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Afghan troops, and the afghan people. there are a lot of questions that need to be asked. this whole exchange is shocking to me and i'm very disappointed. >> paul, any veteran has to celebrate this moment when a comrade comes home. the question though about what happened here, walking off his post, the questions now about what happened to him in captivity, difficulty speaking english. what questions would you want to know more about? >> we just want to welcome him home. we have to underscore that point. this guy has been in captivity for five years. most of america forgot his name or never kne...

People. there are a lot of questions that need to be asked. this whole exchange is shocking to me and i'm very disappointed. >> paul, any veteran has to celebrate this moment when a comrade comes home. the question though about what happened here, walking off his post, the questions now about what happened to him in captivity, difficulty speaking english. what questions would you want to know more about? >> we just want to welcome him home. we have to underscore that point. this guy has been in captivity for five years. most of america forgot his name or never knew it to begin with. the milita...

And continue to depend on to this day, and we'll fix it. >> for more reaction to that interview, i'm joined by michael lighter, nbc security analyst for nbc news. former director of the national counterterrorism center. michael, i want to focus on these guantanamo prisoners who were released. the five detainees were on the obama administration's list to be held indefinitely without charges. how big of a risk to release these detainees to qatar. >> this is significant, david. there's always a range of people in guantanamo, the low level fighters up to the other al qaeda operatives. these guys a...

Position, and i think actually getting more of them out will be harder now because of congressional reaction to the president's release in this case. there are still many people there who we cannot let go. >> michael, thanks so much for your expertise. i'm joined by paul rieckhoff and founder and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans. and adam kinzinger, republican congressman from illinois. he's an iraq and afghanistan veteran, still serves as a pilot in the air national guard. i have you both here to talk about the fallout from the va scandal, shinseki's resignation. congressman, let me start...

Gets in a huge amount of cuts, somehow the republicans convinced themselves this is a really good idea for them. but why is it something that they say funding the government, 600 billion, that is something the liberals may be able to get taxes on, they could never get the defense cuts if not for sequestration -- >> there is a liberal case to be made that the bad things about the sequester are worth the cost. because it is a one-time opportunity of actually shifting the baseline of defense spending, which has proven to be remarkably resilient, post-2001. and howard dean has made the case, i ult...