Unusually rattled, putting the two nations on the knife edge of disaster. it s in the after math of that that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls milley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike. milley ends up assuring her, i know the system and we are okay, the president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons, one person can order it, several people have to launch it. and the book reports mike pence sought a way around counting the electoral college votes, counting dan quail who tells pence, mike, you have no flexibility on this, none, zero, forget it. nbc s andrea mitchell
And trump was berating china for the coronavirus. we must hold accountable the nation which released this plague on to the world, china. reporter: two days after the insurrection, miley called li again. putting the two nations on the 95 s edge of disaster. and it s in the aftermath of that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. reporter: also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls miley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities over accessing the launch codes and orring a nuclear strike? miley ends up assuring her, i know the system and we re okay. the president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons. one person can order it, several people have to launch it. and the book reports mike pence
I m very curious. but this is a portion of that transcript as printed in this new book peril. quote pelosi what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities, or from accessing the launch cold and ordering a new color. start milley this is one of those moments madam speaker where you re going to trust me on this, i guarantee it i m, giving you my. word i can t see any of this publicly because i don t have the authorities and it would be misconstrued in a 50 different, directions but i can assure you that the united states military study as a rock, we re not gonna do anything illegal immoral or unethical with the use of force. we will not do. it pelosi who knows what he might do. he s crazy. you know he s crazy. he s been crazy for a long time. so don t say you don t know what the state of mind is he s crazy and what he did yesterday, it s four, on january, six is further evidence of his. craziness but anyway i appreciate what you
Who called milley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors, what precautions were available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike milley ends up assuring her, i know the system, and we are okay the president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons. one person can order it several people have to launch it. and the book reports mike pence initially sought a way around counting the electoral college votes, calling dan quayle who had played that role in 1993, who tells pence, mike, you have no flexibility on this. none, zero forget it. tonight, former president trump told newsmax for milley t say he was going to attack china is the most ridiculous thing he s ever heard. general milley is not commenting, but people familiar tell nbc news a number of cabinet officials agreed to keep close watch on the president s
Initiating military hostilities or acting as a launch code and ordering a nuclear strike? milley assured her there was a lot of checks in the system. pelosi then told milley, trump is crazy, you know he s crazy, he s crazy. what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness. milley replied, ruined everything. not back nancy wanted to confise nuclear launch codes to nine trump to wage war. although milley reportedly waved her off, it doesn t matter. by simply having that conversation, milley thrust himself into a political role to which he was not elected. as a commissioned officer, milley answers to his commander in chief, not to pelosi or schumer for a foreign leader. speaking of which, perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this entire issue involves milley s secret conversation before the election with world leaders,