A former military leader revealed the "implied" message President Donald Trump left for active duty troops during his televised speech for America's top military brass.

On Tuesday, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke to America's military leaders in a meeting that some have described as an "insult" and a "waste of time." Trump told the military that they needed to start training in American cities that have the most crime, which retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling said carried a hidden implication.

Hertling discussed Trump's speech in a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast."

"You're putting an infantryman, a tanker, a truck driver in front of the American people," Hertling said. "That would be like saying you and I could go out and arrest people and quell riots and do all those kinds of things. The military does have its force to support civilian authorities. If manpower is needed, certainly military forces can go to an area and protect guard buildings, put up fences, do the kind of things that you need a lot of people to do."

"But that razor's edge into policing activities again is, contrary to the Constitution and contrary to our laws," he continued. "So it shouldn't be done. But what I heard the president say yesterday was an implied remark that he was telling everyone in that room is be prepared to do that."

Hertling added that it seemed Trump was stoking the fires of insurrection to justify deploying the military into American cities.

"That only happens once an insurrection occurs, like during the Civil War," he said. "So, unless he's prepared to stoke that kind of insurrection by further dividing the American people and it turns to violence, soldiers are the means of last resort for any kind of police activity, primarily because they're not trained to do things like that, and secondarily because it's against the law."

Political consultant Karen Finney confronted GOP strategist Scott Jennings with President Donald Trump's own rhetoric about the government shutdown during an appearance on CNN on Wednesday.

Finney accused Trump of downplaying the significance of the shutdown by making it a political issue. Trump has said he will use the shutdown to fire federal workers and "end" programs supported by Democrats, such as Medicaid.

"I don't think the American people like seeing the president make light of their health care or their jobs," Finney said.

Finney's comments caused Jennings to erupt.

"The democratic constituent constituencies are principally immigration populations and government workers," he shot back. "And right now you are putting one on top of the other."

"I am a Democrat and I am not an immigrant or government worker!" Finney responded.

"This is what your party relies on, and you have closed shop on government in Washington, D.C,. and eventually they're going to get tired of it," Jennings said.

Jennings then went on to claim that Democrats are trying to give free health care to immigrants, a claim that some experts have said is false.

"That's a lie and you know it!" Finney replied.

NewsNation's Chris Cuomo confronted President Donald Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner, on Wednesday evening over his agency's website putting up an explicitly partisan message attacking Democrats for the government shutdown.

The page, which was first reported earlier this week, stated, "The radical left is going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."

Democrats are currently refusing to provide votes to fund the government until expiring health care subsidies for millions of people are extended, but Republicans have unified control of the government and Trump has openly boasted about using the shutdown to purge the federal workforce and make unilateral government cuts.

Additionally, Cuomo pointed out to Turner, federal law prohibits the use of government resources for partisan campaigning.

"I'm not used to seeing naked political propaganda on a government website," said Cuomo. "Are you worried about this violating the Hatch Act?"

"No, sir, we're not worried at all," said Turner. "And this is not about propaganda, Chris. This is just about letting the American people know what's going on. What we really need to be talking about is how the government shutdown impacts the American people."

"I want to do that, but this is part of the impact, right?" said Cuomo. "I mean, when you're saying, quote, 'the Radical Left' is shutting it down and they're doing it for a trillion and a half for 'illegals,' that's not true, Secretary Turner. That's why I'm bringing it up. That's why it's propaganda."

Turner stuck to his guns, insisting, "to me, the Democrats and the far left are using this as a distraction to really deflect from what's really important here."