is i think the public safety. people need to know that. >> thanks to bill richardson and frank gaffney. the debate continues online at cnn.com/crossfire. from the left i'm stephanie cutter. >> from the right, i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. next breaking news, white house officials have just finished briefing the senate on the controversial deal that freed sergeant bowe bergdahl. a top republican senator who was just in that closed door meeting "outfront." plus two 12-year-old girls allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times, and police say a fictional character called slenderman was the inspiration. and president obama, he is just like us. the commander in chief's workout routine actually caught on tape. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett.

tonight we begin with the breaking news. at this moment, top white house officials just finishing briefing the senate. it was a closed door briefing on the prisoner swap in which bowe bergdahl gained his freedom. officials from the state department, the defense department, and national intelligence were all present. and we're going to hear from one top republican who was at this briefing in just a moment. but first, there are major developments in the case today. first of all, we got the images of the handover. these are the first ones we've seen. the moment bergdahl's taliban captors turned him over to special forces. that video released today by the taliban. u.s. officials say they're reviewing the video. we're going to go through it frame by frame, coming up. you're going to hear what they said and be able to watch this go down. it's pretty stunning video. also today, new details from the army official investigation into bergdahl's disappearance. bergdahl's commanders referred to him as a good soldier. other soldiers, though, say bergdahl wandered off his post on previous occasions. we're going to have more on that. but first, we start with republican senator susan

collins, a member of the senate negligence committee. wonderful to have you with us. you just left that classified bri briefing. what is the headline? >> to me what is most concerning is that everyone agrees that the five taliban detainees that were released are extremely dangerous. and after their one-year confinement in qatar is over, they can go wherever they want. their return is also being celebrated by the taliban in afghanistan. and each one of these men have horrendous records that really make me question the decision to release them. >> so -- and this is something that you're saying everybody agreed to, meaning the administration officials that briefed you, they all acknowledged, you're saying, that these men are a risk to the united states? >> they all acknowledged that at

least four out of five, and in some cases the judgment is all five of these taliban detainees are extremely dangerous, and that they pose a threat in the very to our country. the likelihood based on all of the briefs and evidence that i have seen as a member of the intelligence committee and in the press reports and the briefing today indicates that a very high likelihood that these men will return to the fight. and that is very disturbing. >> senator, what did they tell you then, then when you asked why that was worth it? if they're acknowledging that there is a very real risk that they take seriously that they think these men will try to strike america, why was it worth it? >> the focus that the administration has had is on the return of sergeant bergdahl.

and it's very interesting to me that they would be willing to release five extraordinarily dangerous taliban members in exchange for this soldier who apparently left his post. we don't know all the details. >> right, we don't. >> and i want to make sure that he gets due process from the army. but that certainly appears to be what happened. >> you know, it's interesting, though, because democrats are accusing your party of playing politics. you know, harry reid said the gop is very worried of bergdahl's release be seen, quote, as a victory for president obama. and there has been some real flip-flopping going on, senator. memorial day, kelly ayotte wrote an op-ed that i renew my call on the defense department to dedouble its efforts to find sergeant bergdahl and return him safely. and a couple of days ago once he was released, she said the administration's decision to release these five terrorist detainees endanger national security interests, obviously

completely switching. senator inhofe had written it's important we make ever effort to bring the senator home to his family. now he is saying the president did this just in an effort to try to close gitmo. this does sound political when you have people saying do whatever it take, criticizing the president. and then when he does it, they criticize him for doing it. >> well, i can't speak for the statements of my colleagues. all i can tell you is what i think. and that is that the evidence is overwhelming and uncontested that these taliban detainees pose a threat to our country and are very likely to return to the fight. and disturbs me, regardless of what the facts turn out to be about the sergeant, the sergeant leaving his post, the fact remains that these detainees have been judged to be extremely dangerous and very likely to return to the fight.

