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About the white house decision making from basically the moment in 2011 and 2012 when this first came up to today. remember, when this issue was first brought in front of the congress and in front of the senate intelligence committee, the question was, was it worth trying to get the release of bergdahl in exchange for these same five in the service of a bigger peace deal that this was a confidence-building measure on the way to getting the taliban to renounce international terrorism and begin to talk with the afghan government. that turned out to fall apart. and one of the interesting question...

Critical of the administration on this issue. i've been on the phone with a lot of democratic senators also. critical of the administration. do you -- are you hearing the same in the intel committee? for the most part bipartisan concern over this matter? >> no question about it. u mean the fact that diane, myself, mike rogers on the house side wrote a letter to the president. we wrote two letters to the president actually. as long ago as three years when this was first broached and we said you guys are crazy. we said we know these five guys. you can't release these five guys. because they're f...

>> completely. chuck todd thank you very much. bill kristol thank you as well. >> and i understand parents will go to extraordinary measures. and the picture that i showed was a picture, again, questioning the president of the united states as you said bringing him there. but i'm not going to sit back here and i would not have mentioned the father if somebody had not said -- chuck had not said wait a second don't question the father. i think we have to question the father. and that -- >> at this point we have to question everything. >> the pivotal time is what has disturbed me the most. at a t...

With such an event. and so he has a very interesting piece about the risk of inevitability and the need the democrats have for a rich primary fight. we thought that was a great topic. except it's also true that the bergdahl story has taken on dimensions we all have been discussing that are so i think, profound and mystifying and confounding to us that we really wanted to dig into that. so we thought that that was the story we wanted to feature on the cover. >> and what do you find in your piece, the cover was he worth it with an image of sergeant bergdahl. what do you have in the piece? >> whi...

Bergdahl's failing health. but many lawmakers are not convinced. saxby chambliss is our guest right here on "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ we asked people a question how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently if we want to be ready ...