her. joni ernst. >> passed an ordinance that bumps the minimum wage up to $15 an hour, the hide highist in the nation. >> the west is referring to this as a sham election. >> beyond the syrian regime, nobody in the region is taking it seriously. >> bergdahl's freedom wasn't free, obama negotiated bergdahl's return in exchange for five detainees held at guantanamo bay. he can't release these guys, we're this close to charging them with something. >> when an american soldier deserts, should that change the lengths we go to to save them? that's the question from capitol hill to the pentagon to the ranks of men and women defending our country. president obama is poland

focusing on our relationships with eastern europe. the big questions seem to be about sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back if he's held in captivity, period. full stop. we don't condition that. >> the new revelations are raising the political stakes of holding that line. u.s. army is rendering an inquiry into the circumstances of his disappearance and men women who served alongside the sergeant are sharing tales of a young soldier who was anything but loyal to the war effort. >> we were all in it together over there. and he broke that bond by leaving us. you're going to let these guys go for somebody who you're already saying you know walked away, that's just not right. >> soldiers say he left his weapons behind and slipped out of his camp in the middle of the

night, leaving months of searching that may have resulted in the deaths of other soldiers. an e-mail home to his parents quoted by the rolling stone chronicled what might have been going through bergdahl's head. he said i'm ashamed to even be american. the horror of the self-righteous arrogance they thrive in is revolting. does that change how we treat sergeant bergdahl? here is general barry mccaffrey. >> good to be with us. >> if a soldier deserts should that change the resources we put into finding him or her? >> first of all, desertion has precise level meaning, so does awol. let's back off -- >> we have to determine whether that's exactly the case. that will be the subject of this investigation. >> yeah, did he intend to forever absent himself from military control? that's desertion, we almost never charge that. you can't prove it. what is not a new inquiry

factually is he left his post in a period of armed combat, unarmed, whether it was under the influence of drugs or self-radicalized or whether he intended to walk free in the mountains or join the taliban, that will be the revealed. but he abandoned his post and that stopped military operations for a considerable period of time during which we had troops killed or wounded trying to recover him. and so now we've gotten him back, one can debate the cost or the five most dangerous people in our control being released. but i think what bothers people is having our commander in chief on television putting a glow of u for ya around this guy and followed with susan rice, such a brilliant person, having him served with hon aror and distinction when they knew this

wasn't the case. we had general dempsey issue a statement that says back off the debate. we've got to figure out what's going on -- >> he made a similar point to the point you made earlier, this needs to be an internal review and subject to the conditions of the uniform military code of justice. like any american, he's innocent until proven guilty. of course, referring to sergeant bergdahl. our army's leadsers will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. there's some possibility of discipline. do you think sergeant bergdahl will be court-martialed? >> i don't know. the inquiry will have to decide what the facts were of his mindset will be a legitimate part of inquiry. but look, if the army doesn't take action and general dempsey is not in the chain of command, not a convening authority, the president is. he should not have appeared and contaminated the chain of command's view of this case. at the end of the day we don't

want mr. bergdahl who did walk away from his post in armed combat, ending up as a medically retired staff sergeant with a check for several hundred thousand bucks and permanent retirement. >> you raise a lot of really important questions, among them the fate of those five individuals who have been released from guantanamo bay. general barry mccaffrey, appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> there is a renewed debate about the release of the prisoners and about america's larger legacy in afghanistan. this is one of the big points of contention surrounding this story. chief foreign correspondent richard engel is outside of the hospital he's following this story for us and also of course spent years reporting on afghanistan. richard, bergdahl supposedly deserted his post expressing some very serious and dark doubts about america's broader role in afghanistan. have you sensed those being echoed by other troops? >> sure, i've spoken to many

