Democracy was in peril? obviously, the greatest was january 6th, 2021, when the capitol was under siege due to the insurrection. but i was out of office by two months then. but i think going back during my tenure, and, look, president trump and i had our differences from the early days and it expanded from there, but clearly, june 1st, when the president suggested using active duty troops to be deployed in the streets of the united states and the capitol and shoot protesters. it was shocking. it s really where it caused me to rethink how i engaged, and it is where general milley and i came up with the four nos. that was our strategy the succeeding six months. how do we protect the institution? how do we make sure there are no strategic retreats, unnecessary wars? those things were very important. i say that, and people will say, you re not loyal to the president. my view, i was loyal to my oath of office. my role was to advise the