gallagher to keep his status as a navy seal. president trump was the one who directed secretary esper to end the navy review board process to let eddie gallagher retire as a u.s. navy seal. that was unclear. we know that senior leaders here in the pentagon including the now former secretary of the navy richard esper has said the process needed to go forward. this is a peer review process. it's an administrative process. his goal was to get the white house to continue forward with the process. we reported over the weekend he told the white house and we now know from secretary esper he also told secretary esper that if he was ordered by the white house to end the review process, that he would resign. so what's so confusing about this is now we just heard from secretary esper that the reason secretary spencer was fired is because he was intervening to help eddie gallagher keep his