troops over the year who are not happy with -- over the years not happy with the war, weren't happy with the war with where they were serving. but they didn't walk away from guard duty, leave their weapon behind and leave the other soldiers who were standing next to them more exposed. it's one thing to be upset with the war and not to reenlist. it's another and every soldier pretty much will agree with in, to walk away in the middle of an armed situation. this is 2009 in afghanistan, very dangerous area, clearly lots of enemy fighters in the area because it didn't take long before he was picked up. >> he knew on some level what he might be getting into? >> r. >> reporter: there's absolutely no way he could have not known what he was getting into. this is a very dangerous area, still a dangerous area frankly. it would have been absolutely clear to any soldier there that if they walked off the base and

start started roeming the mountains rng, they were going to quickly run into a bad situation. no possible way to look at it otherwise. >> in addition to the desertion itself, what kind of questioning of the release of these five individuals from guantanamo bay are you seeing amongst the military officials and military personnel you're in touch with? >> reporter: in general the commanding officers and soldiers we've been speaking to believe that you should go out and rescue american troops, that p.o.w.s should be a priority and you should go and find them. pretty much regardless of what they did, not everyone has to be a hero. and i've spoken to a lot of soldiers believe it should be a priority, could be them. they don't want to be blamed for his specific disappearance and they are not happy that militant leaders are released in exchange for him. they saw a young soldier who

walked away from his post and cost lives and cost the release of several top taliban leaders. in general there's not a lot of satisfaction. there's sympathy with not being for the war but not sympathy for walking away from your post. >> that lack of satisfaction you described as being echoed in a big way in washington. richard engel, thanks for that report. as we mentioned, this other line of questioning that president obama faces today is ever more divisive and intense, a firestorm really at this point over the detainees being released for bergdahl's freedom. let's talk about them for a second. they are the so-called guantanamo five. they've been released to the government of qatar, which says they are going to be monitored but the u.s. government has a do you thinkty duty to monitor too. president obama spoke to that duty today. >> 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. >> that may not be enough to aswaj critics on capitol hill, some of them newly inflamed by the allegations about the way in which bergdahl disappeared. >> if it were you, given what you know now, would you have brought him home? >> not under these circumstances. i won't have given the taliban -- four are serious commanders likely to return to the battlefield. >> joining me from washington, associate editor and senior correspondent for the "washington post" and excellent reporter on these issues. also the author of "little america", the war within the war for afghanistan. let's talk about who the men are. they are not al qaeda, they are taliban. that's a distinction that we should be aware of, right? >> look, these are not good people by any stretch of the imagination. some of them presided over the slaughter of thousands of their fellow afghans in the late 90s.

and they had sympathies towards al qaeda but they are not al qaeda leaders in an of themselves. >> and this idea of negotiating with the taliban in general, do you think that's something that is falling out of favor? i remember back around 2009, richard holbrook ushered in the idea and leading negotiations for bergdahl's release. it now seems it's more of a at a boo, this extraordinarily divisive action on the hill. is there any chance america will accept this idea? >> ronan, you know this well from your diplomatic work, but we should remember, yes, it's always been a controversial issue, negotiating with the taliban. but it's been something that's been supported by the president on down. and it is stated u.s. policy, unless the majority of americans of this country want to keep on fighting in afghanistan for years to come and all of the public opinion polls show they

don't, this war is very unpopular and there is support for the president's plan to draw down forces significantly and essentially end our presence there by the end of 2016. you know, you've got to find some ways to end elements of this conflict. the afghan security forces aren't going to be able to fight this on their own. we have to remember, ronan, that this fits into the broader context of the president wanting to shut down guantanamo. this is in part an effort -- >> you think this is a first step? >> well, i think it's a step that way and hopefully -- i think my hope in all of this is this is potentially a confidence building measure between the u.s. government and evidence of the taliban leadership to then move forward to find other elements of discussion that are aimed at reducing the scope of the conflict there. >> do you think qatar can contain these individuals? will we see a security threat from them? >> qatar is say good u.s. ally in that part of the world. they have a pretty extensive security service. we should also remember that the

forward element of a u.s. central command is in that part of the world. we have a lot of u.s. intelligence people in and around that area. i think between the qataris and u.s. intelligence services, i think we'll be able to keep an eye on them. will some of them potentially return to the taliban fold? perhaps. there are no guarantees there. others have. but you know, who is our long-term enemy in afghanistan? is it elements of the taliban? some of whom are seeking some political role in that country, or is it was left of al qaeda and more extremist off-chutes of the taliban who were not associated with these five. >> right, we shouldn't let our guard down but it is true these are not perhaps as senator mccain said the hardest of the hard core. >> indeed. >> thank you. appreciate it.