and i think that should concern all of us. >> but if the reality is, though, that republicans wanted this soldier freed, and it was going to come with a price. i mean, guantanamo bay is sitting there. it's hard to imagine there would be any deal that didn't involve a prisoner swap. of course your committee had heard than possibility for a long time. even though of course they did not observe the window of 30 days in terms of telling you. is it fair to say you thought there would be a prisoner swap at some point to get this guy back? >> no, not in my case. i joined the intelligence committee just this year. i do know that there was bipartisan opposition to the concept of the swap when the administration did brief the previous members of the intelligence committee a couple of years ago about this possibility. but it's hard for me. i'm not saying that we don't

want our soldiers back, regardless of the consequences of their leaving. those consequences can be dealt with once they are back. but what i am saying is it's very difficult for me to understand a trade that results in the release of such dangerous people. they're out to get us. and that has been the assessment right from the beginning by the intelligence community. >> so you would have point-blank said no to this deal had the president asked? >> i would have, yes. >> all right. and before we go, one question on the video that has come out. you know, they are saying that sergeant bergdahl was very sick. that's why they had to move so quickly and couldn't observe the 30-day period of notifying you in congress that they wanted to do this. you have got to see the proof of life videos in which they saw that he was very ill and had to move quickly. what did you see? >> i saw an individual who

looked like he had been drugged. i did not -- it was very difficult to judge his medical condition. i'm not a physician. i have asked whether there is any evidence that he has a serious illness or was about to be killed. and i have not received such evidence. but a lot of that takes place in a classified session. and i can't really go into the details of that. >> all right. well, thank you very much for sharing all the details you did. and, of course, that's senator collins being very direct. she would not have done this deal. joining me now is democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. great to have you with us. >> thank you, erin. >> you just heard senator collins, she would not do this deal that she said five of the administration officials who testified today, they all said that these taliban members would want to come back and threaten the united states. was this a bad deal?

>> well, what shocks me is that we just heard from a united states senator. as much respect as i have for senator collins, for a united states senator to suggest that we should leave a member of our armed forces who was in the midst of an armed conflict, regardless of the circumstances that he will likely be tried for and considered innocent until proven guilty later, that she would leave a soldier in an armed conflict behind when we had intelligence from everything that i understand, erin, that he was -- this was our last best opportunity. that he was potentially on death's door. you know, looking at grainy video is not a way for us to determine that. but from everything i understand, this was our last best opportunity. and throughout the entirety of our military history, we do not leave our military behind.

when we have captives we do everything we can to bring them home. and we had the highest levels of our military serving now who also said, you know, general dempsey said we don't leave anyone behind, regardless of the circumstances. we should all be unified around that. >> so, i'm curious. republican senator lindsey graham raised something in terms of the terms of the deal that i thought was very interesting. he said the president didn't want to get a better deal on the bergdahl exchange. here is exactly how the senator said that. >> if it's not the best deal we could have gotten, it's the deal they wanted. i don't think there was any real effort, would you just take one, would you just take two? i don't think they fought very hard no not release five because they're looking for ways to get rid of these people. >> could the president have gotten a better deal, congresswoman? >> come on, i mean we are grasping at straws now. is that what -- is that what the republicans are resorting to

now? we're going to nitpick over the number of prisoners we exchanged? we have throughout the tenure of many republican and democratic presidents, including george w. bush, including president nixon, president george w. bush released 500 detainees from guantanamo. so we should not be secondguessing the administration when they have intelligence available to them and military advice. and the last best opportunity, as we are actually winding down our involvement in afghanistan, the bottom line is we don't leave our soldiers behind. we deal with the situation behind his finding himself captive later and we bring him home. >> earlier today i spoke with a former administration official who said look, maybe they did what they had to do. wasn't talking about the terms of the deal itself, but was saying, what was the president fully informed what was happening. why, given the controversy that was likely to ensue, given the controversy around the circumstances of his leaving that night, why have a ceremony

in the rose garden? why put the president of the united states with the family or the president's face next to a prisoner swap? do you think the rose garden ceremony was a mistake? >> i think we eare really putting the details under a microscope that are -- that pale in comparison in terms of their importance than the fact that we brought one of our own home. that's the bottom line. and it's so disingenuous when you have many senators and a number of house members who were previously pressing the administration, erin, to do all that they could to bring bowe bergdahl home. and when barack obama does that, now of course he didn't do it right. he should have brought one, not five. he should have not had a ceremony in the rose garden. president obama stood with bowe bergdahl's parents, with a mom and a dad who were thrilled to have their son home. and america should be glad to

