>> aka, the biker dudes and dudettes. when you rode into hailey that day and conveyed that we were not alone, that was really good for our souls. and we'll never be able to thank you enough. just amazing. and your day will come when we can do that for bowe as well, but we're just all going to have to be patient. so beginning with that group that day, the people in hailey, river valley, you know, the little town in idaho that was suddenly on the map, and then expanding from that in magic valley and treasure valley and all of idaho.

just amazing. and we're so much like afghanistan. i wish i could write a book about that. our character is a lot alike. the mountains, the desert environment, breeds tough people, people who know how to farm here and make a living. and it's hard. but it makes you tough, and if it doesn't kill you, it makes you tougher. and we're just so appreciative of people in idaho, and then throughout america. huge support. and bowe's actually got millions of people around the world who are supporting him. my twitter friends, my intelligence network, my analysis network, my language

specialists, the people who fed me stuff i would otherwise miss, i hope i get to meet some of you. it's a virtual community, but it was so important to me. it kept me informed on stuff beyond my wildest dreams once the start kicked in, so thank you. i don't want to go into the big thank yous of, you know, every agency and department of the american government. we have tried to do that in the appropriate places. but you, as the american people, should know that should this ever happen to you, you will see parts of your government that you never knew were there. and you'll be so thankful for people like doc poppin' and the

people that come to your sides. particularly for our family, major kevin hickey in the middle here, who is our casualty assistance officer, basically, our right arm. our travel agent, our personal secretary, our personal anti-bureaucrat machine, the officer that had the skills and capabilities to take on what we called the colossus eventually, because we were just overwhelmed with the scope of this, and the longer it went, the harder it got. so major hickey, i don't know what we would have done without you. colonel mark sawno came to our side and helped us understand what was happening in the media

and how news cycles worked, and just gave us an understanding of what to do. you don't know what to do. you're overwhelmed. so colonel, thank you. the idaho national guard. the facilities that we had to travel to for secure briefings and the fact that you were there and so graciously willing to he help, being led by governor otter at the top and general sailor, they're here, right? thanks, guys. i mean, we felt like we were family.

and we didn't have to travel to washington every time we needed a briefing because we could come here. governor butch otter and lori, personal support there was off the top coming from the governor's office. they were there, and we knew they were there, and we knew that if we needed anything, they would continue to be there. it was unwaivering support. now, i want to talk about the future. starting right now. so the recovery and reintegration of bowe bergdahl is a work in progress. i want to really convey that because it isn't over for us. in many ways, it's just beginning, for jani and oi and our family.

there's a long process here. so i'm asking our friends and our community and the media to be patient and to be respectful. please recognize that we are still on a mission. we're still on recovery mode ourselves, let alone concern about how bowe is going to come back and what we need to work on. reintegration after this long must be carefully planned. much of it is dependent on our family being unrestricted and focused on bowe's recovery. some day, some day, there will be a time for interviews and books and whatever. i have a lot to say about this. i know bowe is going to have a lot to say about this.

but that's -- that's still a distant future thing. and i won't let things get in the way of that recovery. that's about all we wanted to say. i've seen some of your questions from the media. once we go down that road, you know, we might as well have a two-hour press conference, but we're going to move on to the next phase. we're going to go get some sleep. we're going to rally our family. and we're going to check with our people and we're going to do the next step of the phase. so this is the way it's done. there's nothing wrong here. this is the way it works. and we appreciate you being here. we appreciate being back in

idaho, and we look forward to more interaction in the future. so thank you very much. [ applause ] >> and you've been listening to some very powerful remarks from the parents of sergeant bowe bergdahl, last there at the podium was his father, bob bergdahl, saying very, many thanks to many people, but directly speaking to his son at one point saying how much he's proud of him, how much you wanted to help the afghan people, he's saying to his son, and how willing you were to go to help them. at one point, mr. bergdahl did become emotional. he was -- it was a very roller coaster ride for them, as you can imagine. that will continue. i'm going to get to general scales in a moment, but let me continue with the recap. there's a point where there was laughter. they're referring to some of the

people who helped out as biker dudes and dudettes. before the father took the podium, i wanted to point out some of the remarks from the mother, jani bergdahl. she was there, speaking like a mother, coming out of the gate with tears, telling her son, i love you, bowe, i'm so very proud of you. she said she wants to give him a bear hug, never wanting to let you go. she's saying he came from a strong tribe and he's even stronger now. again, as you can imagine, this family has gone through a major ordeal, and there's so much more to come. that's where i want to bring in major general bob scales, fox news military analyst right now. thank as lot for being here with me. i want to talk about that, want to talk about the future. i want to talk about recovery and reintegration. if you could explain to us what that would be like for sergeant bergdahl himself, and then we'll get to what the family will have to deal with. >> yeah, we have a lot of evidence about this from our returning prisoners of war in