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have to feel guilty about not voting but for everyone else its primary day, from new jersey to california they are heading to the polls. let's start with iowa, as washington calls it, only matters every four years. five republicans, a radio host and car salesman. the front-runner is joni ernst. she won endorsements from sarah palin to mitt romney. as you may recall, she likes

pigs. >> i'm joni ernst i grew up castrating hogs on a farm, when i get to washington i'll know how to cut pork. washington is full of big spenders, let's make them squeal. >> that ad, you guys, a political star is born. yesterday ernst got the approval of tiny water bottle owe fish nad do marco rubio. >> the whole country may watch the returns from iowa because the choice you make here could mean the difference between another two years of harry reid asthma jort leader or new day for our country. >> poor harry reid. another big race is in mississippi where the tea party has one last realistic spot in knocking off the incumbent. cochran faces chris mcdaniel in a race that's been described as nasty. the past three weeks have been

dominated by a strange story, mcdaniel supporters arrested for illegally taking pictures of cochran's wife at his nursing home. casey hunt asked him about it just yesterday. >> his campaign has tied you to a nursing home break-in. do you think that's politically motivated and do you think that those charges might be dropped after this election? >> who knows. what matters in this race are the issues. that's just another distraction, something else we wants to talk about. >> how are these races going to play out? we've got reports from jackson, michs, where casey hunt joins us and in des moines, cathy o brad vich from the des moines register. thank you for being here. cathy, did marco rubio's visit swing this election for joni ernst. >> no i think joni ernst was pulling from the pack before marco rubio touched down in des moines. she has to win 35% of the vote in iowa, that is an election rule. if nobody gets 35%, this ends up in a convention situation.

but, des moines register had a poll that showed her after 36%. i expect her total to only go up from there. >> you mentioned the convention and them not wanting it decided there. how worry are establishment republicans about the race being decided by party activists at the convention? >> i don't think they are that the worried now. i think earlier in the year there was some concern about that. there is still a republican and a democratic congressional race, however, first and third district open seats where a convention is more likely to happen. i think in this case joni ernst was 18 points ahead of her closest competitor and that seems like it's probably going to be enough to get her over the hump. >> casey, let's go to your neck of the woods. how have voters reacted to the bizarre story about the nursing home break-in? >> reporter: i think it affected voters on both sides. everyone who turned up to the cochran events that we went to

yesterday was basically disgusted and this will help us get our friends and family out to the polls. mcdaniel voters, i talked to some supporters and we went to an event in tupelo, mississippi, that suggests to me that there are some people who may be angry about this because it wasn't directly tied or not directly tied to mcdaniel's campaign, they view it as this out of the -- unacceptable attack against their guy. on the whole, this whole race has sort of disgusted a lot of people in mississippi. if anything, the nastiness of it is going to depress turnout at the end of the day. >> look, regardless of who is responsible in the end when history is told, it's a story that makes people uncomfortable and people want to blame someone. adds running in the jackson area, african-american publications praising cochran's

earmarks for some historically black colleges and his support for food stamp programs. really reaching out to that demographic. how is the mcdaniel campaign reacted? >> reporter: first, i think the mcdaniel campaign would point to that as evidence that the cochran campaign is flaling and they need to reach out to democrats and make them vote in a republican primary if they get over the hump here. i think on the flip side, there may be some concern among the african-american community in mississippi about ending up with a tea party senator. he developed relationships over a long period of time with that community. as these ads say found earmarks for historically black colleges and other priorities and senator mcdaniel may not be viewed as somebody who would be as focused on those issues. >> we'll come back to you. last word to you, cathy, what do endorsements from potential want to bes, is there a lot riding on marco rubio on the outcome of

this? >> i think those things help them get acquainted with voters. the other thing it does for the candidate is helps joni ernst. >> up next, inspiring to do something, anything about gun violence in the wake of sandy hook massacre and now on the wake of the ucsd shooting. she'll with us on the call for action. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is

