief surrounded by truly
classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. apparently he saw parallels between hitler s rhetoric as a victim and savior and trump s false claims of election fraud. i mean, this is a sort of a this is the quote here. it said this is a moment, milly told aids according to this book. the gospel of the fuhrer. it is a stunning parallel. what do you think? you see why the entire republican infrastructure and apparatus is so dead set against a more fuller understanding of what trump did with the power of the presidency, why they are fighting a january 6th commission, why you have so many conservative columnists who have spent years trying to argue that trump is not really an authoritarian threat as a way of excusing the choice to enable