brian fox news alert. secretary of the navy out he resigns, richard spencer asked to step down after disagreeing with the president over navy seal eddie gallagher s war crime case. comormer green beret commander congressman mike michael waltz joins us now. did the secretary of defense he is officer do the right thing? it seems to me, yes, brian. i talked to some folks last night in the pentagon and the issue here was that the navy secretary was essentially cutting deals around the defense secretary s back and creating a lot of confusion nut ranks. look, for a lot of people who are going to say well, this is about good order and discipline in the military. that doesn t just apply to navy chiefs and their officers, that applies to admirables, to navy secretaries and to the president of the united states. that good order and discipline applies all the way up the chain of commands. the key element of any democracy is civilian oversight of the military. this was completely within the pres
reports he worked with ukrainians to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. now he is threatening to sue some media outlets. let s bring in lee zeldin a republican on the foreign affairs committee. good morning and welcome. you saw your colleague pushing back on those reports over the weekend. what did you think? you have an indicted criminal defendant peddling hearsay laundered through his attorney. nunes is a great patriot. when he says the story is false and calling it fake news i believe devin. you have the ranking member of the house intelligence committee doing great work for a long time and another case someone facing jail time trying to curry favor. this case seems to be likely going to federal court. it seems like we re left parnas was inviting members of the media to lay on an electric fence.
jillian: barely. brian: former green beret commander congressman michael waltz says this case could have a chilling effect on the men and women who serve. steve: this red skins player missed the last play because he was taking that selfie. freeze frame now freeze
the navy retired rear admiral kenneth bright wait who served 21 year in the navy and current u.s. ambassador to norway. brian, steve, and emily? steve: the navy secretary, mr. spencer, told the defense secretary one thing and told the white house something else, right, and that s what got him into trouble. yeah. privately he was telling the white house we can essentially have this deal to publicly make it look like the navy is going through this process to review the case while say we are going to know what the result is in the end. publicly we need to go through this allow the course to run through and reach a conclusion as it would in any other case. brian: not that it matters that much. he said he resigned. the secretary of defense said he was fired. writes lengthy letter channel general mattis you deserve somebody who shares your views. thanks a lot, garrett. the other thing to keep in mind, too. senator inhofe i can t do
come in and figure out exactly everything that went wrong in this case and take corrective action so nobody else has to suffer what eddie gallagher suffered. we want to make the navy better for this and make the seal teams stronger so this side show doesn t happen again. bill: how did the navy get it so wrong? what was going on on the inside? a failed investigation. they didn t interview half the witnesses there. they didn t consult with the medical examiner. once the prosecutors got involved. they saw it as a career move and he violated every ethical rule out there to try and get his conviction. and facts were not as important as getting that conviction. he was ultimately fired from the case. he should be facing disciplinary charges. the navy doesn t seem to be taking any accountability from him, investigators or anybody else.