behind. we'll talk about what is next for bowe bergdahl and discuss the many unanswered questions. plus -- >> this is about protecting our health. and it is about protecting our homes. >> the white house rolls out sweeping changes to limit power plant emissions. it is going to be a bitter pill for some democrats up for election in energy producing states. isn't the earth worth the risk. just say no to the war on drugs. we are speaking to the film maker behind the effort to reform american drug laws. we start with the prisoner exchange that led to the release of bowe bergdahl and the fury on the right. moments ago white house press secretary jay carney defended saying prisoner exchanges are not new and that the administration needed to act when it did. >> the state of his health, the fact that he had been held for

five years in captivity, the fact that there were no guarantees that the window would remain open, the window of opportunity to recover him. it was the right thing to do to move quickly and take that opportunity. >> bergdahl is currently recovering in germany with no time table for his release back to the states. while even the deal's most strident critics celebrate the release of the last u.s. war prisoner it is the swap for the five taliban members seen here that has a key house republican calling for an investigation into the deal. >> we will be holding hearings. i am sorry that this is being portrayed as republican issue. this is not a partisan issue. it is just a matter of the law and breaking the law and not informing the congress according to the law. >> among the key questions, did the administration properly inform congress of a deal involving releasing prisoners

from the u.s. detention camp. could these five prisoners dubbed the hardest of the hard core by senator john mccain reengage in the fight against u.s. troops in afghanistan? even as the u.s. continues to draw down? there are also continued questions about the circumstances surrounding bergdahl's capture by the taliban in 2009 which we will get to a bit later. today and over the weekend it was the release of the taliban prisoners by the white house that drew the eye of republicans. >> they had a 30-day notice under the law to notify congress about the moving of prisoners. >> ambassador rice basically said to you u.s. policy has changed. now we make deals with terrorists. >> joining me now the senior national security correspondent for the daily beast and a former nsa senior analyst. eli, i want to start with you. the daily beast has had several

pieces about this deal. was the white house in your reading of it required to wait 30 days to get this prisoner exchange approved by congress or was this something that was essentially in the administration's purview to act, they say because his health was threatened? >> the president issued a signing statement meaning he was aware of what the national defense authorization act had said about notification requirements regarding moving prisoners at the guantanamo facility. he acknowledged that he had to disregard that and he had his powers because he is the chief executive and he believes the constitution gives him broad authorities. i would say that interpretation of the constitution is something that republican administrations also had supported, as well. >> what i'm interested in is the idea that you would wait 30 days. when something that seems rather imminent if you have a chance to get back to someone who is being

held prisoner it does seem that would be something you would want to do sooner rather than later. how complicated it is it? the entire thing is complex. describe for us how complex that is. >> there has been a huge intelligence effort for five years now to locate and get back sergeant bergdahl. it is enormously complicated. there are multiple u.s. allies. i'm not a lawyer. if this broke the law it broke the law. there can be compelling reasons given the situation in hand. if sergeant bergdahl was in the bad health that we are hearing he was in there may not have been much time. i think we will have to wait and see as this develops what really happened. >> let's listen to susan rice on abc's "this week" she talked about the imminence having to act. >> we did not have 30 days to

wait. had we waited and lost him i don't think anybody would have forgiven the united states government. >> and to that point, eli, there is a political matter here. you heard one republican member of congress saying this is not partisan. had they waited and had the news been he was killed or that he died still in the custody of the taliban wouldn't that have created its own version of a fire storm? >> it is possible that would have gotten out. there are all kinds of back channel and secret negotiations that go on in any administration. when they don't work out it is not necessarily always the case that you see political fire storm over it. i would say as we learn more about who these five taliban leaders are, they are very significant captures within the war on terror. they are very important to the taliban. you will see the public discussion and political discussion move to the substance of the issue. was this trade in america's

national security interest? de does it place remaining american soldiers at risk? >> let's talk about this on intelligence on both sides of this. on the one hand you have the government which cooperated in helping get the deal done. they are now going to be in charge of keeping these guys under house arrest. how likely is it we will yield an intelligence benefit from that? on the other side if you talk about this young man has been in a terrible position but has been one of the few americans to have spent substantial time with the taliban. is there potential for intelligence yield on both those counts? >> there is and certainly i hope they are able to get information out of these top taliban guys who we have wanted to get rid of frankly for a long, long time. it has been a real thorn in our side. and another point i want to make is the taliban is going to be careful. they have been in u.s. captivity for years. they will want to do their own

