just as president obama is about to head overseas for the g-7, he is facing mounting criticism for the release of former afghanistan p.o.w. sergeant bergdahl. right now he is being evaluated in landstuhl, germany, for the reintegration process, and it may be a while before he is reunited with his family. >> five years is a seemingly endless time, but you have made it. i imagine that you are more patient and compassionate than ever. you are free. freedom is yours, and i will see you soon, my beloved son, i love you, bowe. >> here is the controversy, five taliban leaders were freed in exchange for his release. and all five were high risk likely threat to the u.s., and recommended for continued detention. >> i want to know how they are going to ensure that these five

do not re-enter the fight? we will be holding hear inings. this is not a partisan issue, but it is a matter of the law, and breaking the law, and not informing the congress according to the law. >> these are the hardest of the hard core. these are the highest high risk people, and it is disturbing that these individuals would have the ability to re-enter the fight, and they are big high-level people. possibly responsible for the deaths of thousands. >> let's bring in msnbc political analyst jonathan alter and terrorist expert devin coleman and nbc correspondent anne gearan, and let's start with a thumbnail of how we got here. i listened to bergdahl's dad talking about the complexity of the last five years and help us to understand the diplomacy and the negotiation involved to secure sergeant bergdahl's release? >> well, chris, he was the only

american prisoner of war in america's longest war, and so he was a real, and he was unique and he was a real conundrum for the obama administration all alo along. the circumstances of his capture whether he walked away, deserted or lagged behind on a patrol never clear. so, it all started under a cloud, and it stayed under one. the u.s. made numerous efforts to try to bargain for his release, and really got nowhere until about the last six monthser so, when the e negotiations would start and stop, and the taliban walked away, and numerous u.s. concessions to the taliban, and essentially the u.s. got knotting for it until now. and a number of things changed just in the last six months, including the fact that we are

that much closer to the end of the u.s. combat presence in afghanistan to a clear sign from the administration that the haqqani network, the branch of al qaeda that held bowe bergdahl was no longer a primary target for the u.s. troops and the fact that hamid karzai who has disrupted the talks in the past is no longer a factor. he is one of two candidates who will replace him as president later in the year, and he is really not able to insert himself the way that he had in the past. and that changes -- >> and the administration is making the argument that time was of the essence and bowe bergdahl's health was getting worse, and of course, the u.s. has repeatedly said, and not just in this case, but over the years that the u.s. does not leave the soldiers on the battlefield. this is defense secretary chuck hagel. >> we did not negotiate with the terrorists. sergeant bergdahl is a prisoner

of war, and that is a normal process in getting the prisoners back. i don't think that what we did in getting our prisoner of war released in any way would somehow encourage terrorists to take our american servicemen prisoner or hostage. >> jonathan, some democrats are suggesting that it is purely political on the republican part, but is there a legitimate discussion to be had here whether or not this was a negotiation and our stated policy that we don't negotiate with terrorists. >> any discussion is legitimate, but it is a phony debate. look at the israelis, and they have on more than 25 occasions in recent decades engaged in the prisoner exchanges that have led to release of terrorists. they in many cases, they will four or five or six israeli

prisoners they will trade dozens of arab prisoners and especially when the hostilities are coming to an end as they are in afghanistan. at the end of the war, the prisoner exchanges are common. so the critics have, they cannot square the circle. they are all saying, well, we are glad that his life has been save and that we are getting him home, and we welcome him home, wonderful, but they shouldn't have done this. and well, it is either one or the other, and either you think that he should have been left to die in the taliban captivity or a prisoner exchange, and that is the truth. >> and there is another question that they follow up on, and who are the guys who were released, and evan, you spent me expansive stuff from the wikileaks over the years and you is followed them for years and they try to be dismissed as gray beards, but who are they really and how concerning are they? >> well, when you negotiate peace with someone, jonathan is right, you have to negotiate

