Gen. Mark Milley, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman sits down with Lester Holt
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- General Mark Milley, who retired last week as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat down with Lester Holt for a wide-ranging discussion about former President Trump, the Chinese spy balloon, Afghanistan withdrawal and more.
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#MarkMilley #Trump #SpyBalloon
As a former us army mp any all military members defend the constitution not political bull
Where does the Constitution say that the US military shall hold drag parties on base during work hours that the US military has to attend?
Whatever
Is that why this communist Milley pushed DEI?
Stop lying to yourself.
@@nathenmunn4242 he ain't lyin'.
@@nathenmunn4242the military actually has its own laws separate of civilian laws. Just like how our government in D.C. has different laws than anywhere off capital property.
Respect to the brave men and women of the United States armed forces.
AND THE VETERANS
Yes, and interestingly MOST of the Trump supporters commenting here do NOT support our military and General Milley.
And he isn't one of them!
@@billmartinn9851 I assume you mean tRUMP, in which case, I agree with you.
Can we just stop pretending that America isn't captured by unelected multinationals and that includes the Military Industrial Complex. General Milley is a traitor and his butt buddy Rachel Levine the cross dresser.
THIS MAN IS TRAITOR AND I HOPE HE ENDS UP IN WOKE JAIL.
He was already executed by white hat military.
How does someone without a spine ascend to such leadership roles
I am assuming your talking about tRUMP ! or mr. bone spurs
His biggest achievement was the Afghanistan withdrawal🤣😂🤣😂We all know how that went🤷🏻♂️
Lots of chap stick, take credit for things they never did and act tough only around underlings you can abuse. This clown is the best example of the worse the top brass has to offer.
Thank you general for steping down, hope we’ll never see you again!
I don't know how spineless Trump ascended to that level of leadership.
Now you have all the time now milley to study white rage
How many innocent civil he had killed !!!!!????
Now he has all the time to make more money
Why no question about the phone call to China's military regarding a promise to call before attack? Good questions otherwise.
Was that even fkn English???
It's called treason.
I do not blame him considering how desperate the yellow hair dude was.
an Embarrassment to our country - General Patton wud put his boot heel in Miley’s forehead 💡
Lester "Hollywood" Holt knows what questions not to ask. He "interviewed" (or should I say, 'Exonerated') the Capitol Executioner Byrd, after all....
Is this the interview or their rehearsal?
Just like when Hollywood Holt "interviewed" that Capitol -Police Officer- Executioner. ⏳📜 Judgment Day is coming.🕯️
Mainstream media channels like this is why youtube no longer has a dislike button. This video would be and probably is disliked into oblivion!!!
It still does but you have to download a browser plugin. its about a 60-40 ratio
In the olden days, if you got down voted enough they took down the video.
if you use Firefox you can turn it back on and see the negatives
I am baffled by the fact that our former president, who attended a private military school, for a time, could emerge with these attitudes.
Amazing how a man of Honour handles that " gut punch" doesn't lose his cool at all. Respect General Mark Milley, Trump will never hold a candle near you ❤🎉
No statute of limitations for treason. Hopefully, he can spend the rest of his life eating prunes on a toilet in Leavenworth. Think Milley called China to tell them Joes insane ? Don’t worry DNA your monthly check will be there -
He should have looked at the camera and gave a apology to the parents of all 13 servicemen and women he got killed in Afghanistan……..
Mark raised his voice in emotion as he made his exit speech.
He said to the Chinese "we would warn you of an attack"??? " i wanna know about white rage" ???
You're supposed to remember that
Yeah sooo?
Where was Trump wrong in his statement? 😒
Traitor to the Constitution
Master of integrity. Thank you.
Now run upstairs and ask mommy if you can call China like Milley - no wonder you could never keep a woman and never will.
NBC can’t get a positive comment about this guy on its own YT channel. That should tell them something
no, 2 bootlickers near the top of the comment section
you deserve a courts martial.
Anybody else remember when he commited treason?
I do.
Hopefully history does . Did China give him his medal and his check yet ?
The fact that he wont comment on the China matter says a lot. Regardless what party you follow or how you feel about Trump this should concern you a lot.
He has spoken at length about the China matter. Including his call, which was directed by the Secretary of Defense, to ensure that China didn't misunderstand our situation and stumble into war.
General Milley serves the Technocrats and sold America out decades ago. Why is this so hard to see?
@@janerkenbrack3373 Exactly! Karl's knowledge of the military and how it functions is obviously as miniscule as is Trump's.
