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documents, helmet cam footage, photos, text messages and all these confidential interviews with the s.e.a.l.s, stuff that no one has ever seen before. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of eddie like targeting civilians. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> what was his official position? >> he was platoon chief. >> this massive leak gives us insight into a very secretive brother hood of commandos that otherwise we would never get to see. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> you could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> i see eddie laying over him with a knife. >> this is case where some s.e.a.l.s who are not supposed to take things outside the family turned in their own chief. >> the guy was toxic. >> these guys who believe in doing good and had the courage to act, it's just the things didn't turn out how they thought. >> there were civilians
report what they saw but nothing was being done. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. the guy got crazier and crazier. i saw eddie laying over him with a knife. >> reporter: gallagher was charged with murder in the death of the wounded captive isis fighter but he was found not guilty last summer after a fellow navy seal changed his story on the witness stand and said he was the one who suffocated the captured isis fighter. he was found guilty of one count of posing with a human casualty. he was demote tod deed to a -- a first class petty officer but president trump restored his rank. the president ordered the navy to a allow gallagher to retire with his full rank in place which led to the firing of navy
eddie would engage them. >> the "times" also obtaining el met camera video never seen outside of a courtroom. a young isis fighter had been wounded by a bomb. >> eddie came over the radio and said don't touch him, i've got him. nobody touch him, he's all mine. >> gallagher is seen with a medic bag pushing him and then the camera goes black. it is not clear why. >> all of a sudden he just started stabbing the dude. >> i see eddie laying over him with a knife. >> "the new york times" says gallagher writes got him with my hunting knife. >> did he say anything when you did that or did he just pull out a knife. >> he just pulled out a knife and started stabbing him. >> the s.e.a.l. changed his story at gallagher's trial last summer. after being granted immunity, he said he was the one who killed the isis fighter. >> eddie gallagher was acquitted
probably a 12-year-old kid. the guy got crazier and crazier. >> i could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> i see eddie laying on the ground with a knife. >> we can't let this continue. >> all right. in a statement through his lawyer to "the times," gallagher accused his fellow s.e.a.l.s. of making up, quote, blatant lies to hide what he says was cowardly conduct on deployment. this afternoon, msnbc spoke to the author of "the times" report who said the evidence he reviewed from the s.e.a.l.s. does not match that description. >> when i looked at the evidence, we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of private text messages these s.e.a.l.s. never thought anyone would see. i didn't see any of that. if they were concocting a story, we didn't see any evidence of it. >> the white house has not commented on the report by "the new york times." but in the past, president trump had taken an interest in gallagher's case. earlier this year, president trump personally ordered the pentagon not to strip gallagher of his rank and s.e.a.l. status.