counter intelligence. as for sergeant bergdahl once he gets back to health which we hope is soon -- it may not be soon -- he could be a source of very important information about who he has been dealing with, how they have dealt with him. of course, we will want to unravel exactly how he wound up in taliban hands. there is always a real potential intelligence gain here which should not be blown off completely. he may have a great deal of information. let's hope he does. >> one other aspect of this that i think is coming up is the sense of this deal being a first step in the way that you could actually functionally close the guantanamo bay prison camp. there were a couple of people who have written about that in the well known june of 2012 article which he said bowe represented a threat to anyone who wants to see the war continue. there will be few obstacles standing in the way of a

negotiated settlement. it is essentially hard liners on both sides who want to keep the war going. and then you have in the daily beast writing that republicans are worried about that, that this kind of deal is a way the white house could get around congress and start to empty the guantanamo bay prison. is that something you are hearing republicans actually actively worry about. >> i think that piece speaks for itself. i would just point out that i think democrats and republicans when this was originally briefed to the hill in 2011 and 2012 had a lot of reservations about this deal. the fact that these are very senior taliban members. originally this was thought of a part of a piece of a reconciliation agreement to respect the elected government in afghanistan. at this point it appears to be a straightforward prisoner swap. in the end you can say the u.s. got less than it wanted in this

exchange. i think there is a lot of questions there. it does get back to the question of obama is keeping american soldiers in afghanistan until the end of his presidency. those soldiers who are left will be far fewer in number. are they going to be facing a greater risk because pretty hardened guys with a lot of experience are replenishing the taliban's ranks. >> a conversation we could probably have for the full hour. i hope you guys will come back. coming up i will talk to a friend of the bergdahl family who is also the police chief of his hometown in idaho. the obama administration rolls out new pollution regulations that has republicans fuming. with up to 12 hours of protection for all the freedom to just play. pampers.

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in place to assist you in all of the aspects of your recovery to full health. trust them. it is okay. give yourself all the time you need to recover and decompress. there is no hurry. >> when you listen to the parents of bowe bergdahl sending a personal message to their son the issue of his recovery from afghanistan this weekend is not complicated. you can hear and feel the absolute joy that they are getting their son back. bowe bergdahl will eventually go home after his medical recovery in germany. officials at fort sam houston, texas, say he will have a limited amount of time to complete phase three of the reintegration process which includes top medical care, psychology support and experts that help captives transition into freedom.

in hailey, idaho bergdahl's recovery is as complicated as it gets. that is not true for former platoon mates. he says bowe bergdahl desserted during a time of war and his fellow americans lost their lives searching for him. nathan bradley, another member of bergdahl's battalion shares a similar sentiment in a column he wrote in which he listed names of five men whose deaths he says will forever be tied to bergdahl's capture and subsequent hunt adding i believe that bergdahl deserves sympathy but he has much to answer for, some of which is far more damming than having walked off. none of it had to happen. therefore, while i'm pleased that he is safe i believe there is an explanation due. so as i said, it is complicated.

joining me now is hailey, idaho police chief, jeff gunter, a family friend of the bergdahls. i want to start with that question. for your community obviously there is tremendous relief. but are you guys, also, grappling with questions that you must be hearing about this young man who is part of your community? >> i'm not prepared to answer any of that. i am just starting to hear the questions pop up just a little while ago. >> talk to me a little bit about -- you obviously know the family. you are friends with them. when they heard about their son coming home what was the process of the community finding that out. did you find out from them or did you start to read it in the press? >> i found out like everybody did in the media. and there is a real sense of excitement and thrill and everybody was happy. there were a lot of tears being shed. everybody was excited that they will soon be able to get to talk

and hold and touch their son again. many of us didn't know if that was going to happen or not. >> you know this young man. what kind of a person is he? >> he is just a very polite, n genuine young individual. he is a very nice, polite gentleman. >> i want to read the statement that city of hailey, idaho released. the city has received many phone calls and e-mails on the extreme polar sides of bowe bergdahl's release. the city's planned celebration of the return of this young man to his town. some of the negative e-mails raise points. if objective facts and a careful investigation should find he should face consequences in the courtroom then the united states should do what is necessary. if the same investigation shows there is no evidence to support action then the process has

