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Her colleagues. the idea that the administration was thinking about transferring these detainees for several years, they knew the answer they were going to get from congress. they knew the outrage from congress and the american people for swapping these folks. with regards to sergeant bergdahl's health, i would simply say, we have a couple right now being held by the taliban whose life is threatened and we should take those threats very seriously, whether it's a man or woman in uniform or whether it's an average american citizen being held by the taliban. but regardless of the threat against o...

Is being threatened, look out, this is a dangerous precedent because now if i'm the taliban or if i'm anyone else who wants the wage war and get detainees released from any of our prisons, i'm going to start taking members of our military and americans hostage because now i know the american government will noirn ate. that's why i believe his health is not the issue here. >> you know that hundreds of these detainees were released by president bush during the bush administration from gitmo. you didn't have a problem with that either? >> no. and wolf, just as president bush, so did president oba...

>> do you agree with congressman schock that this american soldier should have been left behind? >> definitely given the circumstances. it borders on the strategically lame that you would trade a soldier, regardless of his rank and health and performance for five top commanders of the taliban who had an intimate association with al qaeda at times of war. there's no doubt that these individuals are going to go back and resume the field and they will make the institution even more lethal. >> why were these five not tried during their time at gitmo? if they were such horrible criminals, none of t...

They are. >> no, to kill a mocking bird. have you read 50 shades of gray? >> i bought it, but hid it. i can't find it. it will eventually turn up, and it will be awkward for everybody there. >> you know, "50 shades of gray" sounds like a product you could sell for your hair. >> bill, you have applied for a rent-controlled studio at gitmo. any updates? >> not lately, but i finished my book, 50 shades of yay, which is me, the publisher. i like the fact they offered to translate, and the guy said no. that makes sense, if you are reading it, you want to read it in the mother tongue. and if you're ...

They told them rather than the koran, the book was 50 shades of grade. they read the entire series in english, i guess these guys are going nowhere, so what the hell. that is the medical diagnosis. at gitmo's library, the reading is often screened. meanwhile, their favorite movies to watch are action adventure, like "the bird feeder," starring alec baldwin. >> i knew it was going to be worth the wait.