thank you, katrina kinsman. that wraps things up for us today. i'm brooke baldwin. "new day sunday" continues right now with christi paul and victor now with christi paul and victor blackwell. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com after five years in captivity their son beau is coming home. >> his mother was crying when she answered the phone. >> i think everybody burst into tears or couldn't get a silly grin off their faces. >> it was an extraordinary and unprecedented noex. >> this is standard operating procedure for the taliban to take prisoners and exchange them for their own prisoners. >> i didn't give up hope. bergdahls never give up their hope. >> i'd like to say beau right now who is having trouble

speaking english. [ speaking in foreign language ] i'm your father, beau. >> it's just extraordinary, isn't it? we just even can't wrap our heads around it. can you imagine how he feels. >> and the family and the town and everyone there. >> i'm christi paul, thank you for spending your time with us. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day sunday." four years, ten months, 30 days. that's how long sergeant bowe bergdahl was held captive by taliban militants in afghanistan. >> for him and his family, that had to have seemed like an eternity, right? today he is free, beginning this new life. that new life starts at a medical center in germany where he's likely going to be evaluated and debriefed and at some point head back to the midwest. five guantanamo terror suspects were also released in exchange for bergdahl.

>> when they realized who he was on a plane to to freedom, he broke into cheers. earlier chuck hagel said the bergdahl release brought up emotion for him as well and he responded to charges -- there is criticism -- he responded to charges that the prisoner swap encourages kidnappings of more americans. >> would this embolden terrorists, again, i remind you this was a prisoner of war exchange. he was a prisoner. >> we're covering this emotional complex story from every angle possible. >> we have cnn "state of the union" anchor candy crowley joining us from washington and cnn's nic robertson on the phone from lance dahl germany. we've heard where he is.

what can you confirm? >> reporter: we can confirm he is at the medical center here undergoing checks with doctors. the nature of those checks, how extensive they are, are they actually begun yet, how long they would go on, we don't know the answer to those questions. we're being told at the moment he is inside this medical facility beginning those checks. >> candy, we know that there is some controversy with this as well. some republicans have come out and say while they are thrilled that bergdahl is coming home, they fear this may open the way for the taliban to see this as a tactic to take more americans and further put our troops in harm's way. are you talking about that, i'm assuming, today? >> absolutely. susan rice will be on our show. that's one of the questions we want to put to her. what the administration has said so far is we are convinced that the government of qatar who

arranged for this prisoner swap, does have the appropriate measures in place to make sure these five men that are now gone from guantanamo bay and apparently on the ground in qatar will not pose a risk to either the u.s. or its allies in afghanistan. they're always going to be questions about whether that is so. we want to know, okay, what are those safeguards in place. this is a long-standing problem, and particularly so now that we're not so much fighting countries as we are fighting these asymmetrical wars against terrorist groups. lots of folks say, if you negotiate with terrorist groups, it only encourages other terrorist groups. on the other hand, that's the enemy at this point, and you have a u.s. soldier who has been held for five years and you have the kind of conflicting motto from the military which is leave no man behind. again, this is kind of a policy in motion, but you do hear republicans saying this is just a bad idea to start negotiating

with terrorists and saying, okay, we'll give you x many guantanamo bay prisoners for this american or that american. we'll see how it plays out. >> candy crowley and nic robertson, thank you so much. "state of the union" with candy crowley is coming up next hour 9:00 a.m. eastern as she talks with national security adviser susan rice about the release of sergeant bergdahl. let's talk about the guantanamo bay detainees released. the group has tried to free them for more than a decade. here are their pictures. i do need to put a disclaimer up here. these pictures of photos obtained by wikileaks that matched the names released by the department of defense. the department of defense would neither confirm or deny their accuracy. all these men held important positions with the taliban ranging from interior minister to chief of army staff.

>> other stories breaking overnight, all seven people on board a private jet were killed in a fiery crash, pictures here. this is in the boston area late last night. officials say the plane apparently caught fire. you can see this is a photo from social media purporting to be of the crash site. there are flames there. the victims have not been identified. we know the ntsb is investigating this morning. also, a park official on mount rain near thinks there's little chance of finding six missing climbers alive now. the group went missing a few days ago. it's believed they probably died in some sort of fall. rescuers received a signal from the parties' emergency beacons. entering the area from the ground now is too dangerous. >> we've been covering what has happened with sergeant bowe bergdahl, the fact that there are so many people who have been praying for five years for him to come home. their wish is coming true now. next, why a family friend says

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i think everybody either burst into tears or couldn't get a silly grin off their faces. it's long coming. it's been five years. we're so relieved and grateful that he's been freed. >> makes you believe in all the goodness again, doesn't it? yellow ribbons, posters like these are a reminder that u.s. soldier bowe bergdahl may have been out of sight, but never out

of mind. >> for the coffee shop owner where he once worked, leaving this lamp on was a way to support. >> sue martin is the owner of that coffee shop and is joining us by now by phone from idaho. thank you so much forgetting up very early, i know it is for you on a sunday morning. tell us about sergeant bergdahl. i know he worked for you. help us know this man that we only know through pictures. >> oh, he's a wonderful young man. he's a hopeful young man. he's respectful. he enjoys people. he made multiple good friends amongst our customers and other employees at the time and is a joy to be around. he was a seeker, wanting to know about the world and wanting to be very helpful. >> sue, tell us about that moment when you found out that bowe bergdahl had been released and he's coming home.

