general milley knew this would come out now.wanted it to come out now. >> i wonder, general, you had the military -- things were so off the rails from milley's perspective that he was sitting in as a guardrail and preparing essentially to act as what any normal civilian administration would act as, which donald trump perhaps wasn't going to was his fear. how -- what does that tell you about how the constitution of the military held even as it was potentially acting in a very extraordinary manner? >> well, i think it's a reassuring story because of general milley and the other senior leaders in the armed forces, they're well educated, they're well read, they're experienced, they're connected with a lot of people in washington. now, remember, general milley is not the commander of the armed forces. he is legally the adviser to the president and to the congress and to the secretary of defense and the chain of command goes from the president through the secretary of defense. so, i think mark esper was mentioned in that book from wha

and then, milley is quoted as saying, this is a race-dog moment, milley told aides, the gospel of the fuehrer. look, we've known that people were concerned -- um -- that trump wouldn't leave office. we -- we reported that. to hear general milley say this. it's clear, when you read the book, he cooperated. there are extensive quotes. >> and he comes off looking pretty good, from what i understand. >> he does. and -- and -- and let's remember, he had his lafayette square, very bad moment. >> which he apologized for. he -- he was, i believe, in combat fatigues, walking with the president in that kind of motley assortment of people from the white house to -- to lafayette square. >> the very bizarre moment. but to hear general milley say this is stunning. >> the -- there were also, according to this book, daily check-in calls that milley started to do with mark meadows and some others. >> so one of the interesting things about that is, in the book, milley says he was doing it, also, to keep tabs on trump. as if, by talking to pompeo and mark meadows, he would get a better sense of what's g

and what they write is that milley, general milley, was so shaken by trump's behavior, the big lie, afternd other top-administration officials got together. and informally planned how they would stop a coup, if trump and his allies attempted it. and this included the chiefs of the air -- army, navy, air force, marines. and just to talk about the language. i just want to say, milley is extensively quoted, in this book. he, clearly, cooperated with it. milley viewed trump, quote, as the classic-authoritarian leader, with nothing to lose. the authors write. and then, he goes on to say to aides, this is a race-dog moment, milley told his aides. the gospel of the fuehrer. >> wow. >> um, it it's -- it's just -- one other thing i want to add, for context. donald trump has been hinting that he is going to run in 2024. i do not think it's an accident that general milley went public, in effect, through this book. to make it very clear just how dangerous and how unhinged he thought president trump -- then-president trump was. >> yeah. i want to get more on the book, jamie. >> yeah. >> and again, whe

mark milley was not deterred by that.ter the election he began informally planning with other military leaders, strategizing how they would block trump's order to use the military in a way they deemed dangerous or illegal." wait a second, pause here for a moment. as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the guy who is empowered by our constitution, our democracy to make this decision? now, he's not. he can't make them independently. if he disagrees he can resign but he can't make them independently. but he kept going. in early january nancy pelosi pressed for specifics for mark milley. she wanted to know what the generals had done to help her. she wanted to know if they were doing things that were illegal, taking control of the military from civilian elected leaders. and mark milley didn't blush, he confirmed they had done just that. "ma'am" 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 ba

why did milley and others worry so much? well, it turns out they thought that trump was going to order them to keep him in power. but did he? did he ever suggest anything like it? it matters. another missed question is, if they did think that was happening, why did they believe their best response was to plan to resign one by one? they write that milley's concerns only grew after trump purged pentagon leadership right after the election. that included the firing of mark esper. remember esper stood aside after the election and said this. >> we do not take an oath to a king or queen, a tyrant or dictator. we do not take an oath to an individual. no, we do not take an oath to a country, a tribe or religion. we take an oath to the constitution. >> now you know why he came with that message. so they viewed trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. he drew parallels to hitler. milly told aids this is a -- moment. could be the modern american equivalent of brown shirts in the streets, referring to the pro-nazi

