was significant risk to his life. and jeopardy to his conditions. and i just simply wouldn't go beyond that. but i can tell you that, again, we wouldn't have done this, we wouldn't have done it the way we did it, the speed with which we did it. we didn have a good idea that hs life was in jeopardy and we had to move quickly. and there was a window here. and windows open and close. and we took advantage of that. >> there seems to be competing priorities as there always are in these difficult decisions. the priority of leave no soldier behind. and the priority as policy, we do not negotiate with terrorists in part of the united states. the defense secretary said very clearly we did not negotiate with terrorists here. on some level, are you trying to have it both ways? i know it's difficult but it's hard to have those two competing priorities happening at the same time. >> no i don't think we look at it that way at all, kate.