@@janerkenbrack3373 Then where is it? The only thing I can seem to find were reporting about it in some book written by the Washington times. If they have access then why isn't it public record? Who knows he may have been doing the right thing, regardless these questions should be asked. With all that said a lot of good that has done us. China is far more hostile than ever.
@@janerkenbrack3373 Athough I am willing to afford General Milley the respect he has earned and deserves, I don't really see how the events surrounding internal political struggles within the USA merit military personnel conducting backdoor communications with a potential hostile state / enemy. Irrespective of any possible outcome of the hotly contested election, the Chinese Communist Party leaders must surely know that launching a nuclear attack against the United States would result in a measured response commensurate with their initial volley. Milley might garner greater admiration from his military service brethren if he were to simply remain silent on these issues since anything he might say is likely to be misconstrued by other figures in the political arena/battleground. However, he is a US citizen and entitled to express his views which are protected by our 1st Amendment that he swore to defend and protect.
Did you ever understand "White Rage?" while those 13 kids were killed unassing Afghanistan with no plan
remember the upside down bible - freak show
I remember like a nightmare I try to forget and can't.
yeah the guy never read the book in his life
@@richierich3194obviously he has. Bet you haven't. Probably can't vote a verse without Googling it first.
Court martial that traitor ...
Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libys, Syria. What good have these generals done in the last 25 years?
Yeah but he made up for it by forcing trannies into the military! A total creep
It was flawed POLITICAL decisions about war! Thanks to that dull bulb, "President" George W. Bush.
He’s retired.. Time to take off the medals he didn’t deserve.
Milley's reputation floated away with the Chinese balloon.
He is a traitor to the uniform.
Does his Chinese handlers get to transfer to his replacement
Good riddance after that humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan not to mention the avoidable deaths of 13 service members. Milley is a national embarrassment!
Now he can wear women’s clothes guilt free!!!
He's a Freaking Awesome General!
He's a traitor.
@@pedlpower (F)reakin' (A)wesome (G)eneral (G)lobbers (O)ver (T)aliban
Why are we listening to this man? When's the last time he won a war?
He is a wood liberal and he shouldn’t have ever been chairman of the joint chief of staff
Thank of it, Millie left hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan and 85 billion$ as a tip. Not to many decades ago we would have hanged him for treason!
Milley should have been Courts Martialed for his Afghanistan debacle.
austin too
"Let’s be clear on one thing, the corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism, they are a political special interest no different from a lobbyist." ~Donald J. Trump
I guess if you really need a fraud to spot one, good quote?
@@LackofFaithifyMost thinking people recognize the media is no longer engaged in journalism.
Left or right: it’s all biased, opinion driven narratives.
What’s your point?
If you still support Trump you are ignoring the obvious.
Generals Milley, Mathis and Kelly all worked with him directly and rebuke him as unfit.
Bonespurs Donald cries what?
I love you donald trump! You are the only hope that I have your the only hope. Otherwise there's no point in getting up out of bed tomorrow.
He's no George S. Patton.
He would’ve made a great admiral for Periscope Up!
i remember Patton unleashing tanks on veterans who had an insurrection for money owed, feel free to watch "March of the bonus army".
@@justmehello5543 You are going to confuse "Steve Harvey" with facts.
Lester is a proud left wing activist with his history as proof
Does that make you sad
Maybe he can help the gop find the election fraud proof 🤣
He is a traitor with no question.
Chinas favorite general 😅
We SALUTE our MILITARY specialy USARMY and Grateful for your service our GREATEST General Mark Milley sincerely yours Maryam shahzadeh ghajar Qajar
The fact that he won't condemn China says a lot.
China and woke are the only two words pathetic reich wing conservatives know.
Don’t forget about what he told his Chinese counterpart.
First, you are forgetting that because Trump led a coup attempt, he, Trump, created a very unstable situation. Because he is so unhinged, many people in this nation and across the globe were concerned that Trump would start a war in an effort to remain in office. General Milley called China to reassure them that we were not planning to go to war with them. Had China thought that we were they might have launched a preemptive strike. In summary, Trump destabilized the world with his crimes. General Milley was trying to clean up the mess that Trump created. Trump is grossly unfit for any office. He is so corrupt that he is no longer licensed to conduct business in the state of New York. He should be disqualified from holding any office, and if he would suspend our Constitution, he should be removed.
Oh he was definitely paid by China
What should he condemn them for?