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but milley was very insistent in these meetings. he said to others that it would come up again and again. >> more of your writing, susan, you write about how angry trump was that general milley publicly apologized for taking part in the lafayette square photo op. here is the quote. milley said he had to ask for forgiveness because he was a soldier in uniform who did not belong at a political event. i don't expect you to understand, milley had said, it's a n ethic for us, a duty. trump referred to that in his angry statement about milley. explain why this struck a nerve. >> donald trump doesn't do apologies, as we all know by now. 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

tag moment, milley told aides.erring to hitler, the burning of parlor to seize all -- suspend civil rights, a coup of sorts. dana, carl hits on something i think is super important, too. this isn't now just a history. >> exactly. >> it's a book about someone who is the current front runner for the republican nomination who has the full support, as far as i can tell, from the republican establishment now in power. that's the leadership certainly in the house of representatives and republicans around the country. >> that is such a critical point, john, because we are just starting to see the first, second, third drafts of history. we are talking about current events, and we are talking about current events, not just when it comes to a potential run for president again by donald trump, but also about what's going on in the congress right now, about the fact that you have the republican leadership knowing -- clearly knowing what is in this book and probably a whole lot more about what happened leading up to january 6 a

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 and then secretary of state mike pompeo is quoted as saying that the crazies are taking over. now we should say that in the book, someone close to pompeo denies that he ever said that and says it doesn't reflect his feelings. but it is clear there were two people in that conversation and one of them was general milley. so that was, i would guess, his take of the conversation. >> it is a great reporting as always. thank you, so much, jamie, really appreciate it. >>> joining me

i think -- i have the highest respect for mark milley.rson for the job as chairman of the joint chiefs. i thought that when i was still in government. he was doing his best, number one, to uphold the constitution. and this was -- this is where his loyalty and i think the loyalty of all the chiefs was, something trump fundamentally didn't understand. he had one concept of loyalty, which is loyalty to donald trump. and there is an element of loyalty to any president. their loyalty was to the constitution. milley understood that. number two, it's a triumph of our success of control in the military. milley knew that the military itself would be in danger if it got sucked into american politics. with somebody like donald trump, for whom everything is politics, it's very, very difficult. he and mark esper, the secretary of defense, had a very difficult course to walk. and i think the fact we got through this successfully is a credit to both of them for the thinking they did and the support they had from their colleagues. >> it sounds like you t

and milley says to her, quote, how are you doing?he guy, jim jordan, that son, while these maniacs are going through the place, meaning the capitol, i'm standing in the aisle and he said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. and cheney says, i smacked his hand away and told him, get away from me, you did this. in other words, from the election to january 6, jim jordan was on the phone with donald trump, if not every day, several times a week. and as we all know, liz cheney voted for the impeachment. she sees, you know, her republican colleagues as perpetuating and enabling trump that led to january 6th and the insurrection. >> by the way, it's more than six months since then. many people are still perpetuating the big lie. >> absolutely. >> thank you for the "inside look" at this. >>> we are joined now by former army commanding general lieutenant general mark hurtling. it's great to have you back. this is mark milley, doesn't mess around, doesn't mince words. his fears were genuine here, of trump attempting

milley. .i guarantee you we have checks and balance in the system and walked her through the process of nuclear release authorities, ma'am, i guarantee these processes are very good. there's not going to be an accidental firing of nuclear weapons. pelosi, how can you guarantee me. ma'am, there's a process. we will only follow legal orders, we'll only do things that are legal, ethical and moral. just to general clark's point, general milley believes in civilian authority, he did not want to be in this position. he clearly, you see in the book, is walking a very fine line between wanting to prepare because he is so scared, that there might be an attempted coup, but not wanting to over step the bounds of the job in the military. >> you know, it seems out of the realm of possibility, general clark, when you think about in normal times, these aren't normal times but you think about what happened on january 6th and the gaslighting that happened and is still going on afterwards, it's astounding. . cou

