overturned the demotion and the dishonourable discharge of a naval petty officer by the name of eddie gallaghering the rules by posing with the dead body of an islamic state — very young teenage fighter in mosul, in iraq. i don't know if you followed that case at all, but what do you make of a politician who intervenes and describes said person, eddie gallagher, as a hero, despite the blatant evidence that he had broken the rules of war? it's difficult. and again, us politics and policy are quite different to how things are done everywhere else. donald trump is arguably quite a boisterous, outspoken person, who has his own worldview. i am sure you have many colleagues and comrades who have served in northern ireland alongside you, and many other places too. you will know that, going back to 1972 and the terrible incident known as bloody sunday, where i think 13 civilians lost their lives after troops opened fire, there has never been a conviction of a british soldier for involvement in that, although we know the killings took place. you can bring it forward to iraq, and some of the civilians ki

eddie gallagher.at testified against him at his war crimes trial he is naming names gabe gutierrez has more on that. >> hey, guys, good morning case had already become publicly charged with president trump publicly defending gallagher but this latest development is highly unusual, a retired navy s.e.a.l. is calling out his former teammates by name, though some of the them are active duty he says he is fighting to clear his name critics argue it is putting lives in jeopardy. >> the truth has never been fully exposed about what really happened you may think you know but you have no idea. >> reporter: retired navy s.e.a.l. eddie gal gar now lashing out against his former s.e.a.l. teammates who testified against him at court marshall accused only of murder and killing civilians. >> even though i went to trial and exposed all the lies about me and was found not guilty, there are those to this day who refuse to accept that fact. >> reporter: gallagher's video posted on facebook and instagram highlighting na

it was posted by eddie gallagher.entifies his platoon mates who accused him of war crimes and called them a coward. >> even though i went to trial, exposed all the lies that was said to me by certain cowards in my platoon and found not guilty there are those to this day who refuse to accept that fact. >> gallagher was convicted of posing with a body of the isis prisoner he was accused of killing. with the backing of president trump his sentence was overturned and allowed to keep his status as a s.e.a.l.. >>> still ahead coming clean, the maker of purel hand sanitizers is ordered to stop claiming its products can help prevent the flu or serious infections. products can help prevent the flu or serious infections. br 25% of your mouth. listerine® cleans virtually 100%. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™ but shouldn't somebody this is be listening?pression. so. let's talk. we're built for hearing what's important to you, one to one. edward jones. it'

in a new video he posted online, eddie gallagher is calling out by name the men who accused him of warmes. david martin reports tonight from the pentagon. >> reporter: now retired, navy seal edward gallagher was acquitted of murdering an isis prisoner, but says he still has to fight to clear his name. >> even though i went to trial, exposed all the lies that were said about me by certain colleagues in my platoon, and found not guilty, there are those to this day who refuse to accept that fact. >> reporter: gallagher was convicted of posing with the body of the prisoner, but thanks to president trump, the sentence was overturned and he was allowed to keep his trident pin, the symbol of his status as a seal. now he has taken to social media to call out those who testified against him, complete with pictures. >> the truth has never been fully exposed about what really happened. you may think you know, but you have no idea. >> reporter: the controversy surrounding gallagher was one of the reasons the navy's top seal issued a memo last summer stating, "we have a problem with good order and

donald trump also against the wishes of top military leaders restored the rank of eddie gallagher who was acquitted of murder charges but convicted of a lesser charge of posing for a picture with a corpse. that was against the secretary of the navy. the president is considering pardoning a contractor convicted of murder during the iraq war. a blackwater security guard named nicolas slatten sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 massacre in baghdad. and then this weekend, president trump openly threatened more war crimes. tweeting about possibly striking iranian cultural sites, which is against international law under the 1954 haig convention, and several other international treaties. and his own defense secretary mark esper indicated that that would not be allowed under the laws of armed conflict. that was today, although it was begrudging. in classic fashion secretary of state mike pompeo tried to gaslight the nation into not believing the plain meaning of what trump tweeted only for trump to classically reiterate his same threats. in a sunday afternoon tweet suggesting

keepers at the white house, he is able to meet with controversial people like retired navy seal eddie gallagherdy giuliani, who is under investigation, from new york, and so he is able to kind of cut loose more around mar-a-lago. and feel like the people around him, preventing him from living his best life. >> and daniel lippman says, he was friends with obama bundler, not making any introduction, and he was in a black tie on new years eve. >> they don't actually -- >> cutting zbloos they don't feed the reporters at mar-a-lago. at you know, the new years eve party. >> i was going to say. scandal. >> daniel, always a pleasure. thank you. >> happy new year, guys. >>> so pope francis is apologizing after a video surfaced of him rebuffing a woman who held on to a handshake a bit too long following a new years eve at the vatican. pope francis appears to lose his temper, and slapped a woman's hand away. as you see right there. who hung on to a handshake. and pope francis apologized for the incident yesterday. in a statement. saying quote, many times, we lose our patience. i do, too. and i'm sorry for

we saw attorney eddie gallagher, a disgraced then pardoned navy seal, and what would be a party withouty guiliani? what does that say to you about their appearances? we know this president is all about optics. >> well, it says to me that he is much more comfortable and relaxed down at mar-a-lago. he doesn't have a million aides who are hovering around him. he doesn't have as many gate keepers keeping people who he shouldn't be seen with as much from entering the white house. it is even in terms of security the secret service was concerned early on in his presidency because mar-a-lago members would just bring in people to the resort to try to meet with trump for their own personal agendas. he did not want that. and remember that chinese woman who kind of found her way into mar-a-lago and then got arrested. and so i think she is one of those unpredictable characters i think. >> yeah. that is true. you see the president making consequential decisions. for example like the strike that took out soleimani from mar-a-lago. what does that say to you about security and being tightly held to just