he wants to bring eddy gallagher out on the o20 campaign trail with him. they hosted gallagher and his wife at mar-a-lago. and here's the thing eddy gallagher a retired special operations chief of seal team 7, the guy you saw poezising with president and his son, and his personal lawyer, he was accused of some very serious war crimes in iraq back in 2017. he was accused of attempted murder of unarmed civilians including an unarmed man and a schoolgirl, he was convicted of posing with a picture of that dead man's corpse. gallagher denies all the charges. today "the new york times" published a trove of interviews which have never been shown before. statements made by eddy gallagher's fellow seal team members to investigators speaking out about what they saw. some goats. the guy was freaking evil, the guy was toxic. you could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody that was moving. "the times" also obtained video recordings of the interviews of seals describing the scene when eddy gallagher approached the captive he was accused of stabbing. a warning

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eddie gallagher has been a controversial one. r was accused of war crimes but acquitted of premeditated murder and murder and convicted of posing with a body of a teenage insurgent in iraq and the president made sure he kept niz navy s.e.a.l. trident pin. they met at mar-a-lago. but a report in "the new york times" marks the president's decision as all of the more controversial. cnn's barbara starr has the story and fwiirst i have to war you, there are disturbing images in this report. >> reporter: members of s.e.a.l. team seven alpha platoon broke their own code of silence in 2018 with their opinions about retired special operations chief eddie gallagher and some making accusations that the elite s.e.a.l. committed murder and potential war crimes. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> reporter: these are portions of recorded navy s.e.a.l. interviews published by the "new york times." where team members tell investigators their views on the platoon leader. >> the guy was toxic. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: eddie gallagher was acquitte

eddie gallagher cams claims the charges against him were made by s.e.a.l.s. out. in a statement to "the times," gallagher said my first reaction to seeing the video 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. joining us now, msnbc analyst barry mccaffrey and former general counsel of the army and msnbc jill wine-banks. general, what do you make of this new information? of this testimony that we've been able to see via "the new york times" that was discovered. >> well, it's heartbreaking. i mean, the allegations against this navy s.e.a.l., essentially portray him as a murderous sociopath. it was his own members of his force that turned him in and testified against him. now, the problem, richard, is the court marshall was a real mess much. there were allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. we had the president's lawyer making these allegations. we also had overt command influence from president trump. take him out of p

eddie gallagher claims the charges against him were made by s.e.a.l.s who wanted to force him out. in a statement to the "times" gallagher said in part, quote, my first reaction to seeing the video 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. >> joining us, msnbc military analyst and four star general and former general counsel of the army, and msnbc contributor. general, what do you make of this new information, of this testimony that we've been able to see via "the new york times" that was discovered? >> well, it's heartbreaking. the allegations against this navy s.e.a.l. essentially portray him as a murderous sociopath. it was his own members of his force that turned him in and testified against him. now, the problem, richard, is the court martial was a real mess. there were allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and allegations against the judge. we had the president's lawyer and bernie care ig making these allegations and we have overt

eddie gallagher.ondent kate snow has more. >> this past summer, ali, gallagher was acquitted of killing civilians and an isis fighter. but this morning "the new york times" exclusively obtained navy interface with the s.e.a.l. team members who had accused gallagher of misconduct. we want to warn you, some of what you are about to see and hear is disturbing. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> reporter: this morning, tapes never before seen in public, members of the s.e.a.l. team speaking on camera in the spring of 2018 about their platoon leader eddie gallagher. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> reporter: part of a trove of information obtained exclusively by "the weekly." >> one after another, the platoon members come in and they paint a picture of a platoon leader who has gone totally rogue. they say that he was killing people just to kill them, men, women, children, it didn't matter. >> the guy was toxic. >> we can't let this continue. >> reporter: "the timings" review