have one of our own home. we will deal with and the military has a long history of dealing with the situation that he is accused of. i have no doubt about that. but to suggest that we're going to nitpick the president of the united states as commander in chief, bringing one of our own home and standing with his parents to celebrate that fact that we were successful and to celebrate our soldiers to help bring him home is really utterly ridiculous. it's offensive. >> thank you very much, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. >> thank you. "outfront" next, the taliban releasing the video. we were just talking about this. this is the moment sergeant bowe bergdahl was freed. we're going to break it down, frame by frame so you can see it, you can zoom in, you can hear what they said. plus, the military's unwritten rule. you just heard the senator and the congressman refer to, this no man left behind. why many now are questioning that motto. and president obama's workout routine, separate from

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the u.s. helicopter lands. he is there in the pickup truck. and then what happens is a helicopter actually lands. and you'll see american troops come face-to-face with the heavily armed fighters. jim sciutto is "outfront." you're going to now watch this frame by frame. >> reporter: the riveting eight-minute taliban propaganda video contains intriguing clues about sergeant bowe bergdahl, his taliban captors, and his american rescuers. a thin, aging bergdahl blinks repeatedly while seated in the pickup truck, and again as he stands looking at the approaching american helicopter. signs his eyes were unused to natural light or signs of emotion. at one moment bergdahl manages a brief awkward smile, evidence of happiness or nervousness. one taps him three times on the shoulder and says don't come back to afghanistan. next time you won't make it out alive. an ominous threat and sign of

fear between captor and captive. a taliban narrater sets the scene. >> we waited in the area for around ten minutes before the helicopters arrived. and there were 18 mujahedeen fighters with me in the area. and we had armed mujahedeen on the peaks of the hills around the area. >> reporter: and he is carrying a white plastic bag, the contents unknown. then the unprecedented face-to-face meeting between u.s. special forces and the taliban fighters. handshakes. an american places his left arm across his chest, an afghan sign of respect. another quickly frisks bergdahl. the taliban narrater recounts what he claims they said to each other. >> they first asked us about the health condition of the captive and told us to tell them the truth if he was not well. but we saw that he was fine and told them that. >> reporter: the soldiers wave,

one keeping his eyes locked on the taliban, even as he walks backwards. bergdahl keeps his eyes focused straight ahead. he is stumbling. the legs of a man repeatedly shackled, or just a nervous walk across rocky terrain. at the hilo, bergdahl is patted down once again, this time more thoroughly, a precaution against a bomb or booby-trap before the black hawk helicopter disappears into the sky. this propaganda video all about sending messages. and one former special forces commander told us that even shaving bergdahl's head may have been an attempt to make him look feminine, subservient to the taliban. the taliban attempting to use these images and the prisoner exchange as a momentum they stood up to the u.s. and came out ahead. that's the message, at least, erin. and as always with these things, they're look for any advantage. i'm told there were so many people downloading this video from the taliban website that it actually crashed their servers, a sign that maybe this

propaganda is having some success. >> wow, they have servers. thank you very much, jim sciutto. "outfront" tonight seth jones, a former senior adviser of the u.s. special forces operations in afghanistan. roy hallums, an american contractor who was kidnapped in iraq in 2004, spent nearly a year in captivity. was it the blinking? could it have been he didn't see light? the stumbling? could it have been because he was shackle order nervous. cade, what did you see? >> i was amazed they even let him take one step closer to the helicopter without doing a complete search, including the bag. >> you mean the special operations forces? sorry, the special operations forced when they searched him? >> absolutely. >> wow. >> should it have been the very first thing that was done. he was walking towards the helicopter with a bag. again, i wasn't there. but what i've seen, that was a tactical mistake. it was huge. >> what do you see when you look

at this, seth? >> i think what stands out to me is the fact they had a camera waiting to film this whole thing. they were clearly prepared to put out information on websites. mullah omar had a statement ready. they had video in qatar when these guys landed, the five individuals. and they had video ready pour the handover. this was part of a much broader effort of propaganda, that they were really ready to take advantage of. >> which may perhaps explain why the president went ahead and made a big deal of it too. you knew the other side was going to. so you want to go with your best foot forward. roy, when you see this video, it's got to bring back memories. looking at the moments how he was stumbling, how his eyes kept repeatedly blinking. what does it make you think happened to him? >> it reminded me a great deal of my rescue. in my case, the helicopter had to land about 50 yards from the house i was being held in. and because my feet had been