worked and people should take comfort that due process has been served. and the city respectfully requests that people do not pre-judge this young man from judge fritz hammerly. as far as you know is the celebration planned for bowe bergdahl's homecoming, is that going forward? >> yes, it is. it will be june 28 at 1 p.m. >> and jeff gunter thank you very much for your time. joining me now goldie taylor, a marine corps veteran. you heard the police chief there not ready to deal with questions you are hearing. his hometown is happy that he is coming back. how difficult must it be for this young man, for this military family to have to at the same time they are dealing with their joy at getting the member of the community, their family member back and having to deal with the storm of controversy? >> it has to be very difficult for them. on the one hand there are

questions, certainly solid questions around what led him to leave that base camp that night and what took him into the hands of the taliban. there are important questions to be answered. will we ever get those answers? who knows if bowe bergdahl will ever be well enough to take us back to that night, to take us back to that time five years ago when he was captured. but whatever you believe about this, whatever you believe about that night, he is still a united states soldier. he is still a united states citizen and we leave no one behind. in terms of deciding whether or not he was worthy, that is something that we'll have to deal with in a courtroom if at all later on. to understand that we as a fighting force, we are committed never to leaving anyone behind. i know if i served a day, a thousand days or 10,000 days and my brothers and sisters are coming no matter what that gives

me more rise to fight and leads to a better cohesive force and more fight ready force than you are going to imagine if i feel that kind of loyalty is there for me. >> over the weekend i think a lot of people reread the michael hastings piece, the definitive piece on bowe bergdahl that he published in 2012. after years of seemingly endless war active soldiers are currently committing suicide at a record rate. other soldiers lash out with acts of violence. many come home traumatized. bowe bergdahl had a different response. he decided to walk away. does it seem to you implausible that a young man faced with dealing with the trauma of battle would have the response to go awol. >> we have a number of trainings that ready our service men and women for battle. however, we have to meet them at their point of need and you really cannot ready anyone for

the battlefield. what you can do is give them the kind of unique training that you think will help them weather through a situation like this. we don't know what kind of crisis bowe bergdahl was in that night. we don't know what took him out into the field. we don't know if his platoon should have surrounded him and given him the kind of medical attention that he needed. i don't know. we don't know what happened that night. but what we do know is he is one of ours and that it is our responsibility to go in and bring him back. >> indeed. i think we should add to that it is our responsibility to care for the families. >> you have people who have served two, three, four, five and six tours of duty overseas one after another and they can't come home and expect basic medical care. there is something wrong with our so-called patriotic values when that can't be true. >> always important to say msn be, c contributor.

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with a lot on their political plate the white house is making the big pivot to climate change. this morning e.p.a. administrator announced a proposal for toughest new rules on carbon pollution in the nation's history. >> this is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps, although i like polar bears and i know about melting ice caps. this is about protecting our health and it is about protecting our homes. >> the plan calls for a 30% cut from 2005 levels on carbon emissions from the nation's power plants by 2030. more than 600 coal fired power plants would have to make changes. coal companies are already pushing back with threats to fight in court. the plan could lower the nation's gross domestic product by $50 billion a year. moments ago president obama said

the nation's health is also a key concern. >> these new standards are going to help us leave our children a safer and more stable world. and since air pollution from power plants actually worsens asthma and other breathing problems, putting these guidelines in place will help protect the health of vulnerable americans including children and the elderly. >> politicly it is a risky preposition. some like allison grimes who is trying to unseat mitch mcconnell in kentucky have already distanced themselves from the white house. >> i don't agree with the president's war on coal. i think it is wrong for kentucky. as kentucky's next united states state senator i will fight to make sure that coal has a long term place in our national energy policy. >> so why is administration going big on the climate fight right now?

a democratic strategist. you had already mary landrieu from an energy producing state. while it is important to reduce carbon in the atmosphere this should not be achieved by epa regulations. congress should set terms, goals and timeframe. is this dangerous to democrats in the red states or an opportunity to put some political distance to their benefit between them and the white house? >> obviously it is politics so in politics you have to play politics. they have to distance because they come from states where a lot of people are employed in the industries for better or for worse. in many instances for worse because as the president mentioned these coal power plants have a lot of negative consequences. one of the things i think the democrats need to drill down a little more on is not just the health concerns. those are very, very important, but there is an economic case to be made, as well.