. >> with eddie gallagher, you know that story very well. i said no you're not going to take it away. he's a great fighter. >> disturbing testimony from navy s.e.a.l.s about their platoon chief that was pardoned by the president and hosted at mar-a-largo. >> he was an ultimate fighter. tough guy. >> they went to places all over the country and they came back and said this is where we would like to be. we had military people doing it. we had secret service people doing it. >> documents that show what the secret service actually thought about trump's hotel site regardless of the spin. >> he is by far and away the best physical facility for this meeting. >> and with just over a month until iowa, my special guest tonight, 2020 candidate andrew yang when all in starts right now. >> we have shocking new footage. it's previously unused footage obtained by the new york times of navy s.e.a.l.s describing actions by the man of the name eddie gallagher. he's the figure at the center of an enormous moral scandal in the trump administration. perhaps one

eddie gallagher as a great warrior. but the men who served in his platoon paint a very different picture in these confidential interviews that have just been published by "the new york times." that's next. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you're sensitive. yet some say it isn't real milk. i guess those cows must actually be big dogs. sit! i said sit! >>> "the new york times" has just published never before seen interviews with the navy s.e.a.l.s under the command of eddie gallagher. they're part of the u.s. military's investigation into the conduct of then special operations chief edward gallagher. it's these normally silent navy s.e.a.l.s and they paint this deeply disturbing picture of their platoon leader describing him as having a hunger for violence. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of eddie targeting civilians. >> i saw eddie take a shot at a 12-year-old kid. >> he got crazier and crazier. >> he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> gallagher was accu

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hans nichols, thank you so much for that update. >>> we got new details in the case involving eddie gallagher, the retired navy seal acquitted of shooting civilians and killing a captive isis fighter over the summer and acquittal that was pushed and celebrated by president trump point. people are talking suggesting that gallagher's misconduct is evil and toxic. president trump ordering the nye vi to allow gallagher to keep his rank. the fallout resulting in the ousted commander, richard spencer who opposed of gallagher's misconduct. kate snow is joining me. tell us what is being said. >> this is a case the president has been personally involved in. this is the case where gallagher was acquitted but now we have today from the weekly tv series from "the new york times" are new exclusively obtained navy interviews with the seal team members who first accused gallagher of misconduct. now you are hearing them in your own words, we want to warn you what you are about to see and hear, it is disturbing. >> i saw eddie taking a shot at a 12 years old girl. >> reporter: tapes never been seen before in

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>> yes. >> reporter: eddie gallagher was acquitted on charges of murder and attempted murder he was found guilty of posing for a photo with the corpse. s trying to t in and relitigate the story and says gallagher has asked him to sue reporter dave phillips >> there is a couple members of the platoon that had a personal animosity toward eddie gallagher. they didn't perform well in combat they were afraid of being called out for being cowards, they made up a story and went for it. >> reporter: this past weekend, gallagher posed for photos wit president trump at mar-a-lago. >> was a great fighter, uh, he was one of the ultimate fighters tough guy. >> reporter: president trump ordered the pentagon not to strip gallagher of his rank and trident pin. >> we're on cloud nine about it but my family is completely grateful well in decision. >> the navy s.e.a.l. tonight and an attorney for corey scott are not commenting nbc news has not spoken with any of the individual s.e.a.l.s show in the taped interviews but "the new york times" says it reached out to every one of them. they all declined to comme

eddie gallagh gallagher.today reveals new and gory allegations of gallagher's actions during his deployment in iraq and earlier as well, including times when gallagher appears to relish violence. gallagher denies all the allegations of war crimes and was just acquitted by a military jury of all but one charge against him. joining me now, one of the reporters on that piece, "new york times" pentagon correspondent and msnbc contributor helene cooper. helene, it's always good to see you. i just want to put up on our screen a few of the allegations, the stories that you uncovered about edward gallagher in the course of reporting that are in this article. he says "we don't care about living conditions. we just want to kill as many people as possible." this was surrounding him trying to get to a place where people were fighting. "i'll try and dig that knife or hatchet on someone's skull." this i believe is a text message to a friend. "no one touched him," he radioed other s.e.a.l.s. "he is mine". this is when they

