Journalists Bob Woodward and Carol Leonnig, along with conservative attorney George Conway, will be recording a special live recording. The Chinese government had serious concerns about the U.S. provoking a war, and General Milley and people in the Pentagon were not just that. In the fall of 2020 the U.S. government faced a potential nuclear crisis because the Joint Chiefs of Staff worried that President Donald Trump would order the military to strike China. At a special taping of Yahoo News' Skullduggery show, the New York lawyer who was once offered a top job in Trump's Justice Department invoked a classic movie about a revolt aboard a ship. The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carol Leonnig were on the panel with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. All three expressed skepticism as to whether Trump will be indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election despite the fact that he and his allies mounted a pressure campaign in Congress and with state officials to achieve that aim. If the Justice Department indicts Trump, it will solidify him as the Republican candidate for President. There are graver and more pressing issues that Congress and media should be dealing with, most notably the prospect that a president could cause a nuclear war on his own. He said that it was less important that Donald Trump be prosecuted than that the Cabinet should be authorized by the 25th amendment. According to Woodward and his co-author Robert Costa, the country faced a potential crisis in 2020 when Trump was about to order a nuclear hit on China. Woodward said the Chinese thought we were going to attack them before the election. Military commanders were told to refuse to carry out the order unless they heard directly from Milley. He met with the rest of the Joint Chiefs and secured commitments that they would resign in order to prevent a nuclear war. If people in uniform push this button, it will be a war crime and they will disobey orders from the President. He said it was The Caine Mutiny with plutonium. It is a huge problem that is not solved and is moving quickly. The husband of Trump's top White House aide, Kellyanne, has been a frequent target of Trump's criticism. He had initially been offered the job of overseeing the civil division of the Justice Department under Trump but turned it down after concluding that the Trump administration had become a s--. On Thursday, about the same time as the Skullduggery taping, Trump unleashed another bromide against him, this time after he mocked a rally the former president was having in Nebraska on behalf of a candidate who has been accused of sexual harassment. It's a Make America Grope Again rally. He's a very sick man and he's mentally ill. I don't know what Kellyanne did to him, but it must have been bad. Trump said in a statement released by Save America that she had destroyed this guy. Lake is proving that she is incompetent of a witch doctor and witch hunter as she would be Arizona's governor. On January 6, 2021, the Utah senator called the governor to ask him to dispatch the state police to his home outside Salt Lake City. Men on the internet decided they knew more than women. According to a survey conducted by the Levada Center, as of the end of April 2022, 74% of Russians supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine. According to the NYT's Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, Cheney made it clear to friends that he looked on his daughter's vote with admiration and assent. Despite a dramatic loss of support within her own Republican Party, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming is pulling high fundraising numbers ahead of the primary. Jim King, a professor of political science at the School of Politics, Public Affairs and International Studies at the University of Wyoming, joined Red and Blue to discuss why she should not be counted out of the primary race. A list of simple handyman solutions. The New York ruling that 26 congressional districts were illegally distorted deals was a blow to the party. Republicans need to flip five seats to take control of the House. The New York Supreme Court struck down the state's 26 congressional districts because they were unconstitutional. Section 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability, is going to be abolished by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday. The law making online platforms not liable for content would be eliminated by the bill. Romney admitted that he used a secret account with the name Pierre Delecto to post critical statements about Trump. The sale prices for popular internet packages could be surprising. Start your search here. Stone Mountain is an official Confederate memorial site in Georgia. The Sons of Confederate Veterans got a permit to rally there on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to find new ways to attack the West after the setbacks of his invasion of Ukraine, according to John Brennan, the former CIA director. Brennan was talking about Moscow's move to cut off Poland and Bulgaria from Russian gas. More than 100,000 workers have left the US oil and gas industry since the beginning of the year. A man builds a trap to catch a thief. The New York Times reported that the three-year investigation into the Trump Organization may be over. Perdue, a business-minded conservative who won a U.S. Senate seat in 2014, is showing his transformation from a hard-liner aligned with conspiracy theorists. After losing the 2020 election, Trump fired the first Cabinet-level official. He was ousted after months of disagreements with the president. Many equally delicious berries are abundant in the wild and are commonly available in grocery stores. The US sees a path out of the Pandemic phase. The case against a man who would have been the world's most prominent criminal was no longer before the New Yorkers who finished their grand jury service this week. Donald Trump was facing potential criminal charges from the grand jury over his business practices. There are new signs that the Manhattan district attorney stopped presenting evidence about Trump. Some of the lawmakers who voted against the bill are coming out to explain their positions, including one who argued that the bill would give the government too much authority. The asset seizure was passed by the House. You need to try this if you don't like cleaning. The cleaning hacks and products will change your life. On the floor on Thursday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) apologized for calling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a cheerleader for the insurrection. The lead manager during the second impeachment trial of the former President did so after Rep. Guy. The dollar got a boost from a dovish Bank of Japan statement Thursday, which pushed the yen beyond a key psychological level and weighed on currencies from Asia to Europe. Donald Trump throws hats at a rally in Wellington, Ohio, in June 2021. Donald Trump has been mocked for his fear that protesters would throw fruit at him. The revelation came during the former president's testimony.Download 'Skullduggery' on Apple Podcasts >>>
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