trump wanted throughout the summer which was to use the insurrection act in some form against deploying active military on the streets of the u.s. to try to tamp down protests. they were all three of them very concerned about this. so this went on for a very long time. and then one by one you had esper and barr disappear. esper got fired, barr could not take it anymore and resigned. and i think had told associates that trump seemed different and acted as if he had nothing to lose. the backdrop for that was that plus the fact there was this meeting i reported on in realtime on december 18th in the oval office where former lieutenant general flynn and former national security flynn was presenting this notion to the president in the oval office about possibly using the apparatus of government to rerun an election. so milley had reasons to be afraid and suddenly after milley was alone. i think it s not just the context of january 6th and the retrospective, there were a lot