robert o'brien defending donald trump's reversal of the navy's decision to oust chief officer eddie gallagherrom the navy seals after he had been charged with war crimes. his comments come after the "new york times" reported that many men on gallagher's own team were alarmed by his behavior. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of him targeting civilians. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> you can tell that he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> i see eddie playing with a knife. >> this is a case where some seals who are not supposed to take things outside the family turned in their own chief. >> the guy was toxic. >> we can't let this continue. >> "the washington post" editorial board laid out how courageous those men were to speak out. quote, these men broke the customary code of silence maintained by the seals because they thought chief gallagher's behavior violated something more sacred, the duty of the men and women to fight for the united states to fight for it honorably. it's the sacred duty that the president ridicules by allowing fox and friend

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. >>> new details in the case involving eddie gallagher, retired navy s.e.a.l. acquitted of shooting civilians and killing a captive isis fighter over the summer. acquittal that was pushed and celebrated by president trump. the president had been an outspoken defender of gallagher during the trial, ordering the navy to allow gallagher to keep his rank. now witnesses that were once quoted in trial are speaking out, suggesting gallagher's misconduct was evil and toxic. today, the weekly, a tv series from "new york times" has exclusively obtained navy interviews with s.e.a.l. team members that accused gallagher of misconduct in the first place. kate snow has more on this. we want to warn you, what you're about to see is disturbing. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> reporter: this morning, tapes never before seen in public, members of the navy s.e.a.l. team seven, speaking on camera with military investigators about their platoon leader, eddie gallagher. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> reporter: it is a trove of information, obtaine

>> yes. >> eddie gallagher was acquitted on charges of murder and attempted murder and found guilty ofing with a photo with the corporation. >> they went in and told these completely fantastic and unsupported and fake styles. >> gallagher's attorney says "the new york times" is trying to relitigate the story and says gallagher has asked him to sue reporter dave phillips. >> there is a couple of members of the platoon who had a personal animosity towards eddie gallagher, they didn't perform well in combat, and they were afraid of being called out for being cowards, and they made up a story, and they went with it. >> this past weekend, gallagher posed for photos with president trump at mar-a-lago. >> he was a great fighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. tough guy. >> in november, president trump ordered the pentagon not to strip gallagher of his rank and trident pin. >> we're still sort of on cloud nine about it, but i can tell you that, you know, my family is completely grateful for this decision. >> >> that's nbc's kate snow reporting. the navy seals and an attorneyy for corey s

described his platoon chief eddie gallagher during the investigation into whether gallagher had committed crimes in iraq. it is part of a stunning "the new york times" report which includes material never shown publicly before such as recorded interviews with members of the s.e.a.l. team who accused gallagher. and it comes just days after eddie gallagher himself was with donald trump and a friend or i guess his wife i believe at the florida resort. "the times" describes the recording as, quote, the first opportunity outside the courtroom to hear directly from the men of alpha platoon s.e.a.l. team 7 whose blistering testimony about their platoon chief was dismissed by president trump when he up ended the military code of justice to protect chief gallagher from the punishment. gallagher was accused of stabbing to death a teenage isis fighter had been wounded by an air strike and been detained by the u.s. military in mosul in 2017. a military court acquitted him in july of first degree murder and attempted murder. he was convicted of one relatively minor charge of posing for photowise the b

eddie gallagher is very different. this is case that the president has been personally involved in despite the wishes of many currently serving in the military. chief gallagher served as the platoon leader of s.e.a.l. team 7. it was during his final deployment to mosul, iraq, in 2017 his fellow s.e.a.l.s they they witnessed behavior that caused them to speak out. among other things those s.e.a.l.s accused gallagher of stabbing a defenseless captive to death, of picking off a school age girl and old man from from a sniper's roost and indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine gunfire. gallagher eventually stood trial on charges he murdered that captive who was an isis prisoner, but he was later acquitted after a star witness in the case changed his testimony, later claiming that he himself had killed the prisoner. gallagher was found guilty on a single charge for having posed with a photo with the corpse. president trump has taken special interest in this case after the navy demoted gallagher, the

