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Fellow officers. these are people who had their own platoons, i their own units were the ones who were witnesses against them. mika, my question to you is why is the president doing this? do you believe -- is this something that he feels is truly a miscarriage of justice or is this some sort of political signal he's trying to send, perhaps, to a group that he's hoping will back him again next time around? >> yeah, this is a president who has advocated for war crimes, wanted the gloves to come off, suggested that we should kill the family members of terrorist. these are all things that our mili...

Bomb makers. ainsley: isn't motorcycle considered. >> it's a tactic the taliban had used to run at platoons, get close, blow yourself up and kill americans. they are still use it's today. in fact the platoon leader in that area was killed months later by the same tactic. even though they have more evidence the army has squashed it. he is leavenworth. the president reviewing that case and matt golsteyn case we knew that was under active review. in this case again killing the enemy on the battlefield, someone who with american blood on their hands. he had been cleared by the army once already. b...

There's been a serious of mercurial decisions made by the president of the united states that has involved troop movements, troop withdrawals from northern syria that rattles the nature of troop movements in the middle east, american troop movements. do you get any sense from the pentagon, from people below the chairman of joint chiefs of staff, from colonels, people in charge of platoons, any sense of concern about what this is doing both to the morale of the american military and the idea of forced protection in the middle east for these withdrawing troops to various regions? >> well, i thin...

Building that people who are different from you, can be your allies, your friends, your fellow citizens, you can die for them in political in war. and stand by them as a kind of a band of brothers. to use that language. all those great world war ii movies, showed platoons you know made up of the italia italian-americans, polish-american, you know mexican-american and so forth, living example in miniature how moral growth and political life were understood in the past, you can work with people in larger, circles and you expand yourself and your circle of trust outward to pro city -- from city t...

Different from you can be your allies, your friends, your fellow citizens. ieyou can die for them in political -- in war, and stand by them as a band of brothers, to use that language. all of those great world war ii movies which showed the platoons made up of the italian americans, the polish american, you know, the mexican american and so forth. living examples in miniature of how moral growth and political life were understood to work in the past. you find that you can work with people in larger and larger circles. you expand yourself and your circle of trust outward to -- -from city to cou...