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To something? >> correct. >> we dont know what it is. >> we dont know what it is, but this is the most serious charge. >> catherine herridge, how do they go about this?charge. >> how do you -- katherine, how do they go about this? hes been cooperative. its not to suggest he would still be cooperative, would it? >> not really. i was just thinking about the possible evidence, and just to add to what the judge said, its entirely likely there are nsa intercepts of taliban commanders discussing his c...

Attorneys will try to find some kind of deal here? >> there are a lot of factors it will take into account as this proceeds. the ball is now in bergdahls defense counsels court to decide what to do. two options immediately are to consider one, offering a discharge deal in lieu of the court martial. by accepting that discharge in lieu of court martial, army regulation 635-200 has a chapter 10 allows this. theres a procedure. may be too early for that to happen. i would assess this would likely go...

Go ahead they would consider him being convicted for the five years he spent in captivity and leching the army with a less than -- leaving the army with a less than honorable discharge. well get an update on the review of the bergdahl case. mikey, thank you. and levi pettit from the former disbanded university of oklahoma and he will speak publicly for the first time. he has not been seen or heard from since the racist chant went viral and dominated the news cycle. and dave guiterrez is live. ...

Theres other breaking news were following right now. the united states military has just announced it will make an announcement shortly on the bowe bergdahl case. lets go to barbara starr, our pentagon correspondent. remind our viewers who bowe bergdahl is and what were anticipating. >> reporter: this is a case that has garnered worldwide attention and really tied the army up in knots for years now. sergeant bowe bergdahl left his base in afghanistan in july 2009 was very quickly captured by ins...

Endured five years of brutal captivity by the taliban. do they want to send him to jail? do they want to go through a very public trial for this soldier? do they want to subpoena his old buddies who may now be out in the civilian world? do they want to remind everyone of that rose garden ceremony where president obama met with his parents and talked about him finally coming home? its a really complicated case to make. and emotions in the army, very high on this. wolf? >> because a lot of his fel...

Lawyer and the various documents beau derg calls attorney released including a 2 page decision in beau bergdahls own words what happened in captivity. in the first three months, he was chained to a bedspread eagle and blindfolded tortured shackled and chained inside cages for months on end. some of the shackles causing severe wounds that never healed. at one point he writes i was kept in constant isolation during the entire five years with little to no understanding of time. i was told i was goi...

Table, in all the years he was held in captivity, he got promotions he was promoted. he also got paid. that is hundreds of thousands of dollars. the army if they want to make a charge of desertion, they want the pay back. theyre not going to let him keep that pay. how are they going to get that back? one way to get that back is to make that ultimate charge of desertion. even if they get a conviction down the road there will still be a good deal of flexibility on sentencing. its not at all clear ...

Now looking back at this if thats something that the white house regrets, not just because of everything thats come out about what happened with his unit, but there were uncomfortable details he didnt want to see his family after he returned. this is a man who you know, was in captivity for five years, didnt want to see his family. that raised a lot of questions about what had been going on here, what kind of state he was in, and to put the family up there on display like that i think, was quest...

Defense counsel i would bring in two points. one the fact that he was promoted during captivity. two, the fact that national security adviser susan rice said that he served with honor and distinction. how did that play into all this? >> thats not going to help at all. i know him hes a great lawyer and defense counsel. hell try to get the best deal he can under the circumstances whether a special court-martial which is a misdemeanor plea or an administrative discharge. look, okay, he did this com...

He was detailing the torture he was going through during his five years in captivity. i assume his lawyer and he are saying hes suffered enough. dont make him go through more. is that his strategy now? >> i cant talk to that but its a little unusual. the army said were not releasing to the public the results of 15-6 investigation which led to the article 32. that will be given to sergeant bergdahls lawyer. he has that already. they will determine how to proceed based on the evidence. the next st...