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Gallagher to keep his status as a navy seal. president trump was the one who directed secretary esper to end the navy review board process to let eddie gallagher retire as a u.s. navy seal. that was unclear. we know that senior leaders here in the pentagon including the now former secretary of the navy richard esper has said the process needed to go forward. this is a peer review process. its an administrative process. his goal was to get the white house to continue forward with the process. we ...

Marc milly to meet with the president. after the meeting, he said a senior white house official pull him aside and said, look, you should know secretary spencer is trying to broker what esper kept calling a secret proposal on the eddie gallagher case. the u.s. navy s.e.a.l. acquitted of murder in iraq in 2017, but found guilty of posing with the dead body of that isis fighter. the navy undertook a redue to review eddie gallaghers triedent. its called trident review process essentially theyre loo...

Disgraced navy seal eddie gallagh gallagher. testifi he was accused of committing war crimes. he was later acquitted of murder but convicted of posing with the corpse of an isis prisoner. a military jury of combat veterans recommended a demotion. the judge agreed and so did the navys top admiral. donald trump didnt agree. he reversed that decision before insisting that gallagher retain the gold trident signifying his status of the seals. richard spencer took exception to that insisting friday th...

That he was brokering this deal for the very outcome that he was willing to resign over. >> can you just explain to people not as familiar as you are with the military why its so egregious that a group of peers and the system would have recommended losing that pen for the crime of posing with the dead body of an isis prisoner. >> the review board never went forward. it was due to meet in a week or two. it was just cancelled. at the end of the day president trump did still, over the weekend, tell...

Things he told us this in fact eddie gallagher will keep his trident pin. there will be no review process and that was directly ordered from the president and secretary esper is the one who carried that out. essentially what that means is, there will be no further reviews. eddie gallagher will retire as a s.e.a.l. and maintain his rank and the administrative process is completely done. >> courtney kube there for us from the pentagon. courtney, thank you as always. i want to bring in retired four...

This is fellow green berets and s.e.a.l.s who have reported this bad behavior. theyve been adjudicated in different ways. it kind of came out in different time zones, if you will. at the end of the day, this is not the political correctness police catching these folks. these are their own peer group. and when theyre going up in a trial situation theyre being judged by their peers and this review panel to see whether or not chief gallagher retains his pin is part of that review process. so my gue...

In this review process for the navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher who you just mentioned. he told many people that on thursday. a bunch of his colleagues tried to intervene to try to tamp down the situation but then in a bizarre twist, we found out on sunday that secretary of defense mark esper asked for spencers resignation because he said he was trying to broker a deal to do exactly what he told his colleagues on thursday he would resign for, which is to meddle in the process, allegedly to meddle i...

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...

Body of an isis detainee. president trump reinstated his rank after he was demoted as punishment. for more on these stunning developments, im joined by cnn military analyst rear admiral john kirby. these are not household names. can you explain the enormity of whats going on here? >> this is very significant. youre talking about the head civilian leader of the united states navy and the marine corps. the secretary of the navy richard spencer, who was well regarded by admirals and marine corps ge...

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