Vote. He gets to keep his job, which was in jeopardy over his handling of immigration and the covid19 crisis. Stunning new revelations about the top u. S. Generals secret action to limit then President Trumps ability to launch nuclear weapons. The new Bob Woodward Book detailing High Level fears that trump was going rogue after the January 6th insurrection. And after conflicting reports behind the u. S. Drone strike that killed ten people including children in kabul, cnn launches an investigation and raises some very serious questions about what really happened. Good to have you with us. It is a Land Slide Win for California Governor Gavin newsom. Cnn projects the once embattled democrat has beaten back a year long effort to remove him from office. The votes are running about 2 1 in newsoms favor. Republicans led by Talk Radio Host Larry Elder were fed up with covid lockdowns and Mask Man mandates, but newsom thanked california voters. Im humbled and grateful to the millions and millio
Commander in chief, yelling at senior advisers as he desperately tries to cling to power. jamie gangel has the details. reporter: woodward and costa report that general mark milley took secret action to limit president trump s ability to order a dangerous military strike or to use nuclear weapons. just to set the stage, it is january 8, two days after the assault on the capitol, and woodward and costa reveal that milley is deeply shaken by the attack and he believes that president trump has become increasingly unstable since his election loss according to the book. and that milley has intelligence that china is on edge, that the chinese are worried trump may
Try to order a military strike, a wag the dog to try to stay in power. and milley has back channel phone calls with his counterpart, the top general in china, to reassure him. taking all of this into account, milley says to his staff, quote, you never know what a president s trigger point is. and that same day on january 8, he decided he had to act and he called a secret meeting at the pentagon. he called in the generals and colonels who man the national military command center, the pentagon war room, and even though his chairman of the joint chiefs he is technically not in the chain of command, he is the top military adviser to the president. and he instructed those generals and colonels that they were not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved according to the book. milley said to the room, quote,
If you get calls no matter who they are from, there is a process here, there is a procedure. no matter what you are told, you do the procedure, you do the process and i m a part of that procedure. woodward and costa write that milley was very concerned and was taking precautions that there were no dangerous or illegal orders. the book then goes on to say that it is true that milley may be criticized for what some may think was overstepping his authority, but woodward and costa write that his actions he believed were a good faith precaution. one of the other things that is revealed in the book is there are new details about january 6 and what president trump is doing during the insurrection. and there is a remarkable scene in the book where retired
Vote. he gets to keep his job, which was in jeopardy over his handling of immigration and the covid-19 crisis. stunning new revelations about the top u.s. general s secret action to limit then president trump s ability to launch nuclear weapons. the new bob woodward book detailing high level fears that trump was going rogue after the january 6th insurrection. and after conflicting reports behind the u.s. drone strike that killed ten people including children in kabul, cnn launches an investigation and raises some very serious questions about what really happened. good to have you with us. it is a land slide win for california governor gavin newsom. cnn projects the once embattled