This administration should take pride in all the disasters created and intentional losses , The Taliban thanks you for being an honorable ally
As veteran, Milley makes me sick. He was not supposed to be a politician, he was supposed to be a General. He forgot that.
He has lied, commited treason and I cannot think of a worse General unless you go back to Gen Dan Sickles
Everything over the rank of Col. is a political appointment as it is. They are basically politicians at that point. He is a disgrace to the uniform I proudly wore as well.
100%
Two traitors sit down for a talk.
Absolutely the worst Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff in my 70 years of life. Very divisive, poor leadership and woke policies. Why no questions about his role in the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal? And now we have to pay him a princely pension, there is no justice!
I’d say worst ever. I have never heard of a chairman purposely leaving Americans to die for his own political agenda.
Afghanistan was a setup. Wake up and smell the covfefe!
It's great Trump lives their heads....
Hey good job on that whole Afghanistan thing, really good work you did there, when he droned a van full of kids, just amazing.
Shame that Trump put the US in such an embarrassing, and untenable situation. No other president had surrendered to the Taliban until Trump decided that HE would be the first. Pitiful, disgraceful and overall a bad promise that Trump made to the Taliban.
Like general Milley has complete control over every military event. You're brilliant.
We talking about milley or Obama? Lol
did you have the same regard for BUSH?
Your boy Barry has the all time high score for most droned weddings, kids parties and general innocent people.
Milquetoast Milley for GITMO.
#TribunalsAreComing
Better hurry before your tribunal is disappeared into the Federal Justice System.
As a proud adult army brat and child of a three star army general and West Point grad this integrity is what I grew up with. Respect to Gen Milley.
Well you were a child brat of a general
So you would say that of course
Gotta admit Trump was right about the withdrawal. How embarrassing and irresponsible to leave Americans and billions of military equipment behind. Usually love Lester Holt but it’s like he’s trying to make a statement and putting words in the generals mouth.
Trump who? The traitor/
@dcush2090 the withdrawal that dumpy don orchestrated?
We always leave disabled machines behind in a war. Next.
@@pmcdonald8219 disabled??? you mean $64B worth of equipment that the taliban has sold and has used? What about those 13 dead Americans??? You must love that the bomber that killed them was released right before they died... Do your homework, comrade.
If Trump wasn't leading in the race, Miley wouldn't be stepping down.
Joint chief of staff duty is 4 years, dead bolt
@@wg4154 " Stepping down" he is not retiring, sheep.
"Stepping down"?
General Milley RETIRED.
RETIRED at the normal retirement age.
Exactly 💯
Gen Milley i cry when i hear your voice as it is so smooth and i can hear every word so clearly..honey o admire you and i have since i took your picture when you were in the hospital with a wrap around your leg,, MARK I LOVE YOU AND I HAVE FOR 2 YEARS OR MORE
FROM DORIS ORTA BETHLEHEM PA.
DORIS ORTA I LOVE YOU
6/20/2019 Gen. Milley stood in front of a podium accusing a standing POTUS of a criminal action. (The teargassing of DC protesters.). Without any repercussions. He should’ve seen a Court Marshall. I’m still waiting.
Well said!
He spoke the truth. Trump's gasing of a legal protest was criminal.
He was, however, correct in his assessment. But keep holding your breath, please.
You forgot one thing, he was CORRECT
@@JLO47 no he wasn't.
He's lucky we have a broken justice system.
Wait and see what our justice system does to your wannabe dictator traitor
He’s stepping for a reason
Haha because he’s served way more than 20 years which is retirement criteria, genius…
@@sushi_wolfexpect to see him on a board at Raytheon or Lockheed Martin making millions convincing our government to buy more weapons for Ukraine.
Criminal. Nothing less
Milley went behind the back of his Commanding Officer, I don’t care who’s President. Try that with President Eisenhower, I dare you.
Thank you Sir, it was a pleasure to serve with you.
does Kiwi boot polish taste better than other leading national brands?
Traitor, your duty was not to leave military equipment in another country. How can you possibly think that was a good idea. And if China is such a threat and I believe they are, why would you call them for a heads up.
If you truly want an answer, the reason here would be to alert the Chinese government of any errant lashings out that Trump may have caused in his refusing to resign. It would be one thing if we were coordinating some grand surprise attack and he ratted, but we didn't. He called to say, in essence, "Please know if this guy orders an attack last second, this isn't an act of war, don't force us into a world-ending nuclear exchange". Because Trump had and still has a reputation which would suggest he would do something so insane as to throw cruise missiles at China before being dragged from office.