with the enemies and not the friends and sometimes it is high level enemies a and there are a lot of people in gitmo that we would like to ferry out of, there because we don't know what to do with them, but the problems is that these individuals are worrisome, and in some cases, they are described gray beards or described as no longer a threat. that is not the case, because if you look at the d.o.d. profiles, they do present an ongoing threat, and they will rejoin the taliban and right now, one of them, his brother is active taliban commander, and another one the brother-in-law is very active and he is known as the butcher of hosts, and these are the people that there is a significant risk that they will go back to what they were doing before, because it is all they have ever done. now, does that mean that we should haven't done the trade? i don't know, but we should recognize that the trade comes with risks, and those risks are not things that are going to be easily mitigated by the

government of qatar the, and we saw what happened with saudi arabia, and we sent back deta detain detainees, and they promised us that they would not harm us again and not travel and be rehabilitated and almost all of them went over the border to join al qaeda in yemen. >> and anne, i want you to explain what jeff is referencing which is the agreement to try to mitigate the risk, and the agreement with qatar. >> and qatar has emerged as the go-between, and the intermediary here between the u.s. and the taliban. there is an office now in the capital of doe ha which is the taliban political office, and it is through the doha office and the taliban mediators living in qatar that it was arranged through the back channels. what they agreed to do is to set up the five guys with their families and in a form of house

arrest in qatar for a year. they have other restrictions, and not allowed to leave the country for a years and other restrictions on who they can talk to, and why, and the fact is that no government including qatar cannot absolutely guarantee that they won't have a communication back channel or by proxy return to a position on the battle fooel. >> and this is going to refocus the question as the president has said many times when he was running for president to shut down gitmo, and does it fit into the larger discussion? >> yes, it was, and in some ways it inhibits the efforts, because the five detainees were not on the list of those who could be safely transferred back to their host countries, but i really do think that instead of being seen in that context, it needs to be seen in the context of the long

war in afghanistan. at the end of wars, it is routine to have these kinds of prisoner exchanges, and of course, there are risks, but at a certain point, enough time passes that you want to bring the hostilities to an end, and so we are leaving at the end of the year. we don't want to leave one of the guys to die in taliban captivity. and so people do need to stay focused on that part of our national commitment is that we don't leave our own behind. if the war was not ending now, i think that you could make a stronger argument that this kind of exchange raised questions, but if not now, when? ten years a after the war in afghanistan is over? this is the proper time to the engage in these kinds of prisoner exchanges. >> and jonathan alter and anne

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this morning some serious questions being asked about the release of p.o.w. bergdahl and did this release violate the longstanding policy that the u.s. does not negotiate with the terrorists and did the president break the law but by not notifying congress that he was go g going to release some prisoners from guantanamo. and congress mman meeks joining us, and always good to have you here, and let me get your take, because on the republican side, there is concern that we have let five dangerous taliban leaders back out into the world, and we have negotiated with the terrorists. >> and let me say this, and i heard the last segment, and i could not agree more, the war is winding down, and we are trying to resolve different issues.

>> does that mean that the rules change? >> no, it is an exchange of the prisoners of war, and it has happened all of the time. it is not a time when we have not had dialogue and conversation, and exchange of prisoners of war, and that is what is taking place here sh, a also with the thought that there is even longer range diplomatic, and hopeful that certain things are not definitive and this is the beginning of the opening up dialogue as we really start to withdraw the troops, and dialogue with the taliban and the afghan government and there has to be some element of trust, and that part is there, also. >> does that embolden the taliban, because they are in chat rooms of that ilk saying that we got the better end of this deal, and we pushed america into releasing our people. does that give you any concern at all? >> no, any time you have these types of negotiations, one side is going to boast they got the better part of the deal. you don't go back to the

constituency and saying we got outsmarted and not the best deal, but still, there are things done behind the scenes that you can't say up front. i just in read iing some of the articles that came out, i look forward to the going back and we will have some classified conversations with the administration, and we will then get more detail as to what is taking place. things are moving fast. sometimes you have to give the administration the opportunity to develop and work with those items in a quick way, but i believe it is important for the them now to come back to talk to congress and let us know why it was necessary to move as quickly as they did without coming to congress within 30 days. >> and the flipside is argued by your colleague adam king s king >> you will have americans now on the ground attacking the afghan people and group, and there are a number of questions that have to be asked can. this whole thing is shocking to me, and i'm very disappointed.

