cheeseburger, cheeseburger, kat kinsman. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thanks so much for spending part of your weekend me. i'm brooke baldwin. now time to get you back to the "cnn newsroom" with randi kaye. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm randi kaye in for don lemon. we're watching breaking news right now on cnn international. president obama phoned the parents of captured united states soldier andtomy them their son is free and coming home. sergeant bowe bergdahl was the only u.s. servicemember still held captive from the conflicts in iran and after gap stan. except for the occasional proof of life or picture as they call it, bergdahl was out of sight and in the taliban hands for nearly five years. we're told he's safe now after long negotiations and pretty

tricky military statistics. barbara starr is with us along with erin mcpike and correspondent nic robertson. barbara, we'll start with you first. who went in and got him? >> well, randi, what we're learning over the last several days, all of the pieces were put into place, and it was early this morning, u.s. time, when special operations forces got into their helicopters and flew east to a point near the afghanistan/pakistan border, landing on the afghanistan side. this was a prearranged pickup point. the taliban told the special operations forces where to come to pick up bergdahl. very key word here, randi. special operations forces. these are some of the most elite troops on the level. s.e.a.l. team 6, delta force, task force 160. we don't know exactly who flew but we know it was throws

extremely elite forces. they met the taliban, 18 of them armed, plus bergdahl, near this border location. there were u.s. forces out of sight in backup positions keeping watch to see if trouble broke out. there was a secret command center from where the operation was run. further back in afghanistan. but in the end it all went peacefully. bergdahl was transferred very quick throw the u.s. team. he walked on his own, we're told. the standard procedure would have been to search for weapons and explosives. they got in the helicopter and brought him to a base in eastern afghanistan. now at this hour he is back at bagram air base just north of the capital of kabul, the largest u.s. base in afghanistan undergoing medical tests. people are talking to him. as soon haez gets cleared for air in the coming hours, he is expected to be back in another airplane and on his way to a regional medical center in

germany for further medical care and then as soon as possible on his way home. ran randi? >> and, barbara, is it clear ought all? did he understand this was a rescue and these are the good guys? >> apparently he did. you know, after five years in captivity in extraordinary circumstances, every indication we are getting from senior defense officials is that bergdahl knew exactly what was happening. he apparently wrote down in some fashion the letters s.f. with a question mark, special forces, and the commandos on the helicopter said, yes, we are, and we have been looking for you for a long time. we are told by a senior defense official that at that point bergdahl broke down. he may not be aware of the other half of this equation, the five detainees from guantanamo bay that were released to the qataries in that middle eastern

nation. those five gitmo detainees at this hour on their way back to qatar, the taliban informed of that, and that apparently being inform they'd were going to get those people released is what really clinched the deal for the taliban. we're told that once it all fell into place, the u.s. wanted to move as quickly as possible, get it done one official said to me before anybody in involved changed their minds. >> yeah, i bet. barbara starr, great reporting, thank you so much. erin mcpike at the white house for us today. erin, what is the white house saying about bergdahl's lease and we're hearing criticism from a house republican about how this all went down. >> reporter: randi, that's right. we're hearing some criticism from the republican ranks and we just received the strongest statement yet in terms of criticism from mike rogers. he's a republican congressman and an important voice on this because he chairs the intelligence house committee. he writes i'm extremely troubled that the united states

negotiated with terrorists and agreed to swap five senior taliban leaders who are responsible for the deaths of many americans. this fundamental shift in u.s. policy signals to terrorists around the world a greater incentive to take u.s. hostages. so i posed that very question to a senior administration official at the white house. what of this question that you are somehow negotiating with terrorists and that official responded to me, sergeant bergdahl is a member of the military who was detained during the course of an armed conflict. the transfer of these individuals is not a concession. it's fully in line with the president's closing the detention center at guantanamo bay. they're under the control of qatar and they'll be subject to restrictions on movement and activities and it should be viewed in the context of the security of afghanistan as we approach the end of obligations. obviously that's something that president obama talked about frequently in the last week.

