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To support gallagher and oppose the system are not going to be swayed by this at all. and those who were in the camp of -- in spencer's camp and against gallagher are not going to change either. what i do worry about, when i saw the videos this morning and read "the new york times" article, what i do worry about is the fact that it's not going to help. admiral green as he tries to get his arms around the s.e.a.l. community and institute better discipline and higher standards of conduct, the gallagher case is the most acute of what we've been seeing recently. but you might remember that the s.e...

Institute better discipline in the s.e.a.l. community. >> probably one of the things that strikes people about this is that navy s.e.a.l.s are traditionally so quiet about their missions. they do it all in the shadows. these men spoke out because they were so concerned about gallagher's actions. how significant is that? >> yeah, it is significant. they are a quiet bunch, and they tend to be more insular. they look after one another. but you can see in the text messages that "the new york times" released that they were very concerned about just telling the truth. there was no prior coordination...

And yet his honor pin has been resto restored. >> these interviews were done by naval criminal investigators in the pretrial time frame. so this was used as evidence going against him at his trial. you might remember, rye arngs that another s.e.a.l. admitted to the murders so that led to his acquittal. what this underscores for me, this story and these videos, one, how confusing and complicated his case was, which also augered for the president not to involve himself the way he did. and, two, it points exactly to the kinds of issues that rear admiral collin green, the commander of this special...

To seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me. but i quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment. i feel sorry for them that they thought it necessary to smear my name, but they never realized what the consequences of their lies would be. you know, president trump himself, john, has been a staunch defender of eddie gallagher. did trump's blind faith in gallagher before all the evidence was presented perhaps hurt this judicial process at all? >> i think it was really misguided and imp...

Gallagher as a man who seemed to care primarily about racking up kills. here's an example of what else is included in the videos. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of eddie targeting civilians. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> gallagher faced several war crimes charged in a military court. in july, though, he was acquitted of murdering an isis prisoner in iraq, but he was convicted of taking a photo with the fighter's corpse and then demoted. president trump, of course, has b...