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Attended bipartisan very active conversation about all of the issues that i know you guys have been reporting on. there was a very, very long line of people leading to ask questions and we ran out of time for everybody on that line to be able to ask those questions. weve been asking those questions through other means. i came out of another briefing myself on the foreign affairs side and helpeding into another one on armed services this afternoon. the opportunity we have in smaller group setting...

Restore gallaghers rant and went even further, publicly praising him. >> he was a great fighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. >> again, a far cry from what gallaghers own men said. gallagher responding to the videos in a statement reading in part, ill read it for you, quote, my first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me, but i quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on ...

About what gallagher did. they were talking to investigators in a pre-trial environment. they were called in to talk to investigators. this isnt necessarily breaking public silence. when we talk about the code of silence for the s.e.a.l.s and they are a quiet, insular bunch. but theres also a code of honor. just like every other member of the military they have an obligation when they he see something awry to report it, to try to stop it and report it. thats what they did. they came forward and ...

Himself involved. >> admiral kirby, im just wondering, i mean, this is just such -- the video is so striking. it is so rough. >> yes. >> does that indicate kind of the broader cultural reaction to this pardon by the president? or, you know, reasinstatement? >> i think theres tension inside the community right now. many seals dont want to be associated with what gallagher did. these seals is did have the courage to come forward which is not part of their culture to talk about what they saw him do...

Disturbing to them they felt they need to come forward and they communicated with each other about coming forward about some of this stuff. when president trump goes then and undermines this entire proerks hes doing that by flying in the face of all of those evidence. its not even clear to me the president cared what evidence existed about what gallagher did or didnt do. he didnt seem to really care about the process. and thats what became so disturbing about all of this. from the very beginning...

First time members of this platoon elite seal commandos saying what they saw in iraq and what they saw, what they told investigators is that their chief totally went off the rails. hes completely became fixated on killing people, and what they say is it didnt necessarily matter whether those people were combatants or not. >> how do you square with what gallagher says about these navy seals having personal animosity against him, with what you saw in your reporting? >> well, in these interviews, c...

Death. witnesses hearing gallagher say, dont touch him, hes fine. the defense say theres no proof, physical or photographic, of what gallagher is accused of. >> theres no evidence whatsoever this guy was stabbed. it would have been so easy to walk up and snap a picture of a stab wound if thats what really happened. they didnt. they chose not to. >> gallaghers defense team includes trump lawyer mark mukazi and another who served time in prison for tax fraud. its drawn the attention of president t...