and immediately thereafter. and we know it was fraught and dangerous. we had our national capitol come under violent attack. but the thing that is so bracing and nerve-wracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. so, again, this comes out next week. we have obtained a copy of it. this is how the book starts. quote, two days after the january 6th, 2021 violent assault on the capitol by supporters of donald trump, general mark milly, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff placed an urgent call on a top secret back channel line at 7:03 a.m. to his chinese counterpart, general lee, chief of the joint staff of the peoples liberation army. general milley knew from extensive reports that li and the chinese leadership were stunned by the unprecedented attack. was it collapsing? what was going on? was the u.s. military going to do something? milly said in r
its title, it s just how thought and dangerous it is, the period for the country. surrounding the 2020 election and immediately thereafter. and in the broadest possible structure, we know was fraught and dangerous. we had our national company come under attack. but the thing that is so bracing and nerve wracking, an important about this new. book is what it reveals about how much worse it was and we knew. how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. so again this comes out next week. we have obtained a copy of it. this is how the book starts. quote, two days after the january 2021 violent assault on the united states capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general mark milley, the nation senior military officer and chairman of joint chief of staff, placed an urgent call on a top secret back channel line at 7:03 am, to his chinese counterpart, generally, chief of the joint chief, excuse me chief of the joint staff liberation army. general mi
closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. so, again, this comes out next week. we have obtained a copy of it. this is how the book starts. quote, two days after the january 6th, 2021 violent sought on the united states capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general mark milley, the nation s senior military joint chiefs of staff placed an urgent call on a top secret back channel line at 7:03 a.m. to his chinese counterpart, general lee, chief of the joint staff of the peoples liberation army. general milley knew from extensive reports that li and the chinese leadership were stunned by the unprecedented attack on the american legislature. lee fired up questions to miley, was the capitol collapsing? what was going on? was the u.s. military going to do something? milley said in response, quote, things may look unsteady. quote, but that s the nature of democracy, general li. we are 100% steady, everything is fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes
city kandahar and consolidating territory in the south, north and west. the taliban took its first provincial capital a week ago. now their territory looks like this. closing in on kabul. panicked afghans are you rush to the capital as aid agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis. at least 241,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes. and the humanitarian needs are growing by the hour. reporter: these men all worked for nato as construction workerless, cooks, interpreters. we are enlisted on the ground we learn the language we translated. we issued them. he is a tourist. we put them in the jail. because of that, they will kill us, every one they will kill us. reporter: many here feel abled and betrayed. nbc spoke directly with the taliban commander in afghanistan who said that the group is aware of u.s. forces in the country and said if any try anything they ll be dealt with the same way they deal with afghan forces. ali. kelly in afghanistan. let me show
far better military capabilities than they expected. that means the capital city of kabul could fall in a matter of weeks. some fear, believe it or not, even days. this map shows the territory controlled by the taliban in april. today you can see nearly two thirds of that man is now red. talking about a stunning advance leading the u.s. to have to deploy an additional 3,000 troops back to kabul temporarily not to assist in any military offensive to keep the taliban out of kabul, but simply to help secure the safe withdrawal of the remaining staff from the u.s. embassy. our first responsibility has always been protecting the safety and the security of our citizens serving in afghanistan and around the world. as we said all along the increased tempo of the taliban military engagement and the results increase in violence and instability across afghanistan is of grave concern. we believe this is the prudent thing to do. given the rapidly deteriorating situation. we expect a