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Walked over to capitol hill and did a rare briefing for the full united states senate on the administrations actions to end sergeant bergdahls captivity in afghanistan and get him home. that briefing was closed to the public, no cameras allowed inside, but we are told one of the things the senators were allowed to see at that briefing that nobody had seen before outside the pentagon and the intelligence community, what were told is that senators were able to see that proof of life video from dec...

Straight ahead. he is stumbling, the legs of a man repeatedly shackled or just a nervous walk around the rocky terrain. at the helo, bergdahl is patted down more thoroughly for possibly a booby trap. the blackhawk helicopter disappears. >> u.s. officials say dont read too much about bergdahls physical appearance in this video. they say two are earlier proof of life video they received showed several signs of his declining health and that was enough to accelerate this exchange. jim sciutto, cnn, ...

Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. learning new details about the condition of the freed army sergeant bowe bergdahl. we have the latest on the political firestorm over the deal that freed him. the possible now saying, bergdahl is showing signs of improvement. he said to be speaking in english, described as more engaged than his treatment. previously, senior defense official said bergdahl was having trouble speaking english, the pentagon spokesman says hes not talked to his parent...

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David, lets just start by when you look at this deal i mean what do you focus on? what to you jumps out? >> well, the first thing that jumps out to me this is a guy who spent almost five years in captivity, he suffered a lot. his family suffered a lot. in many ways he was a pawn of the forces larger than him. i think it is great that he is back. i met the family and the father and sergeant bergdahls mother. and they clearly love him a lot. they have suffered. and it is great to see him back. >> ...

Learning to speak another language and being mindful of islam is nothing that should spark any type of controversy. but, of course, we live in a world of hate, do we not? if your kid was captured, wouldnt you want to know everything you possibly could about the people holding your son or daughter? meanwhile, the kids on the couch had to weigh in, too. >> sergeant bergdahls father who in the rose garden the past weekend has made some anti-american tweets and statements. one of which was, im worki...

Was great news, that hes home. and there since has been a hard political turn there. i have to ask, sitting there with your colleagues and getting this classified briefing, do you feel like the people who are now so angry about sergeant bergdahl being home, about this deal to get him home, do they seem at all -- i dont want to say appeased, but do they seem calmed by what they learned from the white house tonight? >> no, i dont think so. i think that we are locked into an electoral environment, ...

For both their service and their sacrifice. hes hoping that one goes down the memory hole. tonight, the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan and pakistan and other white house officials walked over to capitol hill and did a rare briefing for the full united states senate on the administrations actions to end sergeant bergdahls captivity in afghanistan and get him home. that briefing was closed to the public, no cameras allowed inside, but we are told one of the things the senators were allowed to ...

Taken in afghanistan. he escaped after seven months in captivity. he was rescued four days later, but his times colleague and a british soldier were killed during the police station. steven, let me start with you. when you take a look at this video, its a very different situation than you actually rescued in a fire fight. what do you see from this video? >> its clear to me and everyone that the taliban know what theyre doing certainly with cameras. they bundled us into a car and took us around t...

>> fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry is traveling with the president. he joins us live from brussels. ed, there seems to be some damage control from what susan rice said. >> thats right, greta. a senior official tonight telling me along look, this is what she meant to say. did not mean to say he served with honor and distinction in terms of some heroic status but what susan rice meant on abc on sunday morning was that look, he volunteered to serve his country. he did that he then...