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Positions, court-martialed, fired. >> that comment did result in an impact in some of the cases that were ongoing. >> judges in some cases found the commander in chief's comments amounting to unlawful command influence and dismissed the charges. >> i don't know how somebody can, in essence, unring the bell. >> an attorney argues hagel's memo is too little too late. >> in fact, i'm pretty convinced it's not effective to tell people to ignore it. >> he represents general sinclair, a married general charged with forcing an officer 17 years younger than himself to have oral sex. but jeff says thos...

>> the military control. the president is legally prohibited in how much he can say in trying to adopt sexual assault. what do i mean by that? well, as long as the service group was tellings, the unlawful command influence is a rule that says commanders, the ultimate commander in chief can't speak specifically about punishment in the conduct of individual cases. there was now a ruling in june that said that because the president spoke out against sexual assault, people who were accused of it would get off because the president's words were too strong. the last time he did it he got accused s...

Individual cases. >> well, that was the story that the "new york times" covered this weekend. what they covered was that there are prosecutions around the country where the defense counsel are saying that there is undue command influence because the commander in chief has said what he believes should happen for the outcome of these cases. whether that's true or not we don't need to decide that today. but what i do know, when our allies looked at the same issue, they said commanders can be influenced. commanders can have biases. commanders may know the victim. commanders may know the perpetrato...

>> we're sitting down with taliban and perhaps start making arrangements there. don't listen to anything the taliban says whether it's good or not. what mick mentioned about the possibility of trial, it's very important that the chain of command not get involved. there's going to be an article 32. that's the equivalent of a grand jury procedure. in any case, any kind of command influence will likely result in this getting thrown out, which is bad news too. >> you heard the possibility of this being a trophy picture. how often does this kind of d upoften does this kind of seeing? >> more than z...

bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. >> there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasn't going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, well, he doesn't have the right throwing mechanisms or he's not playing the game right. and, you know,...