Republicans are planning to grill Gen. Mark Milley if they take the House in November: report

Pro-Trump lawmakers in Congress are planning to put the spotlight on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley should Republicans take control of the House in November's midterms, inside sources tell NBC News. One Republican House candidate called for Milley to be executed on live television. As NBC News points out, Milley has been on the receiving end of death threats from Trump supporters. Milley ordered aides to not act immediately on any move by Trump to use US nuclear forces, and he called a Chinese general to reassure Beijing, presidential chronicler Bob Woodward and co-author Robert Costa wrote in their tell-all book. The Washington Post - Woodward's and Costa's employer - and other media on Tuesday reported excerpts from the book "Peril," depicting Milley as organizing the Pentagon and intelligence community to resist any move by Trump to ratchet up tensions with China or Iran after he lost the November 2020 presidential election. Milley called Chinese counterpart General Li Zuocheng twice, on October 30 just before Trump's election defeat, and on January 8, two days after Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol, to reassure him that the Republican president's anti-China rhetoric could not translate into military action. Two months later, Milley reportedly used the secret back-channel with Li again after the US Capitol riot, amid concerns both in Beijing and Washington that Trump was unstable.