he visited there last sunday. i'm sure we'll ha hear more and he'll be asked about this and this idea and will have to respond to this question of did you negotiate with terrorists, randi. >> erin mcpike, thank you very much. nic robertson, he's in london. we learned over the years berg stall was moved back and forth between afghanistan and pakistan. our sources are currently works in those countries, but is that in keeping with what officials believed all along. is that how this particular taliban group operates? >> yeah, they've been pretty sure of it. north whiz zero stan, hostages, kidnapped people, taken them over the border because they know that's beyond the reach of u.s. troop, so this has been standard on rating procedure for

the hur kany network. they've done this by captured senior pakistani politicians to get taliban released on that side of the border. they've done it in afghanistan as well. it's tactic that works for them and certainly it does seem to have worked for them in this case with bowe bergdahl as well. >> with regard to the negotiation that freed him, you heard the u.s. congressman say it signal as change of the u.s. policy. does it keep the policy intact, do you think? >> it's a matter of nuance and semantics. i'm sure when it comes down to the detail, this has been going on for at least a year and a half. it's broken down a number of times in the past. the taliban who are in guantanamo bay are well known. one of them was a former deputy defense minister, one was a former interior minister, one was a former deputy chief of

intelligence, one was a governor in two particular provinces. so these are senior taliban figures that now say they're going go work in the taliban's base or political office in qatar. that has been the deal that's been in the background in the works in the past. what does that mean? are they out of the fight? are they really not going to raise funds for them to raise funds to attack troops? if they're closely watched, that will make it that much harder. there have been former leaders. former minister and ambassador to pakistan. both in guantanamo bay, both released. both i've interviewed inside afghanistan. as far as i know, both have stayed out of the fight and both say they don't want to end up in guantanamo bay again. but it's far from clear what these new five released taliban prisoners might do. >> and certainly so many people thrilled that bowe bergdahl is

free, but a lot of questions about this deal. nic robertson, thank you very much. around the world essentially other americans are being held prisoner in questionable circumstances either by terrorist groups or by nations hostile to the u.s. former fbi agent bob levinson disappeared during a mission in iran more than seven years ago. u.s. officials blooes believes the iranian government knows of his whereabouts, but they deny knowing where he is. >> u.s. subcontractor alan gross has been in custody since 2009 and an american pastor is being held in iran. abedini was sentenced to eight years in prison for attempting to under mine the iranian government. a u.s. marine says he's been

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mcstays moved into a new house. >> there's the entrance. >> it was a new beginning. >> light colors. hi, do you like all this big room in there? >> for the baby to run and play outside, it was perfect. >> i'll show you how this works. >> but by february 15th, 2010, that once perfect house was now shrouded in mystery. the mcstay family was still missing and so was their truck. >> detectives send out a be on the lookout, bolo. what did they discover. >> instantly, randi, they get a hit on the truck. bients impounded from a shopping mall near the mexican border. >> detectives say that four days after the mcstays disappeared, their white isuzu trooper was towed from the parking lot steps

way from the mexican border. >> there was nothing in that car to indicate that anything bad had happened. >> no apparent foul play. investigators and loved ones had to consider the possibility. did the mcstays park their car at the border and then vanish into mexico? >> in my mind we started shirting gears. okay. they're in kabcabo or they're i mexico? >> i thought, well, that i just took off. >> it still isn't adding up. >> summer was afraid of mexico. would summer take her two children in there? heck, no. >> but the truck wasn't the only evidence leading investigators south of the border. soon after they found the is zhu zhu, detectives uncovered another clue. a search on the mcstays' home computer from a week before they disappeared.

>> somebody at the mcstay home had searched for getting passports to mexico. >> it is such a chilling case. let me bring in criminal defense attorney holly hughes and criminal forensic psychologist. holly, let me start with you. why do you think the police aren't any closer to solving the mystery? >> because at the beginning they didn't know they had a mystery. they were looking at the point this was a voluntary disappearance. they didn't tape off that house as a crime scene, randi. they didn't treat it as a crime scene and they should have. just because there isn't a kicked in front door door doesn mean something bad happened. there were eggs on the counter as if summer were cooking something. there was still a bowl of popcorn on the table in the living room where it looked like the kids had been sitting there eating that popcorn, watching the movie. all signs point to they didn't just voluntarily get up and walk

out but something terrible happened. and when you don't preserve the crime scene right away, you don't have the forensics and possible touch dna and fiber and hairs. everybody and their uncle was allowed to walk through the scene and that come promiedsed any physical evidence they would have had at that time. >> in fact, he told us that they told him it wasn't a crime scene so he could go in there. but, jeff, let me turn to you. what clues can police gain from the family's behavior and the days leading up to their disappearance. it all seemed so order anyway. joe had a business lunch meeting. summer, his wife, was working on remodeling at home, planning a birthday party for one of the boys. what do they need to figure this out? >> exactly part of what you said. what was their retune before this happened. what were they planning, did they have things scheduled for the future, who were the last people they had spoken to, and, of course, what we've learned, the credit cards were not used

