>> omega next. >> we are on the radio soon. >> we are going to say brian. it has been some time. >> and i will see you o'reilly and "happening now" starts now. >> brand new video showing the taliban handing over sergeant bowe bergdahl in exchange for five taliban commanders. a new look for us today. i am jenna lee. >> and i am jon scott. the video shows him in traditional afghan clothing sitting in a pickup truck surrounded by fighters before being taken away by a u.s. black helicopter. the senate is going to be briefed on what led up to the exchange and why so many were left in dark.

catherine heritage is in washington but we begin with jennifer griffin live at the pentagon first. >> pentagon officials have no reason to doubt the video released shown today. it is common for them to record these events. he is blinking significantly trying to suggest his eyes were adjusting to the sun light suggesting he was blind foldal before. the u.s. team shakes hands with the taliban over the handover. they pat him down twice to make sure he is not armed orwearing a suicide vest. a member is heard telling him not to come back to afghanistan

and saying you will not make it out alive. members of his describe the time after he lost the base in 2009. >> we heard there was an american looking for someone who spoke english so they could speak to the taliban. i heard that over the radio and from the lips of the radio man. that alarmed everybody. he was attempting to contact the taliban on his own accord. >> i do not know of specific circumstances or details of u.s. soldiers dying as a result of efforts to find and rescue sergeant bergdahl. >> reporter: he looked healthy and was clean shaven and wearing traditional afghan clothing. there is a big question now about whether or not the

intelligence community supports or objects to the prisoner exchange. the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee is calling for the president to declassify files on the five detainees. catherine harris is covering this. >> reporter: u.s. officials confirm this rescue was an accelerated force and no one was briefed on this. >> i think he by passed the intelligence community and congress because this was done for political reason. there was no policy justification for this. he would not be able to justify this as something in the national interest of the united states. >> reporter: and lawmakers looking at the president's trip to afghanistan where he met with the top military and intelligence officers on the ground including the cia's chief

of station and he would be responsible for tracking former detainees if they return them. >> i think it is interesting to know if the president brought this up in afghanistan with the people that could be directly impacted by it. it is important to know who the president talked to and who go got advise -- advice -- from before the doing this. >> reporter: we asked the white house if this was discussed but the cia has declined to comment. >> and they have been silent about the whole ordeal. what we are hearing is this was the last opportunity to get sergeant bergdahl out. you have breaking news on that. >> well a military intelligence source confirmed to fox news there was a second option that was pursued as late at december of 2013 that didn't involve the swap of the five taliban

prisone prisoners. the source said the goal was to establish discussions with ties from the taliban and u.s. personal were tasked to make contact directly or third parties with the goal of getting bergdahl with cash versus the prisoners. the second option was put on hold when it is intended they would pursue a prisoner swap. >> interesting. that gives us context to consider. >> this goes back to december and changes the timeline on this >> what is the significance of that? >> to make the case it transpired in a quick opportunity is undercut by this information that inthis team wa

decisions on hold because the administration because going to go down the prisoner swap avenue. that would have been ample time for congressional notification. >> brings up a lot about timing and what does it mean in relation to the other stories we are falling. domestic politics now. super tuesday primary voting wrapped up. but one high profile race is too close to call. in jackson mississippi, chris mcdaniel appears to be headed for a run off with thad cochrane. john has more on this. >> reporter: we are expecting a nasty six weeks. cochrane is fighting for his political life and hoping to not become the first imcumbant since 1942 to be defeated.

the cochrane campaign is threatening to fire back at the pictures of his wife being posted at a nursing home. >> i think it is a big deal four people of his campaign are felonies. i think people will get another chance to examine that. >> reporter: tea party and conservative groups are throwing in with chris mcdaniel seeing them as their best chance to upseat the incumbent. they invited everybody for a debate but that is not going to happen. joanie won and she is facing off with brayly who said if i am not elected your chance an ex-farmer who doesn't have a law degree

will become part of the judicial group. and republican establishment in california is worried if tim donnelly beat carey that might affect republicans. and look at carl de mayo advancing. his office was recently broken into but the voters supported him. >> if the mcdaniel/cochrane race is in june we are hoping your voice holds out.

moving to massachusetts, the a friend of the boston bomber is due in court today. he is accused of lying and objecting the investigation. molly is live with more. >> reporter: massachusetts cab driver, a friend of the brothers who had dinner with them following the marathon bombings is back before the judge for a bail hearing. he is the latest friend of the accused bombers to face charges. in the indictment they allege a he called him just 40 minutes after the bombing and invited him to dinner. after the dinner, he went home and told an unknown witness the

bombings could have had a just reason and days later when seeing them on the television instead of calling the police he tried to call the brothers. he deleted information on his computer. prosecutors allege he shared the suspected bombers philosophical justifications for violence. he is not charge would the bombing or preknowledge of that but he is facing 40 years in prison. more results from that big primary day with a couple key races still too close to call. we have the details ahead from america's election head quarters. and drug runners try to smuggle thousand of pound of marijuana by dmaking a truck look like a

