at climate change, but the democrats want no part of it. what is the political strategy for 2014 and beyond? good morning. i'm chris jansing and beginning with the u.s. army ready to launch a high level inquiry into the ka capture and disappearance of sergeant bowe bergdahl. it is confirmed that he walked away from the outpost without a weapon and just a compass and a water. and in a nine-day search operation, six soldiers died. he could face criminal charges if he were found guilty of misconduct, and nbc news confirm ed the army inquiry this morning, and earlier than that, president obama defended the questions to secure his release on the first leg of the four-day v visit to europe. the president stood by the decision to exchange five taliban detainees for bergdahl despite the allegations that he had abbandoned the post in afghanistan. >> regardless of the circumstances, whatever those

circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back if he is held in captivity, period. full stop. we don't condition that. >> meantime, calls in congress are growing louder to investigate with the republicans in the house and the senate calling for hearings. >> if it were you, given what you know now, would you have brought him home given this circumstances? >> no, i would not have given the taliban five which are four serious commanders likely to return to the battlefield. >> and i want to bring in david who was held captive for the taliban until his escape in 2009, and also by the chicago sun-times bureau chief, and none of us knows all of the facts here, but how much of this is politics, and how much of this

is going to be a legitimate inquiry of what actually went on? >> well, there should be an inquiry, and i understand all of the questions that surround this, and the anger of the soldiers that served with him. i just wish there was some time, some time to sort of, you know, hear from bergdahl what happened when het got there. and there was a statement from the people in his hometown of hailey, idaho, talking about the american tradition of due process and letting it. so there should be a process and bowe should speak about what happened. if he left that base, he made a terrible mistake, and i guarantee you, i know from my own captivity he regret was he did. he had five horrible years with the taliban and the soldiers died looking for him will haunt him for the rest of his life. so, you nknow, he is not taking this lightly and this is not lightly the impact on him either. so it is, i feel that we need more time and more facts. >> and the administration, lynn, and let me get your take on this, because they are walking the line.

you had the pictures of the president and the bowe bergdahl's parents and their understandably emotional news conference, and now you have all of this pushback. and word of an inquiry, and did the administration anticipate this? >> well, if they did not, they should have, chris, because this is just the kind of situation that the intersection of diplomatic negotiation and the release of guantanamo and the holding of prisoners there that is the type of situation that is not only legitimately right for inquiry, but eagerly pursued by the house and the senate. and david said, yes, a lot of questions raised and step one, what is the process at the white house used and in the sense that it is separate from bergdahl, and two, what happened? why did it happen that he left the base. so there are two tracks of inquiry here. >> and maybe we can get some insight into the second question for sure, and i want to bring in retired army first class jose

baguette who served with him. and we appreciate your time, and thank you for joining us. >> it is definitely not sergeant first class, but private. i got out on a private. i want to the clear that up. >> we will fix that for you, and in the meantime, you knew bowe bergdahl and you have described him not as a friend, but somebody that you had a professional relationship with as somebody you served in the same company, and what can you tell us about him? >> what i know from him, i was a different platoon from him, but from what i had heard from the oher platoon members, he was a quiet guy and never got in trouble and a quiet guy and not a bad soldier, and so obviously came as a shock when he walked off and left his guard post. >> can you tell us about the conversations within the company when that happened? >> well, talk of, there was all kinds of rumors going around and

none of it is actual factual information, because there is not a investigation done on bowe since he has been back, but words that he deliberately wanted to leave the post, because he felt that the way that we were fighting the war and in afghanistan wasn't proper. it was not something that he agreed with. i don't know to what justification that led to him leaving his guard post and leaving his sector fire open. and leaving his entire platoon open to attack possibly. he, you know, there is all of the media people saying that, you know, he was kidnapped from the latrine or a bar or all of the lies, and things that like, he had a cell phone with him, and nobody was allowed to have cell phones and there was not a latrine, and there were three general orders and one of them is i will not leave my post until properly relieve and he obviously did that purposefully and walked off into the night. >> well, it sounds like based on the fact that you are

acknowledging all of the rumors and perhaps conflicting stories about what happened that you agree with general dempsey at least to the extent that he's innocent until proven guilty? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, i'm not going to call anyone a traitor or anyone anything until the facts are put out there properly. i'm no longer in the military anymore, but i do have confidence that they will debrief him properly and question him and find out what really happened while he was there. i mean, he was an american soldier and still is, so we can't leave anybody behind, but to be labeling him as a hero when all he really did was to just leave his guard post and get real here e s -- heroes

