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Detain kn detainee transfer. 90 people may have been involved in this operation. it is a very sensitive operation. one would have expected. i certainly would have expected that we would see it as a good thing that a soldier that had been in captivity by the taliban for five years was brought home. thats what we do for our soldiers. >> but members of congress were informed about osama bin laden and the raid about to go down. >> actually, that is not true. im on the intelligence committee. the day...

Our international security operation, the intelligence committee and states department pursued every avenue to recover sergeant bergdahl just as the american people and this congress and the congresses before you expected us to do. in fact, this committee, this committee knows there were a number of congressional resolutions introduced and referred to this committee directing the president of the united states to do anything he could to get sergeant bergdahl released from captivity. we never sto...

Charges pending now. the entire apparatus, the military and the military community and the state department pursued every avenue to free sergeant bergdahl as everybody in this congress and the american people expect us to do. this committee e knows that there were a number of congressional resolutions introduced and referred to the committee directing the president of the united states to do everything that he could to get sergeant bergdahl released from captivity, and we never stopped trying to...

Slowly. again, five years as a prisoner of war alone in captivity is incredibly stressful to come back into one of their family members said to me, look, bowe was caged like an animal by the taliban and now hes coming home and weve dropped him in a piranha tank. so expose him to a that after being treated like that as a prisoner and expose him to this type of demonization with no evidence is shameful. >> if its not true, the speculation for this kid to be aware of it is going to be the second bi...

Defense secretary chuck hagel angrily defended why bergdahl is still in the hospital 12 days after being released from five years in taliban captivity. >> youre trying to tell me that he is being held in landstuhl, germany, because of his medical condition? >> congressman, i hope youre not implying anything other than that. >> im just asking the question, mr. secretary. >> im going to give you an answer. i dont like the implication. >> answer it. answer it. >> hagel offering one mea culpa to con...

Chairman, are separate from the effort to recover him. we do whatever it takes to recover any and every u.s. service member held in captivity. >> he also didnt think much about the kind of coverage sergeant bergdahls family has received. >> like most americans, ive been offended and disappointed in how the bergdahl familys been treated by some in this country. no family deserves this. >> bergdahl swap is just one of a series of examples of this administration trying to tie up loose ends, and get...

Friends gave to the "post," the "post" say as peers to paint a picture of a fragile, young man trying to main stain stability. writing ive spent a lot of ply life thinking blackness was all i had in front of me. >> the doctors. >> i tell you what -- >> reporter: on capitol hill today, defense secretary chuck hagel angrily defended why bergdahl is still in the hospital 12 days after being released from five years of taliban captivity. >> youre trying to tell me that hes being held in landstuhl ge...

About the consequences that the united states and afghanistan faces for the release of extremely hardened men in exchange for, for the sergeant. so i dont think we really need to have a conversation about whether bergdahl deserted or circumstances of his captivity. that is conversation lots of people will have. eric: what do you think the consequences of this decision will be? >> i mean i think, theyre terrible for afghanistan because afghanistan, an afghan government trying to stand on its feet...

Psychopaths and short on leadership? if that wasnt bad enough, the obama administration is calling the platoon members liars. >> nobody knows what happen it is that night as facts eemerges. well see where that takes us. it happened five years ago. >> she had all this type, five years to derp if hes a deserter. >> hes been in captivity, lucas. he knows what best happened that night. >> i think his squad mates know -- >> i dont think thats the case. >> this must be one of the most disgusting examp...

You can see the whole thing live right here on cnn beginning at 5:00 p.m. eastern and again at 9:00 p.m. thanks to all of my guests. great guests. well have them back. when we return, new details on bowe bergdahls time in captivity and why a lot of people have changed their minds about o.j. simpson 20 years later.