and mark milley didn't blush, he confirmed they had done just that. milley told nancy pelosi, i assure you we have checks and balances in the system." yeah, they are written into the constitution, according to the post, some of those checks and balances he referred to involved undermining the elected president's authority to choose the director of the cia. interesting, a lot of focus on the cia tells you what kind of power they have. when the president reportedly considering firing who runs the cia and replacing her in the closing days of his administration we now know that milley pressured the chief of staff not to do that, asked what the hell is going on here? would you guys doing? this is lunacy, not how the government should work. the chief should not be having this conversation, he should leave if he can't keep his views to himself. that quote alone is grounds for mark milley's immediate firing from his job. no chairman of the joint chiefs has say over cia appointees. no one in the military does. they can't. talk about a threat to our system. and

mark milley isn't just your average guy with crackpot views, mark milley has controlled nuclear weaponsy with this? the people on tv are okay with that. >> you read what millie was doing which is obeying the constitution. it standing up to the oath that he and serving members have taken -- that's what a patriot does. >> general milley and his team the military with the courage to stand up to something that was going horribly off the rails with the president of theor united states. >> thank goodness that g general millie was there. generals all saw this guy's flaws. >> he was going to make sure that those guns were not used. >> and is a student of history and to use the words used like and rice tag say lots. you must be a highbrow gap grad school guy. you know he went to princeton, pretty funny. so the joint chief of staff is on the same intellectual plane as the midday newsreaders on cnn. the problem is he's a lot more powerful than they are. mark milley is the reason that thousands of american soldiers occupied up our capital this year ahead of joe biden's inauguration. we will put a r

and the exchange between nancy pelosi and mark milley. pelosi reminded milley of the oath he swore to the constitution, and asked for him to review precautions for preventing an unstable presideni from initiating a nuclear strike. he said, i guarantee you have we checks and balances, and i guarantee you these processes are very good.ar there's not going to be an accidental firing of nuclear weapons. there's also important news tonight about the ongoing story of our time, the pandemic. what was supposed to be our summer of recovery now appears in someow places to be turning intoes a race to get ahead of t surge in new cases.ur this is being fueled by the rapidly spreading delta variant, which the cdc says is now 58% of new infections. nearly state is affected, and hospitalizations and deaths are rising with a it across the country. scientists say this latest spread is largely among the unvaccinated. each week, fewer and fewer americans have been getting the shots. "the new york times" highlights the twoti americas, those vaccinated and thos

the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. the new book claiming milley was concerned former president trump could stage a coup after losing the election. likening trump's actions and words to the rise of nazi power in germany. tonight, the former president now responding and jon karl is here. >>> at the white house tonight, president biden hosting german chancellor angela merkel, moments ago, taking questions over a key disagreement on a new russian pipeline in germany. but their long-standing relationship on display, too. and tonight, the dinner. former secretaries of state clin powell and hillary clinton expected to attend. >>> the nfl star facing charges. the 911 call by richard sherman's wife. >>> worries over the virus and the tokyo olympics. the news coming in tonight involving members of the usa men's basketball team. >>> your health and the new development involving that controversial new alzheimer's drug. two of america's best-known hospitals now taking a stand. >>> and the major recall involving two popular brands of

saying if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do with it is general mark milley convened a meeting for two days and gamed out what to do if trump did not leave office. warren lienorman is out front. >> reporter: the nation's top general thrust into a political battlefield of which he wants no part. general mark milley made no mention in his public appearances today of his former clashes with former president trump. for the first time inned month earn history, he planned a plan because he feared a coup attempt after trump lost the november election. according to an upcoming book from the "washington post." the fears came to a boiling point around the january 6th capitol riots. milley told his staff he believed trump was stoking unrest, possibly to call out the military. he found himself increasingly at odds with the man who appointed him. >> all levels of leaders must be prepared to resign and walk at a moment if there is a moral or ethical or legal challenge. >> reporter: milley's 40-year career has taken him to garnls, iraq, somalia and more. he is a student of

