the call. reporter: milley responded that he spoke with house speaker nancy pelosi about president trump s ability to launch nuclear weapons. the authors also wrote that milley thought trump was in serious mental decline. i sought to assure her that nuclear launches governed by a very specific and deliberate process. she was concerned and made very or made various personal references characterizing the president. i explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority, and he doesn t launch them alone. and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. reporter: the hearing highlighted that the top generals thought at least 2,500 u.s. troops should remain in afghanistan, putting them at odds with president biden over his decision to withdraw all troops. i recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. and i also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we
matching each other from different sources and different people. and the more people reporters have talked to and who are now willing to come forward and talk, you realize it was way worse than than, you know, we knew at the time. i mean, we knew it was, you know, a clown car going on. and and possibly going off the cliff. by i mean, it it s extraordinary to see this reporting by you and so many others. woodward and costa also report on the former president s mental faculties or his concerns by general milley that the president was in, quote, serious mental decline which tracks with some of your own reporting that chief of staff mark meadows was concerned with the former president after the election. you know, i think your word choice is just perfect, anderson. extraordinary. i mean, i i m a pretty hard-bitten reporter. phil rucker and i, my colleague, we thought in real-time we were capturing just how dramatic these moments were in the fall of 2020. a president who, in the m
worse than, you know, we knew at the time. we knew it was, you know, a clown car going on and possibly going off the cliff, but i mean it is it is extraordinary to see this reporting by you and so many others. woodward and costa almost report on the former president s mental faculties or concerns by general milley that the president was in, quote, serious mental decline which tracks what some of your own reporting that chief of staff meadows was concerned about the president following the election. i think your word choice is perfect, extraordinary. i m a hard-bitten reporter. phil rucker and i, my colleague, we thought in real-time we were capturing how dramatic these moments were in the fall of 2020, a president who in the middle of the night rejected the election results of one of the most carefully watched elections. you know, the most secure, careful monitored one of the most successful election in which overwhelming turnout on both sides. i mean incredible.
general thought the president of the united states was in serious mental decline. that s the book. we will be able to ask general milley what his assessment was. the way i look at his actions is that it is part of the communications that are really critical so that there are no miscalculations such as a nuclear bomb hitting a country because of a miscalculation. this is why even during the height of the cold war we had military to military communication with russia. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you so much. thank you. appreciate it. still ahead, is stefanie gr grisham trying to rewrite history? that s next.
pretty routine. i ve served on the armed services committee for eight years and these kinds of communications where a country such as russia and china are very much a part of what we do and that is a part of general milley s job. the headline that sort of has been buried here out of the woodward book, which again, i haven t read and most people haven t read yet, is that the general, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, thought the president of the united states was in, quote, serious mental decline. well, that s the book. we will be able to ask general milley what his assessment was. but the way i look at his actions is that it is part of the mil to mil communications that are really critical so there are no miscalculations. such as a nuclear bomb hitting a country because of a miscalculation. this is why even during the height of the cold war we had military to military