after the disappearance. bank accounts not yeared. so, again, you have a very, very cold trail. you want to look at what the behavior was before and therefore what we would expect in the future and what we got was nothing, zero. that mate it more of a mystery. >> holly, you said they weren't looking for missing persons. you touched on this video of a family of four that turned out not to be them heading into mexico. it was a security camera at the mexican border. dilt id sound like to you they made up their mind and it was closed. >> you have to look at the totality of the circumstances. the fact that there wasn't a forced entry at the home in addition to know signs of foul play, no blood, nothing that likes like a struggle, add in the video of these four people

who by all accounts physically resembled the family and one of the family members, the mcstay family members said, well, that white coat looks familiar that one of the flame was wearing in the video. so when you do that, the backing, at the time they were looking at it, even the family members left behind were saying could be them. >> they're look at it. you were talking about it in your earlier report. the google search for passports to mexico, this could be interpreted as a family that just wanted to get up and walk away and that's what they did. >> so, jeff, investigators, i'm told, they're planning to re-interview pretty much anyone now that the san bernardino county has taken over the case from san diego. is there something they should look for? some signs or behavior or maybe

actions in the people that they're talking to? >> well, certainly they should find out whether there were any conflicts between the people they're interviewing now and the mcstay family. if they knew anything about the mcstay family and any issues they may have had,ny drug use, any illegal behaviors going on because one of the theorys being thrown out there, of course, is perhaps they were put under by some sort of a drug cartel or mexican cartel, so now it is all about looking for not just possible financial physical evidence but also doing as much is that can as far as the interviews. >> i mean you look at these pictures of these beautiful children and we talked to family members. were really special kids. i guess, holly, the question is if you had business that maybe wept bad with the parents, why kill the children. does that say something to you that maybe they knew who did this and they had to? >> actually what it says to me is maybe they didn't know who

did this, randi, because this is so cold and calculating that this is like a business deal gone bad, you know. dr. jeff was just talking that there has been speculation that this was a drug cartel hit. in that case, you wouldn't care. you're literally going in there and you're going to take care of the problem and the problem is four living beings. if this, in fact, was a family dispute, there were other ways to take out the adults and leave the children unharmed. could have been taken, you know, in the middle of the night. it could have been an execution when the children were still asleep in their bed. so the execution of the children tells me it's probably not somebody who was close to this family because, again, everybody talk about how special these little boys were and how special they were. if you knew those children, how hard would it be to murder them and put them in their own special grave next to their

parents. this small smacks to me some collateral damage. >> for much more on this mysterious case, don't miss my special one-hour documentary, buried secrets, who murdered the mcstay family. that airs tuesday night this week, 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. a full hour on this case. holly and jeff are coming right back to talk about this story. a toddler severely burned by a flash bang grenade during raid on his house. a horrible accident. or police negligence. we'll get their thoughts and we'll show the sad image os thf burned child after a very quick break. those little things still get you.

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>> there was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate there was any children present in the home. if there had a been, we would have done something different. you're trying to minimize anything that could go wrong and in this case, the greatest thing went wrong. is it going make us be more careful in the next one? yes, ma'am, it is. it's going make us double question. >> the incident is being reviewed by the department. let me bring back in criminal defense attorney holly hughes and forensic psychologist jeff gardere. is this a horrible accident or could the police beheld responsible? >> i think what you'll see is there won't be a criminal responsibility finding but they're going to be going after them civilly. i can almost guarantee that. what they're going to say is you didn't exercise that due diligence and that reasonable care. if you knew this was a suspended felon's house and you now you were getting a warrant, why was there no surveillance on the outside. that family had been there not just with that little baby but

three other children too. so to say that they didn't -- the informant when they went to buy drugs didn't see all of this baby stuff and a playpen, i don't think that's going hold water in a civil court. thing you're going to see someone filing lawsuits on a civil front for thiess children and it's going to be a quiet settlement. this family was displaced. they were staying at this home who was a friend of theirs. they don't have any insurance and the medical bills are going to be outrageous. yeah, don't think they ooh going to be criminally be held responsible but slivl we're going to see some lawsuits coming down the pike. >> what about the officers? they've been called baby killers, they've received death threats. how does one cope with that? >> certainly we know this was not something that was done on purpose. it was an accident. they followed the procedure from what we know, however, what they did was bad.

