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Discipline eddie gallagher or was he trying to do something in cutting this deal with the president so that he could still retire with his trident pin if the president was not directly involved? >> so its clear from secretary spencers resignation letter that he says he didnt want to follow what he considered to be an unlawful order. the order, according to our reporting that we had on late saturday morning, was that he would -- the president would tell the navy that they had to cancel this tride...

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...

Officials and military leaders stepped in to try to stop this. they talked to president trump on thursday night, again on friday. trying to convince him not to intervene. friday night when we left the pentagon it seemed pretty clear that the president had been convinced not to intervene in the case. so what happened between friday night and sunday afternoon when secretary spencer was fired by secretary esper, is the pentagon is saying that spencer was trying to negotiate some kind of a back-room...