so milley had reasons to be afraid and suddenly after milley was alone. think it's not just the context of january 6th and the retrospective, there were a lot of events that made him very concerned and isolated in the face of what he feared trump could do. >> that's face scinating. he was scare and he was alone. there's one other point you make. this isn't a history lesson. this is a story about someone who is the current front-runner for the republican nomination for president. >> that's right. people are losing the fact this is not hysterical or an effort to look at what happened for a book. this is talking about everything in the context of somebody who still has a very firm grip on the republican party. i realize there are some republicans who get upset and think we are overstating his control. we're not. look at the events that are taking place. look at every poll that shows him -- even if he doesn't have a commanding lead, he doesn't have the 80% who want him to run for president again or want him to be the nominee, it's something like 55%. that's a

you know milley.. >> i first met general milley when he was colonel milley, commanding a brigade in the tenth mountain division. one, any commander in the tenth mountain division has a very tough job. that's a great unit, light infantry. and to be a brigade commander in that kind of organization, you have to be one of the very best. when i met him, i found him very strong. he tends to physically impress. he is obviously well educated, well read. and i was struck by how he can carry an argument in a very blunt, yet professional manner. really impressive guy. when i watched his performance with the disrespectful seditious congressman, and how he took them to the intellectual woodshed, i was just delighted, impressed and proud to know that man. >> well, i appreciate your time very much. thank you. >> my pleasure. >>> next, dr. fauci says the vaccines are, quote it's as good as officially approved. what is the difference between an official fda approval and an emergency authorization? this has become esse

did general milley have any idea what would unfold just three days later, susan? >> you know, don, i think that general milley was worried according to the accounts i've heard for months that something terrible would play out in the aftermath of the election. but the two scenarios that he was most worried about, one was that trump would get us into a war with iran, that he would insist on a military strike that would escalate out of control and lead to full-blown war. the other was what he called a potential moment echoing germany in the 1930s. but he was afraid there would be some kind of street fighting between pro-trump and anti-trump protesters that trump would then use as an excuse to call out the military to invoke a coup. and so the general was very scared of something like january 6th, but he didn't understand exactly what was going to happen on the capitol that day. >> susan, you're also learning that iran was mentioned. the chairman of the joint chiefs had to argue against a strike. tell me about what you described as nightmare scenarios. >> that's right

what am i dealing with, milley asked him? the conversations put milley on edge and he began planning with other military leaders, strategizing on how they would block trump's order to use the military in a way they deemed dangerous or illegal. if someone wanted to seize control, milley thought, they would need to gain sway over the fbi, cia and defense department where trump had already installed staunch allies. they may try but they're not going to f'ing succeed he told some of his closest deputies, the book says. the book details how milley then confronted white house chief of staff mark meadows at the army/navy football games about rumors that the president was planning to replace cia director, gina haskel with a loyalest. what is going on? don't worry about it meadow said. they report that the military chief 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.

in a way, this is what milley was doing. to disregard white house orders, but to put everybody on high alert that there might be something problematic. it speaks to unfortunately the very, very stressful moment and the fear of those surrounding president trump that he might do anything at all. i mean, it really was a very dangerous and volatile moment, but clearly the leadership of the uniformed military was on what i would say was high alert basically for many months. >> so, how did milley's specific concerns about iran resolve themselves? >> well, you know, the very last time that mark milley, the chairman of the joints chiefs of staff spoke with donald trump, i mean, period last time, was sunday, january 3rd. that is two days before what would end up being the insurrection at the capitol. and in that meeting at the white house, trump came back from mar-a-lago early from the christmas vacation, they had that meeting. trump was raising recent reports about iran's nuclear capacity. in the end, not only did milley once again

it would have been the worst thing in the world for general milley to resign. the last thing in the world this country needs is to have the leadership, military leadership in opposition to what the president decides instead of refusing to follow an unlawful order, and instead resign and leave the military in the hands of people who will not dig in against illegal orders. it was important that he was advised to and did not resign. >> do the hitler-esque comparisons from general milley as reported in this book, let's be clear, did those surprise you? >> yeah, it is surprising. it's a bit of a stretch, since what happened in germany in the '30s was vastly different than what happened during the trump administration in that the military establishment was already subsumed under the thrall of hitler and the black shirts, ss and so on. they were already part of the hitler operation. so that was not the case during the trump administration. and i'll go back to what i mentioned earlier. refusal to resign and instead to uphold the oath that officers and ncos and enlisted

