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Whole other side that i think has to be explored for months. the reality is, if this trade were done for a medal of honor winner, it would be a bad trade and probably the medal of honor winner wouldnt want to be traded. >> interesting. >> right? >> therefore put other americans in jeopardy by allowing killers to go free. at least two of them are guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity. slaughtering children, women, several of them are expert planners at attacks similar to the kind of attac...

He bypassed congress because congress told him no. we were through this charade once or twice before. they were going to do a deal for six of these guys and as far as i can tell, penetta was against it -- >> everybody. >> was against it. so he knew this deal was a deal they were going to turn down. there is less reason now than there was then. >> then what possible reason could and rational -- >> i can only think he wants to clean out guantanamo and got rid of the five toughest. after this -- >>...

With desertion and maybe collaboration, that hes no hero and that a lot of folks from the military are going to be deeply angry about this and that our own people are going to be outraged who were giving away five taliban killers? think of our afghan allies. you just reported abdullah was the target of a terrorist attack. the future president by the taliban yesterday and they didnt know this was going to happen. and thai going to have to deal with this, these five people when the americans go ho...

>> well, look, i think this entire swap was political. what happened is -- what happened is this president was in a big scandal with the va and the military community was mad at him and i think he rushed this in order to change it and district people. the intelligence community, the pentagon all said no to this. even hilary clinton said no. but the president said there wasnt even time for people to push back and it was exactly because he wanted to distract people from the va and it backfired. >>...

Congress told him no. we were through this charade once or twice before. they were going to do a deal for six of these guys and as far as i can tell, penetta was against it -- >> everybody. >> was against it. so he knew this deal was a deal they were going to turn down. there is less reason now than there was then. >> then what possible reason could and rational -- >> i can only think he wants to clean out guantanamo and got rid of the five toughest. after this -- >> easy. >> its not easy. there...

The politics would make it devastating for the democratic party. >> emptying a jail full of hardened killers thanks for coming back on the show. this is one of those stark divides i see. and i personally find it difficult to deal with this issue. what do we do with people we know are our enemies, clearly committed their lives to killing us in jihad, yet we dont have a case we can take to the criminal court and put them away for life. what do we do with them? whats your view? >> well, ive support...

Optics. this was a longer sort of long-term view that we could befriend the taliban. and i just dont see evidence of that. i want to know now what this swap has done, again, 5 for 1, all anti-americans, five killers that we know of. they can check that box in their anti-americanism as well. what made that deal so good? did we really think these people would be friends with us? >> this is naive. i mean, its sophomoric at best. this is no kind of foreign policy thats going to succeed. you dont neg...

One medical personnel for every three detainees. so its not an ideal situation, but the fact is these people, many of them, are hardened killers. i mean, the presidents own advisers, his own experts have said some of these people are too dangerous to release. so again, as long as they are in humanitarian conditions, i dont see any alternative at this stage. now, if the war with criticism winds down, fine. but we found -- i dont have the numbers in front of me now, but a large percentage, 25% to ...

Unconstitutional. but you dont get to lie to congress about it and lull them into a false sense of security about whether youre going to honor the terms or not. thats what theyve done here. >> andrew mccarthy is our guest and gives us his insights. thank you for joining us. whats going on today? >> the five militants exchanged for bowe bergdahl are in qatar right now. they will stay there for a year. we dont know all the restrictions theyll face, if any. but apparently those anti-american kill...

A few marines who have the tough duty of standing around our embassy. when do we let thoetz guys out. the afghan taliban. not necessarily al qaeda, but the afghan people on that side of the politics there. when do we let them out? >> most of our troops are coming out, it doesnt mean the war is going to be over. this war is going to go on and we want to maintain a civil society in afghanistan after we leave so its not used as a sanctuary by al qaeda and the taliban to attack us again. and its goi...