killed like lieutenant andrews, my commander at the time, and lieutenant martinek,and those are those influential and not just leaving the guard post and messing things up. >> and do you think that the circumstances of him leaving does make a difference? because there is an argument that is being made that it doesn't matter what happened, we have a policy in this country, every soldier needs to know that whatever happens, that we don't leave them behind, and there is go ing to be a search for you, and we will try to find you. do you believe that in as a sort of unbreakable policy? >> i believe so, yes. that is one of the things, he is one of our brothers and blackfoot company, and everyone in it, every one of us, they were fantastics and great soldiers and brothers to each other and we never would have

wanted to leave anyone behind or anythi anything. we would never like some media outlets said that we left him on a mission, and stuff like that. and that is just not how we operated. it is that we were brotherhood of friends, and we were a family for each other. so, of course, we would have to get our soldiers back and bring them back to america. we wouldn't want that to happen to anybody. i wouldn't want somebody to be caught with the taliban for five years. i mean from what the video they have shown, you nknow, they had given him writing utensils to write with and eat iing and he didn't look like he was being tortured or anything, but he still away from his family and still away from the american soil. so i mean, obviously, definitely, you know, as a, you know, as a veteran, i believe that we should definitely have him back here in america, but whether or not he should be seeking or be getting the ucmj action for leaving the guard post and disobeying orders and

possibly who knows what else he might have done when he was with them, and that is something that has to be investigate and if he did do wrong, and i mean, leaving the guard post is to me, definitely something wrong, ucmj action should be taken, i believe. >> private first class jose baguette, thba baggette, thank you so much for joining us. now, back to you, david and lynn, there is a lot in that interview, but here you have somebody in captivity released for three days, and what is going on with him right now and would he be aware at this point in time, and would they consider asking him the kinds of questions that would involve this type of inquiry? >> i don't know if they would, because i am not an expert on the military process for that, but there were three american contractors held in colombia for five years and they went through the same process and it is slow.

they don't reintroduce people to the families quickly. >> in the news conference, i was surprised when the parents said they haven't spoken to him. >> and this is normal compared to the past case in colombia, and there were language issues, because they had been speaking spanish constantly through the five years. that is the thing that the politics have been moving quickly and legitimate questions of people asking what happened and what he did that night at that base. and yet, it is a very slow pace in terms of the, i think of him talking about this to the military. >> and to the question of i think that the process and what happened here, hillary clinton weighed in on the controversy for the first time echoing the president's sentiments, and let me play that for you. >> this young man, whatever the circumstances, was an american, is an american citizen and was s serving in our military, and, you know a lot of to closest allies do prisoner exchanges to

get our p.o.w.s back all of the time. >> and so, i guess that, lynn, part of the question is, is this about no soldier left behind or does this prisoner exchange represent a shift in a longstanding policy of what we call not ne goegotiating with t terrorists? >> well, i think that hillary clinton there, chris, walk ed a fine line in trying to minimize this and make it seem routine. this was not a routine p.o.w. for p.o.w. this was taking guantanamo prisoners who were there because they are terrorists or suspected of terrorism, and this is not just war to war and nation to nation. she might be a little vulnerable in the way she tried to exchange this situation. and is this a change of policy? one tof the reasons that congres is interested in the inquiry, because there are people of good faith that say that this was went over the line in the way

that the president negotiated and i'm not shure he did, but i am saying that is the question out there that congress will want answered. >> david rohde and lynn sweet, thank you both. i want to go to bowe bergdahl's hometown of hailey, idaho, who find themselves in the middle of the exploding controversy over the release. and janet shamlian is there, and what is the reaction to the reactions that he abandoned the post and five taliban detainees released who may be dangerous, and the criticism that other american soldiers gave their li lives in the search for him. >> you know, chris, it is a little bit off puttingoffputtin. because they say one of their own has been released and they say, if it is your child, you would not care of the conditions he or she is released, but you would be celebrating they are out. it has tempered the celebration a little bit. this is what some of the

residents told us. >> it is going to be a big celebration, and i feel it definitely happening. >> everybody is excited to see him. i'm excited, because just to see him drive down the road. >> we don't know how the capture or the reasons for, but it is a sad thing. we are not all strong or tough, but it is war. war is not something to be fun abou about. >> and the city of hailey, took the unusual step of issuing a news release yesterday because they say they were slammed with e-mails and tweets and phone calls and very negative in nature and people critical of the celebration planned, and this is part of the release. the city of hailey respectfully requests that people do not pre-judge this young man. the city of hailey believes in due process and we are very happy to let the process unfold. in the meantime, our celebration will focus on the bowe bergdahl release, and the relief of his family and those who live here. that celebration is planned for

