everyone still shares, balancing risk and reward. >> that's it for me. i will be back 5:00 p.m. in the situation room. "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> thank you wolf. hi there. thank you so much for being with me here on this monday. we have to begin this hour that the taliban held captive for nearly five years. a lot of questions here today. was freedom worth swapping five taliban leaders from guantanamo bay? did the president break the law in allowing the exchange to happen? and how is berdahl doing? we will get to that later. the release shows that the united states does not leave a man or woman behind on the battlefield.

you will see special forces who picked up the 28-year-old soldier just on saturday in afghanistan. berdahl is now recovering in germany while his idaho hometown is preparing a hero's welcome. a member of his own troop says he left on his own volition and that these six soldiers right here died searching for him. the pentagon has not deemed b bergdahl a deserter. the details still remain unclear. >> we had good reason to believe that there were significant risks to his life and jeopardy to his conditions and i just simply wouldn't go beyond that. i can tell you that we wouldn't have done this. we wouldn't have done it the way

we did exit the speed with which we did it. we didn't have a idea that his life was in jeopardy. i don't think right now that we know exactly what was in his mind when he left that post. he was held captive as a prisoner for five years, five years by himself. that's a pretty high price to pay for whatever impelled him to wa walk off that base. the mantra is we will not leave a soldier behind. is he an american? we will not leave him behind and we didn't. >> a defense official tells us that he is being treated for conditions that require hospitalization. he is said to have lost weight but that's really all they are saying. bergdahl arrived to germany friday. americans wounded, held captive

overseas, they often wind up in this part of germany as a stopping point on their way home. first, nick, just as far as condition goes, do you have anything more. lost him? do we have mike? >> this is what we are being told. focus -- so what we're being told is stable condition and being treated for dietary and nutrition aal needs which speak to nutritional help. proof of life videos over the past couple of years. >> as we await more information on his physical condition, you as we mentioned, let me just show our viewers, free from

guantanamo bay in conjunction wi with the "new york times" reports some afghans say he is a reasonable figure who could eventually play an important roll in afghanistan. this is not a narrative that is getting a lot of play here today. >> these are not the first taliban prisoners to be released to date. big hitters within side the taliban. also obama was & at that time. these are figures that really

seem to have gone back to a political life. they are on the streets of kabul where u.s. troops are today. these members could become flue influential in the future. sit a step forward in the relationship. the taliban see themselves as a political entity. they are fighting what they called us they are part of the future of afghanistan. we may one day be talking from across the table in a different light, not entirely impossible in the bigger scheme of things. >> okay. and also to be clear here as we are talking about this apparent exchange, bergdahl, there has

been a long period of negotiations correct? >> exactly. these five names have been up. they have wanted released for a long time. this is typical of the taliban. they will capture people and hold them with a specific purpose of trading them for prisoners. they kidnap politicians. they do -- thank you so much. we are also hearing from this team treating bergdahl in this hospital, really having to build up a sense of trust. he has to learn that he can trust these people before he can

start this debriefing process with some of these intel officials from the u.s. we will get to that in a minute. this nationwide manhunt is underway after dozens of authorities swooped in and raided the apartment of this man, identified by the fbi as 42-year-old ryan kelly chamber land ii. police say the search turned up explosives. what they do know, he has hit the road. the fbi says he should be considered armed and dangerous. >> i was completely shocked, flabbergasted, out of character for anything that i know about ryan. >> national correspondent joins

us live. this was just south of san francisco. do we have any clue or leads where he could be now? >> the only thing they know right now is just where he was last seen. he was last seen south of san francisco. sit a white nissan altima. they do believe he could be heading out of state. they have asked people to call in any tips but he is considered armed and dangerous and do not approach. >> how were they tipped off to go to his home in the first place. >> that's a very good question. we don't know. all of it is under sealed. fbi being very tight lipped about this. there was nothing toxic found inside the apartment. there was a lot of concern because you're looking at this

