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About the release of someone who the united states had captured and incarcerated. someone who is important to putin, someone who is important to his base. the lesson putin derives from this is leverage works. hes going to try to do the same thing with any other americans hes holding in captivity and hell use it to get people out or use it for other political purposes. hes got larger interests here. he doesnt care about individuals lives and all this takes place against the backdrop of american s...

Witnesses during the house, that theyre classmate. comfortable say can kevin tibbles has the okay, we dont need it here lets see how the presidents defense story. does but it doesnt look like witnesses ♪ >> reporter: on a are going to happen. dreary chicago day, >> we will hear a lot all the colors of the more rainbow brighten the chuck, thank you. theres new controversy tonight over the more than two halls of horace mann weeks after iran attacked a base elementary because 8-year-old housing...

Outside of china, where every citizen is monitored. london is the first western city to start using live facial recognition cameras to catch criminals. but critics call it a big invasion of privacy. heres tom costello. >> reporter: few cities in the world boast as many security cameras as london. more than 600,000. now, police are adding facial recognition technology to identify and locate criminals in realtime. including serious violence, gun and knife crime, child sexual exploitation but an in...

Line. but is it compelling when you have a particular prisoner, the families and -- >> his health is in danger. >> right. its so hard to resist. but if we had had a policy from day one and stuck to that policy i think wed have far less terrorism and far fewer captures of americans as bargaining chips to release other prisoners. >> you said it should not be a political event but it has become politicized, hadnt it? >> i think it would have been just as politicized if a republican had done it. thi...

Of guilt in determines of desertion or anything else. this man lahadnt been tried. >> they tried to rescue him. >> exactly. >> and americans died. >> well let me finish. the reason they tried to rescue him is because they werent going to prejudge him. they were going to treat him -- >> sorry. we lost him there. well get him back and get back after the break. when we come back, is this the case of the white house playing politics? does this get the president closer to closing guantanamo bay? so i...

Not dangerous. that wasnt done and now it looks like a bad deal. >> the taliban named these five men. what does it tell us about these men? >> this was the only deal on the table. this deal has been the subject of negotiations between the united states and representatives of the taliban going back now for almost three years. there was no other deal. it was this deal or nothing. you had two policies, one is dont leave anybody behind. the other one is dont talk to terrorists and the question -- th...

>> it doesnt seem like a very good deal me. im basing it on what has been on the news on cnn, cbs, abc, daily beast, not only are these five of the worst terrorists to release, i do agree that obama just wanted to get rid of them and give them a trial. and either acquit them and let them go or shoot them or put them in prison for a long time. but i think he just wanted to get rid of them and i dont think the deal at the other end looks good to get out an american who was accused by the members o...

But questions are swirling about his capture and release. >> even as sergeant bowe bergdahl recuperates in a hospital in germany for family and friends at home, celebration. >> it was a sense of relief and amazement. >> reporter: but in washington consternation. some lawmakers are calling the swap for five members of the taliban held at guantanamo bay ill advised and dangerous even if they will be held in qatar for a year. >> there is no doubt we entered the fight. >> reporter: the prisoner exch...

Would have died for him. and for him to just leave us like, that it was a very big betrayal. >> reporter: the second issue, the law, the white house must tell congress ahead of any such deal and some legal analysts say that never happened but the administration insists it has talked about this exchange for years. >> this should not have been a surprise to any of the members of congress. >> reporter: third presidents have long insists that the united states does not negotiate with terrorists, nev...

First, some of bergdahls fellow troops insist he fell into taliban hands after walking away from his post. he is not being charged with desertion but six americans died trying to find him. >> hes at best a deserter and at worst a tray or, any of us would have died for him. and for him to just leave us like, that it was a very big betrayal. >> reporter: the second issue, the law, the white house must tell congress ahead of any such deal and some legal analysts say that never happened but the admi...