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>> reporter: after today's verdict, those feelings emerged once again. president trump calling the court decision " a complete and total disgrace to our country and to our military." ironically trump may have had something to do with the decision not to jail bergdahl. the military judge saying he had found trump's comments disturbing. and might make them a mitigating factor in his sentencing decision. >> let's get to martha in washington. we saw the pictures of bergdahl and he's still in his army uniform. >> he is but he will be dishonorably discharged although his attorneys are appealing that...

With him and you're exactly right. again, i'm just hearing this and reacting and i'm a little surprised. obviously what i'm going to do and i suggest everybody does is it look at it closer and see how the judge broke it down. obviously there's the relationship between political discussions and court-martial and legal discussions and we go from there. >> melissa: part of the defense was a previously undiagnosed mental illness and talked about the fact he had ptsd but they didn't know it at the time and a personality disorder. are those things that would have been noticed before this happened? d...

And general kelly saying is in the best interest of america, i don't judge rex tillerson, and i know he's breathing a heavy sigh of relief this morning, because -- i'm joking about that, but it's a little different than the whole sucking up around the cabinet. >> i would just point out washington is full of suckups. and flattery is a washington art form. this is not a new thing, and i think it's also true the president is, in fact, entitled to the denference of his cabine in public. in private three of four of his cabinet secretaries have a suicide pact to save the country and not leaving the ...

Crime to attack people who are just, it's a beautiful, gorgeous las vegas to attack people like sitting ducks at a concert. one can only speculate what might have triggered this. i'm not sure what he was planning next. i hope we can determine a motive, maybe that will help us figure this out or maybe stop somebody else from doing it in the future. >> congresswoman, we know the newest information, right, is he rented a room at a las vegas complex that overlooks another music festival in september that 100,000 people attended. in august, a person with the name stephen paddock reserved a room in ...

Mitigating factor in homicide charges. but, remember, the attorneys and hernandez have claimed that it was innocent. they didn't say he was -- there were reasons for -- for it. they say he just didn't do it and the second jury found that the first jury didn't. pete: they are suing the patriots in the nfl. where does this go? because he wouldn't be the only guy who has cte. >> not the only player who had cte or any stage three, pretty severe stage 1 to 4. he stopped playing when he was 23. it's a rough case when you are looking look and say wow there is a great need for compassion until you say...