team members who accused their platoon leader eddie gallagher of a range of brutal acts. these guys told investigators they complained within their chain of command and say they were ignored until it went further up the chain leading to a war crimes charge. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> reporter: this morning, evil and toxic some of the ways fellow navy s.e.a.l.s are heard describing special operations chief eddie gallagher. >> i heard rumors of eddie targeting civilians. >> reporter: the video interrogations conducted by navy criminal investigators was obtained by "the new york times" and was part of the investigation into gallagher who was acquitted of war crime charges and the killing of a wounded teenage isis prisoner in iraq in 2017. gallagher was convicted for illegally posing with the teen's dead body and was demoted in rank. in the video used in a "new york times" documentary called the weekly on hulu, the teenage isis fighter appears to be barely conscious. gallagher is seen crouching over the injured teen.

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sue reporter dave philips. >> there's a couple of members who had a personal animosity towards eddy gallagherey didn't perform well in combat. they were afraid of being called out for being cowards. they made up a story and went with it. >> this past weekend gallagher posed for photos with president trump at mar-a-lago. >> he was a greater fighter, tough guy. >> in november, president trump ordered the pentagon not to strip gallagher of his rank and trident pin. >> we're on cloud nine. i can tell you that my family is completely grateful for this decision. >> that was nbc's kate snow reporting. an attorney for cory scott is not commenting. nbc news has not spoken with any of the individual seals but "the new york times" says it reached out to every one of them and they all declined to comment. let's bring in retired four star, and chief international and security diplomacy, he's also the author of sailing true north. admiral, thank you for coming in today to talk with us about all of this and laying it out. we appreciate your time. you've had a chance to check out "the new york times" reporti

. >> bret: navy seals to scrap the former brother in an armed special operations chief eddie gallagher is evil and link videos. even on vacation, president trump and house speaker nancy pelosi's bar on twitter and the faa offers a plan to deal with the growing number of drones in the sky and this is "special report." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington, i mike an manual ann for bret baier. this week, after supporting through the war crimes trial they acquitted him of murdering the capture in the islamic state fighter but can fit into him of with the detainees crops courts. today "the new york times" released a video of gallagher's fellow navy seals going in evil, toxic, and someone who's willing to kill anybody that was moving. at the pentagon, looking at the rare break in the military code of silence. >> was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> this is how it navy seals and eddie gallagher decide to the veteran of aids mass the point is accused the isis fighter >> he got crazier and crazier. he is toxic. >> he gave them the nickname "blade" they have not authenticated the video.

>> reporter: the men, seen in civilian clothing, were interviewed for an investigation into eddie gallagher's alleged war crimes in 2017, including the murder of a wounded isis fighter in iraq. some of the navy s.e.a.l.s nervously recounting gallagher spiraling out of control, one even calling him evil. >> the guy was toxic. the guy got crazier and crazier. >> reporter: in video obtained by "the new york times" for a documentary series called "the weekly," you can see the teenage isis fighter barely conscious. gallagher is then seen crouching over the injured teen with his medic bag. then a hand reaches up and turns off the helmet camera. one of the s.e.a.l.s describing what he saw next. >> all of the sudden, eddie just starts stabbing the dude, probably two or three times. it was just like a stab about right here, just in a few times. >> reporter: but during gallagher's trial, that s.e.a.l., corey scott dropping a bombshell, claiming he killed the teen, not gallagher. gallagher was then found not guilty of the most serious murder charges. although he was found guilty for posing in these pict

first he let eddie gallagher out of pretrial confinement against the navy's wishes. when the trial was done he congratulated him on twitter saying glad i could help. after that he basically blocked every type of punishment that the navy tried to give this seal. the navy really thought that chief gallagher had no business being a seal, that he was a discredit to the service, and they wanted to essentially fire him. but as the commander in chief, mr. trump said, no, you can't do that. and he allowed chief gallagher to retire with full honors. >> glenn, trump's pardoning of gallagher resulted in the firing of navy secretary richard spencer. spencer went on to write this in "the washington post." i received a second call from white house counsel pat cipollone who said the president would order me to restore gallagher to rank of chief. >> it was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military to fight ethically, or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices. >> you know, what president trump did by granti