a baby ended up dying, his face was severely burned. look. i know that psychologically these officers feel very bad about this and one of the things they're talking about is that they're going to review their procedures and make sure that they take much more caution. but psychologically, this is going to weigh heavily on the officers involved because this child if the child survives and is in critical condition may be damaged not just physically, emotionally brain damaged for the rest of his life. >> holly, we have to talk about this other story out of oakland, california. this is the case of a high school security guard seen on surveillance video hitting a student in a wheelchair allegedly because the student was either refusing or slow to go to class. a student wresponded. the staff member was arrested and has been charged with a felony. holly, your thoughts. you do think the security guard will face additional charges

from the family in this case as well? >> well, i think the felony charges that have already been pressed will probably be successful in getting a gl guilty plea. that videotape evidence is pretty damning and, yes, thing the family will go after them civilly. but when you go after them civilly, they'll have to prove damages. provable damages are all those medical bills piling up. so what we need to find out here is how much damage was physically done to the young man in the wheeled chair and like dr. jeff pointed out, are there psychological damages. is this attack we see on the videotape, is this something that's going are e choir further counseling for. >> i think who they're going go after, randi, is the school district for hiring and retaining this security guard who would engage in this type of behavior. >> what's amazing is you see these other students walking down the hallway, they see it happening but they're

nonchalantly walking down the hallway. some students defending the security guard saying the student is a troublemaker who provokes the guard. what do you make of that? >> the student is in a wheelchair. the student has polio. let's be real about this. they said this student was very disruptive, spit on the security officer. it doesn't matter. the pufrps of the security officer is to keep security, is to make sure that the child does not hurt himself, that the security guard is not hurt. this security guard went after this kid. even if hi wasn't in a while chair, even if he didn't have this disability, this illness, he should not have handled it that way. this security officer had some serious anger issues and holly is right. the school district is going to have to deal with hiring someone who seems to have such a hot head doing this kind of work with children. it's just plain wrong. >> jeff gardere, holly hughes, nice to see you both as always.

thank you. >> pleasure. >> thank you. a marine said he was beaten, shackled, and deprived food and water in a mexican jail cell and it could all be because he took a wrong turn out of a private parking lot. cnn speaks to tahmooressi next. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.

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it's the top story. a a very jaernlt capture five years ago is coming home. the fwanl snatched him while on deployment to east afghanistan in 2009. today he is free, he is safe at a u.s. military base in afghanistan. bergdahl's family got the news directly from president obama. this is what they said. we were so joyful and relieved when president obama called us today to give us the news that bo b b bowe is finally coming home. we can't wait to wrap our arms around our only son. he was moved back and forth between these provinces. a u.s. marine says that he's been slapped, punched, shackled, and deprived of food add water in a mexican jail, but his

treatment seem os to be improving after cnn highlighted his story. we spoke with andrew tahmooressi. living at a friend's house in san diego, looking for emotional support after two combat tours in afghanistan. >> we noticed, you know, the problems face to face where he was just acting distant and, you know, we could tell it was a clear sign of ptsd. >> but other the course of the month his friends said things started to look up until the night of march 31st. he parked his car on the u.s. side and crossed to mexico to patronize a restaurant popular to marines. then he got in his car and made a fateful turn. >> he made a left right out of here, completely missing that sign that says mexico only, no

usa return, straight onto that on-ramp right into mexico. >> i crossed the border by accident and i have three guns in my truck and they're trying to -- they're trying to take my guns from me. >> tahmooressi would have driven through here. not every car that goes into mexico gets checked. the director of the tijuana checkpoint told media tahmooressi was pulled over because he didn't have a front license plate. never once did he say he was a marine or that he got lost. he's been imprisoned in mexico ever since. we spoke to him on the phone from a mexican prison where he's being held. what have things been like for you there in mexico, andrew? >> not very good in the beginning. for like the first month things were not -- not that good at all. >> tahmooressi is being held here at this prison in mexico. when i spoke to him by phone earlier he sthad he was being abused, mistreated by prison

officials, not given enough food or water. we weren't able to get inside the prison to see for ourselves but when i talked to the head of the police they denied the allegations and said the marine is being treated well. but the drama has caused court delays. after firing his attorney tahmooressi may have to wait weeks to get another hearing. he's willing to wait, he says, optimistic he'll be released soon. >> what gives you that confidence, andrew? >> i'm not guilty. i'm confident that the judge is going to realize that i'm not a guilty man. >> nick valencia, cnn, tecate, mexico. let's get to erin mcpike. she's at the white house with some news on today's rescue of army sergeant bowe bergdahl. erin, what can you tell us? >> reporter: randi, that's right. bowe bergdahl is back at the

white house. we receive denis mcdonough enter the white house as have the parents of sergeant bowe bergdahl. the other thing we can tell you, of course, is bowe bergdahl himself is still in afghanistan. u.s. military forces are holding him there. he's obviously undergoing some medical treatment for recovery, but we do expect his parents will be reunited with him at somt point here in the united states at a san antonio medical facility. but, of course, we will be hearing more from president obama at 6:15 from the rose garden, randy. >> of course, we will, of course, carry that here. erin, thank you very much for that update. golfer phil mickelson is best known for his accomplishments inside the ropes. now the government is trying to find out if he was out of bounds when he made a stock purchase three years ago. ♪

