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The united states navy. that's a prime tenant. >> what message does it send? >> that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. it's the backbone of what we do. >> so i -- i guess we're forced -- i mean, both things can't be true. if good order and discipline is the backbone of what the military does -- >> this is troubling. one, what o'brien said suggests that the men and women who fight under the american flag don't have self-control on the battlefield. many -- not many of them, a supermajority of them do. eddie gallagher is an exception to the rule. >> they all...

Our warriors, we are going to have their backs, there was an investigation. and, by the way, that's a selective group of seals. there are many, many seals and many folks in the special warfare community that support chief gallagher, that appealed to the president and asked him for this clemency. >> that was national security adviser robert o'brien defending donald trump's reversal of the navy's decision to oust chief officer eddie gallagher from the navy seals after he had been charged with war crimes. his comments come after the "new york times" reported that many men on gallagher's own team ...

Military. this seems to be an f-u straight from fox news to the military. >> and i believe jack keen, is he still on fox news anymore? i can't see jack keen embracing this approach of military discipli discipline injustice. that someone who behaves in the way described by eddie gallagher's fellow s.e.a.l.s., which is nothing short of sociopathic. planning, in detail and early on, to kill civilians. garner up kills. targeting innocent, young women. it's just sociopathic. and it's wrong. and the fact that this is what donald trump sees as an ally that he can relate to that, he's not cozying up t...

Behaved. he thinks that's bravery. and that's how this president views the world. that's how he's led. and that's certainly why he's decided to tie himself to mr. gallagher, who's going to become a very valuable piece on the campaign trail from what reporting has told us, as well. he's been at mar-a-lago and he's going to be someone active on the campaign trail as well. >> phil rucker, that's the piece of this. it's not just the conduct of overruling and overriding. what has, for decades, been a system i'm sure while not perfect, works. i mean, the military justice system is -- is -- is sort o...

>> "the washington post" editorial board laid out how courageous those men were to speak out. quote, these men broke the customary code of silence maintained by the seals because they thought chief gallagher's behavior violated something more sacred, the duty of the men and women to fight for the united states to fight for it honorably. it's the sacred duty that the president ridicules by allowing fox and friends and other media. those who tried to hold chief gallagher to account are suffering insults on national television, while the petty officer now retired with full honors is palling aroun...