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Beasts kimberly doziedozier. she covered the afghanistan conflict for the associated press. thank you for being here. few westerners know afghanistan and this war as well as you do. did it surprise you sergeant bergdahls release came now? >> not so much as a surprise because of whats going on in afghanistan now. with u.s. troops shrinking their policean presence. i was in afghanistan and went out to the east where what u.s. troops are doing is pulling away from the border. every time they shut d...

President? again, im not blaming bush. i just dont know that the republicans and the democrats criticize bush for doing exactly the same thing. 520 versus 5. i dont care about the degree of their hatred towards america. either they were detained at gitmo for a reason, for gosh sakes but 520 and no one said a word, not one word about the aprobation of that, but now were upset about five. barack obama could rename his dog reagan, declare war in 16 countries and the republicans are going to hate an...

A ransom payment. there were also others who were saying, hey, what about the guys who got bergdahl in the first place? nobodys congrat lating them. no ones giving them any rewards. so theres a little bit of sniping going back and forth. >> whats the most interesting thing you learned from this interview? is there anything that surprised you? >> i think its really interesting, the commander said very clearly and at the very beginning that it was important for them to give a parting gift to bow b...

Talking points she had, but i wish -- i bet she wishes for the second time in the past few years she could go back and maybe tweak the words she used. >> and even the optics from the white house, david, lets talk about that. we saw the president. he was there in the rose guard within sergeant bergdahls parents. look, weve had a week to absorb everything. given the chance to do that picture, that scene over again, the president would have done it the same way? >> i dont know internally if they th...

>> -- participated in benghazi so i want to know who will take responsibility for that. at the end of the day, these five were not among the remaining gitmo detains who were going to be charged with a crime. if they did return to the fight, the fight is now different. were drawing down out of afghanistan. there are going to be fewer american soldiers on the field, fewer in harms way. are we going to monitor them once theyre in qatar? absolutely, were going to monitor them. i have confidence we c...

Referring to is the fact that this was a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. that is itself a very honorable thing. and -- >> but honor and distinction. >> jim, really, this is a young man whose circumstances we are still going to learn about. >> now, rice goes on to say, like all americans, sergeant bergdahl is innocent until proven guilty but first he must recover. larger diplomatic questions have been raised about the bergdahl handover and what it means...

Term. >> did bush fall into a trap here? >> he should have seen this coming. its hard to think of a more obvious question to ask quebec jush because of the family connection. it was an easy question to answer. if in 2008 if i could not have been in inequities. if i couldnt have been on the skauks in the super bowl, i would have not been with the seahawks. you have to go to war, sort of -- the way he should have answered it is look if i were confronted with a similar situation, these are the less...