they detail how there were meetings that milley had, not just with the chiefs of the army, navy, air force, and marines, but also with white house chief of staff, mark meadows, then white house chief of staff and then secretary of state mike pompeo. >> and that gets to another aspect of your reporting which i think is fascinating and important, is that general milley eventually got to a place of doing daily conference calls with the chief of staff, with the secretary of state. >> right. >> about president trump. what was that about? >> so, it is interesting because they're having regular daily check-ins. milley, meadows, pompeo in the book. and it is very interesting that milley sees these conversations as also a way to keep tabs on trump. to see what is going on. to hear from meadows what is happening at the white house. there is also a scene described in the book between general milley and then secretary of state mike pompeo. both men lived on fort myers and they are houses were very close and they would get together at each other's house and one day they get together and have what is described as a heart to heart conversation at the kitchen table

the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> former president trump attacking the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milleyley feared trump would attempt a coup after the election. trump denied the reports. he said, if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milley. >>> joining me now is former national security adviser to then president trump, john bolton. he is the author of the book "the room where it happened." ambassador, i should note for our viewers who couldn't see you because you were off screen, you were chuckling as you saw trump's response. tell me why. >> it's juvenile. it's unbecoming of a former president of the united states to refer to people who served the country well and served in his administration as if they're in a kindergarten class. and it's a sad commentary on trump himself, but i think also reflective of much of his behavior during four years in office. and i'm laughing and i shouldn't laugh because it's more serious than that, but it's so typical that i can't stop myself. >> i want to ask you because as we see these revelations

quote, if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milleyslamming him as a better politician than a general a spokesperson for milley declining to comment. another expert says white house attorneys on january 6 wondered could mr. trump be charged with a crime for setting off that deadly riot. lester >> hallie jackson, thank you. >>> just eight days before the start of the tokyo olympics, usa basketball says one of its players will miss the games due to covid health and safety protocols, while the host city is dealing with a surge in cases tom llamas has late details for us. >> three to shoot. bradley beal >> reporter: he was hoping to help team usa win a fourth consecutive gold medal, but tonight usa basketball announcing wizards all-star bradley beal will miss the olympics after being placed in covid protocol >> he was playing very well you know, there is no next bradley beal. >> reporter: his teammate jerami grant now under those protocols as well out of an abundance of caution. >> there is the end. >> reporter: over the last week, they pl

after attending a security briefing on november 10th about the million maga march, mark milley told aidesern american equivalent of brown shirts in the streets. milley was referring to the paramilitary forces and storm troopers that protected nazi party rallies in the 1920s and 1930s and enabled the rise of adolf hitler in germany. at the same time personnel changes at the pentagon were also alarming milley. the night of that security briefing the general spoke to a friend about his fears. here is more from "i alone can fix it." quote, what they're trying to do here is overturn the government, milley's friend told him. this is all real, man. you are one of the few guys standing between us and some really bad stuff. according to the book, as trump continued to push the big lie, milley grew more anxious. he was so worried, in fact, that trump would use the military in an attempted coup that he spoke to his closest deputies about preparing to guard against it and said, quote, they may try but they're not going to succeed. the nation's top military officer, believing the nation was on the bri

one where defense secretary lloyd austin showed very publicly that he is very much behind general mark milleyoint that general milley made about taking an oath to the constitution and not to a king, not to a leader, not to a monarch but to the constitution. it is one he has emphasized repeatedly. it's a statement of fact. it's in the oath of service. it's one that in this charged political environment has taken a political overtone. it's important that he came back to it and said this is not a political statement, this is how he views his job. it is his job to give what he called the best professional military advice not only to former president trump but to this president, joe biden, as well as to the defense secretary, the national security council. that is his job as he sees it and his job as his oath of service to the constitution. it is an oath he said he would never violate. he did something he rarely does. he spoke on behalf of the joint chiefs and said all of them have taken this oath and stick to it in giving their best professional military advice to their superiors, to the civilian

and a lot of it has to do with the fears on the part of the joint chief chair mark milley, what were they. >> milley and other military fears about what president trump was capable of, about the lack of confidence in his decision making really accelerated when trump fired secretary of defense mark es peer-- esper in early november, when trump was threatening to fire other senior officials including cia direct err gina haspell and installed loyalist to run the pentagon. current and formter officials say they traveled the world without any deliberation with other officials and without sharing details of their conversations, so milley along with secretary of state mike pompeo and others really tried to hold the line on policy. they froze out trump loyalists, they were feared-- they feared that those policies would be made on the back of envelopes. they feared that some of those loyalists might start a war even. and they feared that trump could do anything to stay in power. including perhaps creating a crisis in the u.s. that would require the deployment of the u.s. military in the u.s. a

