Speaker 1: . OK, one other similar story about new reporting that we have.
Earlier this week, I told you about the forthcoming book, I Alone Can Fix It by Washington Post
reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
And during the week, there have been little leaks about what is in that book.
There is now a New York magazine report with more information about what's in it and also
some CNN reports.
And what is in this book is absolutely and totally wild.
Let's first look at some CNN published quotes from the book, starting with Donald Trump
talking about the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
You know, Joe Biden today is meeting with Angela Merkel and will be doing a press conference
with her.
My sense is that Biden's perspective on Merkel is different than Trump's.
Donald Trump reportedly said in the Oval Office, quote, That bitch Merkel as well as I know
the effing Krauts.
And I was raised by the biggest crowd of the small crowd, of course, a pejorative for German
people.
Trump reportedly referring to the chancellor as that bitch.
Merkel also reported in this book, General Mark Milley was worried about how do we protect
the inauguration.
And Molly reportedly said, quote, Here's the deal, guys.
These guys are Nazis.
They're boogaloo boys.
They're proud boys.
These are the same people we fought in World War Two.
And then lastly, from CNN's reporting on quotes from the book, I alone can fix it.
Nancy Pelosi reportedly saying of Trump after January 6th, this guy's crazy, he's dangerous.
He's a maniac.
We have deep concerns.
The New York magazine report outlining that Mark Milley said Trump preached, quote, the
gospel of the Führer, referring to Adolf Hitler.
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likened Donald Trump's effort
to hold on to power after the twenty twenty election to Adolf Hitler, saying the president
was preaching the gospel of the Führer with his lies about the election being stolen.
According to the book, I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, the Pentagon's
top general said shortly before the January 6th insurrection that Trump had led the country
to the brink of its own Reichstag moment, viewing him as a potential threat to the American
democracy.
It seems very clear that Mark Milley, you know what?
You actually know what's really funny about this?
Was it last week or the week before that we had that clip of Mark Milley saying during
a hearing, hey, guys, listen, just because you learn about critical race theory doesn't
mean you become some kind of cartoon WOAK character in the same way that Mark Milley
said, we are a university at the military and we want to learn about Marxism.
We want to learn about communism.
We want to learn about critical race theory.
We want to understand what are the beliefs of people within the country and outside of
it.
It's it's quite clear, you know, whatever you want to think about Mark Milley, that
the fact that he's a.
Part of history has served him quite well in being able to look at the past and find
situations that are analogous to what we saw under Donald Trump.
The article points out Trump had appointed me to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs in twenty
eighteen over the objection of Defense Secretary James Mattis.
The Army generals tenure at the top of the Pentagon at the top of the Pentagon had been
relatively quiet until last summer when he appeared in uniform during an infamous photo
op for Trump in Lafayette Square that followed.
The clearing of protesters in front of the White House merely apologized for creating
a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.
Although the book chronicles Milli's concerns with Trump dating back to that moment, the
generals worries grew rapidly as Trump plunged the nation into chaos following Election Day.
Seven days later, Milley got a call from an old friend with an explicit warning that Trump
and his allies were trying to overturn the government.
Millie was confident that any attempts by Trump to hold on to power would be thwarted
because the military wouldn't go along.
They may try, but they're not going to effing succeed, he told aides.
You can't do this without the military.
You can't do this without the CIA and FBI.
We're the guys with the guns.
Still, Millie was disturbed by the sight of Trump supporters rallying to his cause in
November, calling them brownshirts in the streets.
Leonnig and Rucker wrote that, quote, believed Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes
of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military.
Even at that high level, there was the fear that that's what Donald Trump wanted to do,
a key difference between Trump's dictatorial delusions and those of Adolf Hitler.
Trump is in his mid 70s, Hitler was in his 40s when the Reichstag burned.
Trump could still get a good run if he were reelected in twenty four.
Right.
But it is a different situation in that sense.
Significant, significantly different age.
I actually am looking forward to this book.
I alone can fix it.
Normally, I'm not big on these books, but this one I do plan
to read.