APO.Eagles: On concerns of Trump instability, Gen. Milley built shadow authority; soothed China: book ...Plus, Pence sought way to hand election to Trump; Dan Quayle advice saved U.S. democracy: book

On concerns of Trump instability, Gen. Milley built shadow authority; soothed China: book

Rachel Maddow shares passages from the upcoming book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in which Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, was so alarmed at Donald Trump's post-election loss behavior that he made himself a bulwark to Trump's use of nuclear weapons and gave assurances to China that any belligerent Trump impulses would be contained.

Pence sought way to hand election to Trump; Dan Quayle advice saved U.S. democracy: book

Rachel Maddow shares a passage from the forthcoming book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, in which Mike Pence turned to former Vice President Dan Quayle for advice on whether there was a way to appease Donald Trump's demand that Pence have the House decide the 2020 election, thereby handing it to Trump. Quayle was very discouraging of that idea.

GOP senator embraces the wrong anti-Biden theory at the wrong time

There's supposed to be a line between the cranks and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Jim Risch seems eager to erase that line.

Following Arizona's shambolic example, Wisconsin GOP starts bumbling election spectacle

Rachel Maddow reports on a new Republican effort in Wisconsin to match Arizona's theatrics around the 2020 election results, apparently including the confused procedures and overall ignorance about how the state's elections are conducted.