this speaks to mark milley concerned about things going off the rails. n glasser back with us to talk specifically about milley's concerns with iran. susan? >> well, that's right, john. you know, again and again this would come up in meetings in the oval office after the election. and i think this was something that for milley was one of those things he just couldn't beat back. and he kept warning trump that trump was advocating a missile strike. he kept saying if you launch a strike, it's going to escalate with the iranians. and it was one of what milley called two nightmare scenarios that he was worried about in the aftermath of the election. >> it seems like this is a nightmare scenario, susan, that a number of officials had. you know, just sort of more broadly, the speaker, nancy pelosi was concerned and had a conversation with milley about the possibility of a nuclear weapon being used. and i think at the time you heard a lot of people even close to the president saying, you know, don't worry too much about what he's doing with what turned out to be

to getting advice on how to take action. >> reporter: following his own instincts was something mark milleyppeared ready to do from an early age. according to a 2019 "new york times" profile of him, milley's father who fought with the marines in world war ii did not want his son to go into the military and ebb got one of mark's brothers to sabotage his visit to west point. mark milley instead went to princi princeton, lettered in hockey and studied at m.i.t. as well. >> very bright dude. >> reporter: over four decades in the military, he served multiple combat tours in iraq and afghanistan, came under fire several times, commanded high profile units with the tenth mountain division and 101st airborne. >> he has been in almost every deployment since the late '80s. all of those are really tough jobs where you not only have to be tactically and operationally proficient, but you also have to be a pretty damn good leader. and be able to have that emotional intelligence to feel the room. >> reporter: enstings seninsti would be tested when he walked with president trump to a photo-op at a church a

of coup and if i was going to do a coup one of the last people i want to do that with is general mark milleyp one of the last people i would do it with is general milley. >> what we're dealing with in donald trump is somebody who is clever and smart but is a bit of an imbecile and has no sense of history. in the famous moment when general kelly went to europe with donald trump and donald trump started to praise hitler about the you had a bond and roads and kelly looked at him and said never say anything nice about hitler and i think the late writer george norm ale mail her say in history only a few names get now. the andy warhol will pay mao tse tung. trump saw those more as celebrities because he never did his reading on what the policies did. >> trump denies the story but a source familiar with the conversation confirms to me that bender's account is correct. douglas brinkley, thanks so much for your time and perspective. younger patients staying sicker longer. 99% of them run vaccinated a look inside a covid wave that did not have to happen. that's next. subway®... has so much new they co

mark milley, i've since i've known him since he was a colonel, he is one tough customer. most of his life was deployed in combat. former chief of staff, 30 years in uniform, princeton and columbia educated, a very bright, capable officer. he doesn't command any soldiers, any airmen, any marines, any sailors. the 11 combatant commanders are under the control of the secretary of defense and the president of the united states. so we really have a dilemma. they have open access to the presidents national security council, members of congress, and he holds a lot of influence. but when trump appointed a retired lieutenant colonel acolyte as secretary, if i've been a foreign intelligence officer looking at the united states, i would've concluded, this guy is about to lead a coup against the government. and i think that's what he was noodling with as the days went by. we >> senator, you heard with the general just said there, and indeed this constant chaos has brought numbness, it's been compared to the fraud boiling experiment, even the coverage of one six, we tend to shorthand

not the things we see happen around here everyday. >> just remember, mark milley, trump appointee, ashairman of the joint chiefs also here which is not insignificant. barbara, thank you. maggie, stick around. we'll have more revelations including why liz cheney slapped jim jordan's hand and what milley told pelosi over her fears that the former president would fire nuclear weapons in his final days. >>> plus, just in, the world has been waiting to hear whether supreme court justice stephen breyer will retire and now a cnn reporter just got the first interview with him about those potential plans. stay right here. ♪ you bring your best. we'll block the threats. cyberprotection for every one. malwarebytes ♪ among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity and gum gives us a dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone?

