that tape, this damning evidence against trump would not exist if not for his rift with general mark milleyining us now to talk about the remarkable feud between trump and milley for the very first time on television is the great susan glasser. staff writer at the new yorker. susan it is great to see. thank you for coming up to chat onset. what was your reaction when you heard this tape for the first time? was it like, as sounds like trump? >> definitely sounds like trump. donald trump is a big believer in the weaponization of information. that is what he is trying to do there and of course, you know that is very much in keeping with his style. you know it is also an example of the big mouth getting donald trump in trouble. he does not text very much, or if at all. he does not sign emails but what he does do is talk and talk a lot. he seemed to be completely oblivious that the tape recorders were on there. >> and your reporting on him, and your conversations with, him i mean how characteristic was this behavior? was that something that happened a lot? they sort of petty grievances and feuds

at one point i tried to list out all the people he randomly criticized, and it wasn't just mark milley lsh let's just say. >> yeah, but milley, if you were to believe the importance of -- the fact he's waving around classified documents drafted for him from the department of defense, the fact he's so intent on exonerating himself from this alleged iran attack plan suggests to me the milley feud got to him in a sort of visceral way, or do you think there are other people that rose to that level of indignation. >> there were a wave of books that started to come out in spring of 2021. remember donald trump was in exile, he was furious. it wasn't at all clear he was going to reemerge as the unchallenged member of the republican party, the front-runner he was in 2024. then he was much more on the ropes. this reporting i did just five days later, he's the one who's bringing this up, and by the way this also shows how he completely did not understand the role of either the chairman of the joint chiefs or his own role as the president, the idea that the pentagon having the existence of an iran

even though he didn't own mark milley. own in the colloquial sense, anyway.e to ask as we talk about classified document, we are reporting that trump's lawyers are now requesting that trump be able to discuss classified discovery outside of a classified setting, notably in his home. the prosecutors have responded that there is no basis for the defendant's request to be given the extraordinary authorities to be given classified information at his residence, and it is particularly striking that he seeks permission to do so and be very location at which is charged with willfully retaining the documents charged in this case. the irony? never been thicker. >> indeed. i think what he's saying with this, really, borderline frivolous motion is i am not like other defendants. and i don't want to be inconvenienced the way that other defendants are. because of course, when you are given access to these things as a defendant you have to look at them in a scif with your lawyers. >> classified information facility. >> indeed. i actually feel kind of sorry for his lawyers w

. >> general lloyd austin and mark milley spoke with reporters after a meeting of the ukraine conference. they reaffirmed the support for ukraine and the military effort to repel the russian attack and says there are increasing signs that russian forces are faltering under the ukrainian counteroffensive. this is 30 minutes. >> i want to thank general >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thanks for being here today. it is my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd austin and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley. the secretary and chairman will deliver opening remarks and then have time to take a few questions. please note, i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. given our tight schedule, i'd ask that you please limit your follow-ups to give your colleagues a chance to ask their questions. appreciate your assistance with that. so with that, i will turn it over to secretary austin. >> thanks, chris, and good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for being here. we've just concluded our 14th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group, held virtu

we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are?— the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. _ where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so _ where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so we _ where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so we have - where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so we have got i where you

mark milley, the general and the joint chief of staff was called.eeting after the election, the next guy will handle this. meaning the next president, meaning he did not win. we were also told that he was told by people like the attorney general, bill barr, that there was nothing to the claims that he was making. he went out and made them anyway. the january six committee literally put together a timetable showing that on one day, somebody on president trump's own staff, own, team would know this allegation was not true. and the next day, he would say it publicly anyway. we know reporting from our friends, at the washington post, that the trump campaign hired at least two organizations. two agencies to investigate some of these fraud claims, and that the agencies that the trump campaign itself hired said that they couldn't substantiate the things that the president was saying at the time. so we know from plenty of evidence already. he thought he had every reason to know that what he was saying was not true. that's good enough legally, obviously harr

