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Attended bipartisan very active conversation about all of the issues that i know you guys have been reporting on. there was a very, very long line of people leading to ask questions and we ran out of time for everybody on that line to be able to ask those questions. we've been asking those questions through other means. i came out of another briefing myself on the foreign affairs side and helpeding into another one on armed services this afternoon. the opportunity we have in smaller group settings to ask the questions that the american public deserves. >> bill: the line was long and you didn't...

Restore gallagher's rant and went even further, publicly praising him. >> he was a great fighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. >> again, a far cry from what gallagher's own men said. gallagher responding to the videos in a statement reading in part, i'll read it for you, quote, my first reaction 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. out front for me now democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. thank you ...

About what gallagher did. they were talking to investigators in a pre-trial environment. they were called in to talk to investigators. this isn't necessarily breaking public silence. when we talk about the code of silence for the s.e.a.l.s and they are a quiet, insular bunch. but there's also a code of honor. just like every other member of the military they have an obligation when they he see something awry to report it, to try to stop it and report it. that's what they did. they came forward and said what they believed were gallagher's misdeeds. they had strong comments about his character a...

Himself involved. >> admiral kirby, i'm just wondering, i mean, this is just such -- the video is so striking. it is so rough. >> yes. >> does that indicate kind of the broader cultural reaction to this pardon by the president? or, you know, reasinstatement? >> i think there's tension inside the community right now. many seals don't want to be associated with what gallagher did. these seals is did have the courage to come forward which is not part of their culture to talk about what they saw him do. but there are other seals that support gallagher and are glad by what the president did. this s...

Disturbing to them they felt they need to come forward and they communicated with each other about coming forward about some of this stuff. when president trump goes then and undermines this entire proerks he's doing that by flying in the face of all of those evidence. it's not even clear to me the president cared what evidence existed about what gallagher did or didn't do. he didn't seem to really care about the process. and that's what became so disturbing about all of this. from the very beginning, the very first moments of this whole trial proceedings, the president was weighing in on this...