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Our book shows, our reporting, deep reporting shows it was not in any way a tip-off of china. the next three or four paragraphs that continue the conversation which i hope get reported more, that full conversation, show exactly what he testified under oath toy, that he will have conversations with the chinese if anything escalates in terms of war,here will be phone calls, there will be mement on the seas, in the air. this is how it works in wartime. was a way of de-escating tension days before an election wh there was intelligence and a belief on the chinese side based on the u.s. assessment that there coulde a wag the dog. january 8th, r book details milley reading in, briefing national security agency director cia director gina haspel, members of the joint chiefs of staff. ....
Commitment he made to civilian control of the military, right? like everybody else, when the book came out, questions arose whether milley was free-lancing or not. the military can t free-lance from civilian control. he made clear what he said was consistent with the commander in chief s point of view, and that s good, particularly if as he said there was some concern on the part of the chinese that instabily was leading to the possibility of an attack on china. and it is surprise to go hear about instability, everybody running around to deal with it. i want to turno your thoughts, your strategic framework for looking at and how we should look at what happens this week in terms of myriad of crises, with republicans not at the table helping to govern. yeah. nicolle, it is helpful to separate what s really important in the long run from sadly what s dominating the news. what s dominating the news is how fast will the democrats get ....
i want to come back to you, rort costa, and courtney kube. when you book came out, i am not sureow much spilled into the public, there was a lot of consternation, mley is being called to resign, conservatives called him a traitor. all of that seemed to be calmed down by a combination of the context he gave, by strong defenses from people like john bolton and other republicans that were in the room if you will. i wonder what condition you think general milley s job is in among republicans and this democratic administration? nicolle, i would urge people to re the full context in the book. page 129, for example, in peril. this exchang is so important for the milley part of the story, what milley testified today about. when he talked to the chinese on october 30th, 2020, and thi idea of tipping off china, as ....
You had constantly people asking, well, you know, trump is going to try anything. the milary won t let him. well, the way the constitution and the way our government form of government works is the military is supposed to follow the legal orders of whoeverhe coander chief is, and when you talk about when you look at, for instance, the transcript of the phone call between general milley and house speaker nancy pelosi as it s relayed in the book peril by bob woodward and robert costa, she is demanding that he take away the nuclear football from president trump, and that s like that s a really serious thing and he says, no, don t worry. we ve got, you know, i can t really do that but we ve got procedures in place, but the at the end of the day, the commander in chief is the commander in chief, and unless it s an illegal order, the pentagon basically has to do what he says. i mean, people can resign in protest, and they do have some legal room in the ....
did you talk to bob woodward robert costa t theirook peril? woodward yes, costa, no. did you take to carol leona and flil rucker for the book can i fix it? yes. did you talk to michael benlder for his book, frankly we did when the election inside story of how trump lost? yes. and were you accurately represented in these books? i haven t read any of the books so i don t know. i have seen press reporting of it. i haven t read the book. let s have you read the books and let us know if you are accurately portrayed. marsha blackburn. robert costa, your reaction? it is important to understand the context of our reporting. when you look at the story in peril it is a story of chairman milley countering a president he believes is in mental decline, a president who ....