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Was dust being churned up by the helicopter or wind? it's a question. emotional moment for him regardless, after all that time. after all that time not knowing when he if he would be released and if he would survive. >> matthew, what do you think our best guess is as to how this video is going to impact the nature of bowe bergdahl's r integration. the more mfgs people are getting about how he is perceived, what's known about him? how do you think this plays into the efforts of getting him back? >> it's difficult to say, isn't it? certainly that reintegration process is going to be a lengthy on...

Stealth helicopters kind of thing. the taliban, how do they operate? they have 12 guys there standing. they had a security perimeter of their own. you see someone with rpg standing up on the hill. you see them carrying a white flag there to show that they were weren't going to fire. of course -- but also a picture, why does the taliban release a video like this? >> exactly. >> because it's a propaganda victory. we stood up with americans with all of their hardware, money, all of their weapons, we held this guy for five years, they're advertising this as a win for them. >> yeah. and to that poi...

Sure there wasn't a car bomb under there. there was a lot of choreography, a lot of procedures, a lot of very specific hand gestures back and forth, signaling. it was noisy, windy on that little landing zone. so they had to arrange it. both sides were going to reassure each other that they weren't walking into a trap. what we do know is that the u.s. had plenty of backup firepower just over the horizon, not too far away. they also had planes overhead keeping an eye -- a drone overhead, keeping an eye on all of this. there were a lot of eyeballs on all of this. everybody watching everybody. >> ...