general mark milley said it is going to be difficult and bloody.se munitions will become passable, so they will launch from the ground. that artillery allowed ukraine to really try to take back a loss of land over the last year. if we can read something into the fact they are being sent over at this time, president biden heading off to europe on sunday for a week. the nato summit on the agenda. pretty sure the war will be a key issue as well as ukraine's push to join nato. >> other countries, allies to the u.s. have banned munitions. >> you have germany, who has come out to criticize the u.s. over it. jake sullivan said we have been talking to allies. you can't help but speculate the americans must have been spent a good year getting allies on board. they don't agree with the munitions, but they said they believe america did everything it could to be responsible sending these munitions. >> thank you for your reporting. a little wire earlier, i spoke with democratic congressman -- he sits on the house intelligence committee. the decision to send clu

and together do one joint work a real war is different from a war on paper about american general mark milley added that the counteroffensive is far from a failure. talking to the ukrainian military, you understand. they know what they are doing and are determined to overcome both mini fields and other obstacles on the way to the sea of ​​azov. these were the realities of donbas. see you in ukraine at 18:00. news on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval greetings to all viewers, the german concert rain metal will create a repair center in ukraine to service leopard tanks and other military equipment in interviews with publications

consolidate and together do one joint work real war is different from war on paper american general mark milleyday and added that the counteroffensive is far from a failure . you understand when you talk to the ukrainian military. they know what they are doing and are determined to overcome both mini fields and other obstacles on the way to the sea of ​​azov. these were the realities of donbas. and climb the stairs old injuries and sprains constantly remind of themselves with a sharp pain you need help knee brace moves easily a reliable assistant for the joints order just now with a discount for only uah 199 will fix tightly will reduce stress and tension and significantly improve blood flow, the knee brace moves easily and provides incredible lightness and comfort of movement. the secret lies in three-dimensional fixation of the knee joint and reliable support of the muscle skeleton. see how easy it is to use . put the knee brace on your leg and fasten it tightly with velcro straps. the brace will provide you with maximum comfort. and support, and thanks to the special fabric , the knee pad mo

do you believe alyssa farah griffin and mark milley, there you go, there is the intent. it is a crucial part of the case, so that is why this testimony is so important. there might be other testimony with jared kushner saying i don't think he actually thought he lost, we might be getting into a pistol optical questions about what is in his mind, how does one ever know what they know? >> so to be so clueless, or to be so misinformed, or misguided, to think, or believe, that you lost the election or won the election i should say, that could be a viable defense? >> i think the category would fall under, legally, what we call advice of counsel. here i am, donald trump, and have these lawyers rudy giuliani, sydney powell, telling me that i can fight this. , ortiz example of pressuring mike pence, well john eastman, constitutional scholars, former supreme court clerk, he's telling me that the vice president does have this authority and i can rely on that. that is the defense. >> councillor, standby. michael cohen, obviously you were personna not or for sometime before any of t

learned in, you know, the last few days that there are some very good statements, including one by mark milley and director that make it clear he knows he's lost. and that's what -- sort of to karen's point, that's what the prosecution will put on. and jared, if he's a defense witness, they'll know what he's going to say. but i just want to say that i think almost as important as what we've learned that kushner testified, is what we learned about when it happened. we keep getting these little stones that carve off and we forget smith has a mountain of evidence he's assembled. and with kushner, we have mark meadows, rudy giuliani, kushner, basically everyone in the inner circle, including hope hicks has now been to the grand jury. so, everything there is to know about his mindset, they now know. >> so, you are saying essentially that even if jared kushner did say, trump genuinely believed he lost, that wouldn't really be much of a defense because there is this moment you're referencing when you say alyssa farah griffin, general mark milley, cassidy hutchinson, all acknowledging at some point so

. >> defense secretary lloyd austin, and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley.fied on the president's 2024 budget request for the military it includes programs to counter russia and china the

attack on iran presented to him by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley.as president. >> with milley, let me show you an example, he said that i wanted to attack iran. which, isn't it amazing? i have a big pile of papers and this thing just came up -- look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record, but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is, like, highly confidential. [laughter] there says secret information. reporter: the u.s. justice department charged trump with 37 counts of mishandling top-secret documents the audio seems to counter trump's claim dozens of boxes found last year at his mar-a-lago estate were just newspaper clippings. prosecutors say, many of those documents were instead highly classified. the recording may also prove the government's case that trump did not declassify the material as he should have, while in office. >> this was done by the military and given to me. i think we could -- yeah. >> will have to se

