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Aaron? >> hi, sean, great to be here. >> tell us more about this report because it makes sense, one of the first thoughts i had when this news broke. >> absolutely. i think it's an obvious decision by the taliban to say, look, a soldier is going to be valuable and now that is confirmed further that a soldier is a good thing to capture. one thing to note, however, that soldiers have always been a target for killing and capture for the propaganda value, as well and the difficulty of kidnapping a soldier is quite high. we've been in afghanistan on the bases, you can see the security, quite diffic...

Two reasons for that. first of all for the problem beg propaganda value. but also, as a way to tell their own troops that what they did was a good thing to have done for the movement. i think there are many people in taliban who would have disagreed with the prisoner exchange. >> thank you very much for splang all of that. >> just ahead, he was prepared for war. a man who drives up to a courthouse, throwing out spike trips, gas grenades and firing shots. police say his home may be boobie trapped. plus hillary clinton revealing where she adisagreed when she ws secretary of state. 3 million line...

Up a relationship or at least get them down to hostile or less hostile, somebody would walk in the room and completely change that dynamic, and it would start all over again. that that was exhausting after four days, i can't imagine over several years. >> what does you learn about the process, that kind of shapes the way you look at this situation? >> well, as david just alluded to, that -- and steve about the propaganda value and they're very choreographed on how they do this. he was held for several days in baghdad, the videotapes he made, he was beaten beforehand, they roughed up his hair a...

>> and we got precisely the person we demanded which is the last remaining p.o.w., the last remaining p.o.w. we're left now apparently to the same republicans who wanted him home yesterday, he would still be stuck over there. >> wait a second. there is a real question about putting people in a battlefield. and part of the purpose is to defend the nation and to do what is necessary. admiral mccain served for years as the head of the pacific forces while his son was in a vietnam prison camp being tortured. >> yes. >> okay. and when his son was offered freedom by himself, he turned it down and sa...

Beheading the last p.o.w., the last remaining p.o.w., the propaganda value of that would have also been tremendous. and i believe that we did the right thing to make sure they didn't have that propaganda video. >> absolutely. you bring him home that is a great victory. this soldier is back. frankly, you're going to learn a lot about the taliban from bowe bergdahl has to say. and that's going to be invaluable to those operators and intel folks as well. >> maybe. i'm told that we want to ask you to stay here. we want you at home to weigh in on today's fireback question. should the white house re...