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>> he has been gone so long it will be difficult to come back. >> do you think this is the family's choice to not see him yet? or do you think the military really has to keep him isolated? >> the military is working this

issue with the parents and they are explaning every step of the way. >> he's the only one who knows. they have to get that done as well. >> you have already broubl up the question with rumors and other reports as far as how he went into captivity. also, having been with the taliban for so many years, what secrets and intelligence he can

share. how do they go about a very precarious emotional process to debrief him? >> who were they communicating with? what information does he have? the issue of trying to understand his mind set. what's his mind set after all of this time. trying to walk into his

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>> respectful, good athlete, this is how a family friend describes sergeant bergdahl. he is being treated at a u.s. hospital in germany. it is a touchy situation because the inclination to label him a hero while his fellow soldiers maintain he left his post right before his capture. we have the family friend to whom we just referred with us on the phone. nice to have you on. >> thank you. we're happy -- >> you're happy, i'm sure with the news. forgive me. a bit of a delay. can you tell me where were you when you heard the news and have you been in contact with bergdahl's parents at all? >> i was at work when i heard the news. i got a text from my husband and

neighbor and called them right away and it was such a sense of relief and amazing -- just amazement. he is a remarkable young man. he really had very high ideals and good intentions in every he did. whether he foresaw the consequences of his actions or whatever happened, i don't know. but i would say that anything he did was with a good heart. >> that in response to some of the soldiers coming forward. they are labeling him a traitor or a desserter. those who love him see the story much differently.

your daughter they go way back. what kind of young man was he? >> well, she -- they got to know each other when she was in middle school. my daughter saw him fencing with other friends and she decided she wanted to learn. he -- we got to know him that way. he read a lot a lot of conversations and all i would hear about how he was studding different languages and reading a lot and had a real thirst for learning about the world and cultures. >> do you recall how he grew

older the decision to join his service and country and his parents' reaction to that? >> well, i -- at the point when i learned that he had joined the service, our daughter was out -- had been away from home for several years in college in school. we had sort of lost track of him. i was sort of surprised but i knew that he was an excellent marksman, athlete, and really wanted to be out there doing good things, so that's -- we were in full support of it. >> why were you surprised? >> surprised because he was doing -- he -- such an adventurous spirit. he had -- i just hadn't -- had not seen him in a while and i knew he was very sort of off doing a lot of different things, sailing around the world and fishing and then i heard he was in the military.

in some ways it made sense especially if he was going to be training because he was an excellent marksman. i guess i shouldn't have been surprised. just wondered how you felt at the time. ready for your long lost friend to come home. thank you so much for joining me. i really appreciate it. while many people in bowe bergdahl's hometown are celebrating, some lawmakers are accusing president obama of breaking the law. tech giant apple announced new i-stuff for 2014. stay right here you're watching cnn.

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>> bottom of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. people of bergdahl's hometown are not the only people celebrating. so are members of the taliban. the homecoming received when five detainees arrived in qutar. a former interior minister. the u.s. traded them, these five men in exchange for release of

this one american soldier. a commander is calling it a victory. you know what many in congress are calling it? surprise. federal law requires notification 30 days before any terrorists are transferred from gitmo. >> this was a result of several years of effort by our diplomats and brave men and women in uniform. let's also be clear about how we got this done. we have been culting about members of congress about this effort.

this should not have been a surprise to any members of congress who have been consulting about it. >> let's a talk about this with our next guest. also with me, jeff. i just want to begin with you here. listen this has been years in the making. congress knew, and b, they had to move quickly because of the serious concerns about bergdahl's health. yet you say that the president broke the law. explain? >> the law as i read it says that congress has to be informed specifically when a trade or release is in the works from began t guantanamo within 30 days. it may be when he signed it that when there are exigent circumstances and in an emergency he doesn't have to inform them, but that's his

opinion. the law says what it says and it looks to me like he violated it. >> what are they saying breaking the law or not? >> you know, that's really not the issue that's at the top of mind for radio listeners. i spent close to three hours on this issue earlier today taking calls. they are more concerned with what precedent we're setting in this case. are they saying go capture another american soldier and this time you can command that khalid shaikh mohammed be released? they also want to know about the underlying circumstances by which he fell into taliban hands and the third issue, did six americans die looking for him? that's something we first learned as a blog post in response to a michael hastings story. now the daily mail is out showing you photographs of american service personnel, identifying them by name.