guardian writes, and the head of the joint committee of trainers of the united states of america, mark milley they built at least two or even three trench wires defense belts, and they had a lot of time to build it according to you, mr. yaroslav, did the west deliberately delay the supply of weapons that were needed during the counteroffensive that was expected in the spring? is everything happening the way it should be? well, i can't say that we are happy that the enemy has three lines of defense. and uh, we all must understand that the united states of america and great britain have intelligence that allows them to understand what the enemy is doing on our territory how they will develop events, that is, when they are digging in. as shown above, the huge anti-tank trenches are visible from space, probably from the moon, and so on. and they understood that in those months, two or three, which they will be delaying, exactly what they said with the supply of weapons, the russians are digging and it will be harder and harder for us , why did they do it? that such a situation would develop and u

alyssa very griffin, also general mark milley, cassidy hutchinson, all acknowledging that at some point someone had acknowledged trump had lost the election how does that work? if that is a defense that trump team would be considering. >> even if he thought he had, fought the election had been wine, even if you thought it had been stolen, if he thought that was actually true. it does not give him an excuse to submit a false. multiple false states, slates of electors. to pressure very secretaries of state to find votes and put in these fake slates of electors, it didn't give him the right to pressure them. he's obstructing an official government proceeding and those things are not a defense that i thought i want. the worst one of, all insurrection violence. he does not have a right to do that, when he had a right to do was bring in court cases and, he did. i think he brought 68 or 70 of them. he lost all of them. saying that the election, -- >> 64. >> 60, for their. hugo saying the election had been stolen from him. that's what he has a right, doing doesn't have right to question it. at

the leader actually admitted it of the joint training committee of the united states of america mark milley russians had several months to build a very complex line of defense in depth, a lot of complex minefields, dragon's teeth, barbed wire, trenches, they built at least two or even three defense belts, and they had a lot of time to build it, according to you, mr. yaroslav, or did the west deliberately delay the supply of weapons that were needed during the counteroffensive, which was expected in the spring? is happening in the same way as it should happen well, i can't to say that we are happy that the enemy has three lines of defense, uh, and uh, we all have to understand that the united states of america and great britain have such intelligence that allows them to understand what the enemy is doing on our territory, how events will develop, that is, when the otaki dig in, as shown above, the huge anti-tank trenches, it can be seen from space from the moon, and so on . russians dig us too it will get harder and harder, why did they do it? i don't know, i don't think that the bureaucracy

by the way, mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states of america, at a briefing in washington, also assessed the counteroffensive and the advance of the ukrainian troops. this is very interesting, so let's listen to me. it does not surprise me at all that everything is happening more slowly than we expected. the ukrainian offensive is advancing . no one should have any illusions about this , ukraine is fighting for its life, we provide the maximum help as possible, but for ukrainian soldiers, it is literally a fight for their lives, that is, the americans they understand absolutely exactly what is happening at the front, that is correct, i understand mr. andrei, well, the general understands everything correctly because he is a military man and he understands what an offensive is, what a frantic defense is, what mini fields are like , how does it all happen in reality? well, everything has been said correctly, there is nothing to add yesterday the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine, serhii cherevaty, said that russia has conc

. >> lloyd austin and mark milley spoke with reporters after a meeting of the ukraine defense congress -- conference. they said there were increasing signs russian forces were faltering under the ukrainian counteroffensive. this is 30 minutes. >> i want to thank general milley for his leadership and deep commitment to the defense of ukraine. today's meeting comes at a critical time. we are following on the heels of a highly successful nato summit last week where many of our closest allies announced significant security packages for ukraine defense. ukraine is continuing the critical counteroffensive to regain sovereign territory. we are seeing ukraine make progress and russia's losses continue to mount. ukrainian people have shown outstanding courage as they fight for their country. as we saw again today, this group stands united behind them. we recommitted to supporting ukraine during their crucial counteroffensive and for the long haul. this is no time to slow down. the united states and our partners and allies have moved mountains to provide ukraine with critical air defense systems

