Closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. So, again, this comes out next week. We have obtained a copy of it. This is how the book starts. Quote, two days after the January 6th, 2021 violent sought on the united States Capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general Mark Milley, the nations senior military Joint Chiefs of staff placed an urgent call on a Top Secret back Channel Line at 7 03 a. M. To his chinese counterpart, general lee, chief of the joint staff of the peoples liberation army. General milley knew from extensive reports that li and the chinese leadership were stunned by the unprecedented attack on the american legislature. Lee fired up questions to miley, was the Capitol Collapsing . What was going on . Was the u. S. Military going to do something . Milley said in response, quote, things may look unsteady. Quote, but thats the nature of democracy, general li. We are 100 steady, everything is fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes. Quote,
trump. it was taken just moments after the attack on the u.s. capitol, and it underscores how some of the rioters were taking their queues directly from trump. we have to warn you that what you re about to watch contains profanity. how did you get out? out of what? the senate? yeah. just walked out with me. they just let you go? yeah. what s your message to everybody now? donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said he just put out a tweet. it s a minute long. he asked everybody to go home. why do you think so? he won. how did he win? he won by sending a message to the senators and the congressmen. we won by sending a message to pence that if they don t do as their oath to do, if they don t uphold the constitution, then we will remove them from office one way or another. i m fine with being here. all i can say is we won the day. donald trump is still our president. i do have one more question. there s a lot of people who doubt you were abl
the wall street journal editorial board said this will be a campaign carnival that rotates between courtrooms, rallies around the prosecution of a former president that they write is able to convince most americans that this rather, the courts have been unable to convince most americans that these indictments are just brought. there s not broad acceptance of that across the board. the wall street journal saying unless you have that broad acceptance that that there was no other chance for these indictments, that could present a combination that could be difficult and dangerous months ahead. we re going to talk to the former vice president, mike pence, a crucial player in everything that has unfolded in many ways on the campaign trail and also back during the president presidency. jonathan turley says this case is free speech killing and john yoo who calls the charges a stretch. let s go to david spunt live with the very latest on all of this and what to expect tomorrow a
here he is, responding to mitt romney, telling him he didn t belong at the satate of the union. rosa parks didn t sit in the back. neither am i going to sit in the back. that s the reality of how it works. mitt romney lives in a different world. and he needs to buckle up. it will be a bumpy ride for him. right. i m just going to leave that for you right there. john berman, sometimes silence says everything, my friend. yes, it does. thank you so much, laura coates. the curtain opens in the final case against donald trump, the georgia edition. as rudy giuliani takes center stage, hair and makeup optional as always. this is cnn tonight or cnn nearly tomorrow, as i like to call it. and tomorrow, which is now just minutes away, is a milestone in one of the key investigations into former president trump. tomorrow, selection begins for the grand jury, which seems likely to vote on whether to indict trump in fulton county, georgia, for his efforts to overturn the election the
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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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