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Apolitical. they are not supposed to be calling the white house. they take orders from the commander and chief. military orders but they don't take political orders. obama can't call the army and say everybody vote for me. this looks very political to me. >> it does look it. but, you know, my -- who knows. i mean, they made a bad deal. they released five terrorists. >> five guys right back to afghanistan. they are out of there. >> exactly right. maybe some guys got killed trying to look for this guy. it's embarrassing. however this particular time, national security did dealing with iran, tryi...

Apolitical. they are not supposed to be calling the white house. they take orders from the commander and chief. military orders but they don't take political orders. obama can't call the army and say every me. this looks very political to me. >> it does look it. but, you know, my -- who knows. i mean, they made a bad deal. they released five terrorists. >> five guys right back to afghanistan. they are out of there. >> exactly right. maybe some guys got killed trying to look for this guy. it's embarrassing. however this particular time, national security did dealing with iran, trying to get a n...

Another arrest. this one was even covered on television. >> can you tell us why you did this? >> i told you in court. >> can you tell us again? >> just to get a place to stay and food to eat. for the same reason. >> how'd you get away with it? >> well, i look young, and a lot of people tend to believe that i am young. >> what about all those hard-bitten reporters who with tears in their eyes breathlessly told the story in salt lake. >> everybody got suckered, up and down the line. >> reporter: chip got a front-page byline for breaking the story in the "deseret news." >> looking back on it we p...

And tell them, once again, america, we've been suckered. >> and how they were suckered. the police reports that alerted detective jenks now poured in, one state followed another and another and another. birdie jo hoaks had pulled off her scam in at least 17 other states since 1988. in south dakota, she said she was nathan devine, a 13-year-old boy abandoned by his mother. he carried this letter. "i recently found out i have a very short time left to live and don't want nathan around to watch." hoaks spent seven months in jail for welfare fraud there. in montana, she was known as 13-year-old mi...

>> your jaws hit the floor. nobody seemed ready for this. nobody seemed ready for it. >> we have recently discovered from reports from other states that this individual is not a 13-year-old boy but in fact is a 25-year-old woman. >> they got the gender wrong, they got the age wrong, they got everything wrong. this was a 25-year-old woman, who had used at least six aliases, whose real name, ironically, is birdie jo hoaks. >> police arrested the alleged imposter at a group home this afternoon. >> it took my breath away. the country, the entire country, and even people from overseas responded. ho...