“I would say some of the allegations seem somewhat farfetched to me,” Cotton said. “General Milley and Secretary [Lloyd] Austin are going to be testifying in front of Congress in just a few days. We will address these concerns. We don’t want to jump to conclusions yet but we will certainly vet them and see exactly what happened.

“Senator, he’s gotta speak. This is too big for this!” Brian Kilmeade interjected. “We can’t wait for him to testify. If this guy is selling us out to China, going behind the president of the United States, and he is still in power fresh off of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, he’s got to address this!”

“I know he will address it and we will ensure that he addresses it, but this is one of those claims, obviously, that seems a little farfetched,” Cotton responded. “The idea that an American military general is going to warn an adversary if an attack is coming? As you say, when Donald Trump was never even thinking about a military attack against China. The whole thing is pretty farfetched.”