and leslie marshall. mollie, mark milley has basically confirmed the book s account of his calls to china and his meeting on nuclear launch procedures. but he says this is no book deal, it s routine, part of his job. is it possible that the woodward costa book overdramatized those events. nobody disputes that it happened. mark milley concedes he called his counter part in china and had a conversation about military action. i think the range of opinion that you re seeing here are people who say already we know enough, not just for this but for many other problems and failures that mark milley has had, he should be fired, he should be held accountable for violating the chain of command here. the moderate position seems to be we need to know what happened on the phone calls, what was he doing. the larger perspective i think is important. the claim is it was okay to violate the norms and violate the constitution, violate chain
echelon command all the way down to the missile silo to carry out an order. reporter: but the president decided to challenge kim jong-un on who has the biggest button. i, too, have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my button works. trump was responding to kim s statement translator: the entire continent of america is within reach of our nuclear attack. they must never forget, the nuclear button s placed on my desk at all times. reporter: like all presidents, mr. trump has been briefed and detailed from the beginning on nuclear launch procedures. a military officer is nearby at all times with everything the president needs. former white house military official bill gully wrote in book breaking cover that the football, or presidential emergency satchel, historically contains a list of strike options, authentication codes, a list of secure bunkers where the