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 o

but it depends on people like general milley very frankly. so i have to reflect the courage to do what is right. and the fact that he says that whatever his concerns and fears about what this president would do would never succeed, tells me that general milley understood and i think others understood that their first oath of a legance is to the constitution of the united states, not to an individual. >> well, we cerinly benefit from the wisdom of your experience and we thank you very much for joining us. former secretary of defense leon panetta. thank you. >> good to be with you, judy. >> woodruff: at the start of the pandemic, rents for luxury apartments in big cities plunged, with landlords slashing prices by hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and throwing in free amenities and perks. but around much of the country, rents for lower-income apartments stayed the same or rose higher, exacerbating inequality. special correspondent and washington post columnist catherine rampell has the story. >> reporter: brett vergara is up in the clouds.

we wrote a letter to secretary milley. it was public.d -- i'm sorry, to general milley and he responded in late august on the record. secretary esper also responded in september, not quite as clearly, and then, you know, we had a lot of informal communication with general milley and just making sure that he knew it may really come down to him that he might have to make some tough decisions in the latter-days of the trump administration and it feels like he did. >> did you have increased concerns after secretary esper left and was replaced by acting secretary miller and there was a wholesale transformation at the pentagon of civilians who included a lot of shall we say very hard line people who had been at the white house than in the intelligence community and had checkered careers, to put it kindly. >> yeah. absolutely. i think even before secretary esper was formally relieved of his job we knew here in washington that he wasn't getting access to the president and he wasn't innovated to the situation room and he was being boxed out becau

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

milley had a big smile. the fact it was unknown to milley, general milley, whether or not that day would come to pastels both stories the institutions held and we were pretty damn close. this keeps both in every frame. >> nicolle -- >> go ahead. >> sorry, i want to, again, this is fascinating but where i'm in a little bit of a different place where dan is it's not the united states military or the intelligence community or the fbi barely held on because they were teetering. i think that's going too far. i think what barely held was the united states congress. what barely help was our election system, the system of running elections in all 50 states and the pressure brought to bare on election officials and the process of counting votes in the chamber of the united states congress. that's the process that fundamentally nearly broke down. and the solution to that is, of course, all the things that are being talked about now in terms of voting and election reform. we should never have got tone a point a ministe

trump kept asking for him, you know, get milley, i want to ask milley about this, where is milley, you's apology took trump by surprise, and it is a couple of days after that speech where he's in the oval office with other -- with other officials, and trump kind of looks at milley and says, what was that, right? he says, why did you apologize in that makes you look weak. i don't understand. and milley just looks at the president and says, i don't expect you would understand. that's where we see the break, i think, in that relationship. >> and then i think it breaks in public, i believe trump issued by carrier pigeon an attack i guess against him after that testimony about critical race theory. i want to turn to covid because, again, you have some of the most stunning reporting i have seen about the president's indifference to the death. >> thank you. >> and the suffering, and he really saw -- he asks -- you talk about this. he asks you if you had been catching his, you know, performances, and then you have this reporting about atlas. let me read this and have you talk me through both o

that was a turning point for you and for general milley.ess my point is these episodes in this book were a part of a growing trend. it wasn't just what happened at the end of the trump administration. you had fears about the politicization of the military long before that? >> i do. i did. and i continue to have them even now because the political environment is so intense and so divided. and we need to work hard to make sure the military doesn't become part of what is politicized in this country. i think as far as lafayette park is concerned, general milley spoke publicly very quickly thereafter, and readily admitted he made a big mistake. with respect to literally from june until after january 6th, when milley really started to be cncerned about what was possible, he antenna was up. he knew the right thing to do. he knew how to do it, as best you could figure out in what is a very, very fluid situation, and then he executed according. so i think he more than made up for that mistake that he made surrounding lafayette square. >> dickerson:

