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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 ....
we are going to lay them out for you tonight. also polls in california, the recall election closed at the box hour but could there be any surprises? a report from the ground later tonight. what do aoc and fauci have in common? i will reveal, but first, general milley s insurrection, that is the focus of tonight s angle. all year long, democrats and trump haters have clung to the event of january 6th with white knuckle death grip. they claim the right and the capitol police should have been prepared for was actually in insurrection, world history, by the way. but today we learned the truth. there was indeed insurrection being played in washington, but it took place at the pentagon. and chief architect was general mark milley. in a new book by bob woodward, we learned that milley chairman of the joy she joint chief installed himself an unelected y officer is the nation s commander in chief. milley was overseeing the mobilization of americans national security state with ....
so the question is why are they hiding that from us? well, high crime means democrats anti-police agenda isn t working. neither is the progressive d.a. strategy of releasing violent criminals into the street. or the liberal judges granting bail to just about everyone. these policies as you know resort into chaos and will show you. and new york a mom was kicked down an escalator after having the audacity to say excuse nia stranger. look at this. and days later, a 70-year-old 77-year-old woman was assaulted by this scum scum bag in broad daylight. she was then robbed of her purse and her bible. do you think he took the time to read the bible? meanwhile, this past weekend at least 64 people were shot in chicago. including the firefighter and his 15-year-old niece divine o neil. they were attending a child s birthday party. so kid are being shot at birthday parties right now. according to the sun times, chicago children are being killed by gun violence at a rate three tim ....
final pitch for gavin newsom. hurricane nicholas makes landfall in texas and bringing heavy rain and possible flooding. and the united nations steps in to help war-torn afghanistan warning millions of people could face hunger and poverty. good to have you with us. we are just hours away from the polls closing, or opening i should say, in california where governor newsom is fighting to survive the attempt to remove him from office pl early polling suggests the recall evident will fail but nowsoewsom is taking n chances. he compared his challenger to donald trump. you saw what happened on election night, the big lie. you saw what happened a few months later, january 6, the insurrection. you ve seen what has happened across this country and voter suppression all across the united states of america. you saw what happened in texas and the fact that we have other republican governors that hope to model that texas legislation as it relates to denying women s right to c ....
struggling to survive the delta surge. vaccination rates lag in the deep south. speak with a health officer in alabama where hospitals are literally turning patients away. welcome to meet the press daily. i am chuck todd. if it is tuesday, someone is voting somewhere. today that somewhere is a big one. it is california. gavin newsom faces a recall election that s got 22 mail in ballots and hundreds of millions in the making. governor newsom is expected to survive, perhaps not by a wide margin. that s not the only story in the race, it is the sadly predictable republican efforts in the final hours to create a mythology of doubt on the legitimacy of the vote before they ve been counted. there s zero evidence of any election impropriety in this race, yet larry elder, leading republican candidate if newsom is recalled the democrats were going to cheat, he had no proof, his campaign is claiming they have proof that the racist results are fraudulent. it is impossible, there a ....