that's a question i want to know the answer to. >> the first time i saw it was over the weekend. because they were searching for this young man. he is a hero. he is a desserter. some people question how he disappeared. do you think, i want to stay with you. do you think the president of the united states would have stepped in front of cameras with bowe bergdahl's over the weekend if there were any possible worry that he was a traitor? >> i'm not sure. i don't know that we're ever going know the underlying facts. i look at this and say they want to close guantanamo and maybe this is the direction in which

they were headed. i would like to know under what circumstances did he walk off of that base in 2009? >> to michael's point in terms of a precedent possibly being set, what happens now to other detainees? >> this is the issue with trades that they become very controversial because of the precedent they set and the inceni incentives they create. i worked on the iran contra investigation. that is when the reagan administration traded arms weapons to iran for getting hostages back. there are people who say it's worth it as susan rice, the national security advisor said, we do not leave men on the battlefield. mr. bergdahl was captured. he's the only prisoner in afghanistan and we will not give

up on him. that may be and certainly made a lot of people happy that he is coming home. it is a complicated situation when you reward people who commit acts like this. it's hard to see this as anything but a reward to the people who took him. >> that's a huge question. i'm also curious, michael, if of these three hours you were on this one subject today, if anyone brought up the timing of all of this. we are starting to think you had t the. 24 hours later, the bowe bergdahl news breaks. stuff is always happening. your question is a great one. do some people read into this

that this will knock the va scandal off the front page? some do. i equated it with an episode of homeland. >> you're not the first one. we all want to know what's in his head. there are a lot of unanswered questions. jeff talks about how we don't leave people on a battlefield. that's true. but did he leave himself on that battlefield is what i'm driving at. >> uh-huh. >> bergdahl has not been elected to congress yet. the parallels are not there. >> heavy stuff. >> i thought of it, too. >> coming up, apple, apple is making its annual big announcement. it happened moments ago. what's on tap for this year? we will tell you the new gadgets in store coming up next on cnn.

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they will have something called i cloud drive. it's essentially like drop box. they let you sync documents between apple devices. also something called mail drop. and brooke, i will say this is the thing that i thought was kind of cool. you can receive texts and calls on your mac. the ceo got on stage with his mac and called up dr. dre on stage and he said welcome to apple. it was a very cute moment. dr. dre responded by saying something along the lines of what time do i have to show up to work. and also as expected announced ios 8. those are interesting features as well.

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he managed to escape. >> can you give us any sort of glimpse into any part of what he may be feeling right now? >> he doesn't believe it's real. >> how long did that last for you? >> for the first several days, went on for weeks. a lot of people say oh my gosh, it's going to be so difficult to return. >> he says bergdahl likely found specific ways to manage and cope. that's what he did. >> he somehow, you know, created daily routines that kept him sane and gave him hope. i prayed a lot. i'm sure he did as well. >> u.s. officials had denied he was working for the government when he disappeared. news of the release has renewed

the family's optimism. >> we are ecstatic. at the same time we are also encouraged. it looks like the obama administration is taking the right steps and doing what is necessary to bring people who have served our country home. my father has served for almost t three decades. whatever needs to be done to bring him home should be done. >> dan remains worried about his father's health. >> declining health is one reason why u.s. officials say they moved swiftly to secure bergdahl's freedom when they got the opportunity. the sergeant has not been seen in photos since his release. >> this is going to affect him. people should realize that he's so thrilled to be home right now. it's so much better to be home than to still be going through this. it's hard to explain. i just had the same question asked to me all the time.

was it hard to come home? it was wonderful to come home. >> wonderful to come home. that's what you just heard david say. >> we have heard his parents speaking pubically about the need to give him the space and time to do that work. >> i'm also wondering, did david tell you he has been in touch with bergdahls? what did he say about theirry action? >> yeah, he has been in touch with them throughout their ordeal. he says he spoke to them soon after they learned about their son's release. at the same time he has been hearing from other americans. they are excited about the news but hopeful that it will mean something for their own loved ones. >> thank you so much for that interview. we appreciate that.