milley said this is a reichstag moment. his fear was existential.thought they were capable of a coup. he said they're not going to f'ing succeed. you can't do this without the military. you can't do this without the cia and the fbi. we're the guys with the guns. perhaps it goes without saying, but the thought of the president's chief military adviser thinking that the president was capable of creating a coup is remarkable. judy: it leaves one speechless. but, yamiche, you, of course, were covering the white house then. what is your reporting about what was going on at that time, about what president trump was doing? and what is he saying about all this right now? yamiche alcindor: well, this reporting and these statements by general mark milley, they really underscore what we knew at the time about the trump presidency late in its tenure, this real critical period between november 2020 and january 2021. and really what it shows and what my reporting shows is that white house aides, as well as military officials and those closest to president trump,

milley thought there could be a coup at play. he had meetings with the fellow joint chiefs the staff. the head of the air force and the navy and the other branches of the military and together they decided if president trump were to issue some sort of order to the military that was unconstitutional or illegal or in their view, dangerous to the country that they would try to effectively institute a saturday night massacre in reverse where they would all resign one by one over time to try to delay the execution of that presidential order and prevent it from happening. that's how serious this became, and it was really a harrowing period for milley because he's a student of history and he was listening to and watching trump speak to his supporters and he saw parallels between what trump was saying about the election and where adolf hitler was able to consolidate power before the nazi regime took over. >> there was such relief, carol, at the inauguration when you write about how general milley felt after biden was sworn in. you said m

>> i am going to keep my conversations between myself and general milley private. >> reporter: milleyf was criticized for appearing with president trump on june 1 last year after protestors were cleared from lafayette square. he later apologized. the book says milley and other top military leaders even discussed resigning one after another if it became necessary. these new accounts coming as the house select committee investigating the causes of january 6th has scheduled its herae, t,ightrost are oe t lel of alfor wildfires, and it's the earliest that's happened in a decade. more than 70 large fires are burning in a dozen states. here's cbs's lilia luciano. >> reporter: the brutal summer continues, plagued by drought, scorched by record heat. the fire danger remains extreme. one burning now in california is near the town of paradise, rebuilt after being completely destroyed nearly three years ago. fortunately, this time, it's moving away from homes. the bootleg fire in oregon, already the nation's largest at more than 225,000 acres, exploded again overnight, sending large plumes visib

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 lafayette square. he later apologized. the book says mil

but again, hearing this from general milley the top military officer is stunning. christine and polo. >> just stunning indeed. thank you for that. >>> turning now to the coronavirus where it is a race between the vaccine and variants. case counts are rising driven by the delta variant. patients are younger and almost all unvaccinated which is why a teenage pop star with a monster social media following was an i deal messenger. >> hey, today i'm at the white house meeting with president biden and dr. fauci because it is so important that we all be vaccinated. >> only a quarter of kids are vaccinated. in mississippi only a third of the population has been vaccinated. state health officers there saying that seven children are in a mississippi icu with covid including two children that are currently on a ventilator. >> it appears that the delta variant while being more infectious is also causing more children to be ysymptomatic whether that is that it is just more severe or more prevalent so we're seeing more symptomatic cases, we're not sure, but it is probably relate

and for this -- general milley, a non-book question. you talked about the afghans having the capability to defend themselves, 300,000. we spent $74 billion on them. they're facing about 75,000 taliban over the -- the president said this. in layman's language for the american people, given the numeric superiority of the afghans, why does it appear that the taliban is winning? >> tony, on your first question in regarding the numbers of people that we've had confirmed thus far, certainly we'd like to see more. this is something that the deputy secretary and i, and my whole -- all of my leadershipre remained focused on each and every day.an and we continue to work with the white house to make sure that we have quality and qualified applicants to fill these seats. we have six that have been confirmed so far, and 10 that are waiting for a vote and five more that are in committee. so the process continues to work. and i think that you'll see that when the confirmations do occur that they'll be experienced, quality people that will add a lot of

