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They'll say whatever they want to stir the waters. people should not be lured in with their propaganda, number one. number two, we are ending our combat role. our combat role in afghanistan is over. we're going to have, you know, very few people in that kind of position, on occasion, where -- but i honestly -- i just think that's a lot of baloney, to be truthful with you. to whatever degree it may be true, they will wind up putting themselves at the mersy those people who are very effective. who are there. who will deal with those matters. >> very interesting, you pushed him about the swift bo...

Have done, we have any number of avenues to deal with that. >> one of the members of the taliban has already vowed to return to afghanistan, return to the fight and kill americans and the head of the haqqani network who said they were holding him said we have a pretty good idea here. perhaps these guys can go back and kill americans again. >> well, first of all, propaganda is propaganda and they will say whatever they want to stir the waters. people should not be lured in by their propaganda, number one. number two, we are ending our combat role. our combat role in afghanistan is over we're go...

Perhaps these guys could go back and kill americans again? >> first of all, propaganda is propaganda. they'll say whatever they want to stir the waters. so people should not be lured in by their propaganda, number one. number two, we are ending our combat role. our combat role in afghanistan is over. we're going to have very few people in that kind of position on occasion where -- i honestly, i just think that's a lot of boloney. to be truthful with you. whatever degree it might be true, they will wind up putting themselves at the mercy of those people who are very effective, who are there, wh...

That have already been released from guantanamo bay and the lingering real issue of what will happen to those remaining prisoners, once the combat role is complete, these individual in, perhaps maybe not this five, but eventually you have to clear that prison. >> yeah. that's true. the justification we've used for the last decade is that we're at war and during time of war you can detain the enemy for the duration of the conflict and the president's made it clear. this conflict is coming to an end by december which leaves that conundrum what do you do with the people we've been holding all of ...

Enough. it's been on our air a couple times. the idea that we would exchange these particular five taliban fighters for bergdahl being somehow shocking. you write this. you say, the exchange of p.o.w.s is a normal part of ending a conflict and part of the laws of war. while the taliban may be a terrorist group they are also america's enemy in the war in afghanistan, just as the communist chinese were in korea. as the white house has labored to explain in recent days the release of five taliban in exchange for bergdahl is a p.o.w. exchange meaning that is how you end a war. that is a message i ...