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The week. during her npr interview with terry gross when the talk turned to her evolving position on same sex marriage. the former secretary of state's patience showed in the interview. >> i think you are being very persistent, but you are playing with my words and playing with what is such -- >> i'm just trying to clarify so i can understand. >> no, i don't think you are trying to clarify. i think you're trying to say i used to be opposed and now i'm in favor and i did it for political reasons and that's just flat wrong. let me just state what i feel like you are implying. and repudiate it. i...

we are seeing horrible pictures of massacres. what the united nations is calling a systematic series of executions. iraq, the country where the united states has lost over 4,000 lives, where we have spent millions of dollars, a country considered a regional pest is between two traditions of islam with isis, calling themselves an ep enemy of the united states. again, this is a civil war based on religion. sunni is the religion of isis whiches fighting its way to baghdad. former members of saddam hussein's army and sunnis generally. the government is run by and for shia. it is backed b...

That once he is back, and you know, we have not heard from him, a him, and we have not heard him claim to be a hero, and i doubt that he will claim to be a hero. the opportunity exists for the justice system to work. i am old enough to know that when the vietnam p.o.w.s came back and same thing, this guy was collaboration with the enemy, and treason, and try the p.o.w.s and there was very, very little appetite among the american public for that to happen. >> and general mccaffery, and roger makes a great point when we look at history. >> well, yeah, but i think that firps oft all, it is not fi...

Did he intend to stay gone? did he intend to join the taliban? was he using drugs when he left? those are appropriate further questions, but this guy was a di sas ter. he did contribute to a major problem inside of the military forces. people were killed and injured trying to the recover him. so, bravo to nbc news for the way that you have handled it. >> well, roger, let me bring you n and michael hasting who has pass passed away reported on this for some time, and two the stories i believe were the details and the questions regarding bowe bergdahl and the disappearance were made clear in hast...

Sergeant and getting a couple of hundred thousand in back pay and we will pay for the him for the rest of the life as fruits of his own misconduct. so, again, it is inappropriate in my view for the president and the chairman of the jcs or anyone in public life now to comment on it. it is not inappropriate for us to have a debate about this issue, so, you know, the president risks massive loss of credibility inside of his fighting forces. 2.3 million men and women who are going to be watching this pretty closely. >> and general mccaffery and roger, thank you so much, and i hope the have you bot...