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As we look at this, the first question to you is just your reaction to what we are hearing from richard spencer about not only how things played out and he admits that he made mistakes, but his assessment of the president here. >> erica, what struck me the most about the op-ed was the fact the number of times he cited unlawful command influence in the run up and execution of the trial. how many times the president asked to intervene and do things specifically for chief gallagher. you know, havin...

Stemmed partly from the way the defendants lawyers and others worked to keep it front and center in the news media, by and large on fox news, which he watches all the time. what do you make of all of this? >> there is new information out. he is giving new details about the presidents involvement in the case. as you said, what it boils down to, this is a president that watches fox news and charges was championed by an analyst on fox news and painted as a hero against a system unjust. this is very...

Community has been in the lead of that. theyre trying to reinstall, reinvigorate standards of discipline and weve had some real serious problems. so the presidents command influence in public is unheard of. by the way, the uniform code of military justice didnt get written in the pentagon or the white house, its a federal system of justice passed by congress. so i think the appalling thing is to have the president of the united states pardoning people, one of whom hadnt even gone to trial and al...

I might add the president had been in public exerting command influence, which was well known throughout the armed forces. so again the problem is, you know, we simply must obey the laws of war. we want to be the good guys and we have a system of investigations, of peer group review, ucmj calls for a jury trial of your peers. thats the way the system is supposed to work. and mr. trump has essentially intervened in that process in a very public way, calling into question whether or not were commi...

The sort on that. i am a navy senior chief. i come from a family of chiefs. this is about a chief, okay? you have to stand for my navy, you need to defend our institution. the president of the united states is using undo command influence and there is not a chief in this navy that would allow that without saying something to the ward. i spect texpect the navy to thr anchor down and stand against this or you can all resign. >> naveed, malcolm and sarah, it is great to talk to all of you guys. com...

Tantamount to unlawful command influence. the president has a right to overturn a court-martial conviction, the right to overturn and administrative proceeding in this case one that could strip chief gallagher of his s.e.a.l. trident. the president ought to wait until after the administrative meetings take place. its unlawful command influence. i was an army jag officer in the early days of my career. we have to let the system work. in these particular cases the system does work. mr. gallagher w...

That somehow, if we dont comply with their requests, were being unpatriotic. how about all those service members who are scarred for the rest of their lives, as senator mcsally indicated, it has been with her forever. and yet she stayed there. now, i dont know that she even agrees with me on taking them out of the chain of command. but we want to keep it in the military. we want to create a separate office so that it can be reviewed by like a special victims unit, with the attorneys and the inve...

But im saying it is, you cannot pierce that layer into the inspector general knowing this ig is not someone that could be influenced in that way. so i think that hes half right. the doj was politicized but i dont think that seeped into the igs office. >> i want to play what he said for our viewers in case they missed it. >> the president publicly demanded a result and the office of the inspector general delivered that result. i know they struggled to do so. some of the documents that we have bee...

Particular case -- are you saying they were conspiring with the white house? >> what i know, anderson, is that the president very publicly demanded a result, and the office of the inspector general delivered that result. i know they struggled to do so. some of the documents we have been able to review in the last few months are clearly indicating that. but the president desired that i be gone before i could be eligible to retire. the office of the inspector general rushed to get that done on tim...

Been able to review in the last few months are clearly indicating that. but the president desired that i be gone before i could be eligible to retire. the office of the inspector general rushed to get that done on time. one of the many ways. >> essentially, youre saying they were doing the presidents bidding on this. >> do i think there was inappropriate command influence, political influence on the ultimate outcome? absolutely, i think that. >> you talk about a meeting with the gang of eight, t...