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Leaving his post thus alerting multiple federal agencies, ultimately exposing that the leadership failure there. but he also revealed he had another more personal motivation. >> i was trying to prove to myself, i was trying to move to the world that anybody who used to know me that i was capable of being that person. >> like a super soldier, you mean? >> yeah, capable of being what i appeared to be. like doing what i did was me saying i am like, yeah, the idol of jason bourne. >> right. a character in a book or whatever. a character. >> yeah. jason bourne. with me now cnn chief jim sciutto a...

Jim sciutto, from what you listened to thus far what's the biggest revelation in all of this? >> reporter: one of the revelations is really just human. he's a kid from idaho. in the mountains of western afghanistan, he had a crisis and he made this decision, even described it as a fantastic decision not meaning great but i think out of fantasy to walk off his outpost in an attempt to draw attention to what he called bad leadership on the site and as he says in the interview 20 minutes after he walked out he knew he made mistake. the other part is this, he spend five years in taliban captivity,...

Like any other criminal matter, it's fodder for cross-examination. and it's clear that he's trying to establish at least what his state of mind was at the time because like any type of case that goes to his intent at the time that he left. >> jim, i go back to the question and you hit on it a second ago. he admits what 20 minutes after walking away from his post he felt unsafe. it was a bad idea. the question is, why not turn around? >> it's a good question and no one knows really what was in his mind. teen details there where he said he walked out in sort of vaguely civilian clothes, imaginin...

Point it's an issue on the campaign trail. the republican house armed services committee passing a bill saying in effect the administration violate ad law by negotiating this. so, you have this prosecution going on outside the courtroom and in effect you have his defense now going on outside the courtroom as well. >> jim sciutto, anita, thank you both very much. >> thank you. coming up next, to chicago we go. is the mayor's job in jeopardy? rahm emanuel, protesters sending a powerful message to the mayor of chicago, marching yesterday right around this time through the streets of the city in...