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
surrounding the 2020 election, and immediately thereafter. and in the broadest possible structure, we know it was fraud and dangerous. we had our national capital come under violent attack. but the thing that is so bracing in nerve-racking, 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, then we have known before now. 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 violinists on the u.s. capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general mark milley, the national security military officer in chairman of the joints of staff placed an urgent call on top secret black channel line at 7:03 am to his chinese counterpart, general li, chief of the joint staff of the liberation army. he knew from extensive reports that lee and the chinese men leadership were stunned in distorted by the televised images o
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
the world. we have a lot to get to and we start with president biden facing a deadline from his own military on whether to extend evacuations in afghanistan beyond august 31. now, the military needs enough time to withdraw the roughly 5800 troops currently on the ground along with their equipment and their weapons, but complicating matters here is the taliban warning that staying past that august 31st deadline is a red line. and the number of evacuations is inching upward, about 16,000 people yesterday on u.s. and coalition aircraft. but the scramble to get people out still in high gear. and this different perspective, new satellite images of kabul s airport, huge crowds can be seen at multiple checkpoints and security gates. you can see groups of people on the tarmac waiting to be evacuated. and sam kiley is live at the kabul international airport this morning. sam, good morning. cnn has new reporting, just tell us how many people exactly remain at the airport and who ex
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