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That was booby trapped and there was something, there was something really amazing to see. i got to watch it along with general milly; vice president pence, others in the situation room. >> you heard the president he watched this all unfold from the situation room and it was truly in vivid detail that he described watching the events unfold in realtime, sparingly, jarringly some would argue fairly little along the way in his descriptions about what happened and the president also described his conversations with other stakeholders in the region with whom the u.s. was able to coordinate to make...

Throughout the course of secretary mattis' time at the pentagon actually, there have been a lot of decisions, but the ones most recently have been the most egregious for mattis, and those were choosing general milly, mark milly to be the chairman against secretary mattis' advice. that was earlier this month. >> is that such an important issue to him because he was strongly against milly or he feels it was disrespectful for the president to reject his choice of somebody else? >> a combination of both. it's his decision who he wants to nominate. but usually they take the secretary of defense's a...

He goes missing from his base in july 2009 in eastern afghanistan. there is no indication ever that the taliban came aboard the base and captured him. for some reason he left the base. now, a charge of desertion requires that you are able to prove the person had no intent to ever return to military service, to return to that base. so in order for the army to bring a charge like that they would have to have what they believe is enough evidence to make that charge and to have a reasonable chance of conviction. there are some intermediate steps before they get there. if general milly is announcin...

Pentagon barbara starr, thank you so much. we'll come back to you. ed lavandera, before i let you go let's come back fully to you and remind us where sergeant bowe bergdahl has been this entire time since being returned home to the united states. >> he was assigned to basically do an administrative work with an army unit down in san antonio, texas. he has been here ever since he was brought back to the united states. i think it was in late june, perhaps early july by the time he made it back if my memory serves me correctly. he's been there. it was in august that he was interviewed by army inv...

Behind. it wasn't when we covered that prisoner swap in may of last year. the administration was certainly criticized that they would be willing to trade to bring these members of the taliban, these five men out of guantanamo bay and return them to qatar but still there were questions about whether or not certain members had even reached out back to members to terrorists. the follow-up would be what about the obama administration knowing that a desertion charge would essentially be on the table. what implications would this mean for the administration for the pentagon here? >> well let's talk ...