i uh was going to do a coup, one to have the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milley. milley also apparently saw parallels between mr. trump's claim of election fraud and adolph hitler's rhetoric in germany, telling aides this is a reichstag moment the gospel of the fuÜehrer. the author told milley staffers it was like reading george orwell, 1984, lies are truth, division is unit, evil is good. at an event today, the general appeared to joke about the potential impact his comments could have on his own career. >> i won't be at his retirement, unfortunately. i may be >> i won't be at his retirement, unfortunately. i may be at my own before that, but who knows. >> reporter: the book claims milley was not alone. top democrats, including nancy pelosi, called the general. he assured her mr. trump would not use nuclear weapons. senate majority leader chuck schumer today dodged. did you express concerns? >> i am going to keep conversations private. >> reporter: milley was criticized for appearing with president trump june 1 last year after protestors were cleared from lafaye

adding "if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milleyley also apparently saw parallels between mr. trump's claims of election fraud and adolph hitler's rhetoric in nazi germany, telling aides, "this is a reichstag moment, the gospel of the fÜehrer." the book's authors say milley told staffers, listening to the president was like reading george orwell's dystopian novel "1984:" "lies are truth, division is unity, evil is good." at an event today, the general appeared to joke about the potential impact his comments could have on his own career. >> i won't be at his retirement, unfortunately. i may be at my own before that, but who knows. >> reporter: the book claims milley was not alone in his concerns. top democrats, including houset. top d.m speaker nancy pelosi, called the general. he assured her mr. trump would not use nuclear weapons. senate majority leader chuck schumer today dodged. did you express those concerns? >> i am going to keep my conversations between myself and general milley private. >> reporter: milley himself was critici

the book reports. >> it says how milley confronted then white house chief of staff mark meadows aboutirector gene gena haskel with a loyalty. what is going on? don't worry about it meadow said. milley and the military spent weeks reassuring members of congress and administration officials who shared his concerns. everything is going to be okay. we're going to have a peaceful transfer of power. we're going to land this plane safely. this is america, it's strong, the institutions are bending, but it won't break. we should mention this account has not been independently confirmed by nbc news. let's bring in correspondent kasie hunt. peter baker, and correspondent for pbs news hour ya meech alcindor. kasie i'll start with you because i think about the conversations we were having on this show throughout this time but also milley making these remarks and what he must have been thinking on january 6th. >> i'm glad somebody was having this set of thoughts. i think back to "the washington post" story and an anonymous republican saying what's the harm in humoring trump as he was spreading lies

plus, general mark milley with revelations about the final days in office. who is milley?ounty, a requirement to mask again. is the rest of the country going in that direction? good evening. i'm erin

yamiche: eva, the frs that mark milley has, general milley has,hey continue.this isn't over, right? there are people continuing to have -- to lie about the election and conspiracy theories floating through the g.o.p. what does your reporting tell you about where this is heading? eva: i think those concerns are legitimate because certainly the former president still has a grip on the republican party, still has a grip on republicans in congress. and so the the test will be, as this panel meets next week and we hear this testimony and as we get further and further from the trump presidency, if republicans will ever sort of really challenge -- challenge him out of concern for their own legacies and the legacy of the country. yamiche: a stunning situation in our country, carol and phil. i'm so excited to talk to you for the extra. i want to thank all the reporters here tonight including yasmeen. eva from spectrum, thank you so much for being here. carol and phil for sharing your reporting with us and don't forget to tune in monday for the pbs "newshour" as we expl

if -- if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milley. but i -- if i did, this is how i'd do it. so, these new books make the case that the -- the threat to our democracy is not in the rear-view mirror. it is clear-and-present danger. the lies. the misinformation. they are killing us, and they're threatening our democracy. but president joe biden's speaking on his new child-tax credit that will put hundreds of dollars in parents' pockets, every month, says it's efforts like this that prove democracy can, still, deliver. >> we're proving that democracy can deliver for people, and deliver in a timely way. saving lives. improving lives. helping fuel record-setting recovery. giving working families a fighting chance, again. >> so, what if the president came out and urged his supporters to get vaccinated? the former president. would that counter the misinformation that's killing us? >> we see misinformation, literally, costing us our loved ones. costing us lives. all of us have to ask how we can be more accountable and responsible for the inf

