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Brought up the different aspects to this. in reading the termination letter if you will of secretary spencer, there was a whole lot more to this than what's being reported right now. it's certainly understandable secretary spencer went behind the president behind secretary esper, the defense secretary's back as he, secretary esper and general milly were petitioning the president to back off of this case and let it go through the administrative processes of determining whether or not chief gallagher should retain his pin. that's understandable. you don't go to your boss' boss and petition witho...

Able to whistle past his graveyard, then how can they trust if they have american boots on their ground conducting operations in their countries that we have the ability and forthrightness to hold our troops accountable for what is essentially war crimes? >> harris: major general scales, you say what? >> i say the president can do what he wants and again, these were -- these were three efforts by the president to stop and reverse a court-martial or to hurt court marshals and to exonerate major goldstein. is this a big deal in the larger scope of things? i don't think so. i think everyone reali...

Messes with our allies. you are absolutely right, he was acquitted of the murder charges, gallagher found guilty of taking up photograph. so, do our allies -- how does that work with our allies? >> i think it has no effect whatsoever. i think the admiral is overstating the case. i think the bottom line is the military justice system works, it worked in gallagher's case even though the navy data, i think, do a terrible job with the investigation. the other day a panel of six officers, presumably most of whom are combat veterans looked at the evidence and found chief gallagher not guilty, which ...

What does that do to the battlefield chain of command? does it take a dig at it? >> the president of the united states as commander in chief. he can do whatever he wants. i think most people in uniform would prefer he not have done it by tweet but he is the boss. there is any threat to civil military or relations, and finally, i think the whole thing speaks well at the end of the day for the military court system. everybody needs to remember, when the trial was over, chief gallagher was found innocent. >> harris: right, acquitted of murder and found guilty of taking a photograph with the corps...

Impeachment of bill clinton. but give us this. there were democrats who voted for impeachment also in the house of representatives. and a judge in arkansas had -- >> do you regret that? >> as a matter of fact, the president bill clinton had committed perjury. a felony in almost every state. the evidence was pretty overwhelming. not to mention taking advantage of a young employee. >> you have a lot of military bases, a lot of military constituents. i'm curious, we're going to -- we may have a large debate about this. who should decide who is a s.e.a.l.? the president of the united states or fel...