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Also, over the weekend, information coming out from an unnamed pentagon official via "the new york times," and that saying that, really, theres no sign of any serious illness that bergdahl is suffering. he has a gum problem, he has a skin problem, but that because he was exposed to the elements. they also tell us that hes now weighing about 160 pounds, which for a guy of 59" is a pretty good weight. no sign of any emaceation there, christine. >> karl penhaul in landstuhl, germany. thanks, karl. ...

They say six troops were kill ltd. the pentagon says there is no such evidence. and then theres his behavior during captivity. collaborator or survivor? he was held in a cage and physically abused, he says. a taliban source said that he sometimes played soccer with his captors, was allowed to celebrate easter and christmas and eat his own food. >> he want to humanize yourself so the guards trust you so when they stopwatching you so closely, you can try to escape. >> reporter: a friend of the ber...

He had got rid of his wife and he got a cool $150,000. >> without that forensic evidence, chris would be a free man today and there would be no man today and there would be no justice for dorothy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com new information this morning about the couple behind a deadly shooting spree in las vegas, killing two police officers at a pizza place, then gunning down a woman as she shopped at walmart. what could be behind these crimes? thats ahead. breaking news this morn...

Faith, however. they say that he learned the local language, pashto, so he could communicate with his taliban captors. they say he complained about his food, that the lamb smelled too much, that he wanted fruit and vegetables more often. they were apparently giving him lamb every day, so they did give him fruit and vegetables. they even say he got exercise playing soccer with the taliban. now, this is information that this source has provided, but its not clear that he knows everything about ber...

Theyre deeply worried about whats going on. >> these agencies, its really a crisis. speaking to one law enforcement source, there is a lot of concern right now among these agencies that the facilities are just overwhelmed with these undocumented children and with these undocumented families. and that the question is, what are they going to do with all of them? in fact, by law, theres a 72-hour window, wolf, whereby border patrol has to transfer the undocumented children elsewhere to a facility f...

And "new york times" was first to record this weekend, the details of what bergdahl is saying about his i imprisonment. can you fill in these gaps? >> reporter: we havent heard anything directly from bergdahl. this was coming from "new york times" report and then able to be confirmed out of washington, that bergdahl has started to speak. hes telling the -- what happened to him during the five years of captivity, a very sad and lonely, brutal time in which he spent a great deal of time in solitar...

I was in a video one time. these guys are very good at it. they take things and manipulating them and changing your words around and putting you out there. the fact that never occurred and he was there by himself for five years. he didnt have anyone else to lean on. hes reports coming out now about possible torture, the isolation, it will break you. i dont know how he didnt break. >> i want to bring you into this discussion. based on what we now believe to have happened during bowe bergdahls cap...

Out, we have more leverage to go after the haqqani network. we couldnt attack them in the way we would have because we didnt want to have bergdahl killed. now we have free reign to go after them. he thinks thats good news for us. >> what david is essentially saying, stephen, bergdahl is free and the taliban cant come back and say, if you attack us, you cant attack us or well kill this guy in captivity. that threat is gone and thats a good thing, right? >> i dont personally think the odds were ve...

Detainees. were also learning more about bergdahls condition and his captivity. doctors say hes improving. he wants to be recognized by his old rank private first class which he held when he went missing. a source denies that he was abused after a brief escape and fbi is investigating threats against his parents who have not yet spoken with their son. lets get more with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who is here with us in "the situation room." jim? >> i spoke with david r...

This is a man who was in captivity for five years in isolation with no other americans around him as far as we know, no other prisoners with him. total isolation. the taliban, the haqqani network that held him for much of the time, these guys are not nice people. this is someone who has suffered psychological trauma. i think the reports that the taliban are putting out about giving him vegetables, soccer ball, letting him practice his faith, that is coming from the taliban. we will have to wait ...