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Once again at it here. >> nick paton wash in beirut for us. joining me now, lieutenant colonel tony schaffer former intelligence officer, joining us washington. colonel schaffer you're hearing what nick reported about the prison break. how big of a setback is this in the war against isis? >> we've been on the offensive and this is them pushing back. they've reorganized and able to actually do a very direct infiltration of iraqi security forces a location that most figured was very much in a secure zone. so this tells me two things. first, isis is back trying to figure out a way to get back o...

Of a u.s. serviceman. therefore i don't think should ever see the light of day. this is insane. >> the u.s. serviceman, sergeant christopher spear, and his mother is just completely beside herself. she is hysterical. this is really a tough one colonel schaffer. >> this is not justice. this is insanity. we have to take this a lot more seriously because again,ing this kid is guilty. we have other individuals who are being -- about a third of the people we released from gitmo are going back to battlefield, taking up arms and i attacking us again. we have to do better. we're at war and this kid wa...

If this revelation by colonel schaffer is true, what does that mean to you? >> i want to emphasize the point you just made everyone in eastern afghanistan at the time and the provinces surrounding where bergdahl walked off, was told to stop what they're doing shift, and look for him. in my view, anyone who died in that period of time, died while looking for him. i testified last year next to the family of a lieutenant darren andrews who was killed on a mission searching for bergdahl. the thing that has he so incensed, his family wasn't invited to the white house. his family did not receive a r...

Number two, whatever happened was catastrophic to the front or communications part of the plane where these guys didn't get messages out. between the passports and that i think we have a problem. >> colonel schaffer, i want to ask you just generally speaking, right now what do you smell? >> i agree that the passport issue needs to be looked at. passports can be copied and modified although a lot of protective measures are in place. that is something that is not impossible. second factor is that someone could have slipped in from the time the passport was taken to the airport to the time you go...

Keep channels of communication open. i would hope what the president would do would be drawing a clear line and indicating what the costs are to our relationship in real terms, economic terms. if the troops aren't withdrawn and if there isn't a political path forward. >> colonel schaffer, in terms of what the united states can do, you know, aside from diplomacy, i would not send the sixth fleet or any element, major element of the united states navy into the black sea. it is a tub right there. you can't get in or out of it. sending planes to poland in the nato country, those of that nature i h...