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and discipline and correct some of the misbehavior that s being done and i think the president would have been well served just to let the review board do what they want to do here and make the judgment that s necessary based on the evidence. i think the president sees that it s further harassment of gallagher but navy looks at it something larger than that, not just focused on gallagher but much bigger issue that they have. paul: the president s intervention could send bad signal that says you do get away with it in the end if you get on tv and get political intervention, that would be the core concern? absolutely, there s people on the network that i m proud to be associated with that argue very strongly that even when a soldier commits a war crime like murdering a detained or abusing a detinee, because the served
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and discipline and correct some of the misbehavior that s being done and i think the president would have been well served just to let the review board do what they want to do here and make the judgment that s necessary based on the evidence. i think the president sees that it s further harassment of gallagher but navy looks at it something larger than that, not just focused on gallagher but much bigger issue that they have. paul: the president s intervention could send bad signal that says you do get away with it in the end if you get on tv and get political intervention, that would be the core concern? absolutely, there s people on the network that i m proud to be associated with that argue very strongly that even when a soldier commits a war crime like murdering a detained or abusing a detinee, because the served
are tough people and we are going protect our war fighters. paul: that was president trump this week defending his decision to intervene on behalf of navy seal eddy gallagher, gallagher acquitted last summer of murder and stabbing death of islamic state captive faced navy review board for having appeared in photograph with the corpse, the president to stop disciplinary review last sunday and navy secretary richard spencer forced out the same day after reportedly circumventing esper that would allow gallagher to retire as a seal if the president promised to let the review process move ahead, retired four star general jack keane served at u.s. army vice chief of staff, fox news senior strategic analyst, general, welcome, what do you make of the president s intervention here in military discipline?