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These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back on to the battlefield. that sounded like it was a direct message to the sitting president of the united states, president obama don't even think about releasing any more of these inmates, at gitmo, who was your reaction? >> there's only one president at the time in this country and while president elect trump has done his best to try to assert himself, he doesn't have that role until january 20th, president obama has made this a cornerstone of his presidency, i've been to gitmo, we're spending $3 million per detainee, and they...

To. >> you did hear chuck shumer, the manor -- minority leader, we said we cannot afford a twitter presidency, i'm quoting him, what does that mean to you. >> i think we have a twitter presidency and a twitter speaker of house because it was a republican caucus that was trying to undo the office of ethics and yet with a simple tweet the president elect was able to scuttle that, but we have to remember that came from the caucus, the republican caucus and in effect the leader, the speaker was unable to get his caucus to comply until president elect tweeted. >> trump tweeted this about gitmo, he ...

>> they didn't want him killed. >> telling us, gee, we didn't know when the swap was going to take, it's irrelevant. why are we negotiating with terrorists? since when do we open up the gates at gitmo and start releasing people? this is a dangerous, dangerous precedent. not only did they break the law, which is indisputable, but they set a very dangerous precedent which, number one, let me remind you, these five terrorists are now back on the arabian peninsula. this war on afghanistan was the honorable fight to fight, the war worth fighting and now as we are drawing down 20 thourn,000 from afg...

Power. out of sight, no doubt. >> one tough critic of the deal says he doesn't need to know whether bergdahl was in poor health or not. joining us is republican congressman aaron shock. explain why you don't feel it's necessary to know more about his health? >> i think the overriding concern that people have is that we began a process of negotiating with terrorists. first of all, the president and administration broke the law. this is the national defense authorization law that he agreed to with congress that there would be a 30-day period which he should notify congress if and when they were ...

The 5 1/2 years they have been there, if we're going to release these five for one man, what happens when they capture a group of tourists, when they capture a congressman? what will be the negotiating point? >> just to be precise, you don't really care if he was death -- on the verge of death during those five years of captivity, a united states army soldier? >> well, wolf, i think it's pretty clear that he was not on the verge of death. now, whether he was being beat, whether he was not as healthy, i don't know that. but what i'm suggesting to you is this. >> i asked the question because you...