Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he personally killed a 'ridiculous' plan from White House adviser Stephen Miller to deploy 250,000 troops to the southern border as a migrant caravan approached.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he personally killed a"ridiculous" plan from White House adviser Stephen Miller to deploy 250,000 troops to the southern border as a migrant caravan approached. Esper, who writes about the moment in his upcoming book,"A Sacred Oath," says he initially thought Miller was joking when he asked for the troops while waiting in the Oval Office.
"We're in a meeting, waiting for the president to come out," Esper tells Norah O'Donnell for an interview airing this Sunday on"60 Minutes,""We're standing around the Resolute Desk. And he's behind me. And this voice just starts talking about caravans are coming. And, 'We need to get troops to the border.' And, 'We need a quarter-million troops.' And I think he's joking.
"He repeats, 'No, we need a quarter-million troops,'" Esper says."And I just turn squarely around to him, face him, and say, 'I don't have a quarter million troops to send on some ridiculous mission to the border.'""I told this story to General Milley and my chief of staff," Esper says."I said, 'Let's be safe. Let's just check and make sure that this isn't being worked somewhere in the building.
"And he says something like, 'secretary, you're not gonna believe this.' And that's when he explains to me that, yes, they were working. That we had developed a plan, initial concept of how this might happen," Esper tells O'Donnell."And I was just flabbergasted that, not only was the idea proposed, but that people-- people in my department were working on it.""It's just so absurd," Esper says."I can't even consider it.
"Well, it died," Esper says."I gave General Milley specific instruction to tell NORTHCOM, Northern Command, to stop working on it, to cease and desist. And that if anybody had any questions, you tell them they should call me direct. I never got a phone call."O'Donnell's interview with Esper will air Sunday night on"60 Minutes."
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