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Insult ever to suggest they are killing machines and that's all they are is truly -- i think inadvertently debasing what the military is. >> it depends on discipline and the military code of justice and other forms of non-judicial justice so the military can discipline its own so there can be uniformity. so they can be sure when they send people into harm's way into the most dangerous system they know when they give an order it will be carried out. the entire system is undone when a president reaches in and says you'll do it my way. >> the other thing that seems troubling is to sort of bypass ...

Commanders and if the commanders are telling them to act a certain way and working on this military code and there are most of the military does follow that code. the ones that don't and the ones that you've heard president trump in the past say oh, we have too many rules about torture. we have too many other rules. what if these people that would have a tendency to get out of line say the president said it's okay. i know that the president is going to have my back. that's what's really concerning here is i think he's inspiring the rank and file to try and be loyal to him not to the country, n...

To move on and focus on the mission but you believe this undermines the commanders. what is your main concern? >> well, it does. the president's actions undermine the commander's good order and discipline is absolutely critical in the military. particularly with the navy s.e.a.l.s. i'm ranking member of the sub-committee that oversees the special operations forces, these are incredible individuals that do incredible work but it is incumbent that we follow rule of law and the military code of justice and folks need to be held accountable if they are not within that code. and we need to have tha...

Never really defining. you can't say this is what he's going to stick with because h s stumbles into something else quickly. if he can alter the military code of justice, what is to keep him from altering the civil code of trials with the power of his pardon? >> think it's important to understand is that the president also shaves at the limitations on the presidency. he comes into office and has to sort of learn how our system of government works. congress has an enormous amount of power to block him. executive branch is set up to sort of run on autopilot in a way that makes it difficult for p...

Esper reportedly urged the president before he made his decision not to intervene in these cases. he said it would undermine the military code of justice and send a bad message to people out in the field. to the degree -- and this, obviously, just happened friday evening -- tow, from if your contacts, is the president's action being received in the national intelligence community? national security community. >> yeah. in that, excuse me, community of people here in washington, they worry that this will interrupt the chain of command going forward because if troops that are deploy abroad feel t...