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lived through january 6th and will be on duty again this weekend, an undercurrent of fear remains. quote, am i scared? absolutely, an officer told the post. this saturday rally forces a traumatized police force to once again protect the capitol from protesters who openly sympathize with the people who attacked them the first time. take a listen to what the officers told the january 6 select committee back in july. on january 6th for the first time i was more afraid to work at the capitol in my entire deployment to iraq. i witnessed the rioters using all kinds of weapons against officers including flagpoles, metal bike racks that they had torn apart, and various kind of projectiles. officers were being bloodied in the fighting. many were screaming and many were blinded and coughing from chemical irritants being sprayed in their faces. as my physical injuries gradually subsided and the adrenaline that had stayed with me for weeks waned, i ve been left with the psy ....
in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, september 15th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman here in washington on this special edition of new day. governor gavin newsom will keep his job, breaking overnight, a blowout victory for the democratic governor of california who crushed a republican-led recall that could have ousted him from office. newsome s restrictive coronavirus policies actually validated by democratic voters in this race. they said, no, to the recall by a nearly two to one margin. the governor thanking his supporters and sounding a warning about republican schemes to undermine democracy. i think about just in the last few days and the former president put out saying this election was rigged. democracy is not a football. you don t throw it around. it s more like, i don t know, antique vase. you can drop it and smash it in a million different pieces. and that s what we re capable of doing if we don t stand up to meet the moment ....
alex murdaugh admitting to hiring a man to kill him so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. running to be the next governor, couldn t, because protesters shut it down. i m running for governor. they want to silence me. not a big deal. because most michiganders are sick and tired of that madness. i can t get enough of you baby. steve: good morning, everybody. it is 6:01 wake-up call wednesday, september 15th. beware of the ides of september 2021. welcome to fox & friends for a midweek. ainsley: everyone is waking this up morning what is happening in california? who won? did gavin newsom get recalled? the nos have it. california s governor gavin newsom gets to keep his job after he declared the winner of the recall election. steve: turns out he had a mountain of money behind him. big tech donated tens of millions of dollars to the anti-recall campaign. giving newsom a gigantic financial boost over larry elder and all of his ot ....
general milley has a lot of explaining to do and ought to stop honking like a goose and try to make our country more secure. bill: if tomorrow general milley decides joe biden is senile or a future present is not in his right mind. it s a military coup. there needs to be a full congressional inquiry. it is vital that general milley needs to resign. bill: we begin with peter doocy but first to the pentagon and jennifer griffin. general milley plans to address these accusations under testimony. the characterizations of the phone calls with the chinese in the book are not accurate and were taken out of context. i spoke with a former seen trump defense official told me the phone call to the chinese was done at the request of the then defense secretary. it was designed to lower the temperature and prevent the u.s. and china from stumbling into a conflict. the phone call was made at the request of the civilian leadership of the military. general milley was asked to ....
john: i m john roberts in washington. new book claims milley placed two separate calls to china, one just days before and the second on january 8th following the capitol rights. milley believed china could feel at risk from unpredictable president. if the u.s. decided to attack. another allegation describes speaker nancy pelosi calling general milley after the capitol riots pleading for him to protect the nuclear code from former president trump. migey agreed and took steps to limit then president trump s powers. john: we re learning general milley didn t go alone and mark esper made steps, too. jennifer griffin is live with more on this unfolding tale. jennifer. jennifer: defense officials say the two claims in the woodcard and costa book are not accurate. the two calls made to the chinese by general milley were not secret, they were done with defense secretary at the time, general milley spokesman for the joint staff, dave butler, issued following statement mo ....