today susan glasser writing in the new yorker about something in the books. the fears the pentagon about trump s erratic behavior after the election. and mark milley was worried the president might try to order military strikes on iran to the point, susan reports, that he told his deputies if you get a call from the president or any of the orders, call me. if you do this, you re going to have an f-ing war. the behavior is frightening, and yet, mccarthy and others say president trump is still our guy. mccarthy s moves clearly reflect what he s hearing and his members are from around the country. the republican base is supportive of the former president. that s why they re doing this. that could work well for them going into the midterms in a lot of parts of the country. but one question i think it raises is that one of the reasons that the trump struggled last year and lost to
obama clearly didn t know anything about him. that s the general, who he was. here s the guy who is going to run this f ing thing, f ing war, but he didn t seem very engaged. the boss was pretty disappointed. that s one quote. let s go on further. let s look at other quotes. the article has mcchrystal and an ide joke begun how they will respond to any questions about vice president biden following a speech he s about to give. it reads, quote, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner. are you asking about vice president biden? mcchrystal says, with a laugh, who s that, biden? who s that, biden? suggests a top adviser also in the room. did you say bite me? also in the article. a mcchrystal ide calls nasa security adviser jim jones a clown. that s a direct quote, who remains stuck in the 1985. that s another direct quote. here s another quote. here s part of the rolling
first rolling stone magazine executive editor eric bates, the article runaway general is in the magazine s latest issue. i have to say as a journalist congratulations. this is an amazing scoop, and i have to ask you about the particulars. here they are as we ve been able to get them from your article. tell us if this isn t the heart of your report. a mccrystal aide in your article is described as saying he describes the general s first one university one meeting with president obama this way, quote. it was a ten-minute photo-op. obama clearly didn t know anything about him. that s the general, who he was. here s the guy who is going to run this f ing thing, f ing war, but he didn t seem very engaged. the boss was pretty disappointed. that s one quote. let s go on further. let s look at other quotes. let s look at other quotes. the article has mcchrystal and an aide joking a bobout how the