that was president trump this week defending his decision to intervene on behalf of navy seal eddy gallagherquitted last summer of murder and stabbing death of islamic state captive faced navy review board for having appeared in photograph with the corpse, the president to stop disciplinary review last sunday and navy secretary richard spencer forced out the same day after reportedly circumventing esper that would allow gallagher to retire as a seal if the president promised to let the review process move ahead, retired four star general jack keane served at u.s. army vice chief of staff, fox news senior strategic analyst, general, welcome, what do you make of the president's intervention here in military discipline? >> well, i certainly agree with the president intervening initially when gallagher was put in pretrial confinement with convicted felons, make to mistake, we normally keep them separate and the president also intervened again when he was found not guilty of murder, he restored his rank. paul: right. >> but i think this intervention is unfortunate. what's taking place, this is a

visit takeactionpv.com >> with eddy gallagher, you know the story very well, they we wanted to take hisi said no, you're not going to take it away, he was a great fighter, one of the ultimate fighters, tough guy. these are not weak people, these are tough people and we are going protect our war fighters. paul: that was president trump this week defending his decision to intervene on behalf of navy seal eddy gallagher, gallagher acquitted last summer of murder and stabbing death of islamic state captive faced navy review board for having appeared in photograph with the corpse, the president to stop disciplinary review last sunday and navy secretary richard spencer forced out the same day after reportedly circumventing esper that would allow gallagher to retire as a seal if the president promised to let the review process move ahead, retired four star general jack keane served at u.s. army vice chief of staff, fox news senior strategic analyst, general, welcome, what do you make of the president's intervention here in military discipline? >> well, i certainly agree with the president inte

military's investigation into the conduct of then-special operations chief eddy gallagher. it is -- obviously these seals are normally silent. but in these they paint a very disturbing picture of their platoon leader describing him as having a hunger for violence. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of saidy targeting civilians. >> i saw him take a shot at a 12-year-old kid. >> he got crazier and crazier. >> he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> gallagher was accused of war crimes but acquitted in july of murdering a 17-year-old islamic terrorist while deployed to iraq. he was convict the of posing for a photo with the captive's corpse. president trump stepped in to restore his rank prompting the resignation richard spencer over his handling of the case. joining us now, analysts. early, i just want to start with you here. these interviews are stunning. these guys, i don't think we can underscore how the culture of navy seals is not to speak out, not to ever have to report on somebody. they are a band of brothers. they are silent. they respect that code. what

. >> retired special operations chief eddie gallagher was recently acquitted of murdering an isis prisonert he was demoted and rank for a separate charge of posing in a picture with the corpse. president trump intervened to 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 for coming in. >> thank you. >> you oversee the military on the house arms services committee. were you surprised by what you saw in these videos? >> as a member of the senate arms services committee, i was deeply disturbed and frankly, these reports are absolutely repugnant, likel

gallagher, that appealed to the president and asked him for this clemency. >> that was national security adviser robert o'brien defending donald trump's reversal of the navy's decision to oust chief petty officer eddie from the navy seals after he had been charged with war crimes. his comments come after the "new york times" reported that many men on gallagher's own team were alarmed by his behavior. >> i heard more rumors and stuff like that of him targeting civilians. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> you can tell that he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. >> i see eddie playing with a knife. >> this is a case where some seals who are not supposed to take things outside the family turned in their own chief. >> the guy was toxic. >> we can't let this continue. >> "the washington post" editorial board laid out how courageous those men were to speak out. quote, these men broke the customary code of silence maintained by the seals because they thought chief gallagher's behavior violated something more sacred, the duty of the men and women to fight for the united states to fight for it honorably. it's the sacred duty that the presiden

