room and looks each person in the eye and says have you got that? have you got that? yes, sir, yes, sir. and this is equivalent to what secretary of defense schlesinger did in the nixon years, insisting that he be involved. in this case, milley stepped in because the acting secretary of defense chris miller at that point had just been appointed and pelosi didn t trust miller, i think milley was not sure, so he seized this moment in a way to protect the country from this theoretical possibility of a catastrophe. and lawrence, just to real quick just jump in on that, i think it s very important for people to read the full book to
the pentagon called the command center, into his office. one star admiral, or one star brigadier general in the army and seeing kernels and says to them, i want you to make sure if there is an order, just not for the news of nuclear weapon but any sort of military action that i will be included you call me, and he literally goes around the room, and looks each person in the eye and says have you got that. have you got that? yes sir. yes sir. and this is equivalent to what secretary of defense schlesinger did in the nixon years. insisting that he be involved in this case, nearly stepped in
base here among those of us who know how the system work. general clark, just on the same topic, the thing about that moment is it was not isolated. it was part of a pattern. when i was reporting out my own book a couple years ago on trump s foreign policy, i was told that during the tensest times with north korea, but also with iran, that u.s. diplomats reached out to their counterparts on the other side to calm things down, to say, don t listen to the tweets. in effect, we re not going to war with you, north korea. we re not going to where with you, iran. given that pattern, right, i guess the question is does it matter that these were uniformed military as opposed to civilians? because the famous defense secretary schlesinger moment with knicksing in nixon, the strike goes through me. those are civilian leaders. does it make a difference these are uniform as opposed to civilian? military brought more weight than civilian leaders.
unvaccinated adults have made a choice and they ve settled on it and they re not going to be swayed. they don t fear covid, they don t mind getting sick, they think they re going to be okay. they re wrong not to get vaccinated, but they made that choice. again, even there, there is no single story, because right now daily vaccinations are ticking back up. some clearly are listening. let s hope this fox news graphic works. let s hope fox viewers see this. let s hope the message is clear. there are two different covid-19 stories in the u.s. right now. one story about the vaccinated who are essentially safe and another story about the unvaccinated who are not. and we took down the banner because a single six-word banner really can t capture the complexities of this story right now. with me now for more on that, dr. schlesinger, epidemiologist. she was a member of the biden coalition advisory board, and oliver darcy, cnn media reporter
schlesinger or kissinger had approved it. and that s the place that we were in until on the one hand i suppose it should be reassuring. there is a group of people who were determined that the constitution that the independence of our constitution would hold. on the other hand, they perceived the president of the united states to be the greatest national security threat at that time to the united states. that s chilling. abby, general milley is not publicly commenting on allegations made about him in books or in susan s reporting but he clearly wants his voice heard. one defense official said he s not going to sit in silence while he tries to use the military against americans. what do you make of all this? well, i think people have to remember that general milley was humiliated, effectively, over the summer, prior to all of this when trump basically enlisted