vietnam, and it ran the gamut. the nation spent years trying to bring some of these officers back to a normal life. most of them were reintegrated into society. we have a serving senator who spent six and a half years at the hanoi hilton. i guess my concern with sergeant bergdahl is unlike our vietnam p.o.w.s, this poor man was all alone in an alien environment, literally locked away 24/7, with some of the mostbolically evil people on the planet, the taliban. so his experience, i think, will be unique. probably more troubling and a huge test of his character to have spent five and a half years on some mountaintop and suddenly be thrust back into an american society is going to be an enormous challenge for everyone. >> an enormous challenge. you said the ordeal that sergeant bowe went through, we have no idea. that was one of the things that

stuck out. i want to repeat it, what his father said to him directly. he was saying how proud. how much you wanted to help the afghan people and how willing to go you were to go to help them. i think you have succeeded. will sergeant bergdahl at some point feel some sort of sense of accomplishment, of his duty that he served his great country, our great country? >> first of all, if you want to know what makes america's military great, just take a look at sergeant bergdahl's mother and father. i mean, these folks aren't wall street insiders or industrialists. this is the heart of america that we saw over the last 45 minutes or so, and those are the parentssergeant. soi think sergeant bergdahl's greatest promise is from the army to be sure, the medical community, right, but i think

it's being back in the loving arms of that man and that woman, probably will be the greatest single healing factor that he could ever experience. and then to get back to idaho, to his community and to his hometown. that's where the healing occurs. it doesn't occur at walter reed. it occurs when you go back and meet your family, your friends, and all of a sudden, the horror of what he's been through over the last five and a half years will slowly begin to melt away. >> what is that going to be like, general scales, for the mom, for the dad, in terms of what they have to go through to try to help their son heal? >> yeah, again, this goes back to vietnam. one of the shocks receiving the prisoners back from north vietnam was among the family, particularly the wives and children who expected dad just to come off the airplane and be the same old dad. well, of course, that's impossible when you're a prisoner of war. and again, i don't know what his emotional state is, but i can

imagine how distressed he's going to be and how difficult it's going to be for mom and dad to bring him home and treat him like they treated him before he went to the army. this is going to be an emotional roller coaster and a journey for mom and dad just as it is their son. >> well said, major general bob scales. appreciate your perspective and so glad you're here to join me for this really momentous occasion, and we're very happy for the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl. we'll have much more on this story when we come back, and also ahead, we're going to talk about the v.a. scandal, blowing wide open this week with the agency's top official stepping down amid pressures from congress. but we're going to ask will the resignation of eric shinseki help turn things around? and new fallout over benghazi. many are now wondering whether national security adviser susan rice will testify in front of a new select committee. stick around.

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their son, as we have been reporting, the u.s. exchanging five top taliban detainees from gitmo for sergeant bowe bergdahl's freedom, which is a move that has been criticized by lawmakers since the defense department in 2008 said the detainees posed a high risk threat to the united states and should not be released. national correspondent live from washington, d.c. with that part of the story. steve. >> yes, in spite of all the good aspect of the story, the high emotions and triumph and relief for bowe bergdahl's family, some members of congress said the president is putting our troops in danger by negotiating with terrorists for the release of the sergeant. freed after five years in captivity. critics in congress say the president violated the law by not notifying congress 30 days in advance of any prisoner exchange and they said the administration set a dangerous precedent. >> if you negotiate here, you've

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of the attack sounding undecided if she's going to be committing whether to testify. >> i'm not going to speculate on what congress might do or might not do. i'm focused every day on doing my job. >> joining me now byron york, chief correspondent for washington examiner and fox news contributor. hi, brirn. >> hi. >> start here. do you think miss rice will testify. if she does, do you think she'll provide info for the committee ultimately trying to find answers? >> she can find a few answers about one particular topic, famous talking points the administration deployed after the attack. she's in the white house, president's national security adviser. at the time she was in the state department. i don't see how she can avoid testifying before this committee.

i'm not sure what claim the white house could make to withhold her testimony. i suspect she'll ultimately answer questions on this. >> lets talk about mrs. clinton's book, benghazi chapter, hard choices. mrs. clinton said she never saw a request for additional security from ambassador chris stevens, one of the four americans killed that night in the attack in benghazi. is it possible the secretary of state didn't receive all the line by line items? >> well, that's something the committee really, really wants to know. first of all, you have to remember that "politico" obtained a copy of this chapter on benghazi from her book. they didn't publish the chapter, they did a story with exercises from it. we don't know exactly what she says. one of things investigators wanted to know about, what did she know about security conditions in libya before the attack. there was a famous, now famous,

cable on august 16th, 2012, not long before the attack sent by the ambassador to secretary clinton saying there were huge security problems there and the embassy could not withstand a coordinated attack. she says she never saw this memo. but we do know leon panetta, the secretary of defense and martin dempsey, chairman of joint chiefs of staffs said they saw the memorial okay. i feel certain investigators are going to want to know more about why it was she didn't see this. >> byron york, so many questions still unansd. we thank you for your time this afternoon. >> thank you. >> okay. that's going to do it for us. i'm so glad you were here with me. stick around here on the fox news channel because "a healthy you & carol alt" is next.

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