congress, so they really should have brought at least the leadership within their confidence and i think that was a mistake. so no defense from you, a democrat from california, as we re hearing from other democrats, as well. let me ask you about your position on the house intelligence committee, because secretary of state john kerry told cnn that the way to handle the circumstance we now find ourselves in, with respect to these five taliban, you know, prisoners who have been released, is that if they, and i m going to paraphrase, if they start behaving badly, we have weighed to kill them. how, exactly how would this happen? do we have a cia agent posted to them 24/7 for the next year? no, we don t. we don t have that capability, but i think what the secretary s referring to is, if they go back and join the fight, and, you know, we have to be, i think, candid in acknowledging there is a risk certainly that they will, these were senior taliban commanders, and a certain percentage of
overall, everyone does see joseph wilcox as a hero and he lost his life trying to do that, ashley. stephanie elam live for us in las vegas. john avlon is a cnn political analyst, also author of wing nuts, and he has written about this incident. also the editor in chief of the daily beast. you have spent a long time today on the facebook pages of this two. what did you learn? these two are influenced by politics and the echo chamber debate you hear, where the federal government is a tyranny, fascism, which is why they put the swastikas and gadsden flag on the police officers. these folks were definitely motivated, however unhinged they were as well, by politics, by ideology, and that is the wages of this kind of divisive hatred movement we ve seen in america. hatriot, not patriot.
attack myself, that was the first thing i wanted to do. nobody would stop us from doing that. roy, i want to ask you, a taliban source has told cnn that the treatment of bowe bergdahl after there were these reports of torture and the shark cage, et cetera, wasn t quite perhaps what the reports seem to indicate, that instead he d been given fruits and vegetables, that he was allowed to celebrate christmas and easter. does that sound like the kind of treatment, having been a prisoner yourself, that is realistic? no. that sounds ridiculous. i mean, we re talking about a gang here that s holding a human, like i was, and i was held in a cage. the food was terrible. you know, i don t know what kind of food he had, but to come out and say the hostage you re holding has been treated well, that s ridiculous to me.
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get him to leave the village, telling him the area was dangerous. the official said bergdahl appeared to be under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. cnn has spoken to several u.s. officials who could not independently confirm those accounts. so we now see the huge risk that these special forces took to get bowe bergdahl. but still, erin, make no mistake, there are a lot of questions that the army and the pentagon want to ask bowe bergdahl. they want to know how and why he disappeared, and what happened during his captivity. erin? all right, barbara, thank you. and outfront tonight, kimberly dozier. she is a long-time war reporter, covered the wars in iraq and fbi. and former fbi counterterrorism agent tim. you heard about bowe bergdahl s attempts to escape the taliban twice. what have you heard? u.s. and after began