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Longer. strangely to some we must also thank those who cared for our son for almost two years. the haqqanis and others who have played a role in sheltering the american prisoner. we know our son is a prisoner and at the same time a guest in your home. we understand the rationale the islamic elm,2yi rit has made in its videos. no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. [speaking foreign language. >> the pentagon says sergeant bergdahl has still not spoken to the sena...

You dont know the back story on this guy. you thought this would actually play well politically? and even democrats as we know are are turning against us. this is a series unforced errors. its always a bad day for the white house. whether you have to send your deputy national security advisor to go apologize to the intelligence committee chair woman for cutting her out of an intelligence decision. you had tony going out and apologizing for cutting them out. >> seems an oversight. how could somet...

Longer. strangely to some we must also thank those who cared for our son for almost two years. the haqqanis and others who have played a role in sheltering the american prisoner. we know our son is a prisoner and at the same time a guest in your home. we understand the rationale the islamic elm,2yi rit has made in its videos. no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. [speaking foreign language. >> the pentagon says sergeant bergdahl has still not spoken to the sena...

Theyre up to. you know, in the future, what they continue to do. and then another comment i would have is that at the end of the wars, when prisoners were released and kcombatants were turned over to their country you would expect there was no future battlefield. there was no battlefield for them to return to. you know, we could be fighting with or without the number of troops that were going to have in afghanistan. the battle itself is going to go on probably for decades. and so the idea that a...

Years. >> reporter: bergdahl use as veiled reference to the controversial issue of detainees in guantanamo bay to connect with his sons captors. >> no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. our sons safe return will only heighten public awareness of this. that said, our son is being exploited. its past time for bowe and the others to come home. >> reporter: but sergeant bowe bergdahl is coming home to a firestorm of criticism, and his father is also being criticize...

Efforts. in 2011, bowes father said he could remain silent no longer when he upload add youtube video asking his sons captors to release bowe. robert bergdahl thanked them for keeping him alive. heres a portion of that video. >> -- no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. our sons safe return will only heighten public awareness of this. that said, our son is being exploited. its past time for bowe and the others to come home. i pray this video may be shown to our ...

We understand the rationale the islamic em ira te has made through its videos. no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. our sons safe return will only heighten public awareness of this. that said, our son is being exploited. its pastime for bowe and the others to come home. round you heard in the statement that eluded to the group thats in pakistan, loosely believed to be affiliated with the afghan taliban. the belief here possibly is that bowe bergdahl was moved ...

Understands the detainee issue like ours. our sons safe return will only heighten public awareness of this. that said, our son is being exploited. its pastime for bowe and the others to come home. round you heard in the statement that eluded to the group thats in pakistan, loosely believed to be affiliated with the afghan taliban. the belief here possibly is that bowe bergdahl was moved around among these groups and could be in pakistan. thats why the family is making an appeal to the pakistani ...

His comments. >> reporter: the family of army specialist bowe bergdahl is making a dramatic video appeal for their sons safe return. he was captured by the afghan taliban almost two years ago. his family has kept a quiet vigil in idaho. now the family is speaking out making a direct appeal to the head of the pakistani military and to the head of the pakistani intelligence agency asking for their sons safe return. this is significant because it comes just days after the death of osama bin laden a...

Would be returned safely. now the family is making a direct appeal to the head of the pakistani military and to the head of the pakistani intelligence agency, asking for their sons safe return. this is significant because it comes just days after the death of osama bin laden and on the same day that al qaeda is vowing revenge for bin ladens death. >> we know our son is a prisoner and at the same time, a guess in your home. we understand the rational the islamic emirate has made through its video...