president trump. so unequivocally, that did not take place. parked to second issue that i think is important with respect to general milley, with regard to this issue of his actions on the president s nuclear strike capability, what he has acknowledged through a spokesman today is that a meeting did take place, that there was some sort of a standdown order and that point, as you correctly pointed out, sean, in your monologue, we have a unitary form of government and the president is the commander-in-chief by law and can t be the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under any circumstances. so if in fact, this is true, what general milley was insert himself and a chain of command which the constitution prohibits and then circumvent that chain of command to get pledges from people to stand down from newly
tran20 the allegations surrounding general mark milley s so great because with china. so dangerous, so disturbing that so downright descriptive destructive that even some in the far left media mob are even suggesting to behavior it might be in factories nitpick this into the debate today on that hard-hitting new show that we love so much, w. i think that you break commencing that way. you are committing treason. you are going outside of the i worked for the government for many years. it is the whole time to trump was president, i was home saying, please god, make there be an adult who controls this lunatic. i know. i was praying. let there be someone in that room who holds his arm back when he hit that button. and god bless general milley from frustrating things out.
takes two and a half to three months to print a book. that means woodward and costa and the washington post, if this is true, except on the story for months and months. why would two reporters sit on a story like this for months and months and allowed this man, i believe that this is true, is utterly unhinged to serve as the head of the joint chiefs of staff? you have two so-called journalists who sat on this. at the very least kirk woodward and costa, they have a duty to provide proof. they should prove it right now because it is such importance to the american people. and our national security because of now dozens of top officials calling on milley to present protect includes president trump s acting secretary of defense who said, not authorized the calls to china. and you have general catalog calling on millie to step done a lot with more than a dozen top lawmakers.
give any go ahead could have any knowledge of any of this with general milley? sean, no. what has been reported is that on october 30th of 2020 to 5 days before the potential election, this call took place between general milley and one of the chinese generals that he considered his counterpart. now, remember five days before the election, i can tell you the intelligence community was making sure that china and other countries were not interfering with that upcoming election and we had good basis to be concerned about china s actions. so i can tell you that if at that point in time i had been advised that our treatment of the joint chiefs of staff at the time that we were defending against china was reaching out to provide reassurance about our conduct here in the united states, i can promise you that i would have remembered that. and it would have prompted a very specific action by me that involved chairman milley and
pompeo. i want to give you an opportunity to respond. in this excerpt that was put out by the washington post, it says even some of trump s most loyal advisors privately expressed concern after the election and suggested mike pompeo told milley that trump was in a dark place right now. milley had just won gold ensuring the peaceful power transfer of power and he told you, milley telling pompeo, we got a plane, four engines. we have got no landing gear. but we are going to plant this plane and we are going to clean it safely. i have known you a long time, mr. secretary. is that true? i have no recollection of the conversation like that. we were about to head over the ridge of foreign policy to this administration. we have seen what that means for the united states of america.