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Military or criminal court here and they would have been sooner or later, with the war winding down let go anyway? >> that's exactly right. . it was probably sometime relatively soon after our combat role in afghanistan ends at the end of this year, we would have had to have released them. we couldn't prosecute them in our courts. they were party only to the conflict in afghanistan. they were taliban, not al qaeda. and our war in afghanistan was ending. we were going to have to let them go. this wasn't even much of a trade. i don't really quite get the hu hullabaloo about it. >> let me ask you...

Called the work of a mad man. and rolling thunder, saluting the men and women who have served this great nation. the annual tradition one american way to say thank you and we are in your debt. again tonight with a presidential thank you delivered in person. president obama and an unannounced trip this memorial day weekend to afghanistan, his fourth visit to that country since taking office years ago and it comes at a time of great importance to our military as we prepare to end our combat role in afghanistan by the end of this year. the president met with several top generals and our ambas...

At least as far as they know in any combat role. >> u.s. military officials say lopez saw no combat action and not in iraq. he was there during the withdrawal, the last final -- he was one of those who turned the lights out in iraq for the u.s. military. he saw no combat. we were talking to ptsd specialists who say you don't necessarily have to seek combat to suffer ptsd. it was clear he sought psychiatric help for depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. so he was having problems. but the psychiatrist who talked to him just last month saw no signs that he was of any threat to either himself or ...

In texas tell us that in fact there is no indication at this point in time that the shooter was religiously motivated or any sort of an extremist or a muslim extremist according to background from sources there in texas investigating this. we understand army cid is in the lead and nib a supporting role but nothing to indicate that there was any religious motivation behind this shooting. what is interesting is that in that press conference just moments ago we heard that the shooter was in iraq in 011. remember, that is when there is a draw down from iraq. not in any sort of combat role. general...

Threat, or raised some kind of red flags to that psychiatrist, that information would be kept between him and his doctor. >> all right. mik, thank you very much. now let me bring in nbc news military analyst and medal of honor recipient for is his actions dur the vietnam war, and also director of the mood disorders program at uh case medical center. doctor, thank you so much for your time. i know that you're currently conducting a study on combat-related ptsd. what we've learned and again, we can now show the photograph that we have of specialist lopez, is that he did not serve in a combat r...