All CNN's Abby Phillips was treated to instead from spineless MAGA Rep. Cory Mills were weasel words and both siderism in response to her question on whether Trump "crossed the line" when calling for the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be executed.

During a discussion about the looming government shutdown, Phillips wrapped up the interview this Friday by playing a tape of Milley responding to Trump's death threat, where he said:

We don't take an oath to a country. We don't take an oath to a tribe. We don't take an oath to a religion. We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We don't take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution.

Here's the back and forth that followed with Mills twisting himself in knots before he'd ever dare to say anything negative about Dear Leader and basically justified what Trump said by making some of the exact same baseless attacks against Milley himself:

PHILLIP: A lot of people interpreted that as a swipe at former President Donald Trump, who I should note, suggested that he should be executed recently.

MILLS: Well, I didn't take that as a direct swipe at the president or the former president. Look, it's absolutely a fact. When I served in the military, we serve our nation and we serve to protect and basically defend our Constitution of the United States. We don't serve political agendas.

I sit on the Armed Services Committee. I sit on the Foreign Affairs Committee. One of the things I looked at was to bring back meritocracy, stop DEI and all the other things that was watering down and diluting our recruitment strategies. But I can tell you right now, what our men and women in uniform who I respect more than anything need to be doing, is serving our nation, not serving a political agenda.

PHILLIP: Did Trump cross the line with that attack against Milley?

MILLS: I don't think that I speak on behalf of the president, but I can tell you right now, Mark Milley --

PHILLIP: And as a former military service member yourself?

MILLS: Well, I didn't take offense to it personally, no.

PHILLIP: When Trump said that he should be executed, you didn't take offense to that?

MILLS: Well, I've heard a lot of things going back and forth. I mean, you're talking about the same guy, Mark Milley, who said that we should be reading more on white rage than we should be on actually military defense.

I mean, look, they can continue to have their back and forth and I disagree when any time the same way I disagree with my Republican colleagues make comments at Democrats. I hate that Democrats make, you know -- we don't need any of this back and forth because all it does is sow in division. I think that at the end of the day dangerous rhetoric by anyone who is an officer out of office only --

PHILLIP: How is it dangerous rhetoric for Mark Milley to make a statement that I maybe disagree with it but is about policy versus Trump saying that he thinks he should have been executed?

MILLS: Well, but you also have Mark Milley who made comments as well towards the president.

PHILLIP: About what? What has he said about Trump that has suggested that Trump, I mean, should be executed or anything, even close to that?

MILLS: Well, he actually made cute comments about the president saying that if I would have known you know that the president was going to go across the street and hold up the Bible, I never would have walked beside him. I mean you're making these comments.

PHILLIP: How is that close to a --

MILLS: Well, no, it's not necessarily that I'm trying to make a one - for -one extension. What I'm trying to explain this is that a lot of them have taken shots at each other for personal reasons, the same thing that we see within our conference or within the House as well. But at the end of the day, all it does is sow in division.

And our job should be as elected representatives or anyone who's serving government is to be able to bring our nation together not continue to try and make these types of comments.

PHILLIP: Congressman, with all due respect I think you would agree that Mark Milley making statements that you disagree with on a political --

MILLS: I don't think anyone should make any comments about executing or any of these types of things.

PHILLIP: Him even saying I shouldn't have done something that I did. It's not the same thing as Trump saying the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military officer in this country --

MILLS: Well, I certainly wouldn't have made that comment. I'll just put it that way.

PHILLIP: Can't you just say it's across the line?

MILLS: Well, no, I think it is.

PHILLIP: I mean, I don't understand why that's so hard to say.

MILLS: Well, it's not that's hard to say but I actually don't know the full context because I didn't hear it. This is the first time hearing it myself. But my whole thing is I don't think that you should actually wish violence on anyone for any reason. I mean, that's just my stance on everything. I would have to look at the context of what he said it in or what you know the actual background was.

But the bottom line is is that I think you're seeing where everyone is taking shots. Everyone is frustrated. Everyone is furious about what's happening in the government. Everyone is unhappy about cost of living. Everyone is unhappy about what's going on across the country. And so it's sewing in a lot of frustration and division. And I think that's something we have to address.

PHILLIP: I think that one of the things that I hope that you go and read what the former president said.

MILLS: I haven't actually.

PHILLIP: But there is a difference between disagreement, right, and threats. And I think that that's what this is really about at the end of the day.

MILLS: Well, I also think a lot of the Democrat threats as well, where they said we protest and get in the face of those who actually are there. We should basically riot on the streets.

PHILLIP: If you condemn, it should be an easy call to condemn.

MILLS: But the bottom line is is that I condemn any type of threat or violence.

PHILLIP: Yes. It should -- I think that should be an easy call. I agree with you on that one.

MILLS: I agree.

PHILLIP: Congressman Cory Mills, thank you very much.

MILLS: Thank you.

That gave me a headache just listening to it. Why these reporters let these guys on with such tepid push back to this sort of nonsense is beyond me. She should have told him, you obviously endorse what he said and are scared to death of him. Instead she let him prattle on, give this mealymouthed response and both sides the stochastic terrorism and the fact that Trump is eventually going to get his way and get someone killed. Pathetic.