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Parents of a soldier whose been held in captivity welcoming their child back, your heart leaps for them. i think the white house believed that they could embrace that moment and that anyone who raised concerns about these senior terrorists being released, they would vilify as you dont care about our soldiers. what they didnt count on was so many soldiers who served with sergeant bergdahl decided they had to speak up and speak out against this deal and didnt count on the american people understan...

Rhino, but he wasnt as rapid as those guys. if you consider where his financial fund-raising base was on wall street, he wasnt someone who necessarily wanted to default. he wasnt a hard-core true believer like some of the people like he was working with then. >> and its incredible to me the amount of venom that was unleashed on him. heres laura ingraham, who is a right-wing talk radio host, a fox contributor, and she probably took the lead in bumping him out. listen to her addressing a brat rall...

Bergdahl prison swap. he defended the terrorist exchange saying the ultimate decision belonged to the commander in chief, president obama. >> i assure you, this committee, the american people, this prisoner exchange was done legally. it was substantial mitigation of risk to our country. and in the national interest of this country. >> whats complicating matters even more are claims that bergdahl went awol and reports that six soldiers may have died looking for him. but secretary hagel warned aga...

Will be efforts to try him in the court of public discussion as opposed to giving him all of the opportunities, all of the due process that he deserves and very much the health care. its medical, its psychological. he has been in captivity for five years. he appears to have been fragile even before then. we need to establish a little compassion here. >> its obviously an important word, and i think meaningful when you said what it f it was our son, make people think about it that way. but, of cou...

The ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! hey, everybody. lets get a check on the day ahead before we toss it over to "morning joe." weve got the controversy of sergeant bowe bergdahls release moving into the halls of congress. u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl was released from afghanistan captivity in exchange for five gitmo taliban prisoners. today they will hold a hearing to look into the swap where chuck hagel is expected to testify. in other news, shelly sterling is heading to cour...

>> i think when we take -- if we start weighing whether or not its valuable to bring back one of our soldiers that has been held in captivity, who has been a p.o.w. -- >> even if these five cost more american lives in the future? >> well, i think what weve got to make sure, and thats what a classified briefing is going to provide us, which we havent had yet is what steps are being taken to make sure that doesnt happen. >> all right, well, congresswoman, thank you very much for taking the time to...

As former central commander marine general jim matis put it, we dont leave people behind. thats the beginning and that is the end of what we stand for. we keep faith with the guys who sign on and that is all there is to it. as for the circumstances surrounding his captivity, as will be reviewed later, the army will review. they will review this exchange circumstance, captivity of sergeant bergdahl in a comprehensive coordinated effort that will include speaking with sergeant bergdahl and i think...

Military. as former central commander jim maddox put it, the bottom line is, quote, we dont leave people behind. that is the beginning and the end of what we stand for. we keep faith with the guys who sign on. that is all there is to it, end of quote. as for the circumstances surrounding the captivity as secretary of the army and the chief of staff odierno said, they will retake sergeant bergdahl in a manner of speaking to sergeant bergdahl, and i will remind anybody on this committee, and like ...

Now. our entire national security apparatus, military, intelligence community and the state department pursued every avenue to recover sergeant bergdahl as the american people and the congress and the congress before you expected us to do. in fact, this committee, this committee knows there were a number of congressional resolutions introduced directing the president of the united states to do everything he could to get sergeant bergdahl released from captivity. we never stopped tried to get him...

Spoken afghan witnesses as well as what was in the report that he was taken forcibly. he put up quite a fight and he was beaten. in captivity the red cross letters he sent home he signed it pfc bowe bergdahl with his unit. he nerve gave up that affiliation. he never made a propaganda statement for the taliban. i went through the militarys prisoner of war program and camp and you get smacked around, nearly all of us screwed up at least once and did something that the enemy could use as propaganda...