Growing demand on capitol hill inside the white house as the war grinds on without a path to peace and estimating rhetoric. Nobody expects a Prime Minister netanyahu to do the things that must be done to break the cycle of violence. The Democratic Party does not have an anti ev problem, it hasnt anti israel problem. The u. S. Prepares to build a temporary port to supply critical aid to Palestinian Civilians in gaza, israel plans a significant offensive on the last major hamas stronghold. Plus hundreds of americans, may be more trapped in haiti as a violent rebel rises. Take in the country to the brink of collapse. The urgency of the support for haitians has increased. A terminal sparking fears of another mass migration into the u. S. United states of america we have got our own Border Crisis going on right now this would only make it worse to be. From haiti to The Middle East, to your grade we will discuss americas interest on The World Stage with the president s Top National Security
beeve t chinese were worri abt an attac onhem bthe united stes. iknow, i am certain that president trump d not iend to attac the chine, and it is my directe respoibility and it was my directed responsibility by the secretary to convey that intent to the chinese. my task at that time was to de-escalate. my message again was consistent. stay calm, steady, a de-escalate. we are not going to attack you. milley also stressed unequivocal resolve to his oath as military leader, insisting he is loyal to his country, not to anyone political agenda. my loyaltyo this nation, its people, and the constitution hasn t changed and will never change as long as i have a breath to give. my loyal is absolute.
commitment he made to civilian control of the military, right? like everybody else, when the book came out, questions arose whether milley was free-lancing or not. the military can t free-lance from civilian control. he made clear what he said was consistent with the commander in chief s point of view, and that s good, particularly if as he said there was some concern on the part of the chinese that instabily was leading to the possibility of an attack on china. and it is surprise to go hear about instability, everybody running around to deal with it. i want to turno your thoughts, your strategic framework for looking at and how we should look at what happens this week in terms of myriad of crises, with republicans not at the table helping to govern. yeah. nicolle, it is helpful to separate what s really important in the long run from sadly what s dominating the news. what s dominating the news is how fast will the democrats get
debt accrued under a republican senate, republican house, and of course republican president. democrats are considering using the reconciliation process to raise the debt ceiling, a process that could take weeks. lawmakers have until october 18th to act before the u.s. defats on its debts. all this happening at critil momentor the president s enda. in a bit o a reversal in terms strategy, speaker nancy pelosi i sayinghe house will vo on t bipartisan infrastructure bil thsday, ev thoug the larr reconciliaon bill that contains major partsf the president s agenda isn t ready. joining coverage, jim heinz of connecticut, member of house intel committee. i want to get to all of that and we ll focus on the fact that all this falls on democrats because republicans are clearly not interested in governing. i want to ask about the news about general milley s testimony today. he testifies for a house committee tomorrow. i wonder your reaction to what you heard from him today. well, i was glad to
chinese counterpart. it wasn t, you know, the hyperbol that republicans describe it as. it was steady, safe, and decolictin protecting the country from war. in som ways what was evenore sad was that the military has sort of bome thi last vtige of natnal secity wh o xic - aleasthe lt white house, this sort of toxic president who endangered everybody. which is the lasthing you want. you know, they will say this agai and again at the pentagon, that you d t want generals running you don t wan generals making decisions that the civilian commander in chief should be making, and general milley has really been confronting that. we all it was the last few months of the tmp presidency and the last few days as we all know were just an unprecedented time of chaos i this country, and for the mons leading up to the end of the trump presidency,