>> it is enough, congressman to, give you the information after the fact? should members of congress been kept more in the loop. we heard susan rice saying yesterday that over a period of months there had been some updates about the fact that obviously, they were trying to get bowe bergdahl back, but in the final analysis, should there have been a notification? >> well, the rules in place for a reason, and i believe that where you can, you come back to congress. i also understand that under those rules in necessary and extraordinary circumstances and what i have heard thus far, our soldier's life was in dang, an imminent danger and if that is the case, then the administration has to do what it has to do with in a timely fashion, because otherwise, you would be criticized the other way, which is devastating if the prisoner in fact loses his life and we don't get him back. so, you know, you have to have a balance there and you have to have and i think that the best way to make the decision is to

get all of the facts and not just jump out, because it seems to me that just too political, but automatically, you come out to say something without knowing all of the facts sounds like you are trying to make a political gain as opposed to the intelligent decision. >> do you feel that you have the facts to make a determination of whether these guys, and certainly the documents released by wikileaks who is tauklking about who they are and what kinds of things they would have done, and most people would read and find scary. these are some of the most baddest guys is the analysis held at gitmo, and are you confident they won't end up back on the battlefield and hurt americans or american interest? >> well, what i want to do is to get back to washington when we get back in a classified session with the foreign affairs committee, which i'm a member of and have a dialogue with the administration and real conversations. now i have deep trust in the administration, because, look, of anybody, this administration,

and they have been criticized for the use of drones and others and going after the taliban and anything else to put americans in danger. this president has not been soft, and he has gone after the bad guys harder if not harder than anybody else. and he has been criticized for it. so i have intrinsic trust that there is some information there, and so, yes, that is going to give me some confidence, because i look at the past pe for mans in going after the terrorists and the taliban looking to hurt america. i think that he knows, like any president, they are going to do whatever they can to make sure that the americans are safe and not commit or perform an act that is going to be dangerous. >> i want people to know what the video is. this is the reunion of the just released tall barn memberitalli we will have more on bowe

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time he was 8 years old. and talk about the enhancement of the mental health arena before something as horrific as this takes place. >> well, on the kriscrime preven task force, we took a couple of proposals that came us from one from the west coast in sonoma county, and one from the east ko county outside of washington, d.c. on some early intervention p programs, and recognize that it is a gu good way to prevent the incidents from happening, and so when in the bill, we provide help for the states and the local governments to bring into place these types of programs. we also in this bill expand the number of people who are not able or should not have firearms

and people that we all should not, stalkers, domestic violence folk folks, and as you pointed out, the involuntary outpatient folks with serious mental illnesses. and the other thing that is really important the identify is that the fact that we make sure that we get all of the records into the database, against which we check to see if people are criminals or if they have serious mental illness. and that is going to help a great deal. we also make sure that the fbi identifies local law enforcement if someone is prohibited to try to purchase a firearm so that the law enforcement can follow up on that. and let us strengthen the partnership -- >> well, okay, they all sound like common sense solutions, and i know that in the aftermath particularly of newtown when i with was there many times, and

talked to people who support the gun owners' rights, and they talked about the mental health provisions, but nothing happened. and look at the history, adam lanza, 27 deaths, including him, and james holmes in colorado, and then shane loughner in tucson, and loughner tried to kill one of your colleagues. would this have made a difference? >> well, one of the things that we do is to strengthen the partnership to make shure that the states can work and set up programs where the law enfor enforcement if they identify a situation and they are a danger to themselves or others, they can remove the firearms from that po person's possession, and get to the bottom of the situation, and they shouldn't have firearms, and keep them away from them. and we have a restoration provision in the bill, too. so people can get their guns back once they have been cured

or not found to be a threat. >> and you are a blue dog democrat, and you are a self-proclaimed gun guy, hunter, and carried an assault wep pon in vietnam, and in the wake of the newtown shootings, you are the head of the violence prevention task force, but in this instance, do you have a republican co-sponsor yet, and what is the cold political calculus for this bill? >> well, on this bill, we introduced it friday, and i have gone out to my republican colleagues and asked for their support. i have talked to a couple of the republican colleagues who i hope to get support, and on the background checks, that is bipartisan by only by three. and only 89 republicdemocrats a republicans, and we hope to get