ukraine's counteroffensive against russian forces continues but america's top military officer, general mark milley surprised things are going slower than people had predicted, but added ukraine is making steady progress. is it happening slower than computers might have said or other people might have said? yes. what i had said was this would take six, eight, ten weeks, it's going to be very difficult, it's going to be very long, and it's going to be very, very bloody and nobody should have any illusions about any of that. ukraine is fighting for its life. it's an existential fight for ukraine and they are fighting against a very significant country of 140 million people, nine time zones, a big army, lots of munitions and so on. ukraine is fighting for their life. we are giving them as much help as humanly possible, but at the end of the day, ukrainian soldiers are assaulting through minefields and into trenches and this is literally a fight for their life. staying with the war, the head of america's intelligence agency, the cia, says the conflict in ukraine and last week's mutiny in russia by the

such an open war , when there is a war, everything will always not be enough for you , so says mark milleytes a colleague of ours, valery zaluznogo, from the states. when you have a war, you always have everything. it is not enough because it is a war of resources, therefore there cannot be enough shells. and for me, it is artillery, only how much would you like, because i have no idea tactical stock, strategic stock, etc. of course, the needs of the armed forces and the needs of the defense forces are much greater than what we produce in ukraine and partners give, but on the positive side, partners share with us their weapons from their warehouses in a systematic way, and at the same time they have already ordered and i am sure know and have financed their industry for the production of additional projectiles , ammunition, ammunition and various types of weapons, and precisely that, and most importantly, spare parts, because any system needs repair, maintenance , for example, projects of the european union about one million 155 steel units of 155 mm. he is fully on the march and the facto

will begin but unfortunately these planes cannot be used during a counteroffensive said general mark milley for various reasons. therefore, he is now focusing on the support of ground forces on the support of air defense so that ukraine can protect its sky from the ground and help the ukrainian troops to clear mines and advance thanks to the armored personnel carriers. these are the comments we heard from the american command yes, it is very important thank you ostap for your analysis ostap followed the progress of the 14th meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, we are moving forward , no genocide under the guise of peace, we will fight and we will win because we want to live with these words. minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba addressed the un general assembly, which gathered for an open debate to discuss the situation over the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine . did you hear from the debate participants and in particular what message did dmytro kuleb bring to this site? greetings natalya so during the meetings during their open debates, for exa

, the author of the article is an american general and a good friend of the commander-in-chief, mark milleycording to him , he showed himself as a military mind necessary for his country, although he is called an iron general, but he has a good heart and cares he shows such concern for his soldiers under the video of military man valery marcus, who published footage of the captured russian trenches, the brand appeared without military equipment, why his generals and the world saw the harshness of the general after his interview for the washington post. valeriy zaluzhnyi emphasizes the high price of liberating our territories. this is not a show that the whole world watches and bets on or something like that. every day, every meter is bled by users in a social network with a chevron cut of a famous character from the star wars saga, who is one of the most powerful jedi in history, such a patch quickly became popular and desired among the military, we will win, and not only today, always thank you all for the espresso tv channel, greetings from valery zaluzhny birthday in honor of the 13th ho

american general mark milley said this the other day and added that the counteroffensive shift is far from a failure. talking to the ukrainian military, you understand that they know what they are doing and are determined to overcome both mini fields and other obstacles on the way to the sea of ​​azov. donbas realities until we meet in ukraine 18:00 news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval greetings to all viewers, the german concern rain metal will create a repair center in ukraine to service leopard tanks and other of military equipment, in an interview with the spiegel publication, the general director of the concern, armin papperger, said that the company is already preparing ukrainian specialists for this work in germany, this will allow to reduce the distance that leopard tanks and other equipment have to be transported. the mariupol security service announced the suspicion of the russian lieutenant general mykola gostiv until the end of may 2022. he commanded the units of the russian aviation that participated in the seizure of donetsk region. on his or

enough to completely close our skies, and by the way, what is important, even the american general mark milleyiefs of staff of the us army, admitted that the slow pace of the supply of weapons to ukraine gave time for the russians to prepare for the ukrainian counteroffensive, listen, it took a few months to build a very complex line of defense in depth, a lot of complex minefields, dragon teeth, barbed wire, trenches, they built at least two or even three defense belts and they had a lot of time to build it about the main thing about the situation at the front and here are these mini-fields that i'm talking about mark milli i read what could be about the million amen because there was really a lot of time to prepare the russians and despite this we are still advancing we'll show you where allo is on the map look, we are advancing in the bakhmut area and in the south in the zaporizhia and donetsk regions, in the part of the donetsk region in the south. and here in the zaporizhia region, the speed of our advance here is about 100 m per day, but under bakhmut we have advanced 1,800 m, and this i

