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The ious as likely forgeries. summer passed. and then october, four months into his captivity, another e-mail with a letter from eduardo. they had injected him with aids tainted blood, he wrote. and then his words turned ugly, like a man she didnt know. who are you really, he wrote. i never thought you could be this cruel and stubborn and such a [ bleep ]. when the hell are you going to pay? the words, she felt sure, were daily horrors, she could only imagine. thanksgiving approached, the childr...

Started investigating the situation, that people would understand that i was right. you know, what was going on, was a danger a the lives of the men in that company. >> reporter: bergdahl wanted to show he was a super soldier like jason borne. >> all those guys out there who go to the movies and watch these movies, they want to be that but i wanted to prove that i was that. >> reporter: it was a decision he would relive during his next five years in taliban captivity. bergdahl, a 23-year-old pri...

Bergdahl admits he left on his own will and he wanted to draw attention to the problems with leadership. >> i was fully confident when somebody took a look at the situation and when people started investigating the situation, that people would understand that i was right. you know, what was going on, what a danger to the lives of the men in the company. >> reporter: bergdahl wanted to show he was a super soldier like jason born. >> all those guys out there who go to the movies and watch these mo...

Soldier, like jason bourne. >> you know, all those guys out there who go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that. but i wanted to prove that i was that. >> reporter: it was a decision he would relive during his next five years in taliban captivity. bergdahl, a 23-year-old private first class at the time wrapped his head in a scarf and walked away. bergdahls former platoon mates scoff at his story, pointing out that the platoon was supposed to return to larger base later th...

Being able to hear? sir, can you hear me now? >> i cant answer -- >> we will work on getting that audio fixed up. as soon as we get that fixed we will have congressman gutierrez back. coming up next, new details about the man investigators say backed out of an alleged plot with san bernardino attackers syed farook back in 2012. plus inside the mind of bowe bergdahl. hes the former taliban prisoner speaking out for the first time about walking away from his u.s. army base post and then his ti...

Jim sciutto, from what you listened to thus far whats the biggest revelation in all of this? >> reporter: one of the revelations is really just human. hes a kid from idaho. in the mountains of western afghanistan, he had a crisis and he made this decision, even described it as a fantastic decision not meaning great but i think out of fantasy to walk off his outpost in an attempt to draw attention to what he called bad leadership on the site and as he says in the interview 20 minutes after he wal...

To have children, raise their children as a family, be responsible sit steps citizens, that is another detriment to our ability to detect something happening. a lot of people watched "24" and "homeland" and so forth and so are aware of the fact that people, whether theyre sit steps of the united states that have been self-radicalized or whether they are connecting through social media with isil, they pose a threat to us. i think the more we can learn about their methods and tactics, the better c...

The nominee. i hope he is. he is the most qualified in the race. we have a lot of great candidates in the race for the white house. im proud of so many of them on our side of the aisle. i wish we had one less in donald trump. >> well wait and see because donald trump is known to lash out once hes challenged. well wait to see what response youll get for your calls. >> like i say, we both call it like i see it. i respect that in donald. we just see it very, very differently. >> that is clear. cong...

In danger. he wanted to somehow walk in afghanistan to another base to report what was going on. whats wrong with this picture, spider? >> well, clearly the young man is acting irrationally. some psychologist would determine if hes delusional or not. but all of this, his description of his years in captivity and this one incident that he described, thats just kind of a voyeuristic view of somebody whos in a box. you could talk to senator john mccain about living in a box. so weve seen this descr...

Captured. >> a line of motorcycles, probably about five motorcycles, might have been a couple guys on the back of a couple of the motorcycles. there was probably at least six or seven guys with their ak-47s. there i was, in the open, open desert, and im not about to outrun a bunch of motorcycles. >> yeah. >> you know, i couldnt do anything against, you know, six or seven guys with ak 47s and they just pulled up and that was it. >> they said you fought like crazy. >> no, i didnt. im not stupid en...