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taliban. he will speak at 6:15 eastern time there at the rose garden at the white house. we should also mention that bowe bergdahl parents are in washington as well and will be joining the president there during that press conference that he'll be holding. cnn, of course, will bring that to you live. you're going to want to be with us tomorrow morning for "state of the union" can candy crowley. susan rice returns to the show. back in 2012 when she was u.s. ambassador to the u.n. she was heavily criticized for saying the attack on benghazi was due to an anti-muslim video. susan rice on cnn's "state of the union" tomorrow morning and noon eastern time. cnn's new ten-part series "the s60s" guides people throug the decades. the civil rights movement and

vietnam nam and kennedy space shuttle. it sets the focus on tv called "television comes of age." so let's talk about it with tv critic david b. coolie. a founder of the website tv worth watching. david, welcome to you. so much happened during that decade. what are some of your top tv moments would you say of the '60s? >> in terms of the news it has got to be everybody who was alive at the time which is jfk assassination on the one end and the moon landing on the other. but entertainment, because i was a terge then it's the beatles on ed sullivan and "the avengers" and for entertainment it's "the carol burnett show." and there was a lot of good stuff that finally showed up in the '60s. >> how would you say in term of

television. 1960s tv changed the way americans viewed the country, right? >> yeah. it was a very split personality kind of medium in the '60s. in terms of news, it kept getting more and more serious as the decade got more serious and it was showing people in their living rooms, stuff about the country and about the world that they just hadn't seen before. but in terms of the entertainment, it was more and more escapist until, finally, the two sides collided in the late '60s and even entertainment grew up and got topical. >> yet, it was considered and called by some this vast wasteland, right? meanwhile, look at it now. >> right. you know, it's an amazing medium and it has grown up and matured to where i think that it's doing some of the best story telling that is available in any medium. and the birth of that was in the late '50s and early '60s.

it's taken 60 years, but gotten pretty good. >> yeah. so you teach college students about tv history. how do you explain to young people who grew up with the internet and all of these hundreds of cable channels, what a big deal television actually was when there was, what, like three tv channels? >> yeah. it's a great question. what i finally -- i finally cracked teaching the '60s to kids by showing them a lot of history before i showed them any television. so, you know, it's one thing to show the jfk assassination or bobby kennedy assassination coverage of the martin luther king assassination but more potent to them if you show news clips and speeches so that they are alive and human and what they counted for matters. and then you kill them. then they have got a sense of how awful the '60s were, how

unsettling in terms of that and then you show the entertainment. their jaws dropped when they see "my mother the car." >> what is your favorite '60s show? do you have one? >> favorite '60s show is the "smothers brothers comedy hour." it formed me more and taught me more things about entertainment and politics than any other show. >> certainly a lot of people's favorite, i'm sure. thank you so much. it was a fun conversation and it's a great series that we have going here. i appreciate your time tonight. >> it is, indeed. i would say that too. >> thank you. a reminder you can catch the first episode of cnn's original series "the '60s television comes of age" tonight at 8:00 eastern time and we should mention you can see a whole brand-new episode "the world on the brink" thursday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. our top story today, the release of the only american held captive in afghanistan in exchange for five gitmo

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this is cnn breaking news. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm randi kaye in no don lemon. an american soldier is free today after nearly five years of captivity by the taliban. sergeant bowe bergdahl since 2009 only seen in pictures and videos released by his captors. us special forces went in and picked him up in eastern afghanistan today. he was the only member of the u.s. military still held captive from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. at the same time, today, five detainees at guantanamo bay are

released and now in the air en route to qatar. we just heard from the white house. they told us to expect president obama to speak from the rose garden about the release of bowe bergdahl at 6:15 eastern time. in the meantime, the people closest to bowe bergdahl never gave up hope that he would someday come home. here is cnn's jake tapper. >> get me! release me, please! i'm begging you! bring me home, please? bring me home. >> reporter: that is bowe bergdahl the only member of the u.s. military in enemy captivity. he had just turned 27 but four years of his short life have been spent in captivity held by a group loosely affiliated with the afghan