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Beast's kimberly doziedozier. she covered the afghanistan conflict for the associated press. thank you for being here. few westerners know afghanistan and this war as well as you do. did it surprise you sergeant bergdahl's release came now? >> not so much as a surprise because of what's going on in afghanistan now. with u.s. troops shrinking their policean presence. i was in afghanistan and went out to the east where what u.s. troops are doing is pulling away from the border. every time they shut down a base, they essentially lose some visibility into pakistan. and that was the way they were k...

President? again, i'm not blaming bush. i just don't know that the republicans and the democrats criticize bush for doing exactly the same thing. 520 versus 5. i don't care about the degree of their hatred towards america. either they were detained at gitmo for a reason, for gosh sakes but 520 and no one said a word, not one word about the aprobation of that, but now we're upset about five. barack obama could rename his dog reagan, declare war in 16 countries and the republicans are going to hate anything he does. why don't ya'll come out of the closet on that and admit he can't do anything ri...

A ransom payment. there were also others who were saying, hey, what about the guys who got bergdahl in the first place? nobody's congrat lating them. no one's giving them any rewards. so there's a little bit of sniping going back and forth. >> what's the most interesting thing you learned from this interview? is there anything that surprised you? >> i think it's really interesting, the commander said very clearly and at the very beginning that it was important for them to give a parting gift to bow bergdahl. they made him a hand tailored suit which is a traditional sign of respect in the triba...

Talking points she had, but i wish -- i bet she wishes for the second time in the past few years she could go back and maybe tweak the words she used. >> and even the optics from the white house, david, let's talk about that. we saw the president. he was there in the rose guard within sergeant bergdahl's parents. look, we've had a week to absorb everything. given the chance to do that picture, that scene over again, the president would have done it the same way? >> i don't know internally if they think that but they're not saying that publicly. it's obviously taking a lot heat, you know, not j...

>> -- participated in benghazi so i want to know who will take responsibility for that. at the end of the day, these five were not among the remaining gitmo detains who were going to be charged with a crime. if they did return to the fight, the fight is now different. we're drawing down out of afghanistan. there are going to be fewer american soldiers on the field, fewer in harm's way. are we going to monitor them once they're in qatar? absolutely, we're going to monitor them. i have confidence we can monitor people across that region unlike we've ever been able to do before. these five were s...