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 tho

this is a rice tech moment, milley told aides. the gospel of the fewer. and at some level general, are you glad that there was a man with that number of stars on his shoulder speaking truth to power, or if not to power, his media staff? >> sure, look, being -- comparison between mr. trump and his gang and the nazi administration of hitler in the thirties, there is a shocking parallel though, in some ways, by their essential denial of the rule of law. and the norms that allow this terribly brief constitutional document to work. in which we all agree that certain things are going to happen, that you're not gonna spend money unless congress appropriated, that you're not gonna violate the judicial system's decisions. and the trump administration, for them, none of that was the case. i think milley was in there, in the room, by the way i've heard a lot of these reports on that book firsthand, contemporary to the events taking place. so there's no question in my mind that trump walked up to the edge of using armed forces in the federal law enforcement to try an

milley later apologized. >> i should not have been there.y presence in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. >> reporter: general milley and the defense department did not comment specifically for our story regarding accounts in the book, a defense official close to the general told cnn that he won't publicly address the issues raised in the book but the official also did not dispute them. former president trump not only denying ever speaking about a coup, but also calling milley a better politician than a general trying to curry favor with the radical left. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>>ist representative joyce beatty and several others were arrested by capitol police during a voting rights demonstration on thursday. beatty is an ohio democrat and chair of the congressional black caucus. she was participating in a small rally calling for passage of the "for the people act," a sweeping bill they hope will counter efforts to curb voting rights. after warning to clear the area, beatty and a few

general milley, secretary raffensperger. i think bill's got a really powerful point. susan's reporting is going to be very different if you have a different general sitting there, a different defense secretary being ordered to fire on civil rights protesters to smash their skulls, according to the reporting that we've seen. it was this time it was the people. back when i was in government one of the mantras was personnel is policy. who you put there will determine whether your policies get done. but i'm terribly worried that the next one will put people of much lower character in there. >> and lastly, susan, let's be honest, there are some crazy generals out there. and what if trump had put somebody like mike flynn in that job, somebody whose mental acuity and stability is questionable? what might've happened? >> well, look, first of all, our system is it designed to weed out things like this. and mike flynn is an interesting example because he was trump's first national security adviser. if there hadn't been an fbi investigation and he had stayed in longer, things co

milley: i appreciate your comments and leadership. good afternoon to everyone. i want to extend a thank you to all of you because you are a reminder that freedom of speech is alive and well at freedom of the press is a principal in our constitution. last week i traveled to norfolk to attend a ceremony recognizing new operational capability, the first and only nato had orders on u.s. soil, which is part of a vital network of strategic alliances and partnerships that enable us to protect u.s. military strength around the world. we also talked about the changing character of war, the geostrategic challenges that we will face in the future. last week the secretary and our honored to welcome home general scott miller from afghanistan. i want to publicly thank him one more time for his incredible leadership as the longest serving commander in afghanistan. twice wounded in combat, scott miller is an american hero. he is representative of the more than 8000 service members who have served in afghanistan across the last two decades, and we should always remember their fa

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

so i'm grateful general milley is referring to history.gs you told dana milbank this week, the journalist, is that a failed coup is practice for a successful coup. your view is not that this insurrection failed, we're glad it failed and we know a lot better, you're worried to the people who were inspired by -- to do what they did on january 6th, they remain inspired. >> we're now working within the framework of a big lie. one of the things i was try to explain last fall is that once mr. trump makes this big claim that he actually won the election, we're going to have a polarized society and one political party which makes it their single issue, which is basically what's happened. so long as we're in that framework, we can expect one of the parties to rig the system. if you tell people the other side cheated, you're promising your people that you're going to cheat as well. this scenario is now playing out with the voter suppression, with the culture wars. we get ourselves to a scenario where in 2024 the republican candidate could lose by a

