commented on the gallagher case tweeting in honor of his past service to our country navy seal eddie gallagher will soon be moved to a less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court process should move quickly now gallagher is facing alleged crimes of murder and premeditated murder those are the charges the spacing and you know should the president be getting involved in cases like this tweeting about them or you know saying all we need you know to loosen his pretrial confinement and things of that nature. no i don't believe so i think that you have to let it go you have to let the system run its course he will have his day in court that's why it's all coming to light now and you don't need a president talking about the case go back and look what happened fifty years ago when charles manson was on trial and president nixon came out and said he was guilty it almost caused a mistrial because there was a headline in every paper paper in america how could manson then get a fair trial when the president already deemed him guilty when he hadn't been convicted yet so things of people m

amy: that is eddie gallagher's wife.tinue, dave philipps. >> thehey made this case that in the media and reallyly sound residents in cononservative mema outlets and in a conservative lawmakers. very quickly, , a number of republican congressman, let b by duncan hunter of califorornia, signed on, demanding he be let out of the brig. they intervened directly -- excuse me, spoke directly toto president trump. president trump -- amy: andnd thihis is duncan hunr whom you just mentioned, republican congress member from california. >> lawyers don't know with the word combat means, prosecuting enemy.r killing the so even if everything the prosecution said is true, let's say chief gallagher killed a verified designated isis combatant, my answer is, so what? that is his job. that is what our military does. we would not have wonon world wr i or world war ii if we would have five the way we have to fight now. amy: that is the end of the congress member duncan hunter, the republican f from californi. philipps, describe what he is on

heart of this latest news concerning the prosecution of chief special warfare operator edward eddie gallagher the navy seal who according to the may be times is accused of committing multiple war crimes including stabbing to death an unarmed and seriously wounded islamic state prisoner of war during a twenty seventeen deployment to iraq plus shooting an old man and a young girl named violent spree that prosecutors contend might have claimed hundreds of lives in the war zones according to witnesses the islamic state prisoner was only fifteen years old but it's not just the bronze medal winning navy seal chief's actions that are coming under fire but the chain of command around him as well you see the new york times is now reporting that according to a confidential navy criminal investigations report seven members of gallagher's platoon who tried to report the murders allegedly being committed by gallagher were told by their troop commander and his senior enlisted aide both long time comrades of the accused platoon leader that speaking out could cost them and others their careers. not to mentio

on saturday trump tweeted in honor of his past service to our country, eddie gallagher will be removedss restrictive confinement. gallagher's attorney confirmed he had been moved to the barracks at the marine air station in miramar. he has detained since february 11th. last week at that group of 40 lawmakers signed a letter and held a news conference asking trump move to gallagher too less restrictive base. the navy s.e.a.l. pleaded not guilty in january to charges of premeditated murder and other offenses including opening fire on crowds of iraqi civilians. his trial is set for may 28th. >>> two pilots are dead after their viper helicopter crashed near yuma, arizona on saturday night. they were conducting a routine training mission. the cause of the crash is under investigation and the names of the pilots will be released after next of kin notification. >> we're learning more of the role that saudi arabia played between amazon jeff bezos and lauren sanchez. sanchez's pro trump brother may have been responsible forehanding over the private information to the national enquirer and ami.

. >> that comes after president trumpaid he would help was transf eddie gallagher will soon be movednfi gallagher isne accused of fatal stabbing a state prisoner who prosecutors say was a premeditated act. he is also charged with shooting two iraqi civilians and opening fire on crowds. gallagher has pled not guilty. his trial isha set toe next month. >>> another horse died at the famed santa anita racetrack. on sunday, a horse suffered a fatal injury after cliding with another horse on the rails. the incident comes two day afc the track reopened with new rules and aimed at improving safety. they are working with the california horse racing board to see if additional improvements need to be made there. >>> now to a chilling story out of colombia, south carolina. a man has been charged withki apping and killing a college student who police say mistakenly got intois car thinking it was her uber ride. nbc news' kerry sanders is live in colombia with the latest on this, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. uber drivers say this is a mistake that passenges make all time. in this

president trump tweeted, in honor of his past service to our country, navy zeal eddie gallagher willrestrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court. he's accuse offend fatally stabbing an islamic prisoner in what prosecutors say was a premeditated act. gallagher has pled not guilty. his trial is set to start next month. >> another horse has died at california's famed santa anita racetrack. it's the 23rd horse to die at the park since christmastime. on sunday, a horse suffered a fatal injury after colliding with another horse during a race. the incident comes just two days after the track reopened with new rules aimed at improving horse safety. park officials are seeing if any additional improvements need to chirlgel chilling story out of south carolina. a man has been charged with kidnapping and killing a college student police say mistakenly got into his car thinking it was her uber ride. nbc's kerry sanders with the latest on this. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, craig. uber drivers say this is a miss passengers make all the time. a 21-year-old university of

