give any go ahead could have any knowledge of any of this with general milley? h 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
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
that call from milley was on october 30th of 2020. and there was one more call after that. this a call from milley to the same chinese general on january 8th this year. significantly, january 8th is two days after the insurrection. now, this is according to a new book by the reporters bob woodward and robert costa. we learned the calls were not secret. not like milley got on the phone and called his counterpart and now it s leaking out. not at all. we learned there were 15 people on each of those two calls. during the discussion on january 8th. he said we re 100% steady. everything is fine. democracy can be sloppy sometimes. according to the book milley went as far to promise his counterpart he would alert them on a strike to the u.s. in the october call approved by esper.