, "if i was going to do a coup, one of the last people i would want to do it with is general mark milley those the worlds of the former president. >> jon karl. jon, good to have you. >>> meanwhile, at the white house tonight, president biden is hosting german chancellor angela merkel. just before we came on the air, in fact, the two leaders taking questions. questions on their disagreement over a new russian pipeline through germany. but their long-standing relationship also on full display. and tonight, the dinner now planned. former sectarians of state hillary clinton and colin powell expected to attend. rachel scott at the white house. >> reporter: biden white house. >> today, it's been my great honor, and i mean, that to welcome a dear friend back to the white house. >> reporter: this is merkel's final year as chancellor. she's met with four american presidents. >> as a matter of fact, she knows the oval office as well as i do. >> reporter: but there are flash points. biden is opposed to germany's deal with russia to build a massive gas pipeline connecting the two countries. the conc

that framing so alarmed mike milley milley and the election should be thrown out and trump should bethe real president. just yesterday, there was a pilgrimage made to kiss trump's ring. republicans want trump to be the president, by a mile. they strip power from non partisan election members so they can attempt to make sure they win elections one way or another. joining me now is one of the most perceptive speakers on this subject, tim snyder. this is his book, on tyranny. 20 lessons from the 21st century. professor snyder, good to see you. there is an essay euro barely a month into the trump administration, back in 2017 and titled the reichstag warning. and shows how a modern republican can be turned into an authoritative regime. the founding fathers knew the democracy they were creating was vulnerable to uninspiring tyrant who met steve what is your response to and general milley was feeling in the last days of the trump administration? >> my personal response, i am grateful that general milley reads history. our leaders and inspiring leaders should be reading history, there are tw

and mark milley will be prominently featured.ails next. >> laura: it easy to become numb to media bias these days. so "the ingraham angle," we're keeping track of the worst offenders of the week. we have doozies. joining me now, former cnn reporter. panel, great to see both of you. this week was a special one, i think, for the media. because they have their hands on a few new first-hand accounts. three separate trump books being the scrupulous journalists they are, they probe for inconsistencies. >> how i waited for this moment. >> congratulations. >> creative reading here. dramatic, i should say. >> things for writing the book. >> laura: jeffery, i seem to remember michael wolf's last book being riddled with lies. another wolf blitzer thanking him for the new tone. thank you, thank you. thank you for trashing trump. it's really -- >> you know, laura, once upon a time, i remember and i'm sure you do books about presidents by people that have been around him or interview people that have been around them. they were very objective

>> i'm going to keep my conversations between myself and general milley private. >> reporter: milley himself was criticized for appearing with trump on june 1st after protesters were cleared from lafayette square. he later apologized. the book says milley and other top military leaders discussed the possibility of resigning one after another if it became necessary. these accounts come as the house select committee investigating the causes of january 6th have scheduled its first hearing for later this month. kris van cleave, cbs news, >>> a police standoff in texas has left one officer dead and levelland near lubbock. the suspect was taken into custody before midnight, more than ten hours after the police responded after a neighbor reported the suspect was acting strange and walking around with a gun. the suspect had barricaded himself inside his house before he allegedly opened fire on the officers, killing one. a motive has not been released. >>> and this morning, former seattle seahawks cornerback richard sherman is scheduled to make a court appearance after footage showing he's tr

general mark milley talked about the trump supporters.n shirts, referring to adolf hitler's followers. nobody is equating trump to hit lersch but what's powerful here is that the u.s. military leaders, our top generals, admirals, joint chiefs of staff are worried that trump has a fascist fixation of staying in power, and they even -- he called the boogaloo boys and the proud boys hitler-like troops and at times donald trump seems different at a charlottesville event or during a debate just as i tell the proud boys, to you know, stand back and stand red, so trump dabbles in this sort of fascist hitler-like imagery frirnlgts and he dabbled enough in it that it frightened our joint chiefs of staff and top military brass that trump is unglued, and in fact that's what we fought world war ii against, the very type of people that were assembling on january 6th at the capitol. >> and that's the thick. it's not really about the nazi part of it so much as it is about the authoritarian part of it, the idea. >> yeah. >> that this country actually cam

