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>> sergeant bergdahl deferred those decisions to a later hearing. >> reporter: bergdahl said more publicly he said he walked away from a combat outpost in afghanistan in 2009 to try to bring attention to what he called poor leadership in his unit. >> the lives of the eyes standing next to me were literally, from what i could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong. >> reporter: the taliban captured and held him until president obama secured his release last year. as part of a swap for five detain knees. since then, the army has debated what to do with him. ranging from no jail time t...

>> well, i think you've nailed it, carol. he's an idealistic young man who thought he could be jason bourne and on his own run from his combat outpost to another forward operating base over a miles away -- over a dozen miles away, to report to another general officer. it's unbelievable. this kid has watched too many hollywood movies. he simply, as you said, was totally irresponsible. by the way, just one comment, the reason i think they went to a general court-martial and didn't just stick with a special court-martial is it brings into play the dishonorable discharge, otherwise a dishonorable ...

Out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. and we were trying to take that city back. >> it's the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buildings were difficult to see from the windows. narrow alleys leading up to those roads and those particular intersections. >> but on this day the major s...

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, i don't know, jason bourne. >> seemed like he knew he was in trouble and he wanted to be able to go back to that base or he says go to a base 12 miles away to give up information on what he thought was a bad command but he wanted to bring something with him like i have been killing taliban. >> interesting his choice of words because there's a portion where he says certain amount of...

Out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. and we were trying to take that city back. >> it's the squadron's sixth straight day of around the clock combat operations, and the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the buildings, the bombed out buildings, were difficult to see the windows. narrow alleys leading up to those roads and those particular intersection...