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They are not going to comment on the matter, calling it a law enforcement issue saying they will respect the integrity of the process, but president trump tweeting about the case over the weekend saying that he is taking a look at it and could potentially get involved. this raises questions because he is the commander in chief. there are issues with regard to law enforcement in the military regarding undue command influence. senior commanders are not supposed to comment on cases like these because it can complicate the prosecution and the court proceedings. a lot of questions being raised abou...

You get these queries does he understand what he's saying. the truth is i don't think he does. what consistently comes up the president doesn't understand how the functions of government worker and that the judiciary is supposed to be nonpartisan, somewhat separate and should be no undue command influence. no leadership pressure on where the investigations go. he does not understand natural. and consistently even after firing comey you would think he would sort of pull back and say okay i'm pushing too far. he continues to pursue which is just striking that he puts himself in that danger which...

Before the senate judiciary committee. he has been called to testify on the clinton e-mail probe but he is facing criminal fer fro department justice inspector and anything he says in the committee could be used against him if there is a criminal case. use immunity does not protect him from prosecution. but what it does do is prohibit the prosecutors from using anything that he tells the committee in a future criminal case. basically it's like whatever he tells the committee, he never said anything under use immunity. in a letter to chuck grassley, mccabe's attorney writes, "this is a textbook...

Sometimes get things wrong, they don't get it wrong for political reasons. but let's just put that aside for a minute. what you're talking about in the military would be undue command influence. not only is andy mccabe being tau tau taunted, but the person who decided to fire him is being taunted. jeff sessions is being taunted by the president. and so you have a situation, which i think is politicized, in which the president has made clear to attorney general sessions that he wants mccabe gone. now, how do you reconcile that? >> and christopher wray. it was my understanding there was pressu...

Executive branch, the president of the united states, saying exactly that. i want this guy gone. what role does that play? and even if it doesn't apply as a legal matter, it should apply as a malter tter of principle. >> and clint watts, let's talk about that also. mike hayden, a former general who headed the cia and the nsa, suggested that no matter what the facts of the case are, there was in a military context, not a legal context, but a military context undue command influence in this case. >> that's absolutely right. the president forecasted this months ago, and he did it through his twit...