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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.

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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.

Carol Leonnig, center, in white jacket and scarlet pants, addresses the audience as the other four listen.
From left, Yahoo News' editor-in-chief Dan Klaidman and Michael Isikoff, Yahoo's chief investigative correspondent, speak with Carol Leonnig, George Conway and Bob Woodward on the Skullduggery podcast on April 28. (Mark Seman/Yahoo News)

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.

Bob Woodward on the set of the Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC on April 28, 2022. (Michael Aitken for Yahoo News)
Bob Woodward on the set of the Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC on April 28, 2022. (Michael Aitken for Yahoo News)

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--.

George Conway on the set of the Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC on April 28, 2022. (Michael Aitken for Yahoo News)
George Conway on the set of the Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC on April 28, 2022. (Michael Aitken for Yahoo News)

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.

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