they write about how general mark milley viewed trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. apparently he saw parallels between hitler's rhetoric as a savior and trump's false claims of election fraud. milley told aides according to the book, the gospel of the fuhrer. you study dictators. do you agree -- again, making it clear, this is mark milley's assessment, not my assessment or ruth's assessment. but do you agree with what he said? >> w w wl, yes. trump is an authoritarian leader. just because he couldn't wreck our democracy yet doesn't mean he didn't check all the boxes. my book was the first to put him in historical perspective, not saying that he is hitler because today things work differently. you don't have to, you know, close down elections. you keep them going, but you declare them fraudulent, right? but the leader cult, and now we have the creation of martyrs like ashli babbitt. he draws a lot of things from fascism, both italian fascism and, of course, nazi-ism. and january 6th, i was shuddering that so many americans but with the added thing it was lik

they may try, but they are not going to expletive succeed, clairol of joint chiefs general mark milley is quoting as saying. comments in a new book about the final year of the trump presidency out next week. milley continued, "you can't do this without the military, you can't do this without the cia and fbi, we're the guys with the guns." >> thank you. >> reporter: the former president is firing back at his joint chief calling the claims so ridiculous adding, "if i was going to do a coup one of last people i would do it with is mark milley." he said there were parallels including claims betweentler cly saying this is a reichstag moment, the gospel of the furor. he said listening to the president was like reading the dystopian novel "1984," lies are truth, division is unity, evil is good. at an event the general appeared to joke about the potential impact his comments could have on his own career. >> i won't be at his retirement unfortunately. i may be at my own before that, but who knows. >> reporter: the book claims millie was not alone in his concerns. top democrats including house s

. >> defense secretary lloyd austin and general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, briefed reporters today at the pentagon. they talked about the afghanistan troop withdrawal and efforts to relocate the military's interpreters to the united states. new reporting that general milley feared former president would carry out a coup after losing the election. >> thanks to all of you for coming today. i would like to start by talking briefly about my trip later this week to our priority theater of operations, the indo pacific. then i will add a few words on afghanistan, which is on all of our minds here. i would like to start by saying

and mark milley and lloyd austin were on hand to greet him.ller was the right leader at the right time, not only did he plan and lead the complex withdrawal of millions of tons of equipment, thousands of personnel, his team did so with the understanding that speed was of the essence. back in afghanistan, taliban fighters are now in control of the key border crossing with pakistan. witnesses and pakistani officials confirm the militant group captured the site without resistance. a government negotiator says she is concerned afghanistan could spiral into civil war. >> what we are worried about is this negotiation which started here in doha. it hasn't come to a state that would help the country not go into chaos. taliban are the reality of the country. yes, it was a mistake that they were not part of the conference and yes, we will have to live together. but not like that. not push the country into a civil war. i think if we don't have to a political understanding at the negotiation table, it is very tick difficult to avoid a very bitter civil wa

jamie, the point that you've been making that mark milley knew this was going to get out. from a book he knew were going to be made public right now. why does milley want everyone to see this now? >> so i don't know why. i haven't spoken to him, but i would say two things. 2024 is already happening. and i think he wanted to be clear and public about how dangerous he thought donald trump was in that context. he also, i would say, is sending a message to the troops. he is still chairman of the joint chiefs. a lot of members of the military voted for donald trump. and i think he's sending them a signal. >> yeah. there's certainly a schism especially between the rank and file and the officer corp. that donald trump was trying to create. and you see milley circle the wagons and send that signal. i also want to point out, jamie, that the book reveals a liz cheney moment where the wyoming congress woman reportedly told general milley about a confrontation she had with jim jordan, ohio congressman on the hill the day after the insurrection. tell us about that. >> i can confirm tha

it is just remarkable that it is mark milley, the top general, in the world's most powerful military that is the guardrail for the president who wants to become violent and aggressive with protesters and major american cities. one of the big impactful scenes of this book is before that, is when they're debating about whether to sense they troops, how americans trained to kill and take land, whether they should be sent into american cities to confront protesters. mark milley points to the portion of abraham lincoln in the oval office, and says that man, mister president had an insurrection, while we have is a protest. >> another great set piece as described in the book. our great thanks to our starting lineup tonight, yamiche alcindor, michael bender, whose book again frankly we did win this election the inside story of how trump lost is just out today and tonight, and sam stein, our thanks to the three of you for coming on. coming up for us. is it fair to bring democrats for not fighting hard enough to protect voting rights, to guess who know exactly what is at stake from both sides

