New Book: Top Generals Feared Trump Would Attempt A Coup After Election

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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First, Chris discusses revelations made in "I Alone Can Fix It," a new book detailing Trump's final year in the White House, with Jim Acosta, Michael Smerconish, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, and Phil Mud. Then, Chris clears up covid vaccine disinformation with Rep. Michael Burgess. Chris wraps up the show with Adam Streisand on the latest in Britney Spears' conservatorship battle. 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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0:00.0	I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:02.8	We are breaking news tonight.
0:04.2	It was worse than we knew what was.
0:08.6	According to the book, I Alone Can Fix It.
0:11.0	It came to it by CNN.
0:12.5	General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
0:16.5	was so shaken after the November election,
0:19.2	he feared that Trump and his allies might attempt to coup.
0:23.2	He and other top officials informally planned ways to stop it.
0:28.1	And these revelations come from these two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters at the Washington
0:33.2	Post, Carol Leoneg and Philip Rucker, in their book that Chronicles Trump's final year
0:38.3	in the White House.
0:39.3	According to the book, Milley told his deputies, quote, they may try, but they're not going
0:44.2	to f'ing succeed.
0:45.2	You can't do this without the military.
0:47.1	You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI.
0:50.1	We're the guys with the guns.
0:51.7	So what is getting lost in this?
0:55.0	Because this first flurry of the media is always about, oh, the military was upset
0:57.9	and because Trump was so bad, I get it.
1:00.6	But now you got to pause at this point.
1:02.2	You've heard the headlines.
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