>> BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT ENDED WITH EDDIE GALLAGHER
KEEPING HIS PIN AND THE NAVY OF
SECRETARY BEING FIRED.
>> JOINING ME COLONEL JACOBS AND
OUR MSNBC ANALYST.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS?
>> IT IS CONFUSING.
YOU WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
>> WHICH WAS?
>> MAKE SURE GALLAGHER HAD HIS
DAYS IN ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
WHILE DETERMINING WHETHER HE
SHOULD KEEP HIS RANK.
SECONDLY, HE WANTED TO KEEP HIS
JOB WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY HE
WENT AROUND HIS BOSS TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.
WHITE HOUSE. YOU CAN’T DHOO.
THE OTHER THING YOU CAN’T DO IS
ACCIDENTALLY OR ON PURPOSE
PUBLICLY SAY THAT YOU ARE GOING
TO RESIGN, I AM THINKING IF YOU
WANT TO RESIGN, RESIGN.
TRY TO DO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS
AND WENT AROUND THE CHAIN OF
COMMAND TO DO IT.
>> THE BOTTOM OF THIS THING IS
THIS NAVY SEAL OF WHAT SHOULD
HAVE BEEN DONE OF IT.
THE PRESIDENT HAS ONE VIEW OF
IT.
IT. IT IS HARD TO FIGURE OUT THE
STORY OF WHO’S ON THE RIGHT SIDE
OF THIS.
OF THIS. >> IF YOU TALK TO PEOPLE WHO
WERE AT OR NEAR THE TOP OF THE
FOOD CHAIN.
FOOD CHAIN. THEY’LL ALL TELL YOU THAT
THEY’RE ON THE SIDE OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
THIS GUY PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE
LOST HIS RANK.
>> BEING DEMOTED.
>> NOT JUST BEING DEMOTED, HE
WENT THROUGH A LONG PROCESS TO
BECOME A NAVY SEAL TO HAVE THAT
QUALIFICATION REMOVED.
QUALIFICATION REMOVED. GALLAGHER WAS TURNED IN BY HIS
OWN SAILORS WHO WERE WITNESSES.
HE WAS ACQUITTED, THE NAVY
DECIDED THAT HE DID NOT DESERVE
TO BE A SEAL ANYMORE.
SO, THE GUY WHO DID THE RIGHT
THING BUT THE WRONG WAY WAS THE
SECRETARY.
SECRETARY. RECOGNIZING THE FACT THAT
GENERAL MILLER WAS THE CHAIRMAN
CHIEF OF STAFF ANNOUNCED TODAY
AND YESTERDAY, THIS CASE IS
CLOSE.
CLOSE. GENERAL MILLER WANTS TO GET THIS
THING AS FAR AS POSSIBLE IN HIS
REAR-VIEW MIRROR AND THE BEST
THING TO DO IT IS ACCEPT WHAT
THE PRESIDENT SAID AND BE DONE
IT.
IT. >> THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN FOR
THE MOST PART SIDES WITH THE
SECRETARY.
SECRETARY. FOR CIVILIANS, COULD THEY THINK
WELL THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
OR THE PERSON IN CHARGE IN CHAIN
OF COMMAND IS THE PRESIDENT AND
HE CAN DO WHAT HE LIKE.
>> JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DO
SOMETHING DOES NOT MEAN YOU
OUGHT TO DO SOMETHING.
EVERYBODY THAT I TALK TO SAYS
THE PRESIDENT’S ACTION IS A
DISSERVICE.
DISSERVICE. >> BECAUSE THERE IS A PROCESS
AND IF THE PROCESS DOES NOT PLAY
OUT -
OUT - >> WELL, IT PUTS EVERYBODY IN
THE CHAIN OF COMMANDS IN A BAD
LIGHT.
LIGHT. ANY TIME AND ANYBODY WHO DOES
ANYTHING CAN BE OVER RULED.
>> ARE THEY BOTH GOING OUTSIDE
THE CHAIN OF COMMAND WHERE THEY
ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SECRETARY
GOING AROUND HIS BOSS OR THE
PRESIDENT INTERVENING.
PRESIDENT INTERVENING. WHICH ONE VIOLATED THAT?
>> THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
VIOLATED THE CHAIN OF COMMAND BY
GOING AROUND HIS BOSS.
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, BUT
YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION
WHETHER OR NOT WHOEVER IS AT THE
TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN OUGHT TO
BE IN THIS KINDS OF STUFF WHEN
THERE ARE PROCESSES THAT GOES
THROUGH IT.
THROUGH IT. IT IS A BIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF
THE NBC NEWS COMING DOWN, YOU
KNOW WHERE IT COMES AND GOES.
IT MAKES SURE THAT THE SYSTEM
DOES NOT WORK.
>> THANK YOU, SIR FOR BEING WITH
US, COLONEL JACK JACOBS.
MOMENTS AGO AT THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERED THE
SPECIAL FORCES WHO WAS INJURED
IN THE MILITARY RAID THAT LED TO