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lector rat. only 24 of all state legislators. we are not making the laws and policies that can stop the shootings of mothers and daughters and we need to get involved and use our voices and votes and say we will not stand for this kind of death and destruction. >> you say women's voices need to be more involved. across the board from both genders it looks like public opinion is swaying, but swaying in favor certainly of background checks. a recent politico poll found 79% of likely voters in swing congressional districts in states support those background checks. why that discrepancy, do you think, between public opinion and what's happening in congress? >> you know, the congress that he we had the day after sandy hook, when i was galvanized to act was the same congress we had the day after. so in retrospect, to think this horrific tragedy was going to change hearts and minds

overnight was unrealistic. we have made huge inroads with american businesses just in 2014, six state legislators passed laws to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. we're winning this in the states and businesses and just like marriage equality, that momentum will bubble up and affect congress. >> one other gendered issue here in the fight, you've written actually about how hard female activists on the issue have it, the vitreal spewed, about a woman getting spat on by a gun extremist. why do you think that is? is it in fact the case that women have a harder time raising this issue? >> clearly. that's the situation i found myself in and so many other moms in my organization. when we do speak out, they attempt to intimidate us with words or their guns. we're so angry in this country now that it really has no impact on what we do. we're going to win this fight

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feeling let down by apple lately? the worldwide developers conference this week, ceo tim cook did roll out something new for the 800 million owners of iphones and ipads and ipods. >> we are not standing still. today we're announcing ios 8. >> ios 8? any bets on how much it will break our phones? ios 8 is different.

it's focused on health and home. it's going to be able to track your vitals and let you control your thermostat. will it be enough to keep apple ahead of the pack? stock dipped following the announcement and company now faces stiffer competition from companies like samsung which now holds more of the phone market than the house that steve built. what's it going to take for this apple to stay fresh again with the terrible puns, no app for that. i'm joined by cultural historian and chair of the department of media studies at the university of virginia and also kara swisher and co-executive editor and veteran tech journalists. excited to have you both here. apple is known for show casing exciting hardware innovations at this conference. why no hardware this time. do you think they succeeded in rolling out ios as an alternative taste wetter? >> it wasn't a hardware

conference. that comes in the fall. they succeeded in rolling out software, which is what the worldwide developers conference is about. there wasn't an idea that hardware was coming in. it has to be followed by hardware in the fall -- >> often they do hold ios announcements for hardware announcements. >> they weren't going to make any. never a hardware announcement made. the press can talk about it all they want, they always do it in the fall -- >> you think the one in and ono update -- >> they just did the updates and the new phones when they announce them in the fall will presumably be slightly different and probably look more like samsung, flatter and larger screens. >> that seems to be the rumor. >> in terms of how the software announces have been received, do you think they succeeded in drumming up excitement about a new installation of ios.

>> the excitement is sort of overrated these days. you know, we're constantly barraged by announcements and pseudoannouncements of the next big thing. i think it's more valuable to pull back and look at the big picture and long story. if you look at not just apple and sam sung but look at the competition between apple and google, you can even add microsoft and facebook to this, to a degree. these companies all have a long-term goal. they are looking 20 years ahead, not necessarily looking to the next quarter or next year or who owns the next device. the battle for the operating system of your computer is long over. the operating system of your tablet or phone is pretty much locked down between two or three companies. and the real question here is who's going to be the -- in control of the operating system of your life