tied every day, i couldn't walk out to the helicopter. >> had to have two of the special forces people help me out. and they gave me sunglasses because the room i was in was just totally dark all the time. >> wow. so when you see that, you think, i mean, he could have been walking because he had been shackled? or stumbling as he looked. >> that's the way it was in my case. he was similar. i don't know for sure exactly what his case was. but in mine, because my muscles had become so weak from being tied, i had to have somebody help me out to the helicopter. >> and cade, you know, the taliban makes it clear that they wanted to get out of there. they also say of course don't come back to afghanistan, because you won't make it out next time. that pretty much does set up -- obviously, it could just be a propaganda video, so who know what's the relationship was like. but it certainly doesn't sound like he had at this point wanted to be with them or anything like

that. >> well, i'm sure he didn't want to be in that situation. but he put himself in that situation potentially when he decided to desert his unit. so when you're going down range in a military unit, the one thing that helps you do your job is you know no matter what situation you find yourself in, everybody will be there to help get you out of it, no matter what. until you decide to desert your unit. it's the same as deserting your country. then that ability for us to go do what we need to do is gone. >> right. of course i want to emphasize we don't know the circumstances. and they're going to be looking into that. i think there is no question there will be an investigation on that. seth, what about that one moment in the video which jim sciutto was reporting, the moment where he smiled at his captor. what do you see when you see that smile? what do you read into that? >> well, it's hard to know. but i suspect the prospect that he may have felt that he was coming home and he was leaving. the end of his five years in

captivity, and, you know, the prospects that he would be coming back to his family, that may have been going through his mind. it's gone through many of the mind of people i have spoken to in that exact same position. >> and what about, seth, the issue here that the administration is saying the reason they did this deal and they did it now is because they thought that he was on death's door. this was their last chance. does this look like a man on death's door to you? >> well, again, it doesn't look like it from here. but we should be able to determine that pretty quickly. he is in germany now. he'll be coming home. we'll have a sense from doctors that examined him. was he actually in bad shape? if not, then there is a problem with the administration's argument. >> and roy, when you look at that, when you're talking about how the special forces had to help carry you because you were unable to walk, when you see him moving here and walking on his own, you know, what does that make you think? >> well, i mean, he is obviously strong enough to walk. what other problems he might have, i don't know.

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we are just learning that the hometown celebration for sergeant bowe bergdahl has been canceled. the organizers say they're calling off the event in the interest of public safety. also tonight new details on the investigation into bergdahl's disappearance. a u.s. official briefed on the army's initial report tells cnn bergdahl left his post on other occasions. berle dall's commanders did refer to him, quote, as a good soldier. and some colleagues thought he was bored, his unit was too passive. the version is still out whether he was a captive or a deserter. the unwritten rule leave no soldier behind, whether they deserted or not. tom foreman is "outfront." >> reporter: many of the most heroic moments in military history involve american troops rescuering their own. the movie "black hawk down" was about a real battle in somalia to save helicopter crews after they were shot from the sky.

central to such efforts, a military touchstone found in the army ranger creed, he will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy. >> it's often unspoken. i don't know that it's written or codified. but if you're taken captive, we're going to do all we can to get you back. >> reporter: that commitment has led to amazing moments such as the special forces rescue of private jessica lynch, captured in iraq. >> and he told me we're american soldiers, and we're here to take you home. and i looked at him and i said yes, i'm an american soldier too. >> reporter: the goal of rescues the fallen can undeniably be complicated by circumstances and costs. in the blackhawk down case, the battle to save troops cost 18 american lives and hundreds of somalis died too. so while bergdahl's fellow soldiers roundly agree he deserved rescue -- >> of course, he needs to be saved. he is an american soldier. we never leave anybody behind. >> reporter: they also want accountability, saying it