>> how did he pull this off? we will hear directly from him. plus i will speak live with the man who spent five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. he has a chilling perspective about what is going through bowe bergdahl's mind right now, how he may respond to his family when he finally gets to see them.

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all right. i know some of you are kind of over this but you may not be when you see the next picture. everyone is doing it. now the travel executive has taken the selfie to new heights. lee thompson took this on top of one of the seven wonders of the world. it took him about half an hour to climb to the tiptop of the nearly 125 foot landmark and lee thompson joins me live from london. and chad meyers is joining me as well. we have to say best selfie i

have ever seen. what were you thinking? >> that's amazing. >> what were you thinking and feeling as you snapped that photo? >> i was thinking i am the luckiest man alive. >> can you tell me how you climbed to the top? >> a storm damaged the statue recently. the spiral staircase. . it has got to be a tough climb. i guess i was extremely lucky to be allowed in there.

>> i don't think anybody understands how tall it is to get on top of another mountain. let me zoom in here. this is unbelievable. you're not only on top of this chrysler, but if you take a look at the rest of the topography, another 800 meters down below on the huge cliff. so you know this thing gets hit by lightning all the time, right? >> yeah. it's -- as far as statues go. >> i was just loving any minute

of it. no regrets at all. it has been absolutely fantastic. and the feed back afterwards, the picture going viral is just crazy. i didn't expect this. it's doing amazingly well for the business. >> you're too far away. yeah. pretty high up. >> i know just quickly, you had to, or maybe one of your friends had to get permission to be able to climb in that. how much convincing did it take? >> my friend and colleague managed to -- more importantly the church and the tourist board to let us go up and do this. it was all done above board, obviously. and this went on for about a month before we went there. probably took three or four days of convincing them when we were on the ground in brazil.

amazing they let us up there. >> what's next? >> well, if you think about this today, i'm not sure, there is a bigger christ statue in poland. maybe i will take that on. >> all right, lee thompson. thank you so much for joining me. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> and now we roll along with hour two. >> his liberation has turned into celebration in his hometown in idaho. a place that stood behind him as they struggled for nearly five years to bring the soldier back. in 2011, his father uploaded this youtube video speaking drek

directly to his son's captors and to bowe as well. >> i pray this video may be shown to our only son, bowe. i mess you, bowe. god bless you. we love you. we grieve in quiet in public but we haven't been quiet behind the scenes. continue to be patient. you are not forgotten. you are not forgotten. >> and how well those words ring true today. let's turn to nick who is live in idaho. nick, for years we have seen all of the yellow ribbons. in time they will be able to take them down and see the man himself.

you see signs and local businesses reading bowe is free at last. sort of the unofficial headquarters of that movement to keep this story out here. you see the owner chatting out here. that was bowe's boss. i spoke to her and asked her about bowe bergdahl and the man that he was before he deployed. take a listen to what she had to say about his character. >> i experienced bowe as a very deep thinker. he is extremely intelligent and i think those tools will come in very well played in this proc s process.

we joke about raising our kids on a long leash here. that creates a self-reliance that will come in to play as well for bowe. i'm not concerned. i think it will take time. but we going so far as to plant trees for every year that he is in captivity. there is a sign for palm 12:5. when bowe left to be deployed, he gave a bible to his father that was bookmarked to this scripture. it says i will shepherd you to safety and that has been the theme. >> here we are five years later and you talk about all the yellow ribbons, the sense of

celebration, yet there is also the critical tone coming out in recent days as well that, you know, bergdahl is seen as a desserter. how are those who know him, who love him, how are they responding to that? >> this is not a black and white issue and no one is black and white. this is a very gray issue. she wanted me to tell our viewers to be reminded how young bowe was when he deployed and how young he was when this whole incident unfolded. just 24 years old. that's an age where young men don't take responsibility for the consequences their actions might materialize into. by and large in this community, this community doesn't really pay attention to that criticism.

they are really focused on the fact that bowe bergdahl is finally free from taliban captivity and they hope he will come back here and begin to rehabilitate his life. >> thank you so much. it's a lot of gray here. bowe bergdahl getting a hero's welcome at home but many scorn him online. members of his platoon say he desserted them. others say the search for bergdahl led to the deaths of these soldiers who should be the ones labeled hero.

