>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT." WE ALMOST NEVER USE THE TERM DEEP STATE ON THIS SHOW. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT SOUNDS PARANOID, EVEN A LITTLE NUTTY. AS OF JUST A FEW YEARS AGO YOU MOSTLY HEARD THE PHRASE FROM RELICS ON THE FAR LEFT, THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO LECTURE YOU ABOUT THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY. THE TERM THEN AND NOW SUGGESTS THAT OUR DEMOCRACY IS FAKE. ELECTIONS AND DOMESTIC POLITICS ARE JUST A SIDESHOW NO MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR IN THE END, THE SAME PEOPLE STILL RUN EVERYTHING PEER THAT IS A PRETTY DARK UNDERSTANDING OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM. IF YOU ARE A NORMAL PERSON WHO GREW UP HERE IT IS THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO BELIEVE ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNTRY. IT SEEMS CRAZY. THEN YOU READ STORIES LIKE THIS ONE. ACCORDING TO REPORTING THIS SUMMER IN THE DAYS AFTER LAST NOVEMBER'S ELECTION, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF SCRATCH HELD A MEETING WITH SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIALS AT THE PENTAGON. GENERAL MILLIE WANTED TO INFORM THEM OF WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS A SERIOUS THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. A THREAT SO GRAVE IT IMPALED "THE STABILITY OF THE REPUBLIC. THAT THREAT, MILLIE SAID, WAS THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. DONALD TRUMP QUESTION TO THE ELECTION. FOR THIS, -- FORCE AGAINST THE U.S. PRESIDENT. WHERE THE GUYS WITH GUNS, MILLIE SAID. APPARENTLY HE HAD BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS MOMENT. HE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HEAD OF THE CSA AND THE NSA. HE HAD ALSO SPOKEN DIRECTLY TO CHUCK SCHUMER AND NANCY PELOSI, DONALD TRUMP'S CHIEF POLITICAL RIVALS. NOW ACCORDING TO A NEW BOOK BY BOB WOODWARD AND BOB COSTA, APPARENTLY HE WENT EVEN FURTHER THAN THAT. LAST YEAR, MILLIE CALLED HIS COUNTERPART IN CHINA, GENERAL. HE DID NOT TELL HIS BOSS, THE PRESIDENT COME ABOUT THIS CALL EITHER BEFORE HE MADE AT OR AFTER. HERE WAS MILLIE'S MESSAGE FOR THE CHINESE MILITARY. "GENERAL LEE, I WANT TO ASSURE YOU THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS STABLE AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY. WE ARE NOT GOING TO ATTACK OR CONDUCT ANY KINETIC OPERATIONS AGAINST YOU. AND THEN REPORTEDLY MILLIE SAID THIS, GENERALLY, YOU AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR FIVE YEARS. IF WE ARE GOING TO ATTACK, I'M GOING TO CALL YOU AHEAD OF TIME, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A SURPRISE. LET THAT SINK IN, IF WE ARE GOING TO ATTACK, I'M GOING TO CALL YOU AHEAD OF TIME. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A SURPRISE. SO ACCORDING TO THIS ACCOUNT, OUR COUNTRY POSITIVIST TOP DEFENSE OFFICIALS SECRETLY COLLUDED WITH THE CHIEF MILITARY RIVAL TO UNDERCUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THAT? DEEP STATE IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH. THAT'S TREASON. IT IS A CRIME. IT APPARENTLY MARK MILLIE IS NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS IMPLICATED IN THIS CRIME. OTHERS KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AS I DID. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ALMOST CERTAINLY HEARD MIKE MILLIE'S CALL. IF THEY CAN READ EMAILS FROM A CABLE NEWS SHOW ON FOX, OVER THE THE CHANCES THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WAS SPEAKING TO A SENIOR CHINESE GENERAL AND WHAT THEY WERE SAYING. CHANCES ARE ABOUT 100%. YET, THE NSA DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. THE CIA WAS MEANWHILE FULLY ON BOARD WITH THIS. WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO A RIGHT-WING COUP, SHE TOLD MILLIE THAT. IN FACT, THERE WAS A COUP IN PROCESS BUT IT DIDN'T COME FROM THE RIGHT. IT WASN'T BREWING IN ALABAMA. INSTEAD A CONSTELLATION OF EMPLOYEES LOYAL