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Close eye on him and bergdahl took advantage, making a run for it. he managed, according to an account to survive three days on his own. three days of desperate freedom before the taliban found him in the woods, nearly naked and hiding in the trench hed dug with his bare hands. upon being discovered, he fought like a boxer, said the source, before succumbing to his captors and being dragged back in shackles. >> im not surprised by these reports of an escape. it is not fun being in taliban captiv...

They never had any actionable intelligence. it was especially weak from the contractors. >> and in captivity, you said there were peddlers pushing information about you and it was false. >> yeah, there were contractors and im grateful for everybody who worked on my case. many of them were well intentioned. after i came home, and looked at the reports that my family had been given versus what the officials had been saying, the government officials were much more accurate. and again as bob said, m...

Medical center is the place for all former p.o.w.s to go and they have had that distinction sometime now. they have specialized training and specialized individuals and a regular team now that has practiced five years the return of sergeant bergdahl. they have met every six months for a week at a time for the entire time that hes been held in captivity. in essence, they have rehearsed his being set free and his treatment here ten times. >> martin, i misspoke at the beginning saying special about...

>> well, because the reports are stretched out over time. they span -- the ones that we got our hands on 2009 to it 2012. look, as you know, bill, there are some people out there full time occupation flack to fox news. despite what theyre saying and tweeting about me nowhere have i reported that sergeant bergdahl was collaborating with the enemy. i some antidotal evidence has been accruing to that effect. dicey to use your preferred journalistic lingo to suppress it ground reports show while ber...

Years in captivity. >> were hearing from a taliban who were already saying this release shows that america will negotiate with terrorists and americans will indeed become high valued targets going forward. exactly and they are correct. in saying that because now we have set precedence and this is why the leader of the taliban said that now, we can go after bigger people. like bergdahl and it endangers our troops all over the world. not only in afghanistan ar iraq where we have presence, but syri...

Something called the eclipse group. its a private intelligence firm retained by the pentagon as a subcontractor in the search for bergdahl. their situation reports represent the best, most detailed accounts we have seen yet so far, bill, of sergeant bergdahls five years in captivity. they contain the actual names of the men who controlled him. what tribe they belong to, what rank they held in the haqqani network. where they held them and when. these details are in the report. the head of the ecl...

>> im a prisoner. i want to go home. you know, the men, afghanistan men in our prisons, they want to go home, too. its -- let me go, get me to come home. release me. >> reporter: four months of that, another video surfaces. >> please bring us home, so that we can be back where we belong and not over here waisting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. >> reporter: and he wont be seen again until january of this year, a few months later, may 3...

Illness he may have at this stage but what they are saying is that bergdahl in general terms is stable, he is making improvements, he is conversing and engaging with the medical staff around him and he is taking an interest in the kind of program, the medical program that they are putting him through. of course, they are taking special care of his diet and nutritional needs because after five years in captivity probably hasnt been eating too well. also the other key part of this phase two is wha...

The rumor mil but clearly, now that these documents are out, there is just still no way to prove it i mean exactly and there is no way i can say it. >> when you think of him in captivity for five years and see the video of him coming home, the taliban released it, a property began to piece, but nonetheless, it shows him. do you think this is what i would have done to survive, even if it involved saying i converted to islam and took up arms against the united states. what do you think about that?...

Guantanamo prisoners, god will repay for the death of every afghan child. amen. the tweet has been removed. did michael hastings "rolling stone" piece from 2012 not make the briefing book? how is it not relevant to the swap that two days prior to his departure according to hastings, bergdahl e-mailed his dad, the horror that is america is disgusting. to which his father replied with a subject line, saying obey your conscious. while its important we not convict bergdahl based on a magazine story ...