they could have taken my trident at any time and now trying to take it after what president said. that is gallagher from a a couple of minutes ago on fox news. he was demoted after being found posing with a photo with the body of a dead isis fighter. president trump reportedly ignored advice from the pentagon to restore his rank. navy officials decided to conduct a review of gallagher s fitness to serve and in response president trump tweeted he could possibly block the navy from dejecting gallagher or getting rid of his trident pin or taking it.gallagher s status is expected to begin. a polar express, when it didn t go according to famiplan
but it seems that those tensions have been diffused at least for the moment. again, the guidance the navy got from the white house is it should go ahead and proceed with the process for potentially ejecting gallagher from the navy s.e.a.l.s. the question is if they go that far and eject gallagher from the s.e.a.l.s, what will we see from the president? interesting. jeremy, thank you at the white house. i want to bring in julia, here to talk things over. she s a former homeland security official in the administration. now a cnn national security analyst. let me ask you, you know, the showdown between president trump and the navy leadership has been escalating. are you surprised out appears the president essentially backed down? yeah. for now. until this hearing goes on. but i m not surprised only because he really did have no options. it was clear whether the navy secretary was going to resign or not, it was clear that he was hearing from the navy. and military possibly civilians