the end of the month, and folks here who know bowe, and they have never let down the hope of his return and the yellow ribbons have been up for five years, and they are really trying to i.v. leave the politics aside. chris, back to you. >> nbc's janet shamlian, thank you for that. checking the newsfeed, federal investigators have recovered the black box from the weekend plane crash that killed seven people. among the victims philadelphia enquirer co-owner william cats. the cob pith and data recorders are e 45eded to washington for analysis. they say that the captain and the co-pilot had significant flight experience. this morning a fugitive san francisco p.r. executive is under arrest. police caught up with ryan chamberlain near the golden state bridge after police say he was wanted after police found explosives inside of his home. he is well known in the bay eara in political circles having worked on several campaign, and we expect to find out more about

the charges against him in a news conference in the next hour. in new jersey, the latest hearing on the george washington bridge scandal, and today, scheduled to testify before the legislators is the commissioner of the port authority who is also a republican with a history in state politics, william schuber, and he was asked why the lanes were closed in the days that followed, but they got no answer. as many as 35 million people in line for severe weather. the plains and the mississippi valley will see thunderstorms packing high straitline winds and hail. nebraska has the greatest threat of tornadoes and the threat extends into tomorrow as well. president obama firming up relations with europe, and he is on the ground in warsaw pledging $1 billion in aid and the beefed up military there. and will the controversy of sergeant bergdahl overshadow the trip? >> and a hog castrating

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president obama this morning pledging friendship and protection to the allies in poland as he kicks off the three thre three-country, five-day european trip this morning. it is centered around a rescheduled g-7 meeting which is meant to shore up support for the allies with focus on russia and ukraine. and the president plans to move more military forces to europe temporarily. >> i am calling on congress to approve up to $1 billion the p support this effort which is going to be a powerful demonstration of america's unshakable commitment to our nato allies.

every ally has to carry their share and truly invest in the capabilities of the alliance needed for the future. >> i'd like to bring in steve clemons, washington editor the at large of the atlantic, and msnbc contributor. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> obviously, the backdrop of the trip is the situation in crimea and ukraine. >> of course, we focussed on the situation in ukraine, because pols know more than most how precious freedom is, and we agree that further russian provocation is going to be met with further cost of russia, and including if necessary, additional sanctions. >> and a reminder, this was supposed to be g-8 and in sochi, and all of that changed obviously, but it is worth mentioning, too, that vladimir putin is going to be meeting with german chancellor angela merkel in france, and what is the status of all of this sand where are we right now? sglel e wshgts it is--

>> well, it is a reassurance trip, and the president is meeting leaders of poland and eastern europe, and the white house put out an announcement today talking about the programs weighted towards the new allies in nato, but then another section that also said that our close friends in quotes, georgia, moldova and ukraine will be brought further into the alignment with nato-like activiti activities, and so what the president is there to do is to sort of show that we are ta tethered to europe's future, and also, a g-7 meeting, because the g-8 does not exist formally right now in brussels, and this is the 65th anniversary of d-day and if launch into normandy for which president putin is also in europe. so to two of them are dancing around these countries simultaneously, and the president is not giving an inch to vladimir putin, but vladimir putin is dancing around president obama's activities.

>> and in the meantime, you have bowe bergdahl's story dominating the headlines not just here, but also abroad with the bcc questioning if his release is go ing to embolden the enemies and the daily mail says that bowe bergdahl deserted and the americans lost their lives search ing f searching for him, and an italian newspaper calling it a victory for the taliban, and these are allied forces. >> yes, they were allied with us in afghanistan fighting the taliban and fighting al qaeda, but what the white house has not done yet but what they will begin doing in tilting the bergdahl story is not creating the trade of five taliban leaders for one american, but it is what is happening next in afghanistan and are we going to be finding a different strategic course with the taliban which is going to be incumbents in the country to play a big role. i have been surprised at the

white house not stepping up to talk about the potential strategic potential frame of the strategy, because we are leaving afghanistan and the drawing down, and the president is talking about virtually no sources in 2016, and the taliban is going to remain and we have to negotiate that way out, and this could have been a important confidence-balancing measure with the taliban and it could go wrong, but it is important to consider it with other measures. >> thanks so much for being on the show. >> thank you, chris. and now, what is running far and far away from the president's epa plan. and one of the most clipable headlines in "the new york times", why you hate work" and what employers can do to make workers happy.

