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Refugees in need. >> are you prepared for france to invoke article 5 in the charter? an attack on one is an attack on all. >> that's a decision for the french to make. what we've made clear to the french is we'll be shoulder to shoulder to them in this response and they're in the campaign with iraq and syria already. clearly they want to energize their efforts and there is a french two-star general positioned at centcom to help that go forward and we're confident in the coming days and weeks we'll be able to identify our strikes to make clear there is no safe haven for these terrorists. >> ben...

And i don't believe there was any political impact on that process. now we're going to the second phase of that process, does the evidence warrant a trial? and that general abrams will make that decision, i'm convinced he will not be involved in any of this political nonsense that we saw in washington. >> from your vast experience and your time in the army, how often is it that general abrams in his position would so overrule and change the recommendation from the hearing officer thatard has? >> well, we don't know what the hearing officer's recommendation -- >> we know what his lawyer says it...

Was under a delusion his company, his entire battalion was led by incompetent leaders, not true but he believed it. he was going to leave the out post and run to enemy territory darkness and get to another base and meet with the general because he knew that his departure would trigger alarm bells. he could show up and say here i am, i'm who you are looking for and let me tell you how bad our men are being led. crazy but that's what the army says is his plan. he got captured and never made it to the other base. >> what do you say about the possibility of him serving time for desertion. >> givin...

Hearing for sergeant bowe bergdahl to determine if he should be tried in military court. charged with desertion, and misbehavior before the enemy, for leaving his platoon in afghanistan in 2009. casey stiegel is live for us in san antonio. so, casey, what witnesses has the defense called today? >> reporter: we heard testimony from major general kenneth dahl. a key witness, the one who led the u.s. army's investigation into the case and he also interviewed sergeant bowe bergdahl at great length following this release from the taliban. dahl says the 29-year-old soldier told him that he left his ...

And makes a less than impressive start. he excels in hi-jinx and hell raising. he earns more dem merits than any other cadet. >> he may not be a serious student. he graduates last in his west point class but it is not because he's dumb. it is because half of his fellow cadeting already dropped out to fight in the civil rar when custer leaves the academy he is still uncertain. he proves to be a courageous warri warrior. rushing in battle and taking huge chance ds. custer, of course after a horse shot out from under in the most daring hand to hand combat and emerged a two-star general.