appears he was not abducted but simply walked off. and according to fellow soldiers, at least a half dozen of their comrades were killed trying to find him. the pentagon is not officially linked those deaths to the missing soldier, nor has he been charged with any crime. however -- >> the army will conduct a comprehensive review of all the circumstances regarding sergeant bergdahl's disappearance. and i think i would leave it there. >> reporter: and there are serious questions about whether bergdahl was trying to connect with the taliban. if that's true, if he willingly joined the enemy, that would likely nullify any responsibility of his fellow soldiers to bring him home. but even that gets tricky in a war like afghanistan, where alliances are murky, battle lines are vague, and a soldier can disappear in a cloud of questions. tom foreman, cnn, washington. "outfront" tonight matthew

farwell who contributed to the report on bergdahl's disappearance, also a veteran and served in the same area of afghanistan as bergdahl. also a reporter embedded with the u.s. troops in afghanistan. best-selling author recently of "the most faithful spy." great to have both of you with us. alex, the u.s. military has this motto, right, leave no soldier behind. and you just heard tom's reporting. in this case, was it the right thing to do? is there ever a case where it isn't? >> no, i don't think there is ever a case where it isn't right to do. maybe we don't know for sure. it certainly looks like he is on the deserter side of that chasm. but that doesn't mean you don't go get him. among other things, until you get him you don't know whether or not he is a deserter. he should be subject to our justice system, not the taliban's justice system. so anybody who says he was not worth getting, i don't buy that. anybody who says we shouldn't

have traded taliban commanders for him, i think that's a total misreading of what the situation in afghanistan is right now. the taliban are a legitimate political force, and we're going to be dealing with them whether we like it or not that does not mean that the white house handled this well at all. they've been incompetent from the minute that president obama stepped into the rose garden with bergdahl's parents. >> so let me ask you. the new reporting today, the u.s. official comes out and says that bergdahl was a good soldier. now, it doesn't go against the army report that says they think he walked off the base. but nonetheless, a good soldier. does that square with what you heard and saw on the ground when you were reporting the piece? >> yeah, that's actually older reporting. the guys we spoke to in his unit said he sat on his cot reading russian, you know, manuals from the war in afghanistan prior. he studied his weapons like no other. he was mr. intensity, as his old platoon called him. but he was an odd duck within the platoon.

he didn't go out to the strip clubs with them. he didn't really hang and do the thing. and he didn't gel so well with the platoon. >> so a good soldier makes sense to you. it doesn't fly in the face of him walking off the base. >> absolutely not. >> all right. alex, let's talk thank issue of desertion. it's going to become crucial. in your op-ed you actually define it, okay. and that is a soldier commits desertion if he quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or shirk important service. that's a pretty low bar in a certain sense, because some people say he went awol. this is not saying you hate america. this is not that kind of a bar. this is just you don't want to do it anymore. >> the difference between desertion and being absent without leave, soldiers absent without leave in the military's judgment intends to come back. a soldier who has deserted does not intend to come back. >> okay. >> ultimately, if he is charged -- first of all, he needs to be found competent there is an argument to me that walking off your base in afghanistan with no weapon is so

close to suicidal as to be, you know, evidence of mental illness on its face. but let's say he is found competent. >> okay. >> and let's say the pentagon decides that he should be charged and they go forward. and this obviously, we're looking several steps ahead, he could be found guilty of desertion. he could be found guilty of absence without leave. the penalty in wartime goes as high as death. >> well, they're not going to go for that. >> no, exactly. there hasn't been an american soldier put to death for desertion since 1942. so we are a long way from all of that. but it's clear. you know, it's your piece really was the first major piece to say this in 2012. he did not want to be there. >> clearly, yeah. >> you're the one, you had the e-mails that he had sent, all of the evidence that you put together. and you talked to members of his platoon, to all of the people he had served with. >> well, not all of them. >> most of them. and a lot of them have been speaking in the past couple of days since this news happened. i just want to play a very quick snap so the viewers can understand. these guys are very, very much

on the same page what they think happened. >> bergdahl is a deserter, and he is not a hero. and that he needs to answer for what he did. >> there is not a doubt in my mind that he deserted us. >> the truth is that he did desert. >> me and a lot of other people think that it was pretty planned. it wasn't just a spur of the moment thing. he was planning it out, and then made it happen. >> the thing is now some people are trying to take away the credibility of these guys. they're saying well, look, they're being repped by republican strategists. that is who is coordinating them and getting them out in the media. okay, that's true. but does that mean what they say there isn't what they think? >> no, absolutely not. and look, the really important thing with these guys is they've had a gag order put on them, you know, a nondisclosure agreement, a blanket nondisclosure for 3500 american soldiers coming back from afghanistan to just shut up about this. not talk about it. and they've held that in for five years. can you imagine that?