we know that mark milley, general milley was worried about it and we know that he wants everyone to know that he was worried about it. because it is showing up in these books and showing up in these accounts. and we also know that there was a letter or open letters before january 6 making it clear they had concerns and when that letter first came out, whoa, do they know something that we don't know. it turns out they did know something that we dshts know. >> and a lot of people that cooperate with these books, they get their side of the story out. and this is what we're seeing. >> there is a lot of legacy preservations. >> or attempting legacy preservations. >> speaking of which, a lot of people -- some people are necessarily trying to launder their reputation, but there are people who are being described in the book who behind the scenes know that what is going on is insane. and publicly were saying other things. one of those people wias the secretary of state mike pompeo. bender writes that the crazies have taken over. he warned a colleague, he conveyed the concern to others that mr. t

it's worth drilling down on this a little because according to the new reporting, mark milley wasn'tat thes to disparage president trump, he was using historic context. this isn't a case that trump is bad so i'll calm him nazi names. he saw an historical analogy in what trump was doing. in february of 1933, the german parliament building in berlin went up in flames. the german chancellor adolf hitler blamed the communists and said it was the beginning of a terror campaign by the left. on that premise, his government proceeded to suspend constitutional rights giving hitler the power to rule and germany turned from a democratic to an authoritarian state. in the weeks after the november election, milley feared that donald trump was creating his own version of the reich's fire, the emergency that justifies the suspension of the rules that demand an authoritarian response. the election was rigged and stolen by shadowy left-wing forces, therefore, we must stop the counting of the votes. we must suspend democracy. milley feared that trump would use the military to achieve this suspension of

here you have these uniformed forced four-star officers and i know every one of them, and mark milley, i know in particular. these are stand-up people, and many of them served under my command in afghanistan. and these are the people that you want to trust with the republic. that was perhaps not quite where we landed, but they discussed it seriously, and i think that if i had been still wearing a uniform and in one of those jobs, i would have as well. so what did they do? if everything that we hear is reported in the book, and here are two professional "washington post" reporters, and this is extremely well sourced to say the least, if that is all correct, and he did what i think that we would hope that our senior military would do which is to determine amongst themselves that they would not obey an order that is illegal, immoral, unethical, and a good example would be, hey, military, go out there and martial law and seize the ballot boxes, and they determined not to do that but they came up with a plan, but again the options as a senior military if you find the order to be illegal es

it involved general mark milley, the gentleman on the right.rman of the joint chiefs of staff and the president's top military adviser. according to the book general milley was worried that president trump would attempt a military coup to reverse his election loss. nbc news has obtained excerpts of the new book, "i alone can fix it, donald j. trump's catastrophic final year." it is written by pulitzer prize winner reporters rucker and carol philip. it comes out next week. one excerpt says that the general and branches of the military began, quote, informally planning how they could block a presidential order to use the military in a way they considered illegal or dangerous and ill-advised, unquote. to be clear, nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. for his part, president trump has denied that he ever considered a coup and a spokesperson for general milley declined to comment on the reporting in the book. let's discuss it with retired brigadier general mark kmet. he served as assistant secretary of state for political and mil

washington post" reporters phil rucker and carol leonnig write that joint chiefs chairman general mark milley was so concerned, he called trump's former national security adviser m.r. mcmaster and asked, "what the bleep am i dealing with?" according to the book, as milley watched donald trump speak on january 6th, he saw echoes of adolf hitler. >> we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: milley reportedly told aides, "this is a reichstag moment. the gospel of the fuhrer." that was a reference to the burning of the german parliament in 1933, that helped hitler and the nazis seize power. general milley also saw parallels between the nazis and trump and his supporters in the immediate aftermath of the election, after trump refused to acknowledge he lost. >> frankly, we did win this election. >> reporter: after a november 10th briefing on a planned pro-trump protest in washington, milley said he feared "an equivalent of brown shirts in the streets." and after the capitol riot, he vowed to protect joe biden's inauguration, sayin

