star, and chief international and security diplomacy, he s also the author of sailing true north. admiral, thank you for coming in today to talk with us about all of this and laying it out. we appreciate your time. you ve had a chance to check out the new york times reporting. what s your takeaway? have you ever seen this sort of scenario before? not in this bold and scriptive terms that these seals lay out. i find it personally very compelling. let me start with one thing, cory, which is for everybody watching, this is not who the u.s. military is. regardless of how you adjudicate finally chief eddy gallagher, 90.90% of our troops, u.s. marines, are full of integrity. we don t have these kind of issues. they re unbelievably rare. so it is shocking for me to see
gallagher has asked him to sue reporter dave philips. there s a couple of members who had a personal animosity towards eddy gallagher. they didn t perform well in combat. they were afraid of being called out for being cowards. they made up a story and went with it. this past weekend gallagher posed for photos with president trump at mar-a-lago. he was a greater fighter, tough guy. in november, president trump ordered the pentagon not to strip gallagher of his rank and trident pin. we re on cloud nine. i can tell you that my family is completely grateful for this decision. that was nbc s kate snow reporting. an attorney for cory scott is not commenting. nbc news has not spoken with any of the individual seals but the new york times says it reached out to every one of them and they all declined to comment. let s bring in retired four
navy seals expressed grave concerns about their platoon leader. he thought it was perfectly okay with killing anybody. they are going against this unwritten rule of not taking dirty laundry outside of the seals. in navy tapes obtained by the weekly, they accused gallagher of targeting civilians, women and children. i saw eddy take a shot a a 12-year-old kid. it turned into the platoon being eddy s escort to get him from place to place to get the sniper out. team members say they would intentionally fire shots to warn civilians. other snipers would shoot so they would run away and hide before eddy would engage them. they were trying to protect the civilians from eddy. obtaining helmet video never seen before, a young isis fighter woirchded by a pom. eddy came over the radio and said, don t touch him.
the vest. four or five republicans, no one else matters here. they don t know when she s going to turn this over. they want to get this going. of the four or five, half of them are up for re-election. they don t want this bleeding into their campaign. they want this over. they may be happy to have witnesses if that helps them with voters at home. that s why they re going to come back having gotten a lot of feedback from constituents, political components back home. that s why when they check back in we ll know more. sun lin, i m sorry joe hogged all your time. coming up, we ll talk with nancy pelosi s daughter. she ll tell us what they talked about around the christmas table. president trump has praised controversial navy seal eddy gallagher as a great warrior. but the men in his platoon paint
breaking news, the new york times has just published never-before-seen interviews relailted to the u.s. investigation into the conduct of special operations chief edward gallagher. in it some of the navy seals who served under him paint a very disturbing picture of him. they describe him as having a hunger for violence. i heard more rumors and stuff like that of eddy targeting civilians. i saw him take a shot at a 12-year-old kid. he got crazier and crazier. he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. he was accused of war crimes but acquitted of murdering a 17-year-old islamic terrorist while deployed. he was convicted of posing for a photograph with the captive s corpse. president trump spend in to