speaking in english to the medical staff treating him. participating more in his recovery treatment, and is resting better. the administration continues to insist bergdahl s health and safety were at risk, and to make the point, showed senators a classified video of bergdahl from december 2013. he looked terrible. and i think that video should be released at some point. he could barely talk. he couldn t focus his eyes. he was downcast. he was thin. he looked like a man i looked around the room as that video was shown, and i think it was clearly effective when the video stopped. it wasn t very long, maybe 30 seconds. there was dead silence in the room. reporter: an afghan security official who was on duty near where bergdahl was captured in 2009 told cnn when local villagers spotted bergdahl after he left his base, they tried to
tonight. barbara, that is a pretty incredible and unbelievable detail. jaw-dropping, erin. just flat-out jaw-dropping. a one-hour notice. what if the weather had gone bad? what if they had been shot at on the way in? what if that helicopter had run into mechanical problems? no more gin for delay, no margin for error. this is the ultimate of u.s. military leaving no one behind on the battlefield. reporter: bowe bergdahl may have tried to escape his taliban captors on at least two occasions, a u.s. official tells cnn. but until the army can talk to bergdahl directly, they won t know for sure. however, a u.s. official says we do have reason to believe there were times he tried to escape. bergdahl may not yet have fully talked about his five years in taliban captivity, but he is recovering after nearly a week under u.s. military medical care. the pentagon said he is now
former fbi counterterrorism agent tim clemente. tim, let me start with you. as a former member of the fbi, we re also learning the fbi are on the scene. what would they be doing? it s possible the fbi s.w.a.t. team is assisting with the locals. i was s.w.a.t. team leader here in washington, d.c. for the fbi. and we routinely trained with all local law enforcement tactical teams in the case of an active shooter like this. and in the fbi, we would also possibly join in the investigation because of federal aspects that might be involved. the state murder is generally a state investigation. but anything above that could bring the fbi in for investigative assistance. all right. i just want to update you on the information we have. tim, as you were speaking, we now know according to the fire department, just telling cnn, there is a male and a female with life threatening injuries at this moment, and two men with more minor injuries. in terms of the four victims at this point that we are
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now, though, the white house is changing its reasoning for moving so quickly on the prisoner swap. and they emphasize the reason timing matters is they re required by law to give a 30-day notice to congress when they re going to transfer anyone out of guantanamo. they failed to do so in this case. they gave a reason. the first reason was bergdahl was sick. his health was growing more fragile. he had lost a good bit of weight, and we were very concerned that time was not something we could play with. now officials, though, are moving off the health issue and telling lawmakers their concern was that bergdahl could have been killed. they had intelligence that had even the fact of these discussions leaked out, there was a reasonable chance bowe bergdahl would have been killed. outfront tonight, cnn political commenter sally kohn. all right, sally, why can t the white house get its story straight? well, i don t know that they