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Our attempt to recover any soldier in captivity. like any american, hes innocent until proven guilty. and let me go to colonel davis. the question i have, and i hope you can stick to it, is the reasonableness of this decision to release five dangerous men who eventually will find their way back to afghanistan, the country they wish to take over. and the question i have is from the other side. why did they fight so hard to get these five guys back. nept him back it seems to me for some strategic ...

>> one other detail, when sergeant bergdahl got on the helicopter on the afghan/pakistani border it was so loud and it was so disoriented he wrote on the paper plate "sf" with a question mark. they said yes weve been looking for you for a long time and thats when he broke down. david you escaped from the taliban after seven months in captivity. can you explain some of that process of being free again and kind of the reintegration. >> its wonderful. i mean i just -- you know, what martin mentione...

Any sense to still be angry about it, but it still needs to be brought to light if that makes any sense. >> yeah. i hear what youre saying. nathan, i appreciate you being on. thank you, nathan. >> i want to bring down the conversation with a former navy s.e.a.l. commander. also cnn national security analyst and crowe -- cia analyst bob bair. david, let me start off with you. your thoughts on hearing about the exchange. i mean is it, what went through your mind as someone who was held captive. >>...

Planning? can that help save lives in afghanistan today? what lessons can be learned from his captivity for troops in the future? and of course, part of those lessons are going to include how did he fall into the talibans hands in the first place, not just how did he learn to endure almost five years in captivity, but how did it physically happen? lessons that can be helpful to soldiers today and going forward in the future, john. so, yes, we expect that will be part of the questioning. how much...

Coverage, all the angles on this developing story. welcome back to "early start," everyone. great to see you. im john berman. >> im christine romans. its 29 minutes past the hour. this morning as he begins his recovery at a u.s. military hospital in germany, there are new questions about bowe bergdahl, the army sergeant now back in u.s. hands after five years, five years in the custody of the taliban. exactly what happened to sergeant bergdahl is still something of a mystery, but some of those...

Cant get a drink of water, you cant get anything to eat unless somebody else allows you to do it. and then youre free. and i explain it to people as its like a funnel, and youre at the small end of the funnel, and your world is opening up. and it just takes time to get used to making all those normal decisions again. in my case, it took me about eight months to basically get back to normal. >> wow. eight months. thank you very much. we appreciate you taking the time to join us. and when you thin...

Due process of law. i believe that whatever the process is appropriate for whatever should be followed should be followed. it is going to be left up to someone other than myself to make that judgment, and then, if he is found guilty of some type of crime or hes broken in the military law, then it will be up to the judge to determine what his the outcome should be. some may say that five years in captivity is enough punishment, but i dont know what the result is going to be, but getting back to r...

Is going to be a legitimate inquiry of what actually went on? >> well, there should be an inquiry, and i understand all of the questions that surround this, and the anger of the soldiers that served with him. i just wish there was some time, some time to sort of, you know, hear from bergdahl what happened when het got there. and there was a statement from the people in his hometown of hailey, idaho, talking about the american tradition of due process and letting it. so there should be a process ...

President saying he didnt have this country on a war footing. i remember. meanwhile, this barrage of republican outrage has president obama, of course, defending his position. >> regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back if he is held in captivity. period. we dont condition that. and thats what every mom and dad who sees a son or daughter sent over to war theater should expect from not just their commander in chief but...

>> regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back if hes held in captivity, period. full stop. we dont condition that. >> military officials have now revealed that six american soldiers were killed during 90 days spent searching for bergdahl in afghanistan. a medic, who served with bergdahl, wants him held accountable for what he did. >> he willfully left. he had premeditated, planned out and left at a very specific time wh...