>> it was a complex series of emotions. at first i just wanted to make sure that it was accurate, and then once i found out it was truly accurate, i just -- it was just a wonderful sense of relief. i think the jubilation will come, but right now i'm just overwhelmed with relief and gratitude, gratitude that everybody worked so hard to guarantee his safe return. >> sue, i understand that you lost your son zain who was a firefighter in a motorcycle accident, and i'm certainly sorry for your loss. i can't even imagine that. i read, though, that bowe kind of helped you pick up the pieces and took his place for a while. can you explain what he did? >> beau and my son zain didn't know each other.

when bowe came to work for me, he was just a sensitive person and he was watchful of everybody and his surroundings. he started doing things like shoveling the snow and creating a walkway for me to go to my car, brushing all the snow off my car, just doing those touching things that you don't see in very many employees. he was much more involved than an employee and very, very thoughtful. >> so we're seeing video of you putting a sign next to this lamp. i believe it's inside the coffee shop. tell us the significance of the lamp and what you're going to tell bowe about it once he returns home. >> that lamp i put in the coffee shop the moment we knew there was a captive. there were close friends and neighbors that we got together and understood into dentally of any announcement that it had to

be bowe. my employees were in constant e-mail contact with bowe and nobody could get ahold of him. we knew the particulars of where he was stationed. so we assumed that it was bowe. i put the lamp in there at that time. i put the sign in there later when it was announced that it was bowe. we kept very quiet about it, concern for his well-being. i put the sign up so the customers would be aware. i was absolutely certain that everybody would be heartfeltly supportive of the family and bowe himself. when he comes home, he can turn that lamp off. >> sue martin, it was great to speak with you this morning, kind of giving us a picture -- more than a picture of the person as the country celebrates. bowe bergdahl is coming home. >> sue, thank you so much. we hope you have a fabulous homecoming, you and all the folks there in haley.

after the release of bowe bergdahl, everybody is happy about it. let's make sure that is well none. everybody says they're thrilled he is coming hope. there are some people asking if the u.s. now notes with terrorists which is something we have always said has always been a motto, that the u.s. doesn't do it. >> we'll have a conversation about the change in policy with our panel next.

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defined black and white world. i think we can all agree that terrorists who are out to do harm to the united states don't really need any additional incentive to do that. they're out planning the do that as we speak. i think what we need to keep an eye on is how do we keep our sa sack row sank commitment behind and make sure our national security are taken care of. i think the administration did a good job here of balancing all those things and making sure that we can bring home our men and women who are left behind on the battlefield and at the same time working with allies like qatar to make sure our national security interests are moving forward. >> ben, did the u.s. negotiate with terrorists to bring bowe bergdahl home? >> look, i'm thrilled he was releesd for a human being, for five years being held by

tearists. that's a positive. what we paid for it, a five-to-one switch with terrorists giving up top taliban leaders. these five individuals were at gitmo because they were high ranking officials and they have the blood of american soldiers on their hand. there's the reason they asked for these five without changing their lists, because they're incredibly good at being terrorists. we did trade with terrorists, we negotiated with tearists. you have a policy that many many ways kept americans safe, and we threw all that out the window yesterday when we did a five-for-one swap. the terrorists know we just negotiated with them. the white house can spin this how they want to, they can say this is a complicated issue and it's not as simple as some people put it. the taliban knows that we negotiate with terrorists and they got five of their guys for one of ours.

the value of an american around the world went through the roof if you're a taliban. that's the bad part about this. >> there's another quote i want to read from buck mckeon of california. he says in executing this transfer the president also clearly violated laws which require him to notify congress 30 days before any transfer of terrorists from guantanamo bay. did the president violate a law? >> no. and if you recall, christi, when the president signed this new procedure in terms of how to go about trying to get the release of our men and women that are on the battlefield in uniform around the world, he signed a statement that clearly indicated that he didn't think that having to notify congress for those 30 days was something that was constitutional because in the real world, and again, ben loves talking about what could be in

theory, we don't live in a theoretical world. we live in the real world. in a real world, you can't necessarily wait 30 days, and if you do, then you could put our people in harm's way. that's exactly what happened here. >> i strongly disagree. >> hang on, ben. the president and this administration believe they are standing on full legal ground because of what the president signed. defense secretary chuck hagel agrees that we have to have that kind of flexibility if we're going to be able to do this safely and bring home our men and women that are around the world. >> ben, you respond and then we have to wrap it up. >> this has been going on for five years. the reason why barack obama did not go to congress on this is because we knew that there were going to be people on both sides of the aisle, republican and democrats that are going to say, mr. president, you don't just change policy all of a sudden and trade knifed terrorists who have blood of american soldiers

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