iran. she said it another time, quote, we re on the way to a right wing coup. the whole thing is insanity. he s acting like a six year old with a tantrum. even then secretary of state mike pompeo, who is considered a loyalist, said after the election that trump was, quote, in a very dark place. no question. i remember from talking to my sources at the time that, you know, we had sources telling us that he was out of his mind. right. at the time. general hertling, let me turn to you next. president biden has said he has great confidence in the joint chiefs chairman general milley. do you see any red flags with how milley handled all this? i don t, jim, not at all. i suggest his contact with these foreign general officers like general li of the chinese liberation army, it s the biggest part of his job. and it was likely necessitated by intelligence reports assessed by staff saying something is going on in china. and as we learned from jamie s
not to take orders from anyone, including then president trump unless milley was involved. the authors write milley, quote, was certain trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with trump all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies. it is the essence of a military coup for lack of a better term. that s what it would equate to. i don t think there s any doubt that at a minimum he should be fired if this is true. the pentagon press secretary says general milley s actions were above board. it is completely appropriate for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as the senior military adviser to the secretary and president to want to see those protocols reviewed on whatever frequent basis he wants to do that. they also write that after the racial justice protests at the white house in june 2020 trump accused then defense secretary mark esper of trying
front and the west front is where we expect this rally to take place. the house speaker nancy pelosi is very clear that she supports these efforts not to take any risks ahead of this rally on saturday. she said in a statement today, quote, there is a wish by some to continue the assault on the u.s. capitol with misinformation and malice. the leadership of congress on a bipartisan and bicameral basis has breeched breached by the capitol police board on the nature of the threat. keep in mind pelosi hosted a briefing world war kevin mccarthy, and mitch mcconnell on monday to go over all of these plans which in addition to the fencing, the national guard help also includes the entire capitol police force being prepared and on call and ready to go on saturday just in case. and a part of what we ve learned about some of the law enforcement concerns leading up to saturday is the possibility
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to take away his authority by not imposing the insurrection act, then screamed at others in the room. quote, you re all f-ed up, he yelled, everybody, you re all f-ed, every one of you is f-ed up. former president trump has issued a statement calling the joint chiefs chairman a quote, d dumbass, weak and ineffective. staying they write fiction, not fact. trump says he never thought about attacking china and the people who printed it are sick and demented. let s bring in cnn special correspondent was first to report all the detail on cnn. also retired mark hertling.