held to and they hold themselves to. bill: former navy secretary hitting back to the president over his handling of this matter, the eddie gallagher case. the president standing by his decision to protect warriors. as richard spencer left the pentagon he told cbs he was fired before he could resign over the president s decision to upend the military justice system. what message does that send to the troops? that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. it is the backbone of what we do. bill: defense secretary mark esper told reporters spencer was fired for going around the chain of command when he tried to make a deal with the white house fixing the results of gallagher s case to insure he remained a seal if the white house didn t interfere and allowed the review board to run its course. president trump refused to agree. i lost trust and confidence
says his case to impeach the president is ironclad. joining me now, congressional committee chair congressman tom ever, good to have you with us. i want to play a little something your democratic colleague maxine waters who chairs a critical committee through this process, what she has said about the present, the cabinet and other white house officials, what they are doing to this country through the process. i m going to be so happy when they are all out of here. they are hurting our country, undermining our democracy and being very destructive. what you make of the claims the president is undermining democracy and destroying the country? it is just the opposite, the
their strategy moving forward, what they were going to do, he says while he was gone, navy secretary spencer went and communicated with the white house or the president like let s make a deal behind-the-scenes, you let this navy review board thing precedent in the end i will make sure he gets to keep his trident gallagher and retire but in the meantime you have to stay out of the process. when he said that basically he was furious, went on to say this, here s a bit of what he had to say. contrary to the narrative summer putting toward me this dismissal is not about eddie gallagher but secretary spencer in the chain of command. what he was saying is this wasn t about the case but the deal that spencer tried to make with the white house and going behind his back, not a way to operate. sometimes they say the cover-up is worse than the crime. when you have someone in a key position in the pentagon looking
behind the defense secretary s back, promising the president that if he allowed the review board to go forward, spencer would assure that gallagher wasn t punished and kept his pin. this is the reason defense secretary mark esper said he fired the navy secretary. i lost trust and confidence when i found the secret proposal was happening somehow the fact that we all agreed to support the process that he was willing to undermine the process. if that deal had been consummated, if you will, someone would have had to compromise their integrity in the chain of command. spencer is not pressed about the allegations that he offered to rig the navy seal board process. he was asked about the president s decision to get involved in this case. what message does that sent the troops? that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. it s the backbone of what we do. pentagon officials say they are now ready to move on. dana: jennifer griffin at
reportedly showing anello holding chloe above and over the railing for 25 seconds. anello blames royal caribbean. initially i couldn t help but blame myself. if there was a sign. if there was something. it indicated there was a chance for the window to be open, this wouldn t happen. you blame the cruise line? i do. anello faces after three years in prison. he said the outcome is inconsequential because the worst thing has already happened. dana: let s bring in fox news legal ns mercedes colwin. the law is what? if you bring about the death of an individual because of a negligent act, it seems like a strict liability statute. the focus is on whether you exercised the appropriate duty of care, in this case, the care