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Given to the military at the time that indicated that bergdahl did try to escape at least twice, was severely punished, put in a cage but at a later point during his five years of captivity, that he declared himself a warrior for jihad. how does the military sort that out? >> the primary evidence were going to use is certainly him, and we do have a single source reporting on everything you just described. we have multisource reporting is the process we want to. we want to confirm a single source...

Years in captivity. kristen has been following all of this for us. first, lets start with these new reports from defense sources that hes good enough to return home. but at this point, still no word on when that might happen, correct? >> no word on when that might happen. and defense officials saying thats really up to sergeant bergdahl, when he is ready to reach out to his parents, when hes ready to return back to the united states. hes thrill a big question mark around that. jim miklaszewski a...

Doing its best to smear the unit by running articles saying theyre sloppy and raggedy and so on. and the "new york times" editorial page has finally found an american soldier they like in bergdahl. but listen, the average soldier, the ones talking, the ones being interviewed, are unanimous on this. >> ill come back to the smear question in just a moment. but bill press, after the e-mail from bergdahl ohis parents widely reported, ashamed to be an american, james rosen of fox news got hold of a c...

His first question was "did you have chickenpox?" i didnt even really know what shingles was. i thought it was something that, you know, old people got. i didnt want to have clothes on. i didnt want to have clothes off. if someone asked me "lets go dancing" that would have been impossible. life in captivity. were learning more about bowe bergdahls five years with the taliban. reports he was locked in a box. also, word this afternoon that he still has not spoken to his family. plus, caught in...

Overreporting, yes, unfair. >> i want to turn now to bob bergdahl, the soldiers father. i got into it with bill oreilly on whether or not he was fair game. >> im not a fan of how bob bergdahl has conducted himself. but cut the guy some slack. the man shows up at the white house looking like a muslim. he speaks pashto. he thinks allah. its inappropriate. your thoughts. >> no bill, im sorry. its inappropriate that you, as well as joe scarborough from msnbc are attacking a man whose son has been he...

Make it to pakistani army post and your guys, afghans say dont go there. theyll just take us back to exactly the place we came from. >> i agree. i dont know why there isnt more anger against pakistan. there was a mention of israel and its trades. france and other european governments have paid over $100 million in ransom to al qaeda affiliates. they were looking for u.s. soldiers before this case was done. theyre looking for u.s. civilians. theres a half dozen u.s. civilians in captivity right n...

Its a huge crisis. theyre running out of room. >> mike potter, with the update on the humanitarian crieses there. thank you so much. senator barbara boxer was asked about the situation on the border that she said shes concerned about as well. >> this is a crisis. the whole immigration issue must be addressed. we see the very dark side of what happens when we dont have a policy. >> again, the perspective here, nearly 50,000 children have crossed the border alone since october. well continue to ...

Taliban, lets trade five democrats! we know that bowe bergdahl spend nearly five years as a hostage of the taliban. our senior international correspondent nic robertson has stunning, new details on what it was like in captivity during those five years. >> reporter: after he was captured, he was kept in a house that wasnt terribly secure. he escaped almost on the run for three days, according to the source, the taliban knew the whole area and thats why he was recaptured. he was put in somewhere m...

High price we paid to get bowe released was in the long term the right thing to do. at the same time we are quite capable of taking the fight back at these guys. a point i would make here is when general mcchrystal or general petraeus, general allen, now general dunford, our field commanders went after the haqqa haqqanis, a deadly group, every time we did so, we were concerned that bowe bergdahl could end up dead. they put out a dvd showing they were killing him. we lived with that. i supported ...

But what we are hearing via "the new york times" citing an unnamed pentagon official is that he doesnt have any life threatening physical ailments. really a skin problem because of exposure to the elements, a gum problem because perhaps he didnt have the right nutrition. but very worrying on the psychological front from this "the new york times" source that bergdahl may have been kept for weeks at a time in total darkness. in a cage. that for his attempts to escape. about 160 pounds now.eighing ...