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Hearts we werent going to kill them. That was training. That kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. John mccain was tortured. What they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other Prisoner Of War Sites in North Vietnam was torture. Weve never done that kind of thing. Never condoned it. Some of our allies may have done it but we department. The bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, theyre going to stay illegal until Congress Changes it. Neil when i h...

Of retargets our border and tries to make sure that were safe, lieutenant colonel tony shaffer back with us and colonel mcguinness. the wall is going up. its a serious wall and its happening. the president is throwing a lot of ideas out there, border tax, a host of other ways to technically have the mexicans pay for it. we would kind of pay that, the american consumers would, but i guess the devils in the details. what do you think of that, that this is the best way to go about it? >> well, the ...

Everybody, neal, why you see a reverence for him, his integrity, his honesty. he tells it like it is. he was working with me on a project recently supporting the chairman of the joint chiefs. he was supposed to basically validate something we were doing. neil, he would show up to every meeting. he was there. you know, he would call me. i was by the capitol one day. i get this call. hey, tony, jim mattis. do you have ten minutes for me to give you guidance? oh, yeah. hes that kind of guy. hes ver...

Terrorists, whether thats good or bad? >> i think the good cop bad cop discussion between president trump and the generals is very effective. america will not be weak and we wont let our enemies determine what we do to keep our country safe. on the other hand, to be that beacon of freedom and morality. we have to maintain the geneva convention, maintain that air of enlightenment and freedom and the muslims see us asseting the standard globally rather than going to their level. i believe one that...

Attache. good to see you, as well. all right, gentlemen, i wonder, colonel schaffer, does that tell you afghanistan is in far worse shape than you thought? >> afghanistan is not stable. afghanistan is a country in transition. and, i think weve recognized as the presidents recognized that isis now is in ten provinces in afghanistan, 7 of which they control. and the taliban is resurging as much as we saw two weeks ago, the afghan forces were able to retake that city from the taliban with our help....

Once again at it here. >> nick paton wash in beirut for us. joining me now, lieutenant colonel tony schaffer former intelligence officer, joining us washington. colonel schaffer youre hearing what nick reported about the prison break. how big of a setback is this in the war against isis? >> weve been on the offensive and this is them pushing back. theyve reorganized and able to actually do a very direct infiltration of iraqi security forces a location that most figured was very much in a secur...

Of a u.s. serviceman. therefore i dont think should ever see the light of day. this is insane. >> the u.s. serviceman, sergeant christopher spear, and his mother is just completely beside herself. she is hysterical. this is really a tough one colonel schaffer. >> this is not justice. this is insanity. we have to take this a lot more seriously because again,ing this kid is guilty. we have other individuals who are being -- about a third of the people we released from gitmo are going back to battl...

If this revelation by colonel schaffer is true, what does that mean to you? >> i want to emphasize the point you just made everyone in eastern afghanistan at the time and the provinces surrounding where bergdahl walked off, was told to stop what theyre doing shift, and look for him. in my view, anyone who died in that period of time, died while looking for him. i testified last year next to the family of a lieutenant darren andrews who was killed on a mission searching for bergdahl. the thing th...

Number two, whatever happened was catastrophic to the front or communications part of the plane where these guys didnt get messages out. between the passports and that i think we have a problem. >> colonel schaffer, i want to ask you just generally speaking, right now what do you smell? >> i agree that the passport issue needs to be looked at. passports can be copied and modified although a lot of protective measures are in place. that is something that is not impossible. second factor is that s...

Keep channels of communication open. i would hope what the president would do would be drawing a clear line and indicating what the costs are to our relationship in real terms, economic terms. if the troops arent withdrawn and if there isnt a political path forward. >> colonel schaffer, in terms of what the united states can do, you know, aside from diplomacy, i would not send the sixth fleet or any element, major element of the united states navy into the black sea. it is a tub right there. you...