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The pentagon. >> and i think signatory to the letter of former officials against trump. >> right. >> during the campaign. steve hadly, condi rice were not but gates was. >> right. >> the fact he's brought in, that mattis nominated, reassuring to those who were concerned when candidate trump kept endorsing waterboarding. >> right. >> donald trump said after meeting with mattis, i met with him and he explained why that's wrong. it is against the military code, all tradition, it hurts our own troops when they are captured potentially. all of those reasons. he respects this man. that's reassuring....

Evading judicial review and bryan's case is -- this is the first and only case that i know of where so far along in the process they were so close to take this up to an appellate court whether to win or lose if bryan's case became moot somebody else would have to start from ground zero to get this case to where it is. i keep hearing people in the military talking about good faith and the only place i heard about it is when i researched the military code. there's already a good faith exception in there, it's just applied in an arbitrary manner, it's not applied across the board and if they embr...

Video down in miami. >> if you were a muslim i hope it means you can still salute the flag. what does that have to do with it? >> that would be a great question to ask. is it our right to know if somebody wants to opt out of that. now they're asking for her position to be taken from her, for her to be fired. >> i'm going to ask one other thing. sometimes you have absence of mind. i remember walking up a few times with my hands in my pockets, instead of my hands crossed. not thinking it was a longer line i don't know what i was thinking. could she not realize it? >> i think she has done this on...

Table, in all the years he was held in captivity, he got promotions he was promoted. he also got paid. that is hundreds of thousands of dollars. the army if they want to make a charge of desertion, they want the pay back. they're not going to let him keep that pay. how are they going to get that back? one way to get that back is to make that ultimate charge of desertion. even if they get a conviction down the road there will still be a good deal of flexibility on sentencing. it's not at all clear that he will go to military detention, how long he would go for, what kind of sentence he would ge...

Question that we don't know the answer to -- did bergdahl absolutely intend to willfully desert his post? or was this a confused man who was not suited to military life and decided just to leave and did not understand potentially the implications of his actions? i will tell you that is the debate i hear in pentagon hallways. that's what people are laying out. what is it? who was bowe bergdahl? what was his intent when he left his base in july of 2009 in eastern afghanistan? that goes to the charge of desertion. misbehavior before the enemy, that essentially means shamefully, in the words of th...