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Prisoner. he was freed last year in a prisoner swap. for more on the case, i'm joined by colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor recipient and an msnbc military analyst. colonel jack, always good to see you. >> good to see you. >> as we look at what happened today. and of course, we can't talk about this without talking about the serial podcast that just came out with sergeant bowe bergdahl, in that podcast, he said he didn't want to do a plea deal, because he wants to tell his side of the story. is that surprising at all? >> well, not from him, because i think making those podcasts is ill advis...

Now. white house officials have cautioned the president won't announce a major change in strategy, but they also stress he is willing to escalate the u.s. response if necessary. joining me live, msnbc military analyst and medal of honor recipient, retired army colonel jack jacobs. no change in strategy, but the president and his team know we are entering the holiday, they see the polling. great number of americans concerned about their safety, worried they could possibly be the victim of an attack. this comes after san bernardino. with all that said, you just noted an interesting change, a shi...

That, on that subject. the united states doesn't want to be left out and i think if we are going to make sure assad doesn't prevail, that we get very, very close to russia, that the two of us and maybe even iran as well conspire behind closed doors to decide what syria is going to look like once assad is gone. i bet you those conversations are already taking place. >> so many incredible things happening all at the same time. thank you very much, colonel jack. greatly appreciate it. that does it for this hour of "msnbc live." i'm tamron hall. up next, "andrea mitchell reports." she has live c...

Something wrong or not. he clearly -- anybody who has been in the army for more than ten seconds knows that that's wrong. it's self-gratifying nonsense. and anybody in the military will tell you that. >> colonel jack jacobs. colonel jack, thank you, sir, nice to see you. >> you bet, thomas. so isis has a new way of spreading its pop gand da using a smartphone app. hard to believe there is an app for that. >> they released this app to help push videos and reports about life under the islamic state also announcing battlefield victories and execution of isis enemies. i want to bring in with me ...

The war grins -- war against isis. are they getting stronger? >> isis is expanding the battlefield. we have seen as recently as last week when the president of the united states and john kerry outlined all the ways in which isis was being squeezed, decimated, limited, constrained, and isis has demonstrated an ability to take the game out of that thesis. if this, you know, shows to be true. and they have had actually conducted and deployed these people to conduct such aurora there -- horror there. we need to reconsider a lot of our assumptions about isis' strength. >> colonel jack, when it come...