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Well get out there soon and celebrate. By the way, i like the last days of summer thing. Rachel im not ready. Its not time. I dont like it when people count things down too early. Rachel i agree. Its already over before its over. Its not even august 10. Rachel the weather is gorgeous. Summer is at least through august. Friends in t tennessee are going back to school on wednesday. The south starts earlier. Rachel why . Because they get out earlier. Ours is mid to late august. Football started. Mi...

Which combines traditional espionage activity with economic coercion and thats really what were seeing across the board. rachel: so gallagher, maria, saying that chinese spying on the uptick really at a level weve then rec seen before but k to the original thing in alaska, i think beijing and moscow coming togethers was kind of predictable because of the ukraine war, i mean, people were predicting that would happen if that war continued. maria: yeah. and good morning to you. it has been happenin...

Same kinds of statements that i cut up like cheese at the trial. so these are of no meaning. whats your take? >> we dont often seen the inside of a s.e.a.l. team room. this is the inside of a dysfunctional s.e.a.l. team room. it shows the breakdown of unit cohesion. i think we should take these videos seriously because these s.e.a.l.s would have faced pretty serious repercussions if they lied to investigators. they may not have been formally sworn or under oath or cross-examined, but these s.e.a...

Obvious, said look, these arent sworn, these are of known meaning. whats your take in. >> we dont often see the inside of a seal room. this is the inside of a dysfunctional seal teams room. it shows the breakdown of unit cohesion. we should take these videos seriously because the seals would have faced pretty serious repercussions had they lied to ncis investigators here. they may not have been formally sworn or under oath but these seals werent cavalier live making these statements. you can ima...

>> these are interview obtained by the "new york times" of alpha platoon s.e.a.l. team 7 members, breaking an unwritten code of silence in 2018 by taking on their chief of their platoon, who was eventually tried for war crimes. heres a taste. >> hes a psychopath. the guy got crazier and crazier. >> the guy was toxic. >> we cant let this continue. >> its [ bleep ] up. thats frickin evil, man. >> these are not from now, not sworn, not cross-examined. it was an early part of the investigation. but ...

Between, you know, kind of what i would call honor to the navy and also trying to honor the direction of the president. >> right. >> he was ill adroit. i didnt make that happen. >> we can assume it is not a coincidence that mr. gallagher wound up in a photo op with the president down at mar-a-lago, phillip. theres obviously some thinking that helping this man, mr. gallagher, the platoon chief, was of benefit to the president because theres no other basis for any other reckoning. we have no reaso...

Navy secretary richard spencer strongly objected. some say it cost him his job, but it did not silence him. he wrote in "the washington post," this president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically, or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices. now, gallagher responded to news of the release of the tapes, and heres the response. quote, my first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies...

With him, a trophy picture that was tweeted out. the president called spencer in california and said, get him out, meaning get gallagher out of the brig. spencer kind of raised some questions about this, and trump is said to have told him, you want a direct order? get him out. thats back in march. so gallagher is released from the brig, from the confinement the navy had chosen. hes put in more comfortable facilities. then trump continues to agitate during his trial. there was a plan before the t...