All right, thanks Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. Now we know the truth.

We were closer to a real destruction of our democracy than was even apparent.

Trump was considering crazy actions that threatened national security.

Concerns that went all the way to the top at the Pentagon. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa,

both of the Washington Post, right in their new book, Parallel, that General Mark Milley,

you've gotten to know him a little bit more recently in politics, the chairman of the joint

chiefs of staff, single-handedly took action twice, once right before the election,

and then after January 6th, to block Trump from going rogue, to limit him from potentially ordering

a dangerous military strike or even launching nuclear weapons. Now the question to start with

is why. Milley was reportedly very concerned, concerned shared by others in the administration

and Congress, according to the book, that a desperate Trump had gone into a serious mental decline.

In addition to consoling his Chinese counterpart that the United States democracy was intact

and no military action was imminent, the general also called a secret Pentagon meetings

two after, two days after the insurrection. The point was to review the process for military

action with senior officials. Now if you think back to that time, it wasn't too long ago.

Trump had been upending the military's leadership if you'll remember after losing the election.

His cabinet members were resigning, he had nut jobs in his office talking about martial law,

and he really was nutty enough to pressure the vice president, Mike Pence, to try to steal the

election up until at least the day before the certification of the vote. Heavy charge, what's

the backup? In the book, it says Trump and Pence were in the Oval Office on January 5th,

talking about what powers Pence had to mess with the electoral camp.

When the vice president told Trump he wouldn't want any one person to have that kind of authority,

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