trip was yaused to investigate the bidens, that would be bad. unlike the president s situation, there s still too much we don t know. it needs to be looked into but we can t make definitive conclusions on that. i m sure you have a great deal of interest in what has transpired over the last 24 to 48 hours having to do with the secretary of the navy richard spencer who was basically fired and wrote a letter after the fact saying that he no longer agrees with the president on issues of military discipline. now, the defense secretary says he s being fired because he went around the defense secretary s back to try to make some kind of a deal on eddie gallagher, the navy s.e.a.l., on whether he could keep his trident. what is your take on this? i think both of those things are true. i did speak to the secretary of defense yesterday about it. i think it s quite clear that secretary spencer was troubled by the president inserting himself that far down the chain of command undermining the
would theoretically cheat again when he got to college, to use your analogy? i think he is capable of cheating and has shown us over and over again that he cheats and that he lies. so the combination is really toxic. it s a toxic potion that the american people should not be subject to. thank you very much for coming on. happy thanksgiving to you and your family. happy thanksgiving to you as well. coming up, firing line. the secretary of the navy is forced out after defying president trump s support for a navy seal facing military discipline. l facing military discipline limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it s an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ]
killing an isis fighter. someone else admitted to killing the captured isis fighter. he was a teenager. there was a question, though on whether or not gallagher posed with the corpse. posed with the head. he ultimately was convicted of a charge related to that. president trump intervened at the time. he commuted the sentence. he also restored edward gallagher s rank. on thursday, after reports that gallagher was going to be killed out of seals, the president said he shouldn t be kicked out. the president intervening yet again. over the next couple days, you see the tweet that the navy will not be taking away his try tent seal pin. over the weekend, he s denied reports that he is threatening to resign over the president s intervention in military discipline.
you re a navy veteran. do you support the president as commander-in-chief being able to overrule themill the military in those cases. the president should know better. i don t know what the legal authorities are here. but i know the moral authority. and for a president of the united states who avoided serving when it was his turn to think he knows better than the navy s.e.a.l. command who deserves to wear the trident shows you just how poorly he understands military discipline and military honor and one more of many, many examples of what we ve seen to have a commander-in-chief who has no clue about how the military works or ought to work. republican tennessee senator marsha blackburn tweeted about alexander vindman on the national security council staff. he testified in the impeachment inquiry this week and he wrote vindictive vindman is the whistle-blower s handler. what is your response to that? i feel sorry for senator
i think democrats are against some other parents here and it s a problem. central planning never works out well. and that s kind of the hallmark of this flirting with socialism. shannon: we have to get your winners and losers. tom? winner of the weeks chief petty officer gallagher who is the navy seal. the loser of the week is the instructors at the naval academy. this undercutting of principles of military discipline by president trump is a profound threat them. my winner this week are the people of georgia who get to watch this hug between the great john lewis congressman and the senator on the house floor. johnny has been an outstanding