30th, generalmilley felt the nes chinese counterpart to deescalate. that s four days before the presidential election. the idea that something like that took place and mark milley as the president s principle military advisor didn t brief president trump on that or myself as the president s intelligence advisor didn t brief president trump would tell you that it just didn t happen. i have had trump cabinet members when the story broke contact me saying what is general milley talking about. there was nothing to deescalate. we held no national security council meetings regarding this in the days in advance. it s simply not true. so mark milley was the hero in a fiction that didn t take place. us what troubling about that is a sitting chairman of the joint chiefs shouldn t be partisan and political. he went out of his way to participate in a hit piece book against president trump and it s just inappropriate and i don t think that he should be serving in that role. to your point about taiw