'Peril' Details Dark Final Year Of Trump In Power

general milley calls his counterpart in china and the most controversial thing as far as i can tell from the action from it that he said was it he first of all guarantees him don't worry no attack we know you people are suspecting donald trump might launch an attack as a way of hanging on to power and then there's the part where he says i'm paraphrasing uh if there is any kind of attack i will warn you i will let you know um you've seen the criticism of general milly about this he hasn't offered any public comment about it if general milley could answer the criticism he's been getting about this what would you expect him to say well i'm not going to guess about what he might say i we know from our reporting what happened remember you have to understand what this day was it was four days before the election october 30th and intel sensitive intelligence shows that the chinese think we're going to launch an attack on them now this is the worst moment for somebody in the military because if the as milli tells his senior staff if that were the case if they think we're going to attack them they might launch what millie told the senior staff would be a pearl harbor on us so he moves to protect the country and you know i think that at the center of all of this we should say the reporting we did shows that everything millie did was to protect the country the idea that he committed treason is totally unsupported by i mean there there is just nothing in our reporting and when he says to general lee head of the chinese military if we are going to attack you i will call you but in the context if you read i was going to suggest you read page 129 because the whole answer is there he's saying not that he's going to tip him off but the tensions will build up this is the way it always happened uh in history and then he said we're not we're not gonna have a fight and uh general lee uh says i i accept it i believe it and every step all these calls all milly's actions now he's going to testify later this month i mean thank god we have congress which will make an effort to get to the bottom of this and let him explain why he did things but are reporting zero evidence absolutely zero evidence of some sort of treason or the idea of doing something not in the interest of protecting the country this is a man who devoted his entire life to the united states military and you know he's gonna he's gonna have to answer for himself but uh if people like donald trump who've said oh what millie did if this is true this is treason i think when everything comes out about all of this and we we get the facts on the table a lot of people who've accused millie of treason are going to be apologizing to millie because they have misread what happened and they have misread the extent to which he has committed his life decade after decade now did he make are some things unclear is i mean the the testimony before congress that uh he's going to give i guess it's on the 27th uh it's going to be some of the most important testimony given to congress uh in decades i think you have other reporting in the book about another uh congressional investigation that's underway right now and that is the investigation of the january sixth attack on the capitol uh and this you have reporting on kevin mccarthy's phone call to donald trump during the attack on the capitol this is from the book where you have uh kevin mccarthy calling donald trump saying you've got to get up and tell these people to stop i am out of the capital we've been run over mccarthy said he was intense someone just got shot i'll put a tweet out trump said i've never seen anything like this mccarthy said you've got to tell them to stop you've got to tell get them out of here get them out of here now he never asked about mccarthy's safety and one remark stood out well kevin i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are uh robert costa that's a conversation that the investigative committee about january 6 wants to get even more detail on uh the there's so much in this book that is of interest to that committee uh kevin mccarthy has kind of changed his tune about all this since then uh what does your reporting indicate uh we would learn if kevin mccarthy was put under oath in that uh hearing room in that investigation what bob woodward and i found is that kevin mccarthy the house minority leader in leader mcconnell in the senate they're kind of the surface of the republican party but that isn't the whole story you look at january 5th we discovered that steve bannon the former white house strategist was there at the willard hotel blocks from the white house with rudy giuliani having an almost war room type meeting with other trump allies the eve before the january 6 insurrection and president trump calls into this willard hotel uh informal war room to talk to giuliani to talk to bannon and bannon had actually been in close touch with president trump for days before january 6 based on our reporting he privately told president trump to have a reckoning on january 6 and he said to the president it's time to kill the biden presidency in the crib you can't get more visceral than that but the intertwining roles abandoned giuliani trump allies on the outside who were at the rally at the white house that's a story beneath the story of mccarthy and mcconnell both important dynamics to understand and we try to lay them out scene by scene there's so much more i want to get to that we won't get to here just tip the iceberg elements like bill barr's campaign advice to donald trump long extensive conversations about the presidential campaign very surprising from an attorney general uh advising a president on that but there's another whole section of the book which is about someone else which is about joe biden and bob woodward that makes this the first trump book that constantly is cutting to sanity it's cutting from the madness of the trump white house to the sanity and the stability of what joe biden brings to both the presidential campaign and then the white house the biden story begins a year and a half with a year and a half left in the biden vice presidency it when beau biden dies on may 30th 2015 and on page 13 you tell this story joe biden was devastated this is going to be very tough time for me personally biden told steve richetti his chief of staff for nearly 30 for nearly three years and another principle in biden's political brotherhood the only way i'm going to be able to get through this he said and we'll be able to get through this as a family is if we just you know you have to keep me working and busy bruschetti loved bible the resilience the generosity the friendliness of biden said he needed to work he knew how to keep the vice president busy schedule action rashetti later reflected to others that sometimes it sounds almost cruel but keeping busy meant taking another hard look at a presidential campaign and bob order there's so much in there that is so different from trump world and steve roshetti is one of a cast of several devoted career-long devoted people working for joe biden who love him ron claine others in this book that kind of support character around donald trump doesn't exist the person who's been with him for a long time who loves him who's devoted to him and has wise counsel for him uh what it what is this what do you think the reader should take out of this book about not necessarily not political positions or wins and losses in congress but but how joe biden and the people he has brought into the white house run the white house well it's it's a different cast and it's a different theory of the case and when bob costa and i talked about doing this book we realized because biden is the current president we need to show what he does and maybe 40 percent of the book it lays out who he is what he cares about there are some missteps there are some problems at the same time you can't report on biden and understand that the core of him is what and this isn't a political judgment it's a reporting fact that the core of him is let's protect the country let's do the best that we can and so there is that uh that back and forth but we you know we the point of the book the larger point in apparel uh lawrence is that trump was created a national security crisis and that that is what we didn't know about until we could get some of these details [Music] you

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