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Take it away, he was a great fighter, he was one of the ultimate fighters. tough guy. these are not weak people. these are tough people. and we're going to protect our war fighters. >> former navy secretary richard spencer hit back at the president's comments. >> i don't think he really understands the full definition of a war fighter. war fight ser a profession of arms and a profession of arms has standards that they have to be held to and they hold themselves to. >> joining us now from washington political reporter for the washington examiner emily larsen. gnk good morning to you. thanks for...

Going to take it away. he was a great fighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. tough guy. these are not weak people. these are tough people. and we're going to protect our war fighters. >> i don't think he really understands the full definition of a war fighter. a war fighter say profession of arms. and a profession of arms has standards that they have to be held to and they hold themselves to. >> richard, i'll read some of the reactions. senator jack reed the top democrat on armed services said this is an outrageous, irresponsible interference by president trump in the military justice s...

I hope to contribute going forward. the president of the united states is the commander in chief. he is involved in every aspect of deposit. he can make decisions and do things and give orders as he deems appropriate. . >> joining me now, world news editor with daily beast and msnbc contributor and welcomed guest on my broadcast. good to see you, my friend. this started with a presidential tweet last week saying they will not take away warfighter and navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher's trident pin. why is the president so invested in this case? >> i think partly because the president never put on ...

Military experience. in particular, what the president did with regard to pardoning members of the military who were convicted of war crimes. >> yeah, this didn't come up tonight, but it is so important because what the president did was overall arule the uniform cf justice. a military command accused and convicted people of war crimes, and the president by saying -- he said something like, you send people into war and these things happen. became somebody responsible for this image, this idea that there's no difference between a war fighter and a war criminal, which is a slander against vetera...

Ground, but also that the american people are comfortable with? >> well, the culture isn't working. in a lot of these cases, the gallagher case there was prosecutorial misconduct where he hacked into the defense team e-mails. one of the other cases,'s cull pa story evidence --'s cull pa story evidence was not handed over, so there were serious issues of prosecutorial misconduct. that's troubling. but i what it does is it makes the war fighter, especially the special forces, second guess themselves when they're on these missions. jill e jill right. >> when they're on these missions, they have t...