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Take what we have been doing, and cobble it together. we are supposed to work together and that is the way it is supposed to do and just like the congress is supposed to be oco-equal branch in the constitution to the white house. the white house has been looking at us as if we are not a part of the picture. the congress and the white house needs to be worki ing together fix the problem and the veterans served us, and we should serve them. >> i want to focus on another subskrekt that you made a c...

And i dont think anybody should doubt the capacity of the united states of america to protect americans. >> i heard john kerry this morning say, you know, dont worry about them in dohar. you cant help but worry about them in dohar. and we have no information on how the united states is actually going to see that they remain in dohar. >> cnns nic robertson is in dohar with the latest. i understand you have new information about bergdahls captivity. fill us in. >> reporter: sure, carol. this comes...

Questions are already being raised how these groups operating right under the nose of the pakistani government and security officials in pakistans largest city. this isnt the tribal areas. this isnt some remote area. this is an urban area. in fact, questions are going to be raised about intelligence officials and the strength of that intelligence and whats being done to try and control these militant groups that are operating in major cities now. john? >> these are important questions with inter...

>> adam, so shocking. thanks so much. martha. martha: the other big story of the day as we get new reports that sergeant bowe bergdahl was given opportunities to talk to his parents but so far he has refused to have a conversation with his parents. bergdahl still recovering in germany. were learning a lot of new details about his years in captivity. "the wall street journal" reports he was tortured while there. at time he was kept in a cage after trying to escape. steve hayes, joins us, senior w...

Big a threat are these five men? >> okay. well, first of all, any exchange were trying to get back someone held in captivity, the deal will naturally favor those that are holding that in captivity. thats what -- you have already emphasized that. secondly, these five taliban guys, everybodying that people are saying they are -- its keeping track of that. as wee speak right now, they are re-integrating at least with the leadership of the taliban on the phone, on the internet. theyll have visitors ...

Heard senator mccain saying there too that this prisoner exchange will endanger americans overseas. >> well, thats right and there are two reasons they think that. one is the taliban commanders released in exchange for bergdahl could return to the battlefield. it could cause an increased risk to americans who could be taken hostage as terrorists could see them as an exchange for other taliban. >> they have actually encourage some of these groups to go out and take other hostages and do this agai...

Blame a youtube video for the crisis. but there is one unanswered answer. was it to take the desgusting and outrageous maltreatment of the veterans off of the front page and make the president look like a hero for getting a soldier out of the captivity. the president and his members of the team justified the hostage swap because we leave no man behin. they dont desert ussine if they desert us. my question for the president and honest to god, i really want a answer. if you were this committed to ...

We have democrats on capitol hill who are worried about that, who are worried that the president, they say, didnt come as he is supposed to do by law and give them notification and tell them what restrictions are set in place. so theres plenty of this to go around. but the answer to your question is, you know, this is a sharper, political atmosphere and i think the white house bears some responsibility here because they had a rose garden ceremony for the bergdahl parents. they knew full well tha...

To or what certain people want to hear. i was there. everybody else that ive been -- you know, that weve been talking with or to, theres been six of us primarily, we were there. this isnt some story that were making up. we were there for the night bergdahl left. we were there for the morning when we realized he wasnt there. we were there for the following 90 days of absolute ago gone any that he put us through. this isnt second or third hand reports or accounts. we were there running missions ev...

Muster a defense. >> prisoner exchanges are common place in armed conflict. ronald reagan gave 1,500 missiles to iran in exchange for prisoners. what do you think? you do the calculation, folks. do you think 1,500 missiles are more dangerous in hands of those folks than five guys on probation in qatar? >> it just kept coming back to bergdahl and his family. we saw red news/blue knnews pla outside in one network. >> any good father who would tell their son to father their conscience and leave men...