those words coming from eddie gallagher's lawyer saying his client is being treated poorly in hopes ofnly source of food is convenience store and can't call his family without supervision. he was held in restrictive until the white house stepped in. made a plea on "fox & friends" last month. >> i'm in disbelief because it's been a seven month fight. it's been seven months that he has been tragically behind that bars in that terrible place and our family has just been fighting tooth and nail. jillian: gallagher's trial starts next month. a blind man helps take down an armed suspect. training as reserve officer kicked in when he noticed police cars outside a bank in texas. he sat on the suspect's back so the cops could get the situation under control. >> i really felt like it was a god thing. i felt like god said watch and so i stood there and was obedient. >> officers responding to a call about gunshots. the suspects are just 14 and 16 years old. a southwest airlines worker is going viral for helping a mom with a fussy baby. flight attendant jessica tending to the little girl named brit

eddie gallagher facing a murder charge for the wounded killing killing of isis. serving a 19-year sentence after being convicted of one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder for a split second decision he made on the battlefield in 2012 to fire three afghan member speeding on a motors cycle towards his platoon. ed: what do all these cases from in common? what can the president of the united states do about it? why are our american heroes following victim to american prosecutors? pete: joining us now the author of the new book, travesty of justifiable which tells lieutenant lorance's story. member of the defense team. served in the u.s. navy himself as a jag officer. don, thanks so much for being here. this story, listen, i was a platoon leader in iraq. had to make some of the very same decisions at the split moment. you don't know sometimes civilian from enemy. yet, is he charged with murder. why? >> because the rules of engagement around the summer of 2011 changed and it became so severely limited that, in fact, unofficially u.s.s. policy is to plac

eddy gallagher a navy seal who is facing charges.y understanding the complexity of combat in some of those cases how do you deal with that. >> we're not even close to understanding it. as a society we have been deploying soldiers over and over and guys have who have been deployed 12, 15 times. we have to almost nilistic perspective on it that we think we can keep doing this forever and there aren't real human and social repercussions for doing. this we are just at the very beginning of feeling the impact of 17 years of war. pete: is doing this as a journalist part of your journey home? i know when i came back from iraq i went back twice as embedded reporter to the places i had served. did you go back to where you had served also? >> not the exact same places but still back in northern iraq traveling some of the same roads. seeing a lot of the same people. it definitely was a surreal experience. i think we were talking about earlier even after you leave the military, it takes you another how many years to fully transition and realize

we know we covered on this program a lot whether it's eddie gallagher, guys in the battle field thatt 20 years, in federal prison. he's now going to be released he's directly responsible for the death of our first casualty in afghanistan, mike span, a cia officer, and his daughter recently wrote me asking that we look into either keeping him detained, or continuing to press charges against him. listen, pete, he is jihadist. pete: what are we doing? what are we doing? >> i don't know that unfortunately i don't know that we can extend his sentence but i want the bureau and i plan to get after this, i want the bureau to look if he's continuing to conspire to join terrorist organizations, and if so, he needs to be charged and he needs to be kept in prison. pete: stay on this story for us. >> he's an absolute trader. pete: i know you will stay on it given your background of service to our country. >> it makes my blood boil but meanwhile happy easter in this free country. pete: happy easter, sir thank you very much appreciate it. well, you remember when nancy pelosi said this? >> president

trace gallagher digging in from our west coast newsroom. hi, trace. >> maximum eddier that he's not buying the -- 33-year-old yujing zhang made her way through a checkpoint by showing resort employees a couple of chinese passport and saying that she was there to go to the swimming pool. when secret service agents confronted her, she said she was there for a united nations event. prosecutors say zhang had been notified it was canceled. she was prosecutors have now backed away from previous claims that she was carrying a computer thumb drive containing malware that can infect computer systems, although she did get within arm's length of mar-a-lago computers. when asked about the electronics, she told secret service, she feared they would be stolen if she left them in her room. but during a search of her room, agents found more electronics, including a device to detect hidden cameras, along with $8,000 in cash in them number of unsecured credit cards. that's what prompted the judge to say he believed she was up to something nefarious, adding, quoting here, "it does seem