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I'm Michael Balbaro.
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during his decades long path to becoming America's highest ranking military officer,
General Charles Q. Brown won the crucial support of President Trump.
Until that was Brown publicly talked about the one subject that is now taboo in Trump's government.
Today,
Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper on what got Brown fired
and why it has so thoroughly rocked the military.
It's Thursday, February 27th.
Well, Helene, thank you for coming into the studio and thank you for making time for us.
Nice to be here, Michael.
Helene,
can you tell us about what is being described
as the Friday Night Massacre inside the Pentagon that unfolded a few days ago
and why even in the context of President Trump firing so many people
across so many federal agencies,
this felt different and important and worth singling out, which is,
of course, what we're doing here in our conversation with you today.
Well, on Friday night, President Trump fired three very senior Pentagon officials.