>> you have been speaking with soldiers who knew, who served with bergdahl. what's the story they are telling you? >> well, many of them are very upset at what they believe is a hero's welcome of bowe bergdahl. there seem to be two main reasons for that. one is they believed he desserted. he willingly on his own left the observation post. he was hold that that would be

trouble, would be a problem. so when he left, all he took with him was water and a compass and a knife. the army has not formally classified him as desserting. everyone i spoke with who served with him said they believe he left on his own. then as you noted, brooke, there was a very intense search, a rescue operation for bergdahl. the army basically tried to bring it off. during that time, the ensuing 90 days, six men died, many of them during attempts to find bowe bergdahl. there is a lot of resentment towards him for leaving and a lot towards him because of the men lost while looking for him. that said, a lot of people are happy that he is safe as well.

>> the resentment that you're hearing, how is it that these soldiers are even speaking to you? did they not commit? they signed a document saying they would not speak pubically on this. >> after he disappeared and after the rescue operation, soldiers were asked to sign a nda, which is rather unusual given that circumstance. some of them were talking to me on the record others were off the record. some of them were still in uniform so they don't want their names associated with this at all. >> i know you will be talking with a former army sergeant. we talk about the search looking

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>> after five years of captivity in afghanistan, do not except bowe bergdahl to return home to his family any time soon. expert steps say that bergdahl has steps to go through to re-enter society. he will need medical care, psychological support as he comes to terms with what he has been through. government and military officials need to debrief him for any useful intelligence. and he will need the support of his family and loved ones as he goes home.

he is also the author of leading with honor. a pleasure and honor to meet you. just so you were 24 when you were taken down, enemy fire. you were in multiple different camps for five plus years. however many years later we are here in 2014, what are your most vivid memories of that time? >> until i was captured, i was doing my training. there was fear and then there was a settling in. i have got to fall back on my training and commitments and live day to day. we would risk our lives to reach someone in solitary confinement and say we're with you, what's

your name, when did you get shot down? >> were you tortured? >> yes. 95% of pow's were tortured in vietnam at one time or another. i was a junior ranking guy so i faced that less often than senior people and senior leaders. >> how at the worst moments, how bad did it get. sometimes isolated and lonely, thinking about families. i was not married at the time. that was a big relief for me not to have wife and kids to worry about. the worst day was the first day i was tortured, laying on a filthy floor in leg irons and

leg cuffs. i had finally given in to do something. they wanted me to fill out a three-page biography. the only other thing i gave them that was true was my father's name and birth date. i felt like i was not strong enough to deny them what they wanted which was just for me to submit. i felt like i was the worst person to ever wear that uniform. everybody eventually gave you something. they wouldn't let you die. they could make you do something. you had to give them something sooner or later. we didn't give them what they wanted which was our cooperation. we fought it every day. >> you made it home? >> yes, yes. >> what was that first anytime in your own bed like? >> first of all, we flew to clark air base and spent two

days there in the hospital. not much sleep. we were like kids on a sugar high. did make a phone call home to mom and dad. then we flew back to the united states and john mccain and i were shot down and captured 11 days apart. so we came back on the same airplane. and then my parents were there to meet me. that was a really exciting service. >> it was exciting. i have read that you shut down. you shut down. emotionally, spiritually, mentally. except you're angry. right? here you have family members and loved ones coming with you. how did you know how to respond? >> i did shut down.

