an innocent wonderful, incredible woman? if this country can demand justice for someone like george floyd, then we can certainly demand justice for ashli bi babbitt. the only person that got kill that day was a trump supporter and her name was ashly babbitt. and she was murdered. okay. ed, to be clear, ashly babbitt wasn t the only person that died. a capitol police officer brian sicknick and three officers died by suicide. how dangerous is this attempt to turn babbitt into a martyr? this, again, just highlights the need for accountability. the law enforcement officers that show up at the capitol every day to protect congress, they re not showing up as republicans or democrats. they re showing up as folks who have families, who have come to work to do their job to keep the
he s my guest. let s go outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. the breaking news, general milley wasn t alone. as calls grow from mark milley to resign over revelations he contacted a top chinese general twice in the final months of donald trump s presidency to reassure beijing the u.s. would not attack china, we re learning mark esper also took extraordinary steps at the same time. a former senior defense official says that the chinese were so concerned about the rhetoric coming out of trump s white house last year that esper, the defense secretary had a top deputy, not milley, a top deputy back channel beijing telling them they were in no danger of being attacked. that is the exact same thing milley said and we ve learned today that milley conducted his call to the top chinese general in consultation with and with the approval of secretary esper.