i came back from the war, and i was traumatized. >> they are very intense about it. >> now they can finally just release it. >> the level of fury is, you can see it on them. >> that's a good word to use. you feel it. you feel the intensity and the sort of why are you even asking this question. >> we felt it talking to them. these guys, the ones that were brave enough to come and talk to us two years ago when they could have faced sanctions. >> right. >> were still furious. >> so before -- i just want to play this video one more time, the video that the taliban released, which obviously is a propaganda video of the whole release when he drives up in the car, the helicopter comes, gets out, walks over, stumbles, keeps blinking with his eyes. what do you see when you see this video? what stands out to you, matt? >> really, the professionalism of the exfiltration team is fantastic. i mean, those guys are on the ball. they're gutsy as hell. they know what they're doing. and they flew in with -- >> risking their lives. >> with one black hawk. and guys with rpgs standing on

the ridgeside. those guys, they have stones. >> those guys are heroes? >> yes. >> what about you? >> i question the narrative that the white house has put out that they couldn't have waited 30 days more, that they couldn't have notified congress. when i look at that, bergdahl certainly seems scared, as you can understand. >> but not on death's door. >> he does not seem on death's door. he walks, essentially unaided. i don't see a guy who if we didn't get him out in 30 -- you know, imminently he was going to die. >> but we could have gotten him out two years ago with the exact same terms. so putting a 30-day window on it, i'm just happy he is home. i'm happy for his parents. they're great people. they're great americans. but they're finally going to get reunited with their kids, which they deserve. >> you have credibility here. >> right. >> do you think he should be investigated or tried for desertion? >> you know, i have -- i think the circumstances should be

investigated. i think he should be evaluated, given the best treatment possible, given the best care possible. he is going to have a hell of a reintegration process. his family is as well. and i think we should defer judgment on that until we know really what happened and what we should go on and do about it. >> if we ever know. >> which we might not. >> thank you both very much. and still to come, two 12-year-old girls allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times to impress a fictional character. the story is stunning, and gets even more so with the developments tonight. and during the cold war, secret underground bunker was built to protect u.s. leaders. no one knew about it for 30 years. tonight we're going to take you inside. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts,

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on children has taken on a life of its own, with thousands of pictures, videos and stories posted online. a virtual world, those obsessed with the macabre can access. but 12-year-olds making the leap from fiction to reality? what affect does this have on students in general? >> students and parents, there is a certain amount of fear. are things going to be okay? are students safe? and i can tell you we do have a very safe school. >> reporter: gray, who oversees the school the victim and her alleged perpetrators attend say some parents have kept their kids home. other parents have sought counseling in at the school in dealing with the emotion of the three young classmates involved in such a tragic and frightful incident. >> i have never witnessed anything like this in my 30 years of administration. this is the most horrific thing i've had to deal with. >> reporter: the school has now for now banned the creepy pasta website, from all its computers and ipads pending a review. it's also urging parents to

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president obama caught on camera working out in a hotel gym in warsaw, poland. he is just like us. oh, that is right, i don't actually go to the gym when i'm working, the videos show the president clearly getting into his workout, lifting weights. by the way we're told he is doing an intense cardio with those weights, doing squats. and other politicians, of course arnold have been snapped working

out. it is very rare to get an up-close and personal workout of the president getting fit. brings us to the time that president reagan said he spent warming up before he worked out. he described the presidential plan which included free weights, machines, and a leg lift as well as outdoor pursuits like horseback riding and chopping wood. "ac360" starts now. good evening, thank you for joining us. there is breaking news tonight on the bergdahl controversy, including revelations from a col closed-door meeting on capitol hill. it showed videos on his declining health. as always, our focus first is on the facts and there are plenty of new facts we have learned tonight. new information about the kind of soldier bowe bergdahl was before he vanished. there is also this, th