help from folks like yourself in the media to explain how this is all in support of the second saem amendment, and it is all common sense and preventing tragedies similar to the tragedies that we have seen. >> congressman mike thompson, so good to have you, sir. thank you so much. >> good to be here. thank you. >> and coming up at 1:00, ronan farrow will talk to richard martinez, one of the fathers of the ucsb victims. and now any moment, major epa announcement to cut emissions by 30%. the administration has decided it is worth the risk to bring it up. and i want to bring in the "huffington post" environment editor kate shepherd, and what are the administration's arguments today? what will we hear today. >> we will hear how this is

going to help public health, and prescent climate change in the long run. it is a call for 30% reduction of the u.s. emissions. >> and it is to be finalized by june of 2013. and how to meet the standard s is left up to the state, and how confident is the administration that the states can pull this off? >> well, hates the force of law, and if states are legally required to come up with the plans, but they have time to do it, because it is not to be finalized by june 15th, and the plans turned by june 16th. >> and we are hearing the introduction of the announce announcement. we will keep an eye on that. and we will talk about the treatment of bowe bergdahl and how his rekcovery treatment is going.

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. >> right now doctors are examining sergeant bergdahl in germany before his return home after five years of captivity. they say that his health was dee tear yating and that is why it is critical to secure his release. right now, we go the landstuhl, germany, and ayman, what do we know about the rehabilitation process for him? >> well, right now, the officials are tight-lipped about the overall conditions, and difficult to get any kind of assessment about what his state of mind is at the moment, but officials here that we have been speaking to have been saying that they the reintegration process is two stages. the first stage here at landstuhl is a complete evaluation of the medical capabilities and the health and the psychological stamina, and more importantly the overall well-being, and once that is cleared and he is stabilize from their perspective, then the

reintegration process begins, and that depends upon a whole host of factors, how he reoriented to the surroundings and the people and how he interacts and a lot of that is driven by himself, and they will see how he is doing, and based on, that they will set a time line for the reintegration, and transfer to the united states. a lot of details about that process tend to vary from the patient to patient, and it depends upon their overall strength and whether or not they are aware of what is happening around them. in addition to that, we also understand that the military is going to want to debrief sergeant bergdahl, because there are from their perspective, a lot of important pieces of information that they can can gather and not only about his time in captivity l but what happened to him in 2009 when he wandered off of the base in afghanistan, and had he come in contact with anybody of significance or important, and what can he tell them, and right now, there are a number of questions, but the focus is his

well-being and health. that is what the officials are focused on here. >> and a lot of controversy that the parents had not spoken to him, right? >> no indication whatsoever, and that is driven on the conditions of the ground with him as an individual and the officials are not saying whether or not that is going to be facilitated, and they would not say or confirm whether he is capable of communicating in english and to the degree he understands what is happening around him in a clear and concise manner. there is a lot of psychologicals a -- psychological assessments and so there is a fluid time line as to the reintegration and how is it going to unfold at this moment. >> and thank you so much coming to us from landstuhl. checking the newsfeed,ed wa edward snowden said he would

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on information given to them by carl icahn. nobody has been accused of wrongdoing at this time, but phil mickelson says that it is not true, and icahn says he did not give any information. what happened is that sir icahn bought shares of clorox, and then he announced a unsolicited bid on that, and so then the stock increased, and so there is an investigation as to whether walters tipped somebody in that case, but at this stage, we are finding out what happened, and i can tell you that cnbc has never given us any inside information. >> and our car payment has reached the all-time high. >> and we have debt, but it is

