divisiveness that the president s actions have been coming into the s.e.a.l. community, i think that have been most damaging and have long term effect. reporter: gallagher met with trump at mar-a-lago over the holidays and it s possible he will campaign for trump. barbara starr, cnn, pentagon. after a setback, klein chin back in space. plus, britain may soon have more games who gets the top honors next year. tremfya® helps adults with moderate to severe
so it s this kind of divisiveness that the president s actions have been coming into the s.e.a.l. community, i think that have been most damaging and have long term effect. reporter: gallagher met with trump at mar-a-lago over the holidays and it s possible he will campaign for trump if asked those who know him say. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. we ll get some insight from cnn military and diplomatic analyst john kirby. thank you for being with us. you bet. when you look at all of this, what concerns, what challenges do these videos raise for the military community? the biggest concern i have, is the fact that the s.e.a.l. community under their new commander has been trying to get their arms around standards of conduct, ethics and proper behavior on the battlefield for quite some time. they ve had some fairly news worthy incidents lately where s.e.a.l.s in operations have not been meeting the proper
terribly sad and trouble some for the military at large and certainly for the s.e.a.l.s there is a million men and women, 2 million men and women out there serving today all around the world honorably doing the very best they can and this entire incident tends to deflect from them the honor that they deserve and the service that they re providing to this country. where this situation goes, it is basically now become a political situation with the president using mr. chief gallagher for political purposes and perhaps gallagher is also doing the same for the president. and so it becomes a very sad and unfortunate incident in the entire military history. and will it have an impact going forward? i believe in a the command structure, leaving the president out of this for a moment, the
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obama. h.r. mcmaster didn t like a number of things obama had done in terms of not responding to the use of chemical weapons in syria and putting a withdrawal date on afghanistan. so there was a combination of factors why they said yes. and you make the point when it comes to foreign policy, president trump has more in common with president obama, what do you mean? the rhetoric, both of them come outside of the traditional app rat russ. er not machine candidates and they saw themselves getting elected to get out of the endless wars and obama did that in the end of 2011 and in afghanistan here we have president trump thinking about it. he s gone back and forth. but at the end of the day, they re not sending big conventional armies into the middle east as president bush did in 2003 and they re using drones and cyber warfare and careful with the use of force. and this is a pivotal moment that we ll be watching with you,