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Consider the reaction to mccabe's firing by a former cia director, michael hayden. he tweeted this "i have no window into the objective merits of the mccabe case and therefore i cannot judge that, although mccabe had a stellar reputation. i can't say, however, if this were conducted under the rules that pertain to military justice, it would have been thrown out because of what we call undue command influence. the president's frequent and visible comments and pressure on doj would have prompted a military judge to dismiss this as hopelessly tainted." matt miller, where to begin. is the presiden...

This follows a "new york times" report that president trump asked two witnesses about their conversations with robert mueller's team. does that cross a line? >> well, it does get very, very close to a line because it's not just trying to find out information, as they would say in the army, it might be undue command influence. sending the message not just to those that may have been questioned but those that would be questioned in the future that what they say would be commented upon or they be queried by the president. that's not a good practice. i think john kelly's advice is sound advice. >>...

A judge found unlawful command influence based on president obama's statements involving a prosecution in a military court in hawaii. so unlawful command influence, uci, and a real thing. what may have happened in this case is that in the face of all these controversial comments by the president, the judge may have said, i will not let these affect me, but maybe there was that subtle gravitational pull which resulted in a no-confinement sentence for bergdahl. >> is this, shawn, uci, as danny is saying, in the instance of bowe bergdahl, and what about the in the terror case in new york, is it h...

>> the president, danny, was tweeting about the suspect here in the terrorism attack in new york, saying he wanted to see him go to guantanamo, then he backed off of that. the other thing he's been tweeting about, no prison time for bowe bergdahl, but a dishonorable discharge. the president called bergdahl a traitor and said the sentence was a disgrace. did that have an impact on the sentence? >> not directly. at least the judge in the case said that it would not have an impact, even though the statements might be considered at sentencing. but here's what you need to know about military senten...

First tragedy, the first terror attack on his watch as president and he may have botched the prosecution. >> yeah, it's absolutely right. and, look, there's a very real chance that his comments about the bowe bergdahl case, for example, led to bergdahl getting the very light sentence he got today. he violated -- >> explain that. we know that to be true because the judge, right? >> yeah, because the judge talked about the defense made a big part of their tragedy. a thing called command influence. everyone in that chain of command from the prosecutor to the defense lawyers to the judge are all m...