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bailed back and went over to mexico. when they yanked out a one thousand pound barrier drove through it and replaced the barrier. typically pot crosses in stripdown stolen suvs usually found waiting for a driver or simply empty and abandoned are nothing if not creative. in the past drug runners used a catapolt to lob 10-15 pounds of marijuana and i have seen cars lowered on a flat bed. dune buggies and other recreational viewers and others trying to get over the port of entry with the drugs in tires, paint cans. in the past, harvest season was in the spring and that is you would see the pot but now is indoors and this happening years

round. the value of was $1.6 million. >> glad they got one if you are getting one. >> results coming in from the big primaries with eight states holding election. but in mississippi, the gop primary putting thad cochran against chris mcdaniel is still too close to call. let's talk to on contribute and ron is here. are you surprised by the tie? >> not at all. this is going into a run off and it will be another several weeks of a blood bath. last night's results show three different visions of where the republican party is.

in mississippi you have the blood bath between the tea party and an established candidate. in iowa, you have the tea party and the establishment unite behind a candidate, joni ernst, who is very strong -- a mom, vet and castrated pigs and drive as harley. i think she will give the democrat a run for his money in the fall. he is a trial lawyer and made sideswipes at farmers in congress. >> and that could be a pickup for the gop. a state they were not counting on necessarily. >> it could be. mississippi, though, republicans can't take their eye off there. this is a bad situation for thad cochran anytime an incumbent faces a low turnout he is more than likely going to lose. he was talking about retiring and has been running like he is already retired.

i would point readers to the story a colleague wrote that shows the poor campaign. >> does it risk the gop brand in that state? will it be a safe gop seat? >> it is hard to see how democrats win that seat, but republicans shouldn't take anything for granted. it says something about the make-up of the party and sentate when you have someone with the stature and history and make up of thad cochran making his way off the stage for this newcomer from the tea party. >> and to you ron, again, and i will get to nina in a second. but this iowa race, the thinking is joni ernst is well-positioned to pick that up. >> i agree with nina. this is a race they could win. that is one heck of a candidate

that both wings of the party are behind. i would say it is a tossup. that is the race to watch. >> ge nina, you said the republican party is still at war in mississippi. but the fact the establishment and tea party came together in iowa, does that signal there is an agreement from the two sides? >> it shows you there is potential in some states. but in california, neel kashkari got the win over -- and this is in the governor's race -- over that tea party candidate who was a founder of the minute man project which is very anti-immigra anti-immigrant. and that race shows how difficult the republican party is going to have it in the future because cannot appeal to the hispanic vote. he has a race against the sitting governor, jerry brown,

you have to figure out a way to get to the hispanics in california. and they divide a third between liberal, middle of the road and conservative. so there is potential for republicans in the state that gave us reagan and nixon. >> i was going to add to that, if you take the races collectively it shows the tea party is winning. they have moved the party to the right. >> stick with us, i want to ask you about the political implications of this bergdahl swap if you stick with us through the break. engineers making repairs in the nick of time saving a key bridge that carries tens of thousands of vehicles from collapse. and we are getting word on who might be the new veteran's affair secretary as one lawmakers threatens the va with legal action.

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but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. saying he served with honor and dignity is the exact opposite of what happened. that is a slap in the face to everybody who honorably deployed and came home or died in combat. saying he is honorable is the exact opposite. >> that is former sergeant speaking to martha maccallum this morning. martha asked him about what about susan rice's characterization of sergeant bergdahl having served with

honor and distinction. nina and rob are here again. you have susan rice again in the middle. why would see say honor and distinction? >> that is only the beginning of the confusion about how the white house handled this. you have, first of all, releasing five taliban leaders described as high risk and you have the president saying is there a chance they will go back to being terrorist? absolutely. and then you have this question that this has been done for a young man who is not a war hero and maybe a deserter. you have to wonder what was going through the minds of this white house. i still haven't heard a good answer except they want to leave his legacy being to close guantanamo bay. >> i want to note the pentagon

producer, justin fishal, is saying the army investigation into the bergdahl's disappearance is classified still but justin learned that bergdahl had walked off the base before. he had done this one time earlier apparently out of boredom. very much against military reg lareg regulation. you say they violated their position. would you explain that? >> i think this being a good deal depends on what happened with the people we gave up back to the battlefield? or retire? or buried six feet under.

