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They are not going to comment on the matter, calling it a law enforcement issue saying they will respect the integrity of the process, but president trump tweeting about the case over the weekend saying that he is taking a look at it and could potentially get involved. this raises questions because he is the commander in chief. there are issues with regard to law enforcement in the military regarding undue command influence. senior commanders are not supposed to comment on cases like these becau...

You get these queries does he understand what hes saying. the truth is i dont think he does. what consistently comes up the president doesnt understand how the functions of government worker and that the judiciary is supposed to be nonpartisan, somewhat separate and should be no undue command influence. no leadership pressure on where the investigations go. he does not understand natural. and consistently even after firing comey you would think he would sort of pull back and say okay im pushing ...

Before the senate judiciary committee. he has been called to testify on the clinton e-mail probe but he is facing criminal fer fro department justice inspector and anything he says in the committee could be used against him if there is a criminal case. use immunity does not protect him from prosecution. but what it does do is prohibit the prosecutors from using anything that he tells the committee in a future criminal case. basically its like whatever he tells the committee, he never said anythi...

Sometimes get things wrong, they dont get it wrong for political reasons. but lets just put that aside for a minute. what youre talking about in the military would be undue command influence. not only is andy mccabe being tau tau taunted, but the person who decided to fire him is being taunted. jeff sessions is being taunted by the president. and so you have a situation, which i think is politicized, in which the president has made clear to attorney general sessions that he wants mccabe gone. ...

Executive branch, the president of the united states, saying exactly that. i want this guy gone. what role does that play? and even if it doesnt apply as a legal matter, it should apply as a malter tter of principle. >> and clint watts, lets talk about that also. mike hayden, a former general who headed the cia and the nsa, suggested that no matter what the facts of the case are, there was in a military context, not a legal context, but a military context undue command influence in this case. >>...

Consider the reaction to mccabes firing by a former cia director, michael hayden. he tweeted this "i have no window into the objective merits of the mccabe case and therefore i cannot judge that, although mccabe had a stellar reputation. i cant say, however, if this were conducted under the rules that pertain to military justice, it would have been thrown out because of what we call undue command influence. the presidents frequent and visible comments and pressure on doj would have prompted a mi...

This follows a "new york times" report that president trump asked two witnesses about their conversations with robert muellers team. does that cross a line? >> well, it does get very, very close to a line because its not just trying to find out information, as they would say in the army, it might be undue command influence. sending the message not just to those that may have been questioned but those that would be questioned in the future that what they say would be commented upon or they be que...

A judge found unlawful command influence based on president obamas statements involving a prosecution in a military court in hawaii. so unlawful command influence, uci, and a real thing. what may have happened in this case is that in the face of all these controversial comments by the president, the judge may have said, i will not let these affect me, but maybe there was that subtle gravitational pull which resulted in a no-confinement sentence for bergdahl. >> is this, shawn, uci, as danny is s...

>> the president, danny, was tweeting about the suspect here in the terrorism attack in new york, saying he wanted to see him go to guantanamo, then he backed off of that. the other thing hes been tweeting about, no prison time for bowe bergdahl, but a dishonorable discharge. the president called bergdahl a traitor and said the sentence was a disgrace. did that have an impact on the sentence? >> not directly. at least the judge in the case said that it would not have an impact, even though the s...

First tragedy, the first terror attack on his watch as president and he may have botched the prosecution. >> yeah, its absolutely right. and, look, theres a very real chance that his comments about the bowe bergdahl case, for example, led to bergdahl getting the very light sentence he got today. he violated -- >> explain that. we know that to be true because the judge, right? >> yeah, because the judge talked about the defense made a big part of their tragedy. a thing called command influence. e...