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A long time ago, he was a young man. i wouldn't want my past being investigated like this. where does it end? >> well, i mean, the only thing i can say the way i think about these things, you know, i would distinguish between perhaps somebody who did something when they were 15 years old and 16 years old and somebody who was in their late 20s who was a grown adult. and also this happened in 1984. this wasn't 1954. in addition to that, he never brought it up before. it may have been different if he had affirmatively come forward at some point in the last 35 years and said, look, this happened, ...

Distinguish between perhaps somebody who did something when they were 15 years old and 16 years old and somebody who was in their late 20s who was a grown adult. and also this happened in 1984. this wasn't 1954. in addition to that, he never brought it up before. it may have been different if he had affirmatively come forward at some point in the last 35 years and said, look, this happened, i messed up. you know, i'm a different person now. i see that this was wrong. instead, a journalist had to go find this in a library of that medical school. otherwise, we wouldn't even know about it. and so...

>> up top, right here. i'm outraged as you are. thanks for joining us at this hour. "legal view" starts right now. dead silence. that was the reaction behind closed doors to the video that helped launch the rescue of sergeant bowe bergdahl. one senator telling cnn the p.o.w. looked thin, couldn't focus his eyes, could barely speak. but the secret tape has not silenced the critics. also, jim crow alive and well in memphis, it seems. a white supervisor threatens to hang his african-american employee for drinking from, quote, white people-only water fountain. this wasn't 1954, this was 2014...

You don't walk in the arms of the taliban and expect to survive. >> why is it that we're seeing senators, both republican and democrat, on both sides of this issue, it feels like what i just said, they might have been watching different tapes, some suggesting i can completely see why the president felt stressed and pressured they had to get this man home and others who said, he looked drugged but it wasn't convincing to me. >> reporter: there's some politics involved, and you can imagine this is washington you, can imagine the scenario if he was not released and died in captivity the president...