with eddie gallagher, you know the story well. i said they would not take it away. he was a great fighter. one of the ultimate fighters. a tough guy. these are not weak people. they are tough people. we are going to protect our war fighters. i have been given a lot of thank you's. we just had some great special forces people come to the white house and they brought conan. , they were here for themselves also. they gave us a rundown of what happened with al-baghdadi. they were very thankful. someone had their back. he is called the president of the u.s. >> bulgarian media. what are you thinking about the bulgarian and usa friendship? >> we have a great friendship. they are great people. a lot of people from bulgaria are in this country. they have become citizens of the united states. we are going to be talking about the visa program per the request of your prime minister. they are great people and we have a very good relationship. >> [indiscernible] >> i think what i am doing is sticking up for our armed forces. there has never been a president that is going to stick

these interviews that were conducted with other navy seels about eddie gallagher's conduct, i think the regular person watch pg at home would find their words deeply disturbing and worrisome that a service member serving overseas was called evil, toxic and that he was just looking to kill anybody. >> i think the other navy seels all that i have known would find that disturbing also. i have known a lot of other navy seals and special operators and they are without exception honorable men. men who have undergone tough training, served in difficult positions. many of them have used force. many of them had to use deadly force against the enemy and they are good at it. that doesn't mean they are killers in the sense of jugs can't wait to get out and kill somebody. that's what kind of comes through from the tapes. i understand what his lawyer said. there's a lot of inconsistency. of course, there is. people's memories of dates, times, circumstances for months and years in the past, they change, they vary. a good lawyer can always find inconsistencies. i wish the president of the united states

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eddie gallagher. in the year acquitted of shooting iraqi civilians and killing a captive isis fighter. after president trump intervened on his behalf. the president seen this past weekend with the now acquitted killer at mar-a-lago last weekend. now the "new york times" obtained taped interviews with the s.e.a.l. team members who originally accused gallagher of misconduct. and we do want to warn you on some of this. some of the video that you're about to see a fairly disturbing. nbc senior correspondent kate snow has the story. >> i saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid. >> reporter: tapes never before seen in public. members of navy s.e.a.l. team 7 speaking on camera with military investigators in spring of 2018 about their platoon leader eddie gallagher. >> the guy got crazier and crazier. >> reporter: the video is part of a trove of information obtained exclusively by the weekly. >> tell you it was perfectly okay killing anybody. >> one after another platoon members come in and paint

i saw eddie laying over him with a knife. >> reporter: gallagher was charged with murder in the death of the wounded captive isis fighter but he was found not guilty last summer after a fellow navy seal changed his story on the witness stand and said he was the one who suffocated the captured isis fighter. he was found guilty of one count of posing with a human casualty. he was demote tod deed to a -- a first class petty officer but president trump restored his rank. the president ordered the navy to a allow gallagher to retire with his full rank in place which led to the firing of navy secretar richard spencer over this ordeal. on christmas eve, trump hosted gallagher at his mar-a-lago estate. leland: christina, thanks so much. allysia. >> we have an update on the louisiana plane crash that killed five people. local fire department officials saying that two people were transported to the hospital but that their conditions are unknown at this time. they also say two fires were extinguished at the scene, one involving the plane and r another that engulfed a vehicle. we'll bring you the

what they say -- what they say and how chief eddie gallagher is responding. that's next.nlike most other cold medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam! oral or nasal. when it comes to using data, which is why xfinity mobile is a different kind of wireless network that lets you design your own data. choose unlimited, shared data, or mix lines of each and switch any line, anytime. giving you more choice and control compared to other top wireless carriers. save up to $400 a year when you switch. plus, unwrap $250 off a new samsung phone. click, call or visit a store today. >>> evil, toxic, disgraceful. that is now navy s.e.a.l.s serving under special operations chief eddie gallagher describe him in a series of taped interviews that have never been seen publicly before. the video recordings, along with thousands of text messages, were obtained by the "new york times" and paint a dash and disturbing portrait of gallagher and the pain and anguish that is clearly felt by the members of his platoon in deciding to turn him in. here's just a bi