considering the appointment of brown as the new chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff general mark milley who holds this position, is currently retiring . this fall, during the hearings, general brown highlighted five conclusions from the russian war in ukraine: the importance of information, logistics, the time required for military operations, the willingness of the military to fight, and the ability of air defense , the russians have already learned their lesson without paying attention to logistics, it is difficult not only to win but also to move forward. we have also seen that the timing of military operations on the battlefield sometimes takes longer than expected and that too challenge is another important point that i want to emphasize. this desire to fight is the determination and will of the ukrainian people and its leadership - this is something that is difficult to measure before the war, but in practice it gives a huge advantage and the last thing that i want to pay attention to as a pilot is the value of dominance in the sky by observing what was able or not able to do in t

but america's top military officer — general mark milley — says he is suprised things are "going slowerady progress. is it happening slower than computers might have said or other people might have said? yes. what i had said was this would take six to eight, ten weeks, it's going to be very difficult, it's going to be very long, and it's going to be very, very bloody and nobody should have any illusions about any of that. ukraine is fighting for its life. it's an existential fight for ukraine and they are fighting against a very significant country of iao million people, nine time zones, a big army, lots of munitions and so on. ukraine is fighting for their life. we are giving them as much help as humanly possible, but at the end of the day, ukrainian soldiers are assaulting through minefields and into trenches and this is literally a fight for their life. it's been nearly two months since hollywood's screenwriters went on strike and actors may be just days away from joining them on the picket line. in the latest developments, the screen actors guild, and major studios and streaming ser

we've had comments this past week from general mark milley saying that counteroffensive appears to ben you think about the nato summit coming up in less than 48 hours, what more do you think allies could be doing to help ukrainians on the battlefield at this really key moment? i do not think adding more weapon systems is going to be the magic bullet to win the counteroffensive. i mean, this has been a problem to date, is that zelensky has said give us more weapons and we will win this spring offensive. now it is mid—summer and it is failing, frankly. i think what the west should be more clever about doing is trying to pit the wagner group against the russian military. to try to destabilize russia, moscow and putin's grip on power. and whatever happens that will be a win for ukraine. that is a really interesting perspective. do you think it is something that is achievable? of course, we have seen that situation just a matter of weeks ago, of course, with that attempted mutiny. we are not necessarily sure about what the future could be for wagner and for prigozhin. from what you're sayi

i would also like to thank the current chairman, general mark milley who will retired later this yearneral milley has served this nation honorably for more than four decades and has led the joint chiefs with skill and vision weis are grateful for his service and we congratulate him on his retirement. general brown you are well qualified to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. as a current chief of staff the air force you have led the service as it advances to rapidly changing global security environment. you bring a record of success of leadership around the globe and commandle experience at all levs of our military. this expertise will serve you well. if confirmed he will serve as a principal military adviser to the president national security council the secretary of defense ins. congress. you will be expected to be an effective strategist, advisor and manager your counsel will be relied upon as we confront the multitude of national security issues before us. indeed we face significant challenges. first and foremost as a national defense strategy makes clear china is our

comments from general mark milley that the counteroffensive appears to be going slower than many peopleummer coming up in less than 48 hours, what do you think alice could be doing to help ukrainians on the battlefield at this really key moment? i do not think adding _ at this really key moment? i if not think adding more weapons systems is going to be the magic bullet to win a counteroffensive. this has been a problem to date, zelensky has said give us more weapons and we will win this spring offensive. it is now mid summer and it is failing, frankly. i think what the west should be more clever about doing is it the wagner rep against the russian military. ——is pete. try to question vladimir putin's hold on power. i5 try to question vladimir putin's hold on power. is it something _ putin's hold on power. is it something achievable? - putin's hold on power. is it something achievable? we have seen that situation a matter of weeks ago with the attempted mutiny. we are not necessarily sure what the future could be for wagner and its leader. yevgeny prigozhin. irate for wagner and its lead

