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From germany and when we dont know. but you dont believe he will be prosecuted -- why? >> in the military justice system there is a command known as unlawful command influence and the idea is that people higher in command are not supposed to comment on those lower in command. you had the president in the rose garden especially declaring him a war honor and susan rice saying similar things. that sends a message loud and clear to those junior to the president about making the prosecution. >> there...

She says this illustrates a military justice system in dire need of independence from the chain of command. its not only the right thing to do for men and women in uniform but would also mitigate undue command influence that weve seen when survivors and defense attorneys both agree we need to reform the system, it should tell us the system needs reform. let me just briefly say for folks who are learning about this, undo command influence is simply the idea that when the president or other comman...

Charged with sexual assault are seeking to renegotiate a plea deal. a military judge dismissed the jury on tuesday. he determined political concerns improperly influenced brigadier jeffrey sinclairs case. he found the appearance of unlawful command influence in the decision to reject a plea bargain in january. with the popes one-year an verse re as pontiff approaching, take a look at how he is viewed on twitter. positive comments outweigh the negative 5-1. in entertainment breaking news over...

While that should be the appropriate response from our commander-in-chief, defense lawyers have perverted the presidents words to argue that they are having an unlawful influence on current sexual assault cases. in fact, in a number of cases, this argument resulted in charges of assault being dropped. several military judges have said the presidents words have amounted to an unlawful command influence. thats right. the commander-in-chief tainted the jury pool in effect. so this month, the defens...

Oversight over the prosecution of the crime. as secretary hagel fends off outside critics who say they cannot be handled within the military chain of command, internally he is trying the reforce idea that publicly condemning sexual assault cant be used as a defense against charges. meanwhile on capitol hill, a showdown is expected later this fall between two factions of lawmaker on. one side, led by missouri senator claire mccass kell would preserve it. and her colleague wants to take the prosec...

Positions, court-martialed, fired. >> that comment did result in an impact in some of the cases that were ongoing. >> judges in some cases found the commander in chiefs comments amounting to unlawful command influence and dismissed the charges. >> i dont know how somebody can, in essence, unring the bell. >> an attorney argues hagels memo is too little too late. >> in fact, im pretty convinced its not effective to tell people to ignore it. >> he represents general sinclair, a married general cha...

>> the military control. the president is legally prohibited in how much he can say in trying to adopt sexual assault. what do i mean by that? well, as long as the service group was tellings, the unlawful command influence is a rule that says commanders, the ultimate commander in chief cant speak specifically about punishment in the conduct of individual cases. there was now a ruling in june that said that because the president spoke out against sexual assault, people who were accused of it woul...

Individual cases. >> well, that was the story that the "new york times" covered this weekend. what they covered was that there are prosecutions around the country where the defense counsel are saying that there is undue command influence because the commander in chief has said what he believes should happen for the outcome of these cases. whether thats true or not we dont need to decide that today. but what i do know, when our allies looked at the same issue, they said commanders can be influenc...

>> were sitting down with taliban and perhaps start making arrangements there. dont listen to anything the taliban says whether its good or not. what mick mentioned about the possibility of trial, its very important that the chain of command not get involved. theres going to be an article 32. thats the equivalent of a grand jury procedure. in any case, any kind of command influence will likely result in this getting thrown out, which is bad news too. >> you heard the possibility of this being a ...

bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. >> there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasnt going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, wel...