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today he briefly responded to questions about revelations in the book. according to the authors general milly twice called his counterpart in china. both times prompted by u.s. intelligence suggesting china believe the u.s. was preparing an attack, their fears according to the authors of the book based in part on the rhetoric toward china coming from the former president. asked by general milly today here s how the president responded. did general milley do the right thing by according to a defense official who spoke with cnn these calls were not done in secret without anyone else knowing. they were according to this official attended by 15 people including a representative from the state department. general mark milley is scheduled to testify on capitol hill later this month. the woodward and costa book goes into further details about milly s concerns personally launching the attack. apparently telling his subordinates he must be directly involved in any discussi ....
after the capitol riot. both times, suggesting china believed the u.s. was preparing a an attack. their fears, according to the authors of the book, based in part on the rhetoric toward china coming from the former president. here is how the president responded. sir, in your opinion thank you. thank you. i have great confidence in general milley. now, according to a defense official who spoke with cnn, these calls were not done in secret without anyone else knowing. they were, according to this official, attended by 15 people including a representative from the state department. general mark milley is scheduled to testify on capitol hill later-this month. the woodward and costa book goes into further details about milley s concerns about the president possibly launching an attack. reportedly, telling his subordinates that he must directly be involved in any discussion involving military action or nuclear strike. as the book describes them, quote, if you get ca ....
he s my guest. let s go outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. the breaking news, general milley wasn t alone. as calls grow from mark milley to resign over revelations he contacted a top chinese general twice in the final months of donald trump s presidency to reassure beijing the u.s. would not attack china, we re learning mark esper also took extraordinary steps at the same time. a former senior defense official says that the chinese were so concerned about the rhetoric coming out of trump s white house last year that esper, the defense secretary had a top deputy, not milley, a top deputy back channel beijing telling them they were in no danger of being attacked. that is the exact same thing milley said and we ve learned today that milley conducted his call to the top chinese general in consultation with and with the approval of secretary esper. that call from milley was on october 30th of 2020. and there was one more call after that. this a call from milley to ....
president has cast over the election. both he and the leading republican candidate in the race have already without evidence begun talking about a rigged election in that state. there s new excerpts in a forthcoming book co-authored by bob woodward and his colleague, robert costa. jamie gangel has breaking new information on the book and has new details right now. let s start about the call between house speaker nancy pelosi and general milley. let me just say the book has new details about what trump was doing on january 6th during the insurrection, how mike pence kept asking if there was a way to help trump, and what trump says behind kevin mccarthy s back. but let s start with milley and pelosi. what we know is that general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, took secret action to limit president donald trump s ability to order a dangerous military strike or to use nuclear weapons, according to woodward and costa. just to set the stage, it s january 8th, two ....
a tremendous hold on the republican party. he has made them believe utter lies about 2020, and he just has a strong emotional connection to those voters and republicans who are running across the ballot know that. so this is i think a real kind of moment for republicans to take away what does this mean for their relationship to trumpism. and in some ways i think they ve already figured that out. and again, i think the critical piece of this is the margin that we re seeing here for newsom. because i think we knew going into the night it was most likely that this was going to be the outcome, but we didn t know it was going to be this significant. and i think the question too, and i m hearing i m getting e-mails from both republicans and democrats. republicans frankly expecting this, a lot of them. but i ve had some democrats get in touch to say that while they acknowledge there are a lot of challenges for national democrats, whether they re related to inflation, the e ....