military because the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and the chairman, the joint chiefs general mark milley, are anti-white racists who have made the demonization of white america a core element of training. our system of justice is also in by this anti-white racism. we have just appointed anti-white racist to the u.s. supreme court who is an ideologue that she can't tell what a woman is. she's been appointed to a position whose only job is to defend the constitution. but she is a believer in critical race theory which maintains that the constitution a document that does contain the word white, is a white supremacist country that should not be respected. i didn't hear one republican on her on the committee that reviewed her mentioning this small fact america, not now and never was a racist country. it is true that in the effort to defend slavery, southerners developed a poisonous, anti-poor ideology that flooded the region. racism. but american slavery itself was not a racist institution. if it were an america as a white supremacist country, how can you explain? the existence of 500,000 bla

and all of that back and forth with congress put general mark milley on the offensive. >> i personallyt we are accused of being woke or something else. because we are studying some theories out there. >> martha: republican mase voted in favor and begin with councilmember mase, great to have you with us. and tell me why you decided to vote in favor of this bill. >> we know that when the bill goes to the senate, it will change. and i want to make sure that someone that represents a large military community and i have many members in the military and we are funding and giving all resources that we can and maintain the brightest, the best, and strongest most lethal force in the world. and we need to do this and i hoped to be more bipartisan than it was when it passed out of the house. and i hope that the senate keep as much intact as possible. and make sure that we get this done in a timely and efficient manner. >> margory taylor greene wants to cut off funding for the ukraine war. one colleague. she said that she only agreed to vote yes on this bill because got assurance by speaker mccart

this actual according to the joint chiefs of staff's office came when general mark milley was meeting with his counterparts. they will discuss military options. after you see a provocative launch like this, you'll see a joint exercise from the south korea and u.s., perhaps including japan, to demonstrate the deterrence the u.s. is trying to maintain as well as south korea and japan against north korea. it's still tense with all the situation on the peninsula there and we've been waiting for months, if not more than a year, for a possible nuclear test from north korea. that also remains on the table for next steps from the north korean regime potentially. >> potentially. these are the developments that are drawing the attention of the biden administration. orin lieberman, thank you for that report. >>> the nato summit wrapping up and the president's speech there today is certainly the big thing that he is focussed on today. we're joined by a member of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman jason crow of colorado to talk more about that. sir, i want to ask you -- we heard that

with heard from general mark milley the counter offense issue has gone slower than expected but is farfailure in his words and it's simply too early to tell, too early to call at this stage. of course, there are numerous attacks ongoing in the eastern region, setbacks. a key priority, according to president zelenskyy is, in his words, neutralizing the bridge, the bridge which connects russia to crimea. take a listen. >> translator: the objective is to claim all of the territory and a part of our nation. this is not just the road but the road used to feed the war. so understandably this is our objective. any objective that is bringing war, not peace, has to be neutralized. ? now, of course, this comes as russia really doubles down its bombardment of the eastern ukrainian region. we heard from president zelenskyy the objective here is aiming to obstruct the supply of russian troops. we've seen the bombardment intensify, at least six people killed on friday as they launch a spate of attacks on the region. for the last five days we've seen rounds and rounds of attacks on the port city and

in it meadows wrote quote, the president recalls a four-page report picked up by mark milley himself. it contained the general's own plan to deploy -- the polling mass numbers of troops, something he urged trump to do more than once during his presidency. this is so painful, you could see when trump was trying to explain this away with an interview to fox i believe that he was like, it was golf plans, it was my pants, it was my shirts. you could hear the papers rustling. that was literally him trying to buy time to think of an excuse. this is in the book and remember, if this is in the indictment, chances are the people who are in that room including the sycophants who couldn't say mister president, please put away classified documents. why are they here? all of those people potentially interviewed. >> in this memo from mark meadows, it provides corroboration for jack smith and the special counsel's office where he says in the more explicitly, this is a four-page attack plan prepared by general milley that is presented by don't trump, exactly one he appears to be describing on that au

we heard there has been pieces of testify from alyssa griffin from general mark milley and others thatd trump at times did to varying ex tents acknowledge he lost. the second best is that he was told in a persuasive way he lost. that's not as good because other people told him that he won. you can argue the reasonable inferences off that. and the important thing to keep in mind, even if donald trump actually believed he won the election, there are still things that you cannot do. you can't threaten an election official, for example. proving that intent is crucial and it's difficult and the way you get it is you talk to people who were the closest to your subject. >> i want to ask you, the special counsel's opposing trump's efforts to delay the classified documents trial, strongly worded leverage in this court filing. they are saying that there is a presidential campaign going on. who do you think has a stronger leg to stand on here with this -- their arguments? >> well, doj's motion that they filed yesterday is hot on the rhetoric. i think a little short on substance. an example. one o

