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And i don't know if you've been watching our '60s series, but, you know, it's not to promote cnn product, it's just perspective. vietnam, this felt like this in the beginning, and i'm not saying iraq is vietnam, but the american people are tired of the war, and it does seem like we're going the wrong way. can you reassure them otherwise? >> well, i think the most reassurance is if there's any one person in the united states that doesn't want to get involved in a military situation in iraq it's barack obama. i mean, his big thing was winding that war down. he was against it at the very beginnin...

Sign non-disclosure agreements about what happened. who's heard of such a thing? >> there'll be an investigation, but there are new quotes this morning from members of his platoon. one said i'm, quote, pissed off about this because he believes bergdahl is a deserter. we don't know yet. but back to the other sue, governor schweitzer, about trading. >> never done it before. the end of the spanish-america war, at the end of korea. we're winding out. we are winding this war down. >> how many troops are there now? >> by the way, bill, do you -- >> if you get them back when the last troop leaves, th...

Risk for this notion that if i can get one, i can get five taliban released. >> so then the administration brought on national security adviser, susan rice to defend the prisoner exchange. this is what she said on abc's "this week." >> those assurances relating to the movement, the activities, the monitoring of those detainees give us confidence that they cannot and in all likelihood will not pose a significant risk to the united states. and it is in our national interests that this transfer had been made. >> criticism of the administration over this is it fair at all? >> let's start with, dur...

Nothing uncomfortable in this president about killing osama bin laden with the heroic acts of our military. he didn't seem uncomfortable in deploying a surge in afghanistan in order to wind that war down which is happening and he certainly didn't seem uncomfortable getting us out of iraq after the reckless policies that got us into iraq. so that's just typical partisan hyperbole. in this issue, the issue of syria and chemical weapons used to gas 400 children should rise above that partisan hyperbole. >> congressman steve israel, always good to have you on the program. >> thank you, chris. davi...

It involved a jesus figure in homosexual situations and men's room -- it was disgusting. but it would have been totally inappropriate for any governmental authority to condemn it. we don't do that in the united states. it's not the role of government. and frankly, anyone in an embassy -- and you can see how poorly it worked out, by the way. it didn't make anyone safer when that statement was issued. >> let me ask you something about this, lawrence. i think one of the things that's somewhat confusing to me when i hear some of these arguments is that i don't -- the obama administration continued...