More: "There are some guys at Leavenworth who made really bad choices on the battlefield, and I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes," he said. "If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that."

"That's why the military said it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief," he added. "There's a standard, there's an ethos, there's a belief that we are above what so many things that our enemies or others would do."