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Violated the chain of command by going around his boss. the secretary of defense, but you have to ask the question whether or not whoever is at the top of the food chain ought to be in this kinds of stuff when there are processes that goes through it. it is a bit of the president of the nbc news coming down, you know where it comes and goes. it makes sure that the system does not work. >> thank you, sir for being with us, colonel jack jacobs. moments ago at the white house president trump ordere...

And processes. nobody over heated, nobody dramatic. layer after layer corroborating the whistleblower report. and then on the other side it was hunter biden and it was ukraine and it was chulapa and it was benghazi. it was just -- there was no corresponding truth. there was no meeting of the minds about even what the alleged crime was, much less what it is we were even investigating. >> peter, take a listen to how adam schiff wrapped it all up after these two weeks of hearings. >> the day after ...

Not he was going to stay in this unit. right after that in response to this review, which by the way, sources tell us that green knew once he launched this review he was open to be firped by the president. he tweeted this. he said the navy will not be taking away war fighter and navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallaghers trident pin. we know the last 48 hours, these military leaders have been talking to the president essentially raising concern of this attempt or seeming apparent attempt to stop, to block t...

Legislative requests for documents, information and testimony. were his position to continue he would become an elected dictator. public support is vital. >> do you swear or affirm the testimony shall be the truth. >>? inquiry should be undertaken as a great act of public education about the specifics of this case but also about the system of checks and balances. >> a democracy can turn all at once. and suspense with constitutional constraints or legislative checks. germanys republic was a well ...

Public as tedious as it may seem sometimes to people all of that evidence so that the public can sort out what the predictions should be? >> any predictions? >> i dont dare. >> dont dare? >> the founders in their imperfect wisdom provided for situations just like this in processes and the only thing they didnt provide for are the unspoken rules. duty, decorum, restraint. thats up to us to have and to impose on our elected officials. i think that is certainly part of my -- not just my expectation...

Longer -- either something changed over the course of today that the navy got word about this review process that didnt comport with their understanding and that was the break, or mr. spencer clearly didnt have the same understanding that other navy officials had in terms of their ability to move forward. i have to think that if they felt they could move forward with this processes there would be no reason for him to throw down the way he did. also, theres a little bit of a difference in the way...

Esper would lose his trust and confidence in the secretary of the navy. again, all this is just happening. we dont know much more than what weve seen in these accounts by spokes people. but if it is as reported thats a very significant event in this entire process and its a very significant event just in terms of civilian and military control. >> as you point out, according to the senior official, spencer again went around his chain of command, namely mark esper, in order to have that direct lin...

Theres concerns about the process that went on, people that might have done things at various points within it, the real question that i have stepping back from all of this, what do we think needs to change about the process going forward, how can we prevent any kinds of questions about what the fbi does in future elections because we know that theres going to be attempts by foreign agents in a lot of different ways to interfere with our process going forward, thats not going away, we need to ma...

Concerned about this, the president as the commander of chief he can do this, its legal. he can do it. but theyre concerned about the signal that it sends. that it might impact morale among troops who look at this -- who are supposed to look at the ucmj process, the uniform code of military justice, and the administrative process, theyre supposed to have confidence they will work. if the president circumvents the process or intervenes, then the concern is that the average joe sailor, airmen, mar...

Became crystal clear that the laws that form the current student loan process and system quite frankly are built and designed to be highly distant badges to statements disadvantageous tostudents. it continues to foster for colleges and universities to limit amount of monies to the government. we were ever more clear to me, the only way this is going to get changed is through law change in congress, and im ever more convinced that somebody in the senate has got to drive it forward. i was moved to...