we should reserve judgment. but the way the white house has handled this, nina is right, it is totally inexplicit for the national security advisor to say he served with distinction. she should have known the evidence we have shows the opposite and one reason to get him out was to put him through the military system of justice and that is why he is going to be court marshaled. >> that is why his former soldiers are so angry. thank you. we are getting word on who might be replacing eric shinseki. toby crossgrove is being one of the interests. he served in vietnam nam and was

awarded a gold star. joining us now is jeff miller of alabama and chairman of had house veterans affair committee. what does the va that you want and are not getting? >> the problem is we don't know what they had. the general council said they finished providing the information we requested and i asked if the gentlemen there took notes when talking about destroying the records and he said yes but we don't have copies of the notes. if they don't provide everything by monday when congress goes back into the session in the house, we will petition the federal court to make the department of veterans affairs comply with a subpoena. >> why do you need that information so badly? >> because they are not telling

the truth. f there was a secret list that was destroyed. we want to know who destroyed it, what names were on it, who authorized it, and when was it destroyed. i said you will destroy nothing and now it appears they were destroying records. >> congressman miller, i would like to ask you what is happening on the ground for veterans and how their reality has changed after discussing the story. the senate has introduced two pieces of legislation to change the way veterans are get health care but the house has yet to infor -- introduce --

legislati legislation, why not? >> well first, you can not do this if you are in session. >> so they have to wait? >> they have the authority to let the veterans go outside the va system. they don't need congress to tell them they to do it. they have the authority to go through military, contract or private care facilities. >> you are saying the va? >> yes, they have had it for decades. >> i think we are outraged but if the veterans are waiting on the va, the system that put them at odds, what are they supposed to do? >> they are supposed to rely on the president obama. there is the legislative branch -- and if i could fire the va folks i would and they would be out of job.

but the acting secretary just gave out on the job on friday and the other secretary was being lied to. no one was being held accountable. >> i am going to get cut off by the computer. we will have more on this. we will be right back with more "happening now."

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an outbreak of severe weather in the midwest with possible tornados in kansas and iowa. and nebraska hit hard with

baseball size hail doing damage. garret tinny is live from chicago with more. >> reporter: jenna, these storms are part of a weather phenomenon that is a group of storms with hurricane-type wind and rain. the national weather service provided nine possible tornados across the midwest but the majority of the damage came from the heavy, heavy hail. listen to it. 65-85 miles per hour hurled that baseball-size hail at the entire town in nebraska. it shreded the side of this home here. take a look at this car dealership where the hail left a mark on 4500 cars smashing windows and denting the cars. folks driving were hit.

24 people wounded and taken to the hospital on the border of nebraska and iowa. no one was injured badly and no reports of death. omaha had record-levels of rain fall and flooded neighborhoods and police and fire crew had to deploy water rescue teams to help people stuck in homes and cars. 35 million americans are under the threat of severe weather from the midwest to the mississippi and ohio valleys. >> well the los angeles area seeing a big increase in earthquakes this year. five quakes in the last five months all registering above 4.0 and that is the highest number since 1994 which was the year of the devastating north ridge

earthquake. does this suggest another big one is coming? we have a size mall gist here now. lu lucy jones. why so many quakes in los angeles this year? do we know? >> we cannot be certain. but we can say when you have a lot of earthquakes you have a lot of earthquakes. the rate is higher now. >> does it suggest there is another big one coming? >> not necessarily. we might just be having a random cluster. what we can say is that in the longterm the rate in the last 20 years has been much quiter than the long term average for southern california and we have to expect more earthquakes than we have seen. >> an earthquake is the earth e relieving pressure on a fault line. if someone shifts a little something somewhere else has or

wants to give. is that how it works? >> each earthquake releases stress right there but it transfers it to other locations. if you have a big enough earthquake and remove everything from the system everything relaxes for a while. we think that is what happened in '92-'94 was the big earthquakes and things went quiter and maybe we are getting back to the long term rate. people got used to los angeles being quite but that is not the long term future. >> is there anyway to know how long something like the north ridge quake? >> on average we see a quake that damaging once every 20-30 years. we had long beach and north

ridge in the 21st century. so we would expect to have one in 20-30 years but that can not tell you what the next year is going to be like. it is too big of a random component. >> i want to show our viewers these amazing pictures of the pavlov volcano erupting alaska shooting up 24,000 feet above sea level. the clouds can be troublesome for the jets head. they have to send the jets somewhere else during powerful explosions like this. two 12-year-olds accused of luring a friend with the promise of a sleepover but instead

stabbed her and left her for dead blaming a character they follow on the internet. our next guest says that excuse doesn't hold up. doesn't hold up. e with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. slender slaender man walukesha,

