A new video released by the taliban show the moment sgt. Bowe bergdahl became a free man. It comes when the Obama Administration receives criticism for releasing five highlevel taliban detainees in exchange for bergdahl. There are lots of moving parts. Officials from the Obama Administration is now conducting a closeddoor briefing with the senate on the decision that freed sgt. Bo derek ball. All of them wanted to know why the administration did not give the 30day notice in the exchange of bergdahls release. Earlier on a taliban website gives us our first look at bergdahl at his release on saturday. Reporter a pickup truck delivered bergdahl to the rendezvous point. He appeared frail as he talked of his final moments after five years of captivity as a prisoner of war. One taliban member told bergdahl, dont come back to afghanistan. If you do, you wont make it out alive next time. The exchange took less than a minute. Three u. S. Special operations soldiers approached from the helicopte
A new video released by the taliban shows the moment sgt. Bowe bergdahl became a free man. It comes as president obama receives criticism releasing highlevel detainees in exchange for bergdahl. Reporter tony, well talk more about the criticism in a minute, but first the video released by the taliban released on their website. It was our first look at sgt. Bowe bergdahl. Reporter a pickup truck delivered sgt. Bowe bergdahl. The 28yearold in his final moments of nearly five years of ativety as a prisoner of war. As a blackhawks helicopter approached, one person told bergdahl dont come back to afghanistan or you wont return alive. They escorted bergdahl to the aircraft where he was frisked before boarding. While only one helicopter touched down, at least two dozen u. S. Military took part in the operation along with aerial surveillance and intelligence. His rescue at first preys praised by u. S. Officials is now the subject of controversy with allegations that bergdahl may have deserted h
Thats mostly republican w. What message puts him on a path to give his own state of the union some day. North korea confirms they conducted a Third Nuclear test. President obama called it highly provocative and condemns the move. You will hear about it from the president tonight. Its state of the union day. What better place to be. Abe lincolns birthday. Lets get right to the first reads of the morning. If you believe that second term domestic agendas have a shelf life of 18 months at most, then president obamas last best chance to lay out aggressive plans. For that reason, dont be surprised if you hear a laundry list of policy asks. Also hanging over tonights speech, the constant gridlock that has been this president s achilles heel. For weeks the president spent much of his time in public talking about gun violence and immigration. As the economy goes, so goes his second term agenda. He will refocus on the top concern. The economy and jobs. As the president prepares to give his speec
We shouldnt have a 30round magazine or a 20 round. The president says let vees a ten. The governor of new york says, well, i can top that. Well have a sevenround magazine. This is all sort of makes you feel good but, in fact, it doesnt do much. Now, if you are out there and if youre crazy and if youve got a gun like this and if youre going to shoot people with it, it takes a second or so to change the magazines. And president obama also has an oped in todays connecticut post saying the truth is theres only one voice powerful enough to make it happen. Yours. If you think we suffered too much pain to allow it to continue, put down the paper, turn off the computer and get your members of congress on record. The white house has also launched a white house in the twitter handle now is the time. Just out in the past hour, results showing the nra is more popular compared to the Entertainment Industry. 41 view the nra as favorable while just 23 view the Entertainment Industry as favorable. Let
Speakers on my computer on my desk at work because the buzzer that i have set to go off every time a top tier breaking news alert crosses the wires started to seem like it was just stuck on, it was sounding so often today. It was that kind of day. So well have updates for you this howerton riveting turn on capitol hill from secretary of state Hillary Clinton today. And remember the debt ceiling thing that everybody has been fighting about for months. That finally happened today. The stealth story that we have been covering about republicans in the states changing the rules for president ial elections to make it harder for Democratic Candidates to win, that story moved forward today in a big way, and is getting increasing national attention. There is a lot going on. This was a big news day. Were going to be getting to all of that. But none of those stories were the biggest, most surprising thing that happened on this big, surprising day of news. That story is our lead story tonight, and