obviously had nothing to do with any of that. the issue before the court now is what his punishment will be and i m expecting a letter of reprimand. laura: other news today is that the military is going to continue with its extreme vetting of all members of the armed forces and say automatic alerts will flag records or activities of concern among all defense department personnel. extreme vetting of our troops. i don t know what that means. i was a captain in the marine corps, we do have a first amendment. lieutenant colonel scheller spoke out and he put himself forward and was accountable for it. to suggest that sort of action makes me wonder why anyone would want to serve. the marine corps is strong, the best fighting force that ever existed and the still strong.
the general officers will be accountable for their decisions that they made it back august of this year. laura: he was apparently your client also questioned by the judge over something completely unrelated to this case, watch. s. the judge has asked lieutenant colonel scheller about a number of statements he made in the past that may have been in several cases praising or at least complementary to the protesters on january 6th at the capital. colonel scheller said these were offhand conversations. laura: what? how is that in order, how is that relevant? how was that possibly related to this conversation? it has nothing whatever to do with what we were trying to do in court. that rabbit trail the marine corps tried to run down,
yet you have 13 young service members, young people and 20 s, most of them were 20s years in 20 years old, they lost their lives and the families lost them and that s not an operational success, that s a failure. the colonel stood up and said so. i was a marine, just like lieutenant colonel. one of the things they teach you as a marine officer is the importance of courage, not only physical courage but also moral courage. lieutenant colonel scheller showed moral courage by saying what many of us wanted to say which it is that somebody has to be a accountable and so far, only colonel scheller has been held accountable. laura: a spokesman for the marine corps gave only a vague justification for lieutenant colonel scheller s pretrial confinement. saying only that a marine may be awarded to pretrial confinement
earlier, big government socialist check out what you do at school boards and in the military, now they want to check into your wallet, these people want total control over your life so they can decide, so they have the power. bureaucrats running your life, you found the party that is eager to do that. manchin and cinema, save yourselves before it is too late always been demanding the tenant colonel scheller be released from the brick and we have new details where he is. s attorney joins us exclusively. stay there. there.