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>> he promised to close guantanamo bay in 2008 and now the president skirted congress

for five prisoners for bowe bergdahl. is this a sign he is going alone in that promise? >> hilary clinton is saying he moved on from moni monica lewen. >> and taxing sugar might help obesity. >> why are -- we're are looking forward to it. an online character is playing a role in the brutal stabbing of a friend. they blame the internet sensation of slender man saying he was in fact real and they needed to commit the crime to impress him. he is not real. he is a character created in 2009 on an internet form that

had nothing to do with killing or violence. could the mythological character inspire this? our next guess doesn't think so. dr. russell, why isn't this valid? >> i don't think the whole slender man concept has much, if anything, to do with this other than it is their excuse for having done it. i think this is much more probably about immature, hatred, jealousy, naricism coupled with in sufficient parenting. we probably have a couple morally underdeveloped, hateful minds and probably run of the

mill attempted murder. >> let me ask you about that. obviously this caught our attention because we have heard of the boogie man and it takes different form for generations. it is interesting this character has life on the internet. all of these stories coming up about this character. and we are showing it to the viewers. is there something about the internet, the new day and age, that is more seductive of these images? >> i think it is a newer way to find these. and cultural factors that promote the cheapness of life or the exciteness of killing cha. y

but the vast majority of children are not going to kill someone no matter what they see online. i am not worried the slender man concept is going to catch on and we will have more of this stuff. i don't think this is about that. i don't think it is about mental illness probably. i think it is probably more what more viewers are thinking at home. probably what it looks like. a couple probably angry, jealous hateful little girls decided they would commit a crime and hurt somebody who they supposedly were friends with. >> you say there is so little time being spent now on moral development and that is different from the previous generations. if you could sum that up for the viewers. why do you think that is key? >> i think our culture isn't teaching kids morals and values in the public school and not in churches and not at home.

viewer parents are there. parents are divorced and busy. not as many adults at home. add to that a culture that is focused on the self and into that you throw the mentally disturbed people we have always had and it is description for this increase. >> we learned a lot about slender man but perhaps not the best rational behind the crime and never would be. >> strange story. stick with us for more on the controversial exchange of five guantanamo bay detainees for the release of army sergeant bowe bergdahl. and will california chrome cruise to a triple crown victory at belmont park? jonathan hunt is live. >> reporter: that is the only question anyone wants answered.

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well the post positions are all set right now. we are a step closer to the race that will determine if california chrome will be the first triple crown winner in 36 years. jonathan hunt is there in the middle of the belmont action in elmont, new york. >> there is one person worth asking if california chrome can do it and that is the horse's exercise rider and the only person who rides california chrome every day. we asked willy about california

chrome's chances and his character. here is willy. >> he could be walking right along and hit a clip and you will feel him tense up and poses. everybody calls him chrome dome and now we call him vogue/strike a pose. >> what does it mean for you to be involved with a horse like this? >> it is a dream come true, you know? it is hard to explain even. i have only compared to my daughter being born. if we win the triple crown, it will be hard to explain. i will probably fall to my knees. >> do you think it will happen? >> yeah. he is going to run good. i definitely think he is a whip

winner. >> there you have it from the man who knows the horse better than anyone. california chrome going to make history. >> he said he is going to win. wonder what it did to the odds. >> not much. no one is learning a lot of money. personal items signed by ronald reagan going up for sale including a heart felt letter he wrote to a little girl. details next. ♪

bill: present obama commemorating the 25th anniversary of the poll of independence for the soviet union. their membership will connect them and reject annexation of crimea. president obama on his way to brussels now your leaders will decide what they can do to end support for separatists fighting forces in eastern ukraine.

in another call for democracy, the white house urging chinese authorities to account for those killed, detained or went missing the government crackdown on yemen square protesters 25 years ago today. martha: some rare personal mementos of ronald reagan are going up for sale. 11-year-old girl named lisa wrote the commander-in-chief as if he would sponsor her in a charity event. thanking her for her good work and those items are now being offered for sale for $20,000. that is what you get as a president, his personal account. bill: i guess everybody knows address already. we will see you back here in one hour. martha: "outnumbered" starts right now.

>> this is "outnumbered." i am sandra smith. here today, former mtv vj and host of "the independenc indepee fox business network. >> sometimes i show up on shows i don't belong. >> how exciting is this? >> did you think lou dobbs was going to pop up? >> he was on yesterday. >> i k >> intellectual power has dropped a little bit but i will try to fill the gap. why are you just staring at me? >> because your eyes are so beautiful. you are like patented. >> i catch myself staring at