As for your comment on leaving military equipment behind, that equipment took twenty years to get there, and it would have taken an appreciably long time to get it out in return. Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country with only a couple of roads in and out. Having had ended operations, troops were withdrawing and mopping up as they went as it were. To have made an effort to ship all of this out would have been a disaster.
Consider the following:
- We had a deal with the Taliban, signed and on paper, by president Trump that we would be out within a certain time period. Biden extended this to allow for a more tidy and safe withdrawl than what even Trump could have hoped for, and you see how it was in many ways flawed, so I do not believe it would be any better brought forward several months
- The evacuation deal at hand involved doing so by air. To have shipped everything out by ground would have involved re-opening operations across the entire country in order to protect the convoys. Remember, the Taliban are not our friends even in respecting this treaty. When the soviet union did their withdrawl in the 80s, they brought all of their tanks and trucks home as you insist we should've. What resulted was an utter military disaster, with hundreds of deaths in its own right, and the rebels actively firing on Russian convoys as they crossed the bridge to leave the country. Russian tank transports were being literally chased out of the country. I do not think this would be considered less humiliating had we taken this option.
Because he's a traitor
Stop trying to lead the general to your ideas
What a disgrace.
Hey look, the guy who said” Hey China, I’m giving you a heads up just in case we attack you”
A Holt and a Dolt having a conversation. Maybe two Dolts.
"WE DON'T TAKE AN OATH TO A KING OR A QUEEN OR TO A TYRANT OR A DICTATOR. AND
WE DON'T TAKE AN OATH TO A WANNABE DICTATOR... WE DON'T TAKE AN OATH
TO AN INDIVIDUAL. WE TAKE AN OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND WE TAKE AN OATH TO
THE IDEA THAT IS AMERICA, AND WE'RE WILLING TO DIE TO PROTECT IT."
-GENERAL MARK MILLEY
General, now that's funny. An overweight, narrsasist joke.
@@jimking8754
u must be referring to your orange jesus ; not a General who upheld his oath to America & our constitution, who is moral & ethical & saved us from an insane wannabe dictator who wanted to attack countries just because he was high on power 😡😤
Miller took an oath to be a multi-million dollar defense contractor lobbyist 😂😂😂😂
And Miley didn't follow the Constitution, he is a TRAITOR....
Where in the constitution does it tell Millie to talk to the government of another nation about the United States military strategies?
This is a traitor
It’s true. This guy is such a traitor he ignored his oath. He lies. His commander and chief, he put his own crazy ideas before.
His retiring is not going yo help him out out when the hammer drops
The TRAITOR ON live TV....😡
Did he wear his favorite pink panty in this interview?
Circus clown general is wearing lipstick.
He is a Disgrace to our Nation . 13 dead soldiers in Afghanistan, gave away Bagram, 5000 terrorist released, 85 Billion Dollars of our best equipment left for our Enemies. In some Nations that is considered a Crime with the worst of punishments.
After so many of our fellow countrymen died to keep Bagram this fool gave it and all the hardware to the taliban. We need to end political “generals”
Don't forget he colluded with China to undermine a president.
I saw him admit to calling china and saying he would let them know if President Trump was going to drop a bomb or push a button!!!! That's treason, consorting with our enemy. Total disgrace of a human and American!!
He’s a big liar, he’s a pure evil 👿 he should be investigated plus investigate bank accounts, he’s corrupted period
I met this man a few times, and he is far from instilling confidence and competence. If anything he came across as incompetent, a yes man, and changes his stances on things as the wind changes. No moral character and no principles
Surprisingly he can still stand without a spine
Oh and what about the b.s. Milly has said about trump, hmmmm
Exactly what BS are you referring to? Please spare me from your pro-traitor Trump 💩
God Bless the Constitution
Stone Cold KILLER
Trump 2024, the criminal and traitor millie will be remembered 😂😂😂
Your final retirement speech was a disgrace.
Yea Trump is correct this guy is an embarrassment to our military may as well put a women in charge
Lester Holt is pwndering to the most childish, the least intelligent, the least informed, least educated, and the most insecure among us.
It was sad to see you so diminished, Mr. Holt.
😮 Bot
You are referring to 95% of the American population there.....
I don't think Holt was pandering to MAGA Republicans, but you obviously know more about MAGA Morons than the average viewer.