i couldn't get depressed about being there. except for anger. i think the last couple of years when it was more live and let live. it was more share the anger and get rid of the benefits because we wanted to get home healthy. we didn't shut down spiritually. it was emotionally. >> how long did it take you to finally be normal again? >> i'm not normal now. >> you're not normal now? truly? >> yes, we are. i don't know. that's hard to say. i know that we didn't think we had any problems. there was a lot of things that had gone downhill. good things had happened. we felt like we knew what we were doing because we had been

managing ourselves pretty tightly for a long time. very disciplined by that experience. they didn't have enough color tvs or a cb radio. we came home with an at constitute of gratitude. when i get in my bed, 41 years later since i came home, i am so thankful to have a warm bed at night. in the summertime to have a cool air-conditioned house and to have a good meal and refrigerator with food, we live in a wonderful country. >> do you ever have flash backs to this day? or is that done? >> i don't think i have flash backs. occasionally something will hit me emotionally. movies can go under your emotional radar and hit you. i have been able to get in touch with my emotions more than anything else. they slip up on you and all of the sudden i remember when i saw

gladiator the second time. she said honor this man, she was a roman soldier, i lost it. i thought of all of my buddies, and i was really able to grieve their loss. >> colonel, it is an honor to meet you. >> thank you. enjoyed being with you today. >> thank you. remember that scavenger hunt we told you about? a twitter feed giving clues? now someone has posted clues in another major city. might this be your town? we will talk about this ahead. plus do you recognize this face? donald sterling making a public appearance at a predominantly black church. some people doing a double take. their reaction to this vid oor is next.

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>> v. stiviano reportedly was attacked in new york city. her attorney tells cnn two men punched her in the face as she was leaving this hotel just yesterday. they then allegedly yelled racial slurs at her. the assault left her face red and swollen. she did not immediately file a police report but is expected to today.

>> and donald sterling seen attending a church that is predominantly african-american and he was invited by the pastor. >> we love all of god's children regardless of your race, creed, our color. and i want my friend to know we are praying for you. >> sterling stood with the praises of zion missionary baptist church. the pastor met sterling two weeks ago. sterling said he came to support what he calls this wonderful group but some of the members found it pretty tough to get behind this visit 100%. >> i did have mixed emotions on it because of what the news said, but again as i say in the way i was raised is once you a

child a god you have to learn to forgive everybody. >> i thought it was very interesting that he did come down. and hopefully he is very sorry for what he said. you know? i didn't particularly like what he said. we all need to think before we speak. >> and now to this mystery millionaire who is dumping loads of cold hard cash has apparently ignited a revolution. there are other hidden cash hunts sprouting up around other cities including dallas and chicago. the cash that is cropping up, this is not the same guy as san francisco? >> this started about two weeks

ago. he has given a few thousand away. people are copying him. and they are doing it all over the place at la, new orleans. chicago, new york. got the clue and found the cash. here is what she said when she found her cash. >> we can make a difference pay it forward and retweet. and there was also the pin wheel. and there was $60 inside. >> now this woman says she is going to pay it forward by paying for people's coffee tomorrow. everybody in front of her or in back of her. if you are in line with this woman you will get a free cup of coffee. a lot of people are having fun

with this looking for the cash, but there are wealthy people with money in their pockets that are also having fun so, wherever you live, go on to twitter and see if there is hidden cash to be found. if there is some to be find you might come up lucky. >> we talk about a lot of copy cat folks. thank you. coming up next, a u.s. soldier is freed in exchange for five prisoners from guantanamo bay. some republicans are outraged. they say president obama broke the law one of the big announcements could impact a whole lot of what you do inside your home. we will have a live report fwr

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>> bottom of the hour, you're watching cnn. just a short time ago at the white house, spokesman jay carney defended the trade for bowe bergdahl. he said the plan was carried out no with standing the notice requirement of mdaa.

that means sure enough they ignored part of a law that says they have to tell congress. a big debate about this. especially the notion of doing a swap with the enemy. >> i don't find that argument persuasive. we have that risk every single day in afghanistan and we deal with that risk. >> let's talk this over with our cross fire host ben jones. both joining me from washington d.c. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> let me begin with you. i want you to listen to this republican member of congress who was on this morning quizzed by cnn. >> do you think the obama administration broke the law? >> yes, it's fairly clear they broke the law.