because if people do have asthma, asthma is one of the biggest causes of people being admitted into the emergency room. climate change also affects our weather patterns. these storms like hurricane sandy. look how much money hurricane sandy cost this country and homeowners and businesses. those are all costs. >> what is the message or what quandary if you are running in west virginia where you have the open senate seat or in a coal state like kentucky? because you do have industries that rely on this. you have people whose jobs depend on it. places like west virginia and north carolina you have negative consequences and issues where sometimes the industries cause pollution. how do you balance that if you are a democratic candidate? >> i think you see mary landrieu saying we need to regulate these industries but it should be done by congress and should be done in a certain way. that is a good way to thread the

needle a bit. i know a lot of people have concerns about these candidates distancing themselves from the president. nobody is ever going to agree with any president 100% of the time. it is not practical or rational. for these candidates to say on all of these issues you want to say i am an independent woman. i stand for kentucky. i am going to put kentucky first. sometimes i will agree with the president. most of the time i will be with the democratic party but sometimes i will disagree. >> despite the fact that she has carved out the very independent position. mitch mcconnell the impact on individuals and families and entire regions will be strophic. how does that attack work when your opponent is on the same side? >> exactly. mitch mcconnell has shown he is going to say whatever he thengs

will win him the election. he has shown zero integrity. he is saying i will repeal obama care but in kentucky you can keep it. the rest of the country can't have it. he is doing that. i think allison grimes needs to attack him on all of these lies. he is out there saying whatever, however, whenever and she needs to attack him on that because not showing anyone who has integrity. >> there is a fascinating thing happening on the right when people asked if they agree with global warming. they say i'm not a scientist. that is their answer is to fudge and not admit that they believe in climate change or don't. this at a time when interestingly enough you have not just scientists agreeing but regular people, too. there is an interesting piece in the washington post. he talks about how the climate issue can help democrats in

2016. the recent new polls that show majority of americans, republicans and democrats believe climate change is real. 73% of young people, 76% of nonwhites believe it. 76% of college educated whites. that sounds like the democratic party. are republicans on safe ground continuing to deny the existence of global warming? >> no, they are not. in the short term it will benefit them. we can see republicans are focused on short term, on 2014 right now because they know they have very slim chances in 2016. they are focused on state issues at the local level. but what i think that democrats need to do is we need to better educate people and talk about climate change a little bit differently. we need to talk about impacts. when i was in new jersey growing up this is why regulation is important and why we should keep air and water clean. i remember having syringes wash up on the jersey shore.

you were afraid to get in the water because you could be stuck. that is why this matters. we need to remind people anytime you have asthma your air quality is affected. if your child is rushed to the emergency room that is because of asthma. if power plants are great why doesn't anybody want to live by them? your property veil value goes down. let's bring in a scientist. to the point that tara was making, is there a way to talk about climate change and global warming that gets to the real world effects and what could happen to you? you meaning the collective you. do we have michael? i think we might not have him. i don't think we have michael. without having our scientist just seeing him makes me feel a lot more scientifically sound in my judgment. is there a way democrats are failing to talk about this in red states that isn't allowing progress with other

constituents? actually with voters who used to be democrats, the sort of reagan democrat. is there a way democrats should be talking about climate change differently to those kinds of voters? >> absolutely. if you look at a state like louisiana there is a gas plant in louisiana where the people around it have this high incidents of cancer. they have tried for years to get governor jindal to talk to them and meet with them and he refused. the president has taken that issue on. they need to go to the communities where people are directly affected by the issues, build coalitions. the reason why it is okay to distance in the short term while educating on the issue is because we have to build to the point where people understand the gravity of these issues. and it has to be consistent. democrats we have a tendency to jump around. we have to continue like republicans. republicans have been talking about benghazi forever. you ask them what they had for breakfast and they will say benghazi. we have to have the commitment

