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Take the nestea plunge. nothing refreshes like nestea. sergeant bowe bergdahls release after five years of taliban captivity sounds like the plot of show times "homeland" where an american p.o.w. returns home after years as a prisoner. >> im an american. >> turns out hes one of ours. marine sergeant nicholas brodie. m.i.a. since 2003 and presumed dead until now. >> sergeant bergdahl is in stable condition at a u.s. military hospital in germany. once he is cleared for travel he will be transpor...

Possibly who knows what else he might have done when he was with them, and that is something that has to be investigate and if he did do wrong, and i mean, leaving the guard post is to me, definitely something wrong, ucmj action should be taken, i believe. >> private first class jose baguette, thba baggette, thank you so much for joining us. now, back to you, david and lynn, there is a lot in that interview, but here you have somebody in captivity released for three days, and what is going on wi...

Gravity of what he did. >> youve forgive him, though? >> i have. ultimately he needed to come home. you dont get to pick and choose which p.o.w.s deserve to come home. if a guy is in captivity and we have the opportunity to bring him back, he should be brought back. so many of us spent to much lives to care about bergdahl, being forced to risk life and limb for bergdahl. and the fact is it doesnt make any sense to still be angry about it, but it still needs to be brought to light if that makes a...

>> we obviously have not been interrogating sergeant bergdahl. he is recovering from five years of captivity. with the taliban. >> today president obama defended the decision to get bergdahl back. >> 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. full stop. we dont condition them. >> reporter: it comes as allegations continue to swirl thatburg dall deserted his unit. evan who was bergdahl...

On, too. the sarah palin took to facebook to attack the president saying he, quote, blew it. and others accused him of helping terrorists. >> the president may have very well committed a federal crime by giving material assistance to a terrorist organization. >> the president said he wouldnt negotiate during the shutdown. but yet obviously negotiating here. so he wont negotiate with you guys but he negotiated with the taliban. >> the only reason why this thing is announced, the only reason why t...

Became a captive and his personal recovery team as its now referred to has grown to hundreds of people and they actually have been training every six months, they have been meeting and training for a week for the last five years. they rehearsed the scenario at least ten times. >> do we know what his daily life will look like once he gets to texas? >> reporter: medically they want to make sure hes okay. mentally they want to make sure hes okay. they will continue debrief and see how he survived c...

His doctors say his treatment may last for some time before he can be returned to the u.s. our senior international correspondent, nic robertson, is at landstuhl regional medical center in germany. nic, give us a sense of his condition this morning and what this recovery looks like. >> reporter: yeah, hes into the second day of his reintegration here. hes described as being in a stable condition. his situation does require hospitalization. specific attention being given to his dietary needs and ...

And without doing so in accordance with u.s. law. >> and we have this explanation today from the white houses national security council saying, quote, administration determined that the notification requirement should be construe not to apply to the unique set of circumstances in which the transfer would secure the release of a captive u.s. soldier and the secretary of defense acting on behalf of the president has determined that providing notice as specified in the statute could endanger the so...

Qataris to execute an exchange and we seized that opportunity. and the process was truncated because we wanted to not miss that window. with respect to the circumstances of sergeantbu bergdahls capture by the taliban, we have not been interrogating bergdahl. hes recovering from five years of captivity. we the taliban. hes having to undergo a whole battery of tests and he is going to have to undergo a significant transition back into life. he has not even met with his family yet. which indicates,...

Stay theyll have to play for ignorance is bliss. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. after five years in captivity, sergeant berg beowe bergdahl isf harms way. >> he wasnt forgotten by his kin tru because the united states of america does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind. >> bowe bergdahl of hailey, idaho, was captured in afghanistan in june of 2009. he was 23 years old. he...