>> republicans say he absolutely obama broke the law. the white house is saying it's more complicated than that. what do you think congress should do about this? >> they are very serious. >> within those 30 days as the law demands. what happened the day that bowe bergdahl desserted his post. a what assurances does the united states have for these detainees that were once so dangerous that they were -- that they are now suddenly safe enough to be released back into their theaters and we don't have to worry about them. these are not partisan questions.

they want answers to those questions toorks. >> do you want answers to some of those questions? >> this soldier is in good standing with the united states army. the idea that he is a desserter or traitor, there is an attempt to turn him into an unworthy american. the united states, we don't leave any soldiers behind. you might be a weirdo, you might have wanted off the base, but we don't leave anybody behind. the other thing is this is a tricky question. for democrats and republicans. there is a law here. the president did sign a signing statement saying he was not giving up his thord authority t the commander in chief.

israel has done prisoner swaps over and over and over again. i don't think anybody would accuse israel of aiding and abetting terrorism. >> israelis absolutely trade prisoners. they traded more than 1,000 people they had held in exchange for a single israeli soldier. we also know that reagan sold weapons to iran to release the 12 americans sold in lebanon. are we being naive if we say this kind of thing doesn't happen? >> the president of the united states had the opportunity to bring the last soldier, the last captive home. we will lit kate if it's a right thing or a wrong thing.

>> one of the narratives as we have discussed, the white house broke the law, b, made a really bad deal. but it can't be that simple, can it? >> it's a pretty bad deal. in 2008, these detainees were warranted to be way too dangerous to ever be released. congress was bipartisan to opposition of releasing any prisoners. now suddenly we have abandoned all of that opposition and common good sense for what might be a political strategy to curry good will and good favor. that we do not negotiate with terrorists.

>> taking the way back. thanks to both of you. we will consider that a little preview. when we watch you debate this and more on cross fire. thanks to both of you. coming up necxt, who are the detainees? who are these people from guantanamo bay and why were they in gitmo in the first place? we will take a look at each of them. you have to watch this young man's story.

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segment, bergdahl has ignited a fire storm of debate. we have video of this. the men will spend the next year and includes a list of pretty heavy hitters within a taliban. the chief of staff among this group, the big question, do the released prisoners pose a threat? >> secretary made the determination that this transfer was in the national interest. he has made this very clear that he would have never signed that order. he would never have done that if he didn't believe he had the appropriate assurances that these individuals were not going to pose a direct threat to the national security of the united states. >> each and every one of them

will spend the next year under qutar. >> these photographs posted by a taliban spokesman reportedly show the five detainees arriving. they had been held for more than a decade after being captured during the invasion that ended taliban rule. alleged to have been associated by osama bin laden. this was the afghan army's chief of staff. the u.n. accused him of being in the massacre of thousands of shiates. next was governor of two afghan provinces but always claimed he was not a senior taliban official. and finally there is the last

prisoner who also had linked to al qaeda. all five had been assessed as too dangerous to release. >> i don't think anyone has any illusions about these five members and what they might do if they were transferred. >> cnn. >> coming up next, apple makes a much anticipated announcement today. it includes everything from your home to your health. we will take you live to san francisco next. she keeps you on your toes.