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from south america through puerto rico. despite the stepped up efforts why is the u.s. losing its war on drugs? is it time to completely rethink the strategy. eugene the writer, producer and director of "the house i live in." we were talking about the reasons why it should be self-evident that the war has been a failure. why do you suppose politicians are still so married to it? >> you have to follow the money. at the end of the day this is an industry of mass incarceration which bases itself to make money on the incarceration of fellow human beings. anytime you see a system costing the taxpayer a huge amount of money and has nothing to show for 40 years of excessive policies, something is driving that train. and the answer here is the money into the pockets of politicians into the campaigns from those who profit. >> there is a very specific population that is more

targeted. this is people of color, young, black and brown men being funneled into a prison system that is quite profitable. how profitable are we talking? >> $51 billion a year is spent on the war on drugs. $51 billion thrown into a hole in the ground that has made america the world's largest jailer with 2.3 million people behind bars. drugs being cheaper, pure, more available and used by younger and younger people. it is a record of total failure. it is changing. the good news is that the war on drugs is beginning to end. we have seen states across the country, california, colorado, washington, new york, other states rein in in the extraordinary acts. the federal government in the person of the president and attorney general saying we don't believe in the drug war anymore. look at the fact that the drug war having failed is the only

thing that the kochs and obama agree on. you don't help the country by wasting money and making communities less safe. >> as law enforcement matter it is actually important to roll this back. >> law enforcement people know you don't make a community safer by distracting cops when you should be looking at where the real threats lie, where real help can be brought. we have seen tragedies happening with out of control violence. i wonder how distracted the cops were policing some poor nonviolent 14-year-old kid for a marijuana charge that racks up points for the cop at the end of the month but doesn't rack up moral points and when he goes to heaven and making society better. >> you actually have a campaign called just say no to the war on drugs. i want to play a clip of the psa that you guys have put together. >> america's public enemy number

one is drug abuse. >> american people want their government to get tough and go on the offensive. >> you will be put away and put away for good. three strikes and you are out. >> of course, the voices you heard were voices of presidents, the voices of the federal government at large. do you think the federal government is an impetment. states are doing a lot. is the federal government still in the way? >> i think what is really in the way is the fear of congress people as being perceived as soft on crime. these guys got to get the memo. the country has already spoken. the country in states across the country no longer support the approach to marijuana, no longer support putting their friends

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the image of armed men in the street, crowding public places with very visible, very large weapons. when you see images like these around the world you understand the message that is being sent as a show of force. an assertion of the armed man's lethal authority over your and over the police and over the government. that's the universally understood message behind images like these in somalia, in iraq or in ukraine. so my question to the groups of

civilians shown here on video obtained by mother jones and not independently verified by msnbc prowling the streets, parking lots and fast food restaurants in american cities, particularly in texas, what message are you trying to send? is it i am going to make you aware of my armed presence and like it or not you better be nice. what if the police show up? is the message they better be nice, too, and careful. what message was this group trying to send by following this marine down the street and video taping his license plate? what is the message behind releasing personal information of people who call 911. what if a group of black men try this tactic? is the intended message friendly? because there is nothing friendly about a gun whose entire designed purpose is to kill. these people love their guns but do they love them so much that they have become blind to how

ordinary people react to the sight of an armed person let alone a group of them. particularly in a country where mass shootings occur regularly in ordinary places like the movie theater or school or on the street. if the message is to tell criminals that if you try anything these civilians won't wait for cops to arrive, they will shoot you dead, aren't civilians getting the same message? why should we entrust our security to a bunch of random armed men on the street rather than trained law enforcement? we don't have to speculate on what most americans think. the huffington post polled this very question and found 55% to 32% americans say they want restaurants and retailers to keep guns out. that includes 48% of independents. and home depot's decision to do what chipotle and jack and the box and starbucks and other restaurant trains wouldn't allowing open carry groups to hang around parking lots

produced a fierce back lash this weekend with people online demanding grills, not guns and even threatening a boycott. on friday even the national rifle association through its institute for action asked the gun activist to stop scaring the hell out of people in public releasing a statement that said as gun owners whether or not our decisions are dictated by law we are still accountable for them. the statement continued, if we exercise poor judgment our decisions will have consequences such as turning an undecided voter into antigun voter. fear or offense. that must be the message they are trying to send. that wraps things up for "the reid report." i will see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. "the cycle" is up next. >> happy monday to you. powerful essay there. that makes me proud you are on

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