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Pressure from the pentagon, the generals and admirals and i'm glad he is backing down. those before eddie gallagher and those who will come after eddie gallagher may not have presidential interference or pardon. it should just be let it run its case through the military. is my belief. >> you know the s.e.a.l., this community, what does this sort of back and forth and this battle do for morale and for the thinking there within the men and women that make up the s.e.a.l.? >> the back and forth is terrible for the morale. you know, at one time if you get acquitted and get let off and it comes bac...

Concerned about this, the president as the commander of chief he can do this, it's legal. he can do it. but they're concerned about the signal that it sends. that it might impact morale among troops who look at this -- who are supposed to look at the ucmj process, the uniform code of military justice, and the administrative process, they're supposed to have confidence they will work. if the president circumvents the process or intervenes, then the concern is that the average joe sailor, airmen, marine, will no longer look at those processes as having authority. we're talking about eddie gallag...

He was acquitted of murdering an injured isis prisoner but convicted of posing with the militant's dead body. the military officials expected the navy to move forward with the probe and they did not expect the president to issue a written order to stop it. though they conceded that he could change his mind at any point courtney kube has been all over this. she is getting at the heart of what the friction is between the president and the pentagon. what are the officials telling you? >> so there was this full court press on thursday and friday and administration officials and military leaders wh...

Hurt democrats in the long run. >> in the meantime give me a sense of the timeline of this process. more important than the testimony from these key witnesses. >> so democrats been told to expect an impeachment report from the intelligence committee as soon as december 2nd. they're going to be writing out that report in the next week. and then all the action will go to the judiciary committee which is going to draft up articles of impeachment and then vote on them and then send them to the full house. and so it doesn't look like in that timeline we're not going to have john bolton appear on th...

You have the navy peers who sit down and review the case of eddie gallagher and determine if he deserves to keep the trident. which is the pin that symbolizes he's a navy s.e.a.l. so the president didn't understand that. the officials said he asked very pointed questions and wanted to know exactly what the process was. and that after this first meeting which was thursday evening on air force one and then a second one at the white house on friday afternoon he decided that he would let the process go forward. so the navy decided -- the navy was told they could move forward with the trident revie...