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>> if you're just joining us we're following breaking news that an american hostage being held by al qaeda has been killed during a failed rescue attempt in yemen. the obama administration says that photo journalist luke somers was murdered by the terrorists who had been holding him in the midst of that raid "the new york times" adds the detail that u.s. forces reached somers when he was still alive, he was badly wounded when commandos got there and died later as a result of the injuries he suffered at the hands of his cap tors. chuck hagel recently wrapped up a news conference in kabul. we'll...

And "new york times" was first to record this weekend, the details of what bergdahl is saying about his i imprisonment. can you fill in these gaps? >> reporter: we haven't heard anything directly from bergdahl. this was coming from "new york times" report and then able to be confirmed out of washington, that bergdahl has started to speak. he's telling the -- what happened to him during the five years of captivity, a very sad and lonely, brutal time in which he spent a great deal of time in solitary confinement and the conditions of his capture only got worse after he tried to escape. at that s...

On this. this is about bowe bergdahl and the situation in captivity in afghanistan. we're back with the panel. charles, what about this element of this story and where this heads? >> well, we don't know the veracity of the story but if you assume for the moment that it's true, i do think it actually helps the sergeant because even though it speaks of him becoming radicalized and sort of a sympathizers with his cap tors at the end, it does talk about multiple escapes, at the beginning, one in 2010, one where he was at large for five days and put in a steel cage which would tend to argue against...

The family of a western couple that went missing in afghanistan two years ago has real -- released a video purportedly from their taliban cap tors. they were emailed to caitlin coleman's father. they were disappointed that they were not freed as part of the deal that freed bowe bergdahl. half of those surveyed says detainees at guantanamo bay get better health care than u.s. military veterans. only three in ten disagree. >> we will have to wait a little longer to find out who wins the hotly contested senate primary in mississippi. senior national correspondent john roberts is live again in j...

We'll get the late from chuck todd. the and bob corker, tensions near a boiling point in eastern ukraine, simon off strof ski held for three days told the "today" show that his cap tors wanted to stop him from reporting. >> they blindfolded me and tied my hands behind my back and threw me on the floor. i don't know how many people there were because i couldn't see anything, two or three guys were beating me, sort on this part of my body. and i realize they weren't trying to hit me in the face and they weren't trying to leave any lasting marks. that was encouraging for me. i can probably take a...