We admire the integrity, courage and loyalty of the General ,
He literally called china behind the presidents back to warn them if we ever attacked 😂 what meds are you taking?!
Maybe you do... read a book
Who is we?
@@hungergameshub Milley was instructed by Mark Esper (appointed by 45) to do so, remember?
@@ktkt1825 Who cares if he was instructed by Mark Esper or not, there is a thing called chain of command. A thing the General is fully aware of. So why is Mark Esper not being questioned about this as well? Put any BS politics aside. These are questions that need to be asked. You live in America not Democrat or Republican. Political Parties do not care about you.
Bye bye traitor.
How magnanimous one can be when you and your accomplices are at fault. General trans, why don't you apply the same logic when you have the urge to commit treason against Trump.
How could so many smart people, debating something so thoroughly, get it so wrong???
your assumption is that it went so wrong. What if the order itself was wrong and this was the best possible outcome of that order? Ending the war was a political decision not a military decision.
How about naming some specifics? You are just throwing out vague, nebulous references. What is it that everyone got so wrong, and tell us what is the right answer and why.
What is "something"?
Get WHAT wrong?
Geezus.
"It's a big club and YOU ain't in it!" -George Carlin
Sitting with Lester, the nation's number 1 state sponsored propagandist😂😂😂😂.
Watch Milley have a multi million dollars job as a defense contractor lobbyist before the end of the year 😂😂😂
💯🎯
That thing needs to take off the uniform!
Good riddance! A (man) who brings us to the brink of war, then retires…. Real man.
Milley is the consummate career politician. Millley is a woke trainwreck!!
It sounds like you forgot your medication or it’s nap time.
He’s a disgrace to actual military generals before him. The ones who were true to heart and conviction.
Thank you for your service General.
Disservice.
Our military has changed and became weak to the world.
The only thing Milley served is the military industrial complex and illegal wars, none of which he won. He is a stuffed shirt.
This guy is disgraced to a military swamp😅😅
Get rid of the uniform...you are a civilian
General Milley Sir, I don’t know if you will EVER see this. But it is true anyway…You are EXACTLY what our Military Men and Women hope to be when they grow up. You have served us all BRILLIANTLY, Sacrificially, and with NOTHING LESS THAN ABSOLUTE HONOR. I am not in the Military, but my Daddy was a Staff Sergeant in Korea, and my oldest Brother served 3 tours in the Marines. I KNOW what Pride and honor means to a Veteran and I THANK YOU, AND APPLAUD ALL OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SERVICE.
And just a side note, Working under a Commander in Chief that knew, nor does he now, NOT ONE SINGLE THING ABOUT HONOR AND DUTY. You have my deep respect on the patience it must have took to endure that time.
As a veteran, I strongly concur. Thank you!
well said!!!
Disgusting... 13 DEAD TROOPS. He also told China what's up... sign up for service under this traitor.
Your dad knows and you brother knows but u don't know one thing what is pride and honor. U are just worm living from glory of your dad and brother real man in your family.
My military grandfather told me " brave man dies only once and coward dies hundred times each day" I'm wondering how many millions of times yellow like u died already .
Your dad knows and you brother knows but u don't know one thing what is pride and honor. U are just worm living from glory of your dad and brother real man in your family.
My military grandfather told me " brave man dies only once and coward dies hundred times each day" I'm wondering how many millions of times yellow like u died already .
Guess the military is okay with a General of Milley's stature sticking his nose in the political scene. To me it's a frightening precedent.
Milley was instructed by Mark Esper (appointed by 45) to do so, remember?
@@ktkt1825 both are deepstate plants.
Oh, look its Oscar The Grouch.
The results of the US war in Afghanistan were a foregone conclusion. Afghanistan has been a disaster for every force trying to pacify it, in history.
educate yourself on why we should have kept bagram airfield
Should be in prison
A lot of people try to do the right thing😮ok so that person need to pay the bill. No accountability?!? You were uniform what are you saying 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Milley was a traitor,glad he's gone
listen to the interview, hoss.
Bone spurs acting up sweetie?? 🤭🤣
The only traitor is you
I did and he said he is loyal to the constitution not a man, but the document he so proudly said he reveres put the President as the Commander in Chief and Milley the Traitor went behind his back that is the opposite of what that document says. It says the President is in charge of the Military. @@jwoodrff
I genuinely used to have respect for this man long before he was even a Lieutenant General but he's shown himself to be a politician through and through. He doesnt strike me as the type that cares about accountability.