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>> you might as well call this the app convention. this is the conference, the convention for all of these brilliant application developers coming together to hear the latest updates from apple. sometimes, brooke, the software can be just as important if not more important than that $700 new device. so today was all about soft wear. the first thing is the seamless integration between your eye devices and your computer. one example that caught my eye is that if your phone is ringing your mac will also ring. you can answer your phone on your mac, you don't have to go across the room and pick up your iphone. family sharing, this was an

easier way to track your kids. now, some teenagers may not like this. i think parents may appreciate this. the ability to track your kids wherever they are. the third thing is this health kit this may be a precursor to the rumored iwatch probably coming later in the fall. the ability to track the blood pressure, the ability to track your heartbeat. things of that nature is going to work with third party devices. we are expecting apple to come out with their own version of this later in the year. and finally, brooke, i'm saving the best for last. this is the new home kit. the ability to control all the things -- yeah, the ability to control your lights, your garage door, your locks. all of that can be controlled directly from your phone. this is what craig

>> in addition to being able to control individual devices in your home, with home kit you can group devices and changes into scenes and then with siri integration, you can say something like, get ready for bed and be assured that your garage door is closed, your door is locked, thermostat is lowered and lights are dimmed. that's homekit. >> reporter: now, i don't know about you, brooke, but i'm okay with getting off the couch and turning off the lights. >> i feel like i'm going to need to have a better relationship with siri. we are not very close. i'm still old school like typing away. maybe siri and i will get to know each other better. it sounds kind of impressive. >> reporter: well, it is impressive. i think this would come in handy, say, if you're on the road and you want to turn off the lights, you forgot something

was on, the oven is on, you can control it right from your phone. clearly apple is banking with the future on this and they've signed up the various hardware makers, people who make your oven, refrigerator, all of that is going to be integrated directly with your phone. >> but can it bring me coffee in bed? i don't think it can. dan simon in san francisco, thank you. appreciate it. 31 days under the sea. that is how long fabien cousteau will be under water. they drove to the laboratory off the coast of florida yesterday. the lab is called aquarius and the mission is called mission 31. this will be one day longer than his grandfather, perhaps you've

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lovely in mind but she did say on her facebook page that regardless of the situation or purpose, people just have something negative to say. what do you think? i'm always online. i'm always on twitter. send me a tweet. you like it, you hate it, you don't care. let's move on. griffin furlong has three words written on his baseball cap and it says "never give up" and he never did. he's set to graduate val di valedictori valedictorian of his high school. he lived most of his young life in foster homes after his mother passed away from leukemia. he bounced around for years sometimes not knowing what they would eat or sleep. i asked him what inspired him to keep going. >> between the ages of like 6 to

9, like we were everywhere. we didn't really have a permanent home. we were temporary. we lived in two homeless shelters. we tried to find hotels. nothing was permanent. everything was just temporary. we had to find places to stay and stuff like that. >> so through that time, i'm assuming you still went to school. how did you explain to your friends when they wanted to come over for the afternoon, that you didn't necessarily have a home to come home to? >> i couldn't. it was -- it was hard. especially in fifth grade i felt isolated. i felt like i didn't really have any friends. the friends that i used to have growing up, they just kind of became, you know, just a shadow. i became almost a shadow to them. >> so, mr. 4.6 gpa, what changed? >> i knew that i had to make a change for the good. i was tired of seeing kids getting everything handed to

them, like their parents just want to go buy them cars, new phones, a computer and all of that, you know, and i just wanted to be better than everyone. i wanted to show that anyone can do it, i stuck to it, and it all worked out. sixth grade was the first time i made all "a"s and i liked the feeling. it kind of just kept going on and on. i'm here today valedictorian. it's really special. >> do you have any idea, griffin, post college what you'd like to do with your life? >> i never want to live the life i used to live. i want to be happy. i felt like i've lost many things in my childhood and i just want to be happy in life. >> happy in life. simple enough. griffin furlong, you go. go fund me page was set up for griffin. last check, they had raised more than $66,000 in honor of this

young man. he graduates on wednesday. thank you so much for joining me. i'm brooke baldwin here at the world headquarters of cnn in atlanta. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. the soldier believed to have been the only american p.o.w. in afghanistan is finally coming home but not everybody is celebrating. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. five members of the taliban released from gitmo. some say they put the going rate on the heads of soldiers. and why some of his comrades say he wasn't worth it. the fbi is anxious to find this man and they need your help. the politics lead. you know the zip code, the stars who live there but did you know there's a political battle going on in beverly hills that is as insane as