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cut pork. >> joni ernst will take aim at wasteful spending and once she sets her sights on obamacare, joni is going to unload. oh, and one more thing, joni, does not miss much. >> and i want to bring in the nbc news political reporter k kasie hunt, and world news and reporter david catanese and jennifer jacobs from the "des moines register" poll. and this shows that ernst is 18 point points ahead of the closest competitor mark jacobs and sheep needs 35% to avoid a state convention to determine a nominee, and how much of the ads are the reason that she is ah d ahead? >> probably quite a bit. she was struggling to raise money a couple of months ago and then the ads hit, and suddenly she popped to the forefront and got the national buzz which led to attention here in iowa and

here in the last few weeks that the consensus has been starting to gel around her. >> and throughout the campaign, david, i think that she has shown at least her supporters would argue that she is showing an ability to unite the wings of the republican party, and sarah palin has endorsed her and mitt romney campaigned with her, and senator marco rubio with her last week. let me play some of that. >> she has an incredible amount of credibility on the national issues, and we will need that, because this foreign policy of the president is a di ssaster, d she as proven track record of conservative activism and the votes in the state senate and she does not talk about repealing obamacare, but she has done it in the past p a, and wew she will do it in the future. >> and david, what about her to do that? >> well, convenient for marco rubio to get involved when he said he wouldn't get involved in the senate primaries, but did in the one in iowa. there is authenticity about her, and i watched her in the debate

one night where the opponent went after her while she supported a gas tax and she said, i screwed up. i made a bad vote. how often do you hear the candidates be so honest and there is awe then tis tis that resonates and the only candidate to get the chamber of commerce and the senate conservative fund and the two wings of the party to agree and sarah palin and mitt romney and as you mentioned, it is quite remarkable, but there is also a weakness on the self-funding candidate. remember mark jacobs is running seco second, and the self-funder, and people just say that he didn't really run the campaign that he needed to, and he once had the polling lead, because he had the most money, and had the most ads on the air, but he could not close the deal, and many people make the parallel to the c campaign that mitt romney had in 2007 where he put a lot of money on the air in iowa, but he did not connect on the ground like ernst did. >> and looking at the mississippi race between thad

cochran and the tea party-bacedd candidate mcdaniel. and it turned dirty when pictures of cochran's bed-ridden wife turned up. what impact there? >> well, it has dominated the pages here, but it is going to be unclear in the final day how is it going to break here. it is clear that many people have gotten more disgusted with the race over that, but on the ther han-- other hand, it has energized some supporters of mcdaniel who say it is unfair attack. and one reason that some people are getting involved in the race is because they view it as unfair attack by established republicans on somebody who had tea party support. so mcdaniel has moved away from the sort of trying to litigate it in public for a long time when his campaign was in the

ekts tended back and forth with the cochran campaign that many view viewed as a bad decision on his part. now, i asked him about it yesterday, and he just says that, you know, it is a distraction and it is keeping us from talking about the real issues. >> and there is a question of cochran's age, and i want to play what both candidates said yesterday in the final full day of campaigning. take a listen. >> now, senator cochran has been there 42 years. and mississippi has remained dead last in almost every indicator for 42 years. it is time for a change. when he went to washington in 1973, richard nixon was president of the united states. that was a different time. it was a different era. perhaps at that time it was fashionable to spend money recklessly. >> i think that i've been successful in representing mississippi's economic interests and our interests in getting a fair share of the federal program dollars that are yused

nationwide. and we have been involved in helping to make those decisions as a member of the appropriations committee, and i think that we have had a fair allocation of funding, and i'm glad to claim credit for some of that. >> and david, how much of a factor is this age issue? >> well, the age issue sort of harkens back to the 2012 primary in indiana when senator dick lugar and you heard the same type of charge, time to bring him home. he has been there long enough and it worked there, but it is not an exact parallel, but it is sort of to most salient one to the past example. if you talk to cochran people, they are openly a little nervous about getting their folks revved up. it seems like the mcdaniel folks are more motivated to get to the polls today, and you have one report that says that cochran was actually advertising in a mostly black newspaper down there, and that would indicate he is trying to look for the

