acquitted in the deadly stabbing of a teenage isis fighter in iraq in 2017, was found guilty of posing inappropriately with a corpse and sentenced to four months time served. the president repeatedly intervening on gallagher s behalf, including publicly slamming the navy for starting the process for a review that could have stripped gallagher of his rank and full benefits. this is all about ego and retaliation. this has nothing to do with good order and discipline. reporter: secretary of defense mark esper firing navy secretary richard spencer last night. late today, in an interview with cbs, the former head of the navy was asked what message this sends. that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. it s the backbone of what we do. reporter: in the end, esper following the president s directive to let gallagher keep his rank and trident, in hopes the service can just move on. somebody has their back and
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the mid-atlantic during the day on saturday. saturday night, after midnight, d.c. to new york with accumulating snows inland and after that one, a very active pattern shaping up, as we head into the holiday next week. david? all right, rob, thank you. next tonight, president trump and a showdown with navy leadership over navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. the navy moving to strip him of his status as a s.e.a.l. after a trial over his behavior in iraq. here tonight, abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. reporter: tonight, chief petty officer edward gallagher at the center of a high stakes showdown between the navy s top leadership and president trump. gallagher was acquitted of war crime charges in the killing of a teenage isis prisoner, but convicted for posing in a picture next to the teen, defiling a corpse. but last week, president trump granted him clemency. they tried to frame me as a criminal from the get-go. reporter: but just days after gallagher was gr
of the movies. i agree with michael, that but for the fact that these are navy seals and isis, it s the same legal issues that you would find in a drug case. but they aren t the same underlying facts. so if someone s convicted of murder, they could spend the rest of their lives in jail but that is at this point going to be an uphill battle for the navy prosecutors. arthel: and then michael, quickly, if this medic ends up convicted no for war crimes, whs the impact on the psyche of fellow military medics? i don t know that had they ought to attribute what they did to the medics or think they all feel this way. what we ought to say, if he s convicted and has done wrong, the medic has done wrong by liker it ought to tell people not to lie in court, not to change the story a and not to take the heat for somebody else, just tell the truth. that s what we tell witnesses and judges tell witnesses in front of juries every day in america. arthel: we have to leave it there. nice to talk to bot
a little bit. right now, our economy goes at about 19 to $20 trillion a year, theirs at about $12 trillion. we are ahead for now. president trump wants to keep the u.s. economy growing faster than china and wants to see china submit more to the rule of law and become a good global trade partner. they aren t right now. arthel: we ll leave it there. dr. rebecca grant, thank you. thank you. eric: back at home, there was a stunning confession on the witness stand during a trial of a navy seal accused of murder. a witness saying he s the one that killed an isis prisoner in their custody, not the president. does that mean the case is closed? our legal panel and their analysis, next. the decision was made we were making a move. we had to.