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I don't think that that is a thing that we can answer at this point. according to the personnel experts that i've talked to in the last couple of days about this, there are options that he has. none of them are really clear. none of them are a high probability of success. but there are things that he can do. i think one of the things he'll probably do is claim this is political, what the defense department would call command influence, when you have the president repeatedly, personally attacking him, leading up to this presumably decision on the merits from the office of profession responsibil...

For that code that we consider to be inviolate, astounds me. david: by the way, the colonel's name is jeffrey nance. i'm wondering what do you think was going on? you can't get inside somebody else's head, but he did mention president trump's comments about bergdahl, suggesting there might be mitigating evidence involving those comments. did that play a role in his sentencing, such as it was? >> that could only play a role if it affected nance in the term that it was undue command influence, but nance had already said even before he was adjudicating the actual sentence that he was unpersuaded ...

Perception of command influence from above from any pentagon leader.kñ shep? >> stipulating there is no excuse for desertion do we know from your reporting the reason they believe he deserted? >> shepard, we will know in about 30 minutes' time but what we do know is that he sent certain items home from the base. we know that he left the base without hisáweapon and he also cooperated with investigators, with army investigators when he returned to texas, and i'm told he was very frank and very forthcoming about what he did, why he did it and i believe that that is what is included in those 1,2...

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Point. >> reporter: u.s. military officials say they have identified the four marines in this video. there's no suggestion that it was doctored in any way. the navel criminal sfls has been conducted with the test that they have done their probe where the fourç marines are stations. the administration, pentagon, military officials have to be careful about how far they go with their criticism of what appears to be happening in this video because in the military, there is this thing called command influence. if there's an appearance that anybody in the chain of command such as secretary of defe...