ABOVE ALL TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND PERMANENT CLASS IN WASHINGTON IGNORED THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THEN THEY INVALIDATED THE VOTES OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. HOW DID THEY DO THAT? BECAUSE THEY INVALIDATED DEMOCRACY. DEMOCRACY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING IF THE PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE NO POWER, AND MARK MILLIE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE CERTAIN THE ELECTED PRESIDENT HAD NO POWER. IN EARLY JANUARY, WOODWARD AND BOB COSTA REPORTED, MILLIE CALLED ANOTHER MEETING AT THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER. HE INFORMED THIS GROUP THAT THEY REPORTED TO HIM, NOT THE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THAT IS NOT A SMALL CLAIM. THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER CONTROLS AMONG OTHER THINGS THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS INSIDE OUR MISSILE SILOS AS WELL AS THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON BOARD SUBMARINES. MARK MILLIE WAS SEEKING PERSONAL CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR ARSENAL. HE RAN AROUND AND DEMANDED OFFICERS SUBMIT TO HIS AUTHORITY, NOT THE PRESIDENT. ACCORDING TO WOODWARD AND COSTA COME ALL PRESENT IN THE ROOM AGREED TO THIS. MARK MILLIE WAS IN CHARGE. IF THIS IS TRUE, IT IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY. OFTEN PEOPLE SAY THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT AUTHORITARIANISM COMING TO AMERICA. WELL, IT'S HERE. IT'S WHAT IT IS, AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT BY UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE LEADERS WILLING TO USE VIOLENCE TO PRESERVE THEIR POWER. THAT IS WHAT THIS BOOK DESCRIBES. IT IS SHOCKING. NOT SURPRISINGLY OUR NEWS MEDIA SPENT TODAY CELEBRATING IT. IT TURNS OUT THE SELF-DESCRIBED DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IN THE SYSTEM THEY CLAIM TO REVERE. THE IDEA OF GIVING VOTERS POWER OVER THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT REPULSES PEOPLE LIKE THIS. SO THEY ARE RELIEVED TO DISCOVER THAT IN FACT OUR DEMOCRACY IS FAKE. HERE'S A SELECTION FROM SOME OF THE PROGRAMMING. >> I WOULD CALL GENERAL MILLIE A HERO. HE BEHAVED IN A HERALDIC MANNER. >> WHAT HE DID WAS ENSURE THE GUARDRAILS WERE IN PLACE, SO I GIVE HIM HIGH MARKS FOR THIS BASED ON WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK. >> I THINK MILLIE FELT ILL USED IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE WHEN HE WAS USED AS A PROP, SO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND MILLIE'S ANXIETIES. >> WE WERE IN A PERIOD OF EXTRAORDINARY DANGER. I THINK GENERAL MILLIE IS GOING TO BE TREATED VERY FAVORABLY BY HISTORY. >> Tucker: THE FIRST GUY USE ON THIS CLIP IS A MORON, OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS NO SURPRISE THERE. THE SECOND GUY WAS A RETIRED MILITARY OFFICIAL. BUT THE LAST TWO? GEORGE WELL? BARRY McCAFFREY? THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WHATEVER YOU THINK OF THEM OR WHO THEY VOTE FOR, YOU WOULD HAVE IMAGINED MIGHT DEFEND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WHEN IT CAME RIGHT DOWN TO IT, BUT NO, THEY DIDN'T. THEY CHEERED ITS ENDING. THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE MARK MILLIE SECRETLY CONSPIRING WITH THE CHINESE MILITARY TO END CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE PENTAGON. IT TURNS OUT THAT IS THE GOVERNMENT THEY WANT AND YOU SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT. NOW THAT WE KNOW ALL THIS, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? IN SOME WAYS HE IS THE CENTER OF THE STORY. A RETIRED ARMY COLONEL WHO LAST YEAR ADVISED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ON FOREIGN POLICY. HE COAUTHORED A MEMO ASKING U.S. TROOPS TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN FINALLY AFTER 20 YEARS
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