General Milley Called Chinese General In Consultation With Esper

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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General Milley called Chinese general in consultation with Esper; Ex-defense official: Then defense secretary Esper had official backchannel China to avert conflict; Milley feared Trump actions; White House in high gear defending General Milley amid calls to fire him; Republicans call on Milley to resign; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.1	the nation's top general, Mark Millie, was not the only Trump official to back channel China
1:08.7	to reassure the country in the final months of Trump's
1:11.5	presidency. This is the White House's defense if Millie is kicking into high gear tonight.
1:16.0	Plus Capitol police calling for the National Guard, temporary fencing around the Capitol going
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1:42.6	Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news, General Millie wasn't alone.
1:47.5	As calls grow from some on the right for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Millie,
1:52.0	to resign over revelations that he contacted a top Chinese general twice in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency
1:59.0	to reassure Beijing that the U.S. would not attack
2:02.7	China? Well, we are learning that the Secretary of Defense at the time, Mark Esper, also
2:08.5	took extraordinary steps at the same time. A former senior defense official says that Chinese
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