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esper that he was negotiating with the white house to try and do a separate deal for eddie gallagher,. and he said he had made a mistake. once again yet another high-level trump administration official resigning or being fired just points to the chaos that has gone on in the administration since the very beginning of president trump's term. his unwillingness and inability to settle things amicably and in a graceful way. jon: judy thanks. impeachment inquiry proceedings scheduled to pick up again when congress returns from its thanksgiving break. as the saga plays out there is still no way to determine at this point who stands to win and who stands to lose but as the fallout continues throughout washington some say there is already a winner president vladimir putin. >> thank god no one's accusing us of interviewing in the u.s. elections anymore. now they are accusing ukraine prefer almost three years russia was the talk of this town. if the president wanted russian salad dressing on a salad site somehow it's a russian connection. >> if there's evidence of collusion. now the mueller rep

and we learned from the eddie gallagher trial that some of the fellow navy s.e.a.l.s had deep misgivings about his conduct. that is what led to there being a trial. what is your reaction to these leaked videos. >> this entire incident is terribly sad and trouble some for the military at large and certainly for the s.e.a.l.s there is a million men and women, 2 million men and women out there serving today all around the world honorably doing the very best they can and this entire incident tends to deflect from them the honor that they deserve and the service that they're providing to this country. where this situation goes, it is basically now become a political situation with the president using mr. chief gallagher for political purposes and perhaps gallagher is also doing the same for the president. and so it becomes a very sad and unfortunate incident in the entire military history. and will it have an impact going forward? i believe in a the command structure, leaving the president out of this for a moment, the command structure for the military has to and will continue to insist upon

servicemembers who have been accused or convicted of war crimes, including navy seal eddie gallagher.nstagram photos show the two meeting at trump's private resort mar-a-lago in florida over the weekend. gallagher has been accused of multiple war crimes, including shooting two iraqi civilians and fatally stabbing a captive teenager in the neck. gallagher was convicted of posing with the teenage corpse but acquitted of premeditated murder. in maryland, a 56 year-old nigerian man died in while in ice custody -- that's the immigration and customs enforcement agency -- on saturday. ice says anthony oluseye akinyemi's death is under investigation but that the cause appears to be death by suicide. on monday, democrarats with the house oversight and reform committee sent lettersrs to immigration officials demanding documents related to the mounting number of deaths of migrants in the custody of u.s. immigration agencies. hours later, hundreds of protesters rallied in los angeles, houston, , chicago and portland, oregon, on the second night of the jewish holiday of hanukkah to protest against

they have not seen a sophisticated rocket attack. >> eddie gallagher. was perfectly okay with anyone moving in the new york times, reportedly showed testimony by fellow navy seals earlier this year. gauthier was found not guilty, attempted murder back in july and donald trump got involved in the case. christina coleman has more on this. >> reporter: videos obtained by the new york times, by saying the accusations are not true. in a statement, he says in part, quote, my first reaction to seeing the video was surprised and discussed, i quickly realized they were scared that the truth would come out how cowardly they acted on deployment. this photo comes from the deployment to iraq in question. appears to show chief gallagher over the body of a dead teenage isis fighter who gallagher was accused of killing by some of his fellow seals. >> one time, multiple times, two different times. >> about right here. nothing other than to attack and kill this person. >> reporter: fox news is not authenticated this video. it shows a rare break in the military code of si

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their own code of silence in 2018 with their opinions about retired special operations chief eddie gallagher and some making accusations that the elit feel committed murder and potential war crimes the i pray these are percent of reported navyseal interviews. published by the new york times where teammembers tell investigators eir views on petunia gallagher was acquitted of premeditated murder when a key prosecution witness changed his story and testified under immunity. >>that he caused the prisoner staff, not gallagher did you >>scott described the killing an act of mercy because he prisoner of iraqi forces would be tortured by th gallagher was convicted on a charge of taking a photo with a dead isis fighter and was tend didn't rank.a decision presidt trump reversed with honor. seal to retire >>even after pentagon leaders, a search the president not to interfe. >>through his attorneys gallagher told cnn my first reaction to seeing the videos was surprised and discussed that they would make up blatant liesabout me but quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of h