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A very high caliber individual. >> reporter: this navy s.e.a.l. now charged with premeditated murder. in mosul, iraq, in may of 2017, special operations chief edward gallagher allegedly stabbed an injured boy to death. the military said the boy was a captured islamic state fighters. prosecutors claim he took a photo with the corps and sent it to friends with i got this one with my hunting knife and i got my knife skills on. >> reporter: what is your contention, that he didn't in fact stab this isis fighter or he did but the circumstances are extenuating? >> he didn't murder anyone out there. >...

For three to four months. that was four or five years ago. it's time. isis was all over the place when i took over. it was a total mess in syria. we've already eradicated all of them. we think all of them will be gone by the time we get out. >> joining me to talk more about this, retired rear admiral john kirby, former pentagon spokesman and cnn's military and diplomatic analyst. thank you for coming on. happy new year. >> you, too. >> first, right off the bat, does four months sound like a reasonable amount of time to you? >> it's brisk but i think it's doable. four months was always sort of ...

Set them up for failure with the rules of engagement and that's something i want to take a hard look at. brian: he is not somebody suffering from ptsd in battle because two days later he earned the silver star and upgraded to distinguished it was next highest medal possible. he is a special operator. i would say this. we don't know exactly how he killed this guy. we do know he didn't back away from it. when he was trying to get into the cia with a polygraph he answered yeah i killed this bombmaker because he eyeballed one of my assets in the field that was helping us that guy got scared and re...

Summed it up this way, saying, correction needed to potus' comment today, that mcraven should have found been been sooner. cia did the finding, mcraven's special operator the getting. they moved within days of president obama giving the order. in other words, there's no faster, mcraven could have moved. his slam of mcraven is part of a pattern. >> our military is a disaster. >> i know more about isis than the generals do. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> that last comment, of course, is about the late senator john mccain, who spent 5 1/2 years...

So congratulations, sir. >> well, thank you. ed: all right. good luck. brian: he has a second career now. special operator to politician. ed: democrats promised they would investigate the president if they won the house. what happens now if they have won the majority? they have gavels. they will run the committees. get into his tax returns? we will get into it. ainsley: what are saying about election results? steve and pete having breakfast with friends. one is in missouri and one in texas. we will check in with them coming up next. >> thank all hoosiers for giving me a resounding victory. put...