and mark milley called it a righteous strike i still do not understand that can you explain please? >> yes, ma'am thank you very much for the question. the strike on i believe it was 29 august or august did do a classified review of that strike. we looked at what led up to it would look at the reporting on it we looked at the communications thereafter and it's classified i cannot talk about in this briefing but happy and appropriate setting to provide more information about that i would also say that's one of a number of reviews our offices regarding different kinetic strikes. but not limited to afghanistan as well as a happy to provide more information appropriate setting for. >> thank you have committee staff follow-up i yield back my time. >> think of the chernow recognize a gentleman from new york, mr. goldman. >> thank you very much madam chairwoman. mr. sopko did the afghanistan war start on generate 21st, 2021? >> and no, 20 years before per. >> yes it's the longest war in our history. and certainly in your evaluation of the last nine or 10 years, 10 years of that war was it

general mark milley was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.g? shoot them in the legs or something?" we were all shocked by this notion that somehow we would use the military to shoot protestors in the legs. [wolf] the teargas is now being fired. you heard the flash bang. that is an attempt to clear the crowd out. [wolf] the police are moving. they're trying to disperse this crowd that's gathered at lafayette park. and it's unfolding as we await the president of the united states to make a statement from the rose garden. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. that's something quite remarkable, to hear a president say that he would send in the us military to do domestic policing. it seems that they're making preparations over here at the white house for the president to make some kind of movement. it is possible that he may be going to st. john's episcopal church. we are now hearing,

it even included mark milley who testified to the committee about a conversation about what the next think it was foreign policy in iran. the number of witnesses who with testify to trump's knowledge that he lost and he was, therefore, leaving is almost endless. my struggle is to try to figure out how do you defend against it? what is trump -- i guess we know already for the documents case that the defenses are ludicrous, legally and publicly. they're farcical. there's no publpublic-facing evidence to the contrary. trump was told he lost, he knew he lost and knew he was leaving the white house. >> nicolle, you're ready for your law degree. i wouldn't agree more. in many ways, if you're a prosecutor, you want donald trump to die on that hill. there are some arguments the defense can make and you wonder how you'll respond to it. for the defense to go down the road of, oh, he thought he won, plays to government's strength because there are so many sources of evidence. and at the end of the day you're going to say to the jury, and what is the contrary evidence? what are the facts? again,

mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, testified than in late november or early december trump, in a discussion about a serious national security issue, said he would be leaving it to the next guy, acknowledging to merely the fact that he had lost and someone else was going to be taking over. what they are trying to do is trying to understand, on top of that, what are the facts here? how did donald trump go from in november and early december saying these things behind closed doors to completely convinced that the election was stolen or at least saying that he was completely convinced of the election was stolen. so that's sort of an important part of the story and something they are trying to flush out. >> you write the question of his intent could be important strengthening the hands of prosecutors if they decide to charge mr. trump in the case. i thought i was reading your story as you do with maggie haberman published a few more minutes ago, the detail that in the jacks mitt in the indictment and the mishandling of classified information, show's argument saying it's cl

mark milley, the chair of the joint chief of staff. trump filed 60 lawsuits and lost 60 times. steve bannon saying before the election that trump was going to say he won even if he really didn't. i repeat, bannon said that before the election. so, joy, the evidence suggests that trump he'd lost but he just didn't care. as far as he was concerned, losing the election didn't mean that he still couldn't be president, and that extraordinary subversion of democracy by a sitting president is exactly why jack smith has to prosecute this case. >> joshua, let me ask you this question. in your report you talk about you assume it's going to be a narrow prosecution. there are a lot of people who were a part of this scheme, and there are a lot of witnesses, from mike pence to jared kushner, you can go on and on. if it's a narrow prosecution like in the documents case, where it's just nauta and trump, who would you think would be the second guy? >> as a second guy it's the one who shows up the most through the january 6th committee report which is john eastman who drafted the memorandum, who