democratic votes, and that is not a heartening strategy if you are a cochran fan. the polls show that this is a ve very, very close single-digit race. but, you know, if you talk about the motivation and people that are motivated, it is probably the advantages on the mcdaniel side. >> david, kasie and jennifer, we are watching closely tonight. thank you to all of you. checking the newsfeed, the syrians are voting today in a presidential election and the country's first multicandidate election in more than 50 years. current president bashar al assad is expected to win. it comes amid a three-year civil war in which activists say killed more than 160,000 people. and the opposition is calling the vote a sham. president obama is taking a new approach to deal with the influx of children who enter the u.s. illegally on their own. the department of homeland security and fema will lead a new group to better coordinate services and care for the children. administration officials say

they have caught 90% more unaccompanied minors this year than last, and most of them c e coming from the countries facing violent drug wars. in the wake of the v.a. scandal today, a group will introduce the veterans choice act to allow them to seek appointments outside of the v.a. system. senators mccain, and coburn and flake and burr will host a news conference this afternoon. they are saying that the v.a. was covering up how long the vets were waiting for care. and that led to the resignation of v.a. secretary shinseki. panera bread is taking steps to remove all artificial additives, and mandy drury is here to move the money. and mandy, this is oa movement that we are seeing for a while and a lot of companies going in this direction. >> yes, and panera is another one. we are aware of the food and the ingredients that we buy, and in particular, millennials.

and so panera is going to dump all of the additives out, which means no artificial colors, sweeteners or you name it, and the beverages are targeted next. i believe that panera is working to remove the high fructose corn syrup from a lot of the beverage, but keep in mind that panera was also among the first ten years ago, chris, to restrict the chicken to those who don't have anti-buy yoltics and voluntarily posted the calorie counts on the menu boards and one of the first there, and as you say other chain cans like starbucks and chipotle are aware of what is in the food and pushing to make it healthier and reduce the artificial additives and hopefully others will go the same way. >> thank you, mandy drury. >> after the break, we will dig into coal country politics. ♪

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emissions from power plants. alison grimes and natalie tenet who is running for senate in west virginia are among the few. and right now, the senatorial campaign committee is hitting vot voters in four energy-rich state, virginia, louisiana, colorado and alaska and the states where the democrats face the tough re-elections. let us bring in the strategists. nationally syndicated radio talk show host steve deace and the grio's goldie taylor. >> i will stand up to anybody who tries to undermine our coal job jobs. and alison lunder gren grimes said that the epa is more proof that washington is not working for kentucky. coal keeps the lights on in kentucky and providing the way for thousands of kentuckians to provide food on the tables. and how rils ki was the decision by the administration for the democrats in these key states?

>> and you know, in the energy-rich states like louisiana and kentucky where the democrats are going to have a tough time. >> so a mistake? >> well, i think it is a misstep. i don't think that the policy, itself, was a mistake, but the timing is bad given what these democrats need to accomplish in this fall election, and so, you know, we could have been a little bit more thoughtful of how the politics are going to be playing out, and for some of the states to craft their own epa policies based on their state's menu needs to cut the carbon emission, and i a agree with that, because we have a role the play in that, and in the states, that is where the laboratories are to take place, but in term s of the timing, i have a real question for putting some of the democrats on the line, this fall election with this kind of issue. >> and there are democrats who believe that the risks are overstated and according to the washington post, 77% of the

respondents say that the government should reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in their states, and when showed if states should, it shows agreement across the party lines, and 76% of independents and 57% republicans and 79% of democrats. and steve, last year, in coal rich virginia, a republican won. so is this something they should bank on? >> well, it is the ultimate poll before we get to election day is the candidates whose futures are on the line react to the policies. you look at alison grimes and she is in a winnable seat. we had a primary in kentucky and 90,000 more people voted in the uncontested primary than mcconnell had in his primary against matt bevan and she is in a winnable race in a not strong year for democrats and she is

taking a hostile opposition to the policy. and look at natalie and the way she is handling it in tennessee. and i don't believe that grimes and tenants are going to be the only ones, because you will see contested races in arkansas and virginia and all over the country, and they will use the clips from grimes and tennant and saying that obama is a jobs killer, and listen to his own candidates a and that is going the come to roost in november. >> and that is exactly what we heard from reince priebus attacking the president saying that this regulation is going to kill jobs and force the energy rates to skyrocket and no wonder that president obama is circumventing congress to implement the latest job killing regulation. >> and goldiegoldie, with this badly timed, what is the democr