general milley was working to avert a possible coup. he told his closest deputies, they may try but they're not going to blanking succeed. as early as november he and the joint chiefs began informally planning how they could block a presidential order to use the military in a way they considered illegal or dangerous and ill-advised. there were others who shared milley's concern too, a list that reportedly includes former secretary of state mike pompeo, although unsurprisingly he says it's totally not true. but milley's most chilling assessment of the former president came as trump mobilized his supporters behind the big lie, a mass delusion so powerful it inspired a terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol. quote, milley saw trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing left to lose. he saw parallels between trump's rhetoric of election fraud and adolf hitler's insistence to his followers that the nuremberg valleys, that he was both a victim and their savior. this is a reichstag moment, he told aides, the gospel of the fuhrer. that

, slamming him as a better politician than a general a spokesperson for milley declining to comment.nother 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 played teams from three different countries in las vegas. while here in tokyo, covid cases are at a si

what's the, blank, milley muttered as event coke walk towards her father with the bible, milley grabbed his aid and they backed away from the church. fill in the blanks, wet else can you add truly untethered day in our modern american history? >> everly is, i spent a lot of time in the book on that day and recreates as holy as i can what happened on that day. one of the things that this book lays out for the first time is general milley's involvement on that day, the role he played. he was fairly silent at the time about what happened, but going back in interviewing people who were in the room talking president several times about 2020 and what happened on a few these days, milley emerges as the person who repeatedly had to push back on trump to prevent some truly dangerous situations. 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 de

milley was shaken, leonnig and rucker write. he called to ask if a coup was a thing.dealing with. they were strategizing how to block trump's order to use the military in a way that was dangerous or illegal. if someone wanted to gain control, milley thought, they would have to sway the fbi and others. they may try, but they're not going to effing succeed, he told some of his closest deputies. the book details how milley confronted white house chief of staff mark meadows at the army/navy football game that the president was planning to replace gina haspel with a loyalist. what the hell's going on. what are you doing? >> don't worry about it. just be careful, milley warned. he spent weeks assuring 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. joining us now, reporter for the "washington post," you ian sc

. >> defense secretary lloyd austin and chief milley briefed reporters at the pentagon. they talked about relocating interpreters to the united states. and also a new book reporting that general milley thought that president trump would enter into a coup after losing the election. >> thanks for coming today. i'd like to talk briefly about my trip later this week to our priority theater of operations, which is, of course, the indo-pacific. and then i'll add just a few words on afghanistan, which is on all our minds here, and i'd like to start by saying, i'm looking forward to my second trip to the region as secretary of defense. this time we're headed out to southeast asia, and i'm glad to have the opportunity to engage with leaders there. i'm especially looking forward to making keynote remarks in singapore about how we're strengthening one of our unmatched strategic assets in the region which is our powerful network of allies and partners. i'll follow up -- i'll follow that up with stops in vietnam and the philippines where i'll meet with my counterparts and other leade

milley reassured her saying, quote, we'll only do things that are legal, ethical and moral. ultimately once president biden was gnawing rated milley says he thought to himself, quote, thank god almighty, we land the ship safely. and we're just learning that that meeting between mccarthy and trump has come to its conclusion, according to mccarthy's office, but no additional details about anything they spoke about alternate meeting, but something to keep in mind. mccarthy continues to mull over who he is going to put on that house collect committee to investigate what happened on january 6th. the first public hearing for that is coming up on july 27th. we're told by sources he intens to name his collections by then, jake, something that you have to think about when these two men have been in a room right before this is will that impact who mccarthy is going to put on this commission. will he be installing trump allies to tear up the system and to fight back whatever democrats and liz cheney may be putting together and looking into, and it's very possible that they will be prob