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Gotten a good answer on that joe. and i also havent gotten a good answer on this question which is the administration knew three weeks ago that it was likely this transfer would take place. we know that because they signed the memorandum of understanding in the old executive office building with the qataris about the conditions under which these guys would be held for at least a year. at that moment even if they didnt have 30 days they had three weeks. they could have gone to the group of eight,...

Adjectives you would apply. >> willie let me let willie in here. >> gene i want to ask you. i think we agree we want all american soldiers home and home safely. the question here is at what price. so if they asked for kaliq sheikh maohammed, would you say yes? >> of course you dont send the architect of 9/11 home. under any circumstances do you make that trade. do you trade five senior taliban officials or people whove been in u.s. custody in guantanamo for years and years who -- and whose impac...

Response from secretary clinton. but we never heard back from the white house. interestingly enough. >> one final question for me saxby, then ill open it up to the panel here. there apparently are reports out that there was a letter that bergdahl left on his bed that ive heard you say was not part of an intel package that you read. what information do you have on that? >> yeah. i reviewed about two years ago because this issue of bergdahl being a deserter was swirling around out there. and i wan...

Express opinions on that. ive had individual members tell me they think these five are less valuable than they would have been had they been released five or six years ago. but i dont know how big a danger they think it is. i think one of the more interesting questions -- >> david im sorry. can i interrupt you? i know there are people watching right now that are asking the question on the other side of this which is -- and ive heard people that are supportive of their release saying they were th...

The obama administration is having to address growing criticism for releasing five taliban members for the army sergeant that walked off his base in 2009. the question im comfortable with is that the optics of this and the way this was ruled out, it is as if there was nobody in the press office. and there was nobody advising the president. >> lets bring in nicole here on this point. this is the point i made before. when you have the president stand in the rose garden its usually no announce some...

About the white house decision making from basically the moment in 2011 and 2012 when this first came up to today. remember, when this issue was first brought in front of the congress and in front of the senate intelligence committee, the question was, was it worth trying to get the release of bergdahl in exchange for these same five in the service of a bigger peace deal that this was a confidence-building measure on the way to getting the taliban to renounce international terrorism and begin to...

Critical of the administration on this issue. ive been on the phone with a lot of democratic senators also. critical of the administration. do you -- are you hearing the same in the intel committee? for the most part bipartisan concern over this matter? >> no question about it. u mean the fact that diane, myself, mike rogers on the house side wrote a letter to the president. we wrote two letters to the president actually. as long ago as three years when this was first broached and we said you gu...

>> completely. chuck todd thank you very much. bill kristol thank you as well. >> and i understand parents will go to extraordinary measures. and the picture that i showed was a picture, again, questioning the president of the united states as you said bringing him there. but im not going to sit back here and i would not have mentioned the father if somebody had not said -- chuck had not said wait a second dont question the father. i think we have to question the father. and that -- >> at this p...

With such an event. and so he has a very interesting piece about the risk of inevitability and the need the democrats have for a rich primary fight. we thought that was a great topic. except its also true that the bergdahl story has taken on dimensions we all have been discussing that are so i think, profound and mystifying and confounding to us that we really wanted to dig into that. so we thought that that was the story we wanted to feature on the cover. >> and what do you find in your piece, ...

Bergdahls failing health. but many lawmakers are not convinced. saxby chambliss is our guest right here on "morning joe." well be right back. ♪ we asked people a question how much money do you think youll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. im going to have to rethink this thing. its hard to imagine how much well need for a retirement that could ...