democratic response now? >> well, it is going to be tough, and we would have expected the anti-regulation talk, 2 and killing of the jobs and the siphoning of neighborhoods that never comes, but i do believe in smart regulation and this policy certainly represents that, and how the democrats themselves message themselves around that remains to be seen. state by state, and the individual senate candidates and the gooufr natorial candidates need to make the politics local and distance themselves from the national party to make it happen, but on the other hand, they have to themselves, take a strong look at what is happening in the states and begin to understand that it is a conversion to solar and wind power is going to be more sustainable for their communities or our future for the economic future as a country. and so on the one hand, i beg to differ with the timing of this, and the policy, itself, the democrats have to embrace and get behind and begin to talk to like-mind republicans and bring them to our side on this smart regulation is good regulation.

>> well, this is not anticipated, because they understood the political implication implications and had a conference call with the american lung association, and take a listen. >> i promise you, you will hear from critics who say that the same thing they always say, that these guidelines will kill jobs or crush the economy. what we have seen every time is that these claims are debunked when you give the workers the tools and incentives they need to innovate. >> and steve, the supporters of the regulations make an economic argument saying that there is a huge cost in not doing it. look at what is going on around the country, and everything from fire and drought and the expens that incurs and not the mention the environmental impact and the fact that coal is not a renewable source of energy. so is that a strong argument to be made against the republicans? >> no. i think that frankly, this is the last president that we have had in the last few generations that should claim that he has

any expertise on the job e creation. look at california which is a haven for the kinds of policies that the president supports and for the first time since 2008, their unemployment rate is under 9% and that is six years, but the two industries that are credited for why they are growing jobs is education and health care which have nothing to do with the sorts of the green energy technology, so sit is not just conservative criticism here. i mean, you look at the headlines that we are seeing, chris, and the washington post headline today that it is bad news for the coal state democrats and the hill, and they have a headline in the last 448 hour, and obama's poll numbers may sink the democratic nominees nationwide and the atlantic, has world lost faith of obama and this is not coming from the steve deace or red day or news max, but from the mainstream liberal media, and that is to defend the national narrative against obama and this fall, and they are clearly on the defensive. >> thank you, both. today's tweet of the day

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a sports note now. hall of fame quarterback dan marino is the latest group of players to file a concussion-related lawsuit against the nfl. marino and 14 others in the lawsuit accuse the nfl of misleading them of the long term effects of concussions, and now there are more than 4500 players suing the league, and last august the nfl agreed to a $765 million settlement with the original group, but a judge reject rejected it, because she said that it was not enough money, and that is one that we will be follow following. >> to politics now, where this morning in chicago, reds dents are adjusting to the idea that the first family may not move back after 2016. politico reporting that the president is considering a new york address.

after his term ends. in 1981, president obama lived in new york city while he was at colombia university. and you won't believe this, one of the candidates running for congress in arizona is named see czar chavez. scott fistler changed his name in 2013 because of, quote, many hardships and that is according to the "arizona republic." >> and oliver stone, remember him? excited to direct a movie about the nsa whistle-blower edward snowden, and stone said, this is one tof the greatest stories of our times. and it has been announced that the producers of james bond was going to bring glennn greenwald's book to the silver screen, so there you have it, two snowden movies going ahead and it should be interesting. that is going to wrap up this

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>> let me make a simple point here, and that is regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american so soldier back if he is held in captivity, period. full stop. in terms of potential threats, the release of the taliban who were being held in guantanamo and we have confidence that we will be in a position to go after them if in fact they are engaging in activities that threaten our defenses. >> as the president defends the deal, there is growing anger directed at bergdahl and much of it coming from the very soldiers who served with him. >> he is not a hero. he left his post and willfully decided to be selfish and walk away from everything that we were trained to actually do. >> he became very disillusioned with what actual combat was and

what it was like over there and that is when he started to drift. >> the biggest problem is the publicizing of the possibility of him being a hero, and it is also upsetting to me that after being in afghanistan, having detained other high value target thes and things like these commanders, and you know, it was really hard for the unit and not easy to do, and you let them go for somebody who you are saying that you know that walked away, it is not right. >> and the mayor of bergdahl's hometown of hailey, idaho, issued a statement saying that the people should not pre-judge this young man and our celebration is focusing on bowe bergdahl's release and the family and the careful facts reveal that bowe bergdahl should face consequences in a united states courtroom, then the united states should do what it believes is necessary. also,