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and now insisting that the republicans will win back the senate, and he used a sunday show sit-down to blast the current edadministration and al a future one perhaps, hillary clinton's. i want to bring in a pollster, and former aid to george h.w. bush joe watkins and margie omero. and now, the guy fighting against the washington establishment. take a listen. >> and some somehow all of the gray beards in washington, who opposed fighting against obamacare are now looking around and winning senate seats all over the country, and reaping the fruits of the battle. >> and so margie, the argument is that he is still believes that the government shutdown was a good thing, and the republicans need to stand for something, to rock the boat and

not abandon the principles, and could this be a strategy for victory? >> it may be a strategy for winning straw polls, but it is not a strategy for winning any sort of general election. >> what about the senate? >> well, the national polls, and ted cruz has had net unfavorable ratings since he started to speak so much in the public isofreque isofrequently, and the more people hear from him, and the less they like him. if he wants to be on the winning side and quinning general electorate or surrogate in tight races, he needs to sound more in the middle. and the language that he uses may help in the straw poll, but it is not voters overall who di side the elections want to hear. >> and tomorrow, even though ted cruz is not explicitly involved in the primaries, two key races, po politics described ted cruz candidates, and you have ohave

ernst, and others taking on the establish me establishment, and so is margie gone, and candidates are make g these days? >> well, you want to win the primaries in iowa and mississippi and then win the generals in those states. margie makeing a great point in terms of the national politics, because it is one thing to win the primaries if you are running in the national primaries in the partyings, but to be more effective is to win the general election, and the person who will win those general elections appeals to not only republicans, but also to the independents and the people who they did not get in the cycle which is young people, and african-americans and latinos and women. and so to be associated with the lgbt community is somebody who has a better chance to win in

2016. >> and yet, when you hear the arguments, you can hear him setting up what is a republican counting point, and he is not afraid to go after the obama administration and hillary clinton saying that they have both failed. >> the sad thing with secretary clinton is that it is all politics all of the time. from this book chapter, what we know it is is pure political span and so focused on blaming the vast right wing conspiracy than the terrorists. >> and what is the role, margie, in framing the conversation as we move forward to 2016. >> well, it is funny that ted cruz who did a filibuster that even his own party thought accomplished little helped to drive the republican numbers off of the cliff, and they would now accuse the clintons who are net favorable, and some of the most favorable figures in the country of playing politics. the role has been, really, to highlight the lengths to which

the republicans will go to, and to have a partisan fight as much as possible, and people of both party say across the board are what they want, and candidates to, and officials to roll up the sleeves to address some of the key problems facing the country today and not just continue the back and forth. >> and joe, i think that she summarizes what is the criticism among the republicans which is that ted cruz' problem is that he represents a party of no. he is a criticizer and not a do-er, and can there be success of a leader of a party that says no, if your biggest ak k accomplishtment is to stop things. >> well, going forward we win as we pull the different pieces of the party together in one big tent. the republican party, like the democratic party is made up of a lot of people with a whole host of beliefs and strong values, of course, and we will win when we look forward to the future and

say, what problems can we solve for the americans going forward? that is the best hope, and the candidate for president in the 2016 cycle is somebody who can embody that. >> and for the next 30 seconds, joe, i want to start with you, what are you looking for tomorrow in the primaries? >> well, no surprises. in mississippi, mcdaniel has a strong chance to beat senator thad cochran and ernst is going to win, but she has to win 35% of the vote in order to avoid a constitutional convention, i mean, convention battle, but i don't e see any -- well, three in the new jersey race for runion, and it is a competitive race between macarthur and longa longan, but it is going to be interesting as well. >> and margie, for you? >> in mississippi, this is the tea party's last hope of unseating the incumbent, and the last major hope. if they do it, is it because of the people now favoring the tea party, which overall for years

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controversial prisoner swap for bowe bergdahl and this is the video in qatar of them in the arrival. you can see them embraced and hugged, and the taliban leader calling it a victory for that t terrorist organization, and meantime, sergeant bergdahl is at the u.s. medical center in landstuhl, germany, and getting what the military calls the reintegration process, and that is amid mounting criticism of the congressional republicans over the obama's administration to trade bergdahl for the taliban prisoners. a few hours ago, white house press secretary jay carney said that rapid action was needed to secure his release because of his health. >> he was held for five years. in those circumstances and not easy circumstances, his health had been deteriorating and i can't get into the detail, but

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