>> oh, i think that -- i think we're lucky to have had mark milley there.with it, not seen it, not been strong enough? maybe so. but i know all the men who have previously been in that position, and they are all like milley. they're all strong. they are all ethical. they are all very conscious of their authorities. i think milley just got swept up in that affair in lafayette square. >> yeah. >> and i think he -- he really -- it really brought things into focus, very sharply, for him after that. >> thank you, general. thank you, jamie. your reporting on this book. listen. we didn't know how bad it was. and um, more will come out, i am sure. appreciate it. i'll see you soon. >> sure. >>> so the pentagon has worried about the then-president attempting a coup, right? but the threat to democracy is, still, happening right now with republican-led states openly -- openly -- restricting people's right to vote. here she is. congresswoman sheila jackson lee. she is going to weigh in, right after this. we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and b

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and you are right, it fell to general mark milley. top general in the world's most top military was the only one who could sit in front of trump and tell him no. he points to the portrait of abraham lincoln behind trump, and tells him, that man, sur, had an insurrection, what we have is a protest. >> woodruff: this is when they were discussing whether or not to invoke the insurrection act. you mentioned covid, and all of this taking place during the pandemic. it turns out from your reporting, the president had tested positive for covid before it was made public. and went on to do a fundraiser in bedminster, new jersey, where he has a home. why was that allowed to happen? >> there was very few people around him at that point who was in a position to tell him no. anyone who was pushing back on the president, this is year four in the administration, was long gone. you can argue in the first three years, it din't happen all that affectively. on that morning when some of his -- when one of the senior aides tested positive, it is kind of ch

very tricky time for america. >> congressman, put mark milley aside.ut in the books that are close to trump, pat cipollone, ivanka trump, chris christie, you know, leaking their way through from sources, trying to rewrite history. in the behind the scenes, they were saving us. saving us from what? the insurrection took place? we're in a misinformation malaise, and people around this country think trump is going back to office in august. what were they saving us from? we're living in the big lie. >> a lot of it was hedging their bets of what they could do politically if president trump could actually pull it off. they've created their own massive self-licking ice cream cone, you're actually trying to maneuver within a regime or within a presidential sort of cabinet with some of the people that he had chosen where you weren't sure what was going to happen day-to-day. and i always wondered this. what if he was smarter. what if the former president was smarter? what if he was more strategic? what if he had identified those individuals that go into those ar

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it from mainstream media types that egg them on. >> laura: one of the books claims that general mark milleyd something ant trump supporters while preparing for biden's inauguration. watch. >> milley says to a group of senior advisers at this exercise "here's the deal, guys. these guys are nazis, they're proud boys. these are the same people that we fought in world war ii. we're going to put a ring of steel around this city and the nazis aren't getting in. by that he was referring to trump supporters. >> laura: corey, we're used to hearing this stuff from the far left on college campuses, blm, those kinds of things. chairman of the joint chiefs? talking about a lot of people that just went to support the president didn't even go into the capitol. he obviously -- this is what he said. he gave it to them. this is from him. your reaction. >> if this is what he said, he's unfit to serve as the highest ranking military officer in our country. what we've seen time and again from the reporters, they have been manipulated by the press and by the stories. that was the case with the steele dossier. th

and he was furious both with general milley and also with defense secretary mark esper because they regretted their participation in that lafayette square photo open. trump called milley out on it in a meeting in the oval office. donald trump just wasn't going to understand and milley just said that's the way it is, we're apolitical in the military, and i was in a uniform. >> susan, great reporting as usual. i don't see you often enough, so keep writing so we can keep bringing you back to discuss what you're talking about. thank you, susan glasser, i appreciate it. >>> i want to turn to former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. andrew, thank you for joining us, i don't get to see you enough as well. but now we have you this evening. as we learn all these disturbing details about trump's final days in office, does this show the threat to our democracy described in all these books, that it's still a clear and present danger? >> i think it does, i think it shows clearly the continued significance, the continued influence that trump holds over the xwiert of t

cheers and applause ) and that's not just me flapping my gums, that's chairman of the joint chiefs mark milleyen here at defcon eyebrow. ( laughter ) in a new book, milley reveals that, following the election, he thought the ex-president "was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the insurrection act and call out the military." saying, "this is a reichstag moment." no surprise. the last president was pretty popular with the alt-reich. ( laughter ) of course, the reichstag fire was in 1930s germany, when an attack on the country's legislative branch was used as a pretext to solidify fascist control. what the maga crowd did this year was totally different. it was in english. ( laughter ) milley says that he was alerted that the former president and his allies were trying to "overturn the government" by a call from "an old friend." the friend also sent a text: "the orange eggplant is a knot-z clown. we are in deep doo doo." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: they're using emojis. emojis. >> stephen: yeah. now, the general was confident the coup attempt would fail, tel

