to appease a foreign strong man, and lindsey graham said this. this impulsive decision by the president is sending the region into further chaos. i m an isis fighter, i have a second lease on life. i think a lot of people have said, we ve given back the battlefield to the enemy. my next guest is also worried, will she was in syria and lebanon for the first two years of the syrian crisis, she s with me now, and so we re looking at one of your tweets from today. let s step back for a second and remind us, why u.s. troops were in syria, and what turkey s interests are. the u.s. troops went into syria in 2014, as part of the effort toe defeat isis. the area they went into in particular, was an area that had cleaned isis out, and they were there to help with reconstruction efforts.
political fate as well. one of his top defenders in the senate blasted the president s dereliction of duties and called out one of the president s lies. isis is not defeated, my friend. the biggest lie being told by the administration, that isis is defeated. the caliphate destroyed, but there are thousands of fighters does this this impulsive decision by the president has undone all the gains we have made, thrown the region into further chaos, iran is licking their chops. if i m an isis fighter, i ve got a second lease on life. so to those who think isis has been defeated you will soon see. this to me is just unnerving to its core. lindsay graham wasn t alone. five other republican senators have spoken out calling the decision, quote, a grave mistake and saying it poses a significant threat. senators mitt romney and chris
stopped. the narrative, however, for the defense in co-opting that as saying he s an old school soldier, he s a person these millennials did not like and they would do anything to get rid of him including lie about what he was doing and apparently that narrative carried the day. big shock. the only thing of course he was convicted of was taking the picture with the dead, right? isis fighter. but only four months he can serve for that. and he s already served six months, right? yes. he already served six months. indeed. and the fact of the matter is the defense even, what they did was they conceded that charge. so the only thing he was convicted of was something the defense essentially said he did this. and so shocker by all means. so joey, this idea that the medic coming in, saying it wasn t him, it was me. he had immunity. he did. right. and so immunity means that you can testify. but here s the issue on immunity. when you come in and you have immunity, you can say everything
attorney a similar question. listen again. longer than you might have hoped? civilian juries that will go for a movie go more, i m used to it. they ve only been up for two and a half, three hours. still confident? absolutely. today the jury asked to hear testimony from the first witness in this case, thomas mcneil. the portion that they wanted to hear was when he talked about seeing the isis fighter brought into the calm band. he was himself a number of seal team seven. he then testified he left the scene for some time. when he returned, the isis fighter was dead and he testified that he saw chief gallagher with a knife in his hand. but he also testified that he did not see any actual stabbing. that s what they ve had read back to them today.
gallagher didn t kill the alleged isis fighter, i suffocated him, scott told thees court. i held my them over his trach tube because i knew he was going to die anyway. cory scott took the witness stand, stood up like a real man, like a real s.e.a.l. and told the truth, and he should be, i think, applauded for telling the truth you said those circumstances. between other fellow s.e.a.l.s testified they did see gallagher unprovoked stab the prison in the neck. one saying the blood looked similar to a baby throwing up. gallagher s lawyer said this case isn t about murder, it s about mutiny. this is a small group of s.e.a.l.s that wanted to get rid of their chief and they found a way to do it.