host: this from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley -- he testified on capitol hill last month about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan and the taliban. here's what he had to say. [video clip] general milley: two back up on the momentum of the taliban, so to speak, there are 81 centers that we think are currently under taliban control out of 419 district centers. there is no provincial capital under taliban control, and there are 34 of those. it is true that the taliban are sniping at and picking off outposts, it several -- etc. and they have seized some district centers. 60% were seized last year, and the others since the last two months or so. so, yes, we are concerned, we are watching it, but there is a 300,000, plus were minus military force afghan army and police force and it is their job to defend our country. host: that from the chairman, the joint chiefs of staff -- the full hearing on our website. let's go back to your phone calls. grant here in washington, d.c., you are on air with jane harman. caller: steve will not like my preamble, but here h

saying, if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with his general mark milley. the book claims milley was not alone in his concerns and says, house speaker nancy pelosi was also wary of esther trump, fearing he may use nuclear weapons to execute his strategy. >> thank you. >> reporter:'s thursday, senate majority leader chuck schumer, dodged questions. have you asked us those concerns? >> i want it in my conversation between myself and general milley private . >> reporter: trump appointed joint chief of chair, seeming to junk about the general fallout from the book. >> i won't be at his retirement, fortunately. i may be a mile before that, but who knows. >> reporter: apparently "cbs this morning" it's a parallel between the former president's claims of election fraud and the rhetoric of adolf hitler in nazi germany. the book is out thursday. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >>> from the massive boot leg fire, smoke is creating giant buyer clouds that were formerly called pyro cumulonimbus clouds. the huge columns of smoke and ash can reach six miles high

military officer chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley was so shaken by trump's attitude, the big lie, after the election that he might possibly attempt a coup or take other dangerous or illegal action that milley and other top officials planned informally what they would do to stop such a coup attempt. this is according to excerpts in the book, general millie ey spe to top officers and lawmakers about just how worried he is about the possible threat of a coup and he is quoted as saying they may try but they are not going to fing succeed. you can't do this without the military, you can't do this without the cia and the fbi. we are the guys with the guns. he was really afraid after january 6 that there might be another attack. and this section of the book is as he is preparing for joe biden's inauguration. and the city's on lockdown but the day before he is really concerned about another attack by violent trump supporters. and they write, quote, milley says here is the deal, guys, these guys are nazis, woulbooga boys, proud boys, these are the same people we fought in world

this one, there is another situation in there are trump tells mark milley oigand others mark evsper, fall protestors protesting civil rights abuses he wants shot in the leg, shot in the foot. there are skulls to be cracked. the president of the united states makes these orders. >> and he also wants someone around him to be executed when it is revealed that during some of the protests outside of the white house president trump and the first family were ferreted into a bunker for their safety. he did not want anybody to know that he had to take cover in the bunker. you write, trump's top military law enforcement and west wing advisers knew he must be upset when he summoned them to the owe v oval office before he usually emerged from the residence. and trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. it was the most upset some aides had ever seen him. whoever did that, they should be charged with treason, trump yelled, they should be executed. why was he on xexorcised about being kept safe in the white house? >> thi

>> when it comes to the people who are closest around trump that mark milley and mike pompeo and thee types of folks were not concerned about the chaos story that we had been talking about for years. like john, what came out in my reporting for the book was that they thought trump was a danger to the country that he became reckless and desperate. he said in a room full of people that he wanted to shoot americans protesting civil rights injustices. mike pompeo left others with the impression that he thought trump wanted to lean into a war or may lean into a war in order to strengthen his argument to not leave office. these are the kinds of details that throughout the book illustrates that point. >> why he was so late to stealing the election. he had a lot of desire to steal the election which is unconstitutional obviously and whether if he was charged for it or not. but, he was late to that. do you know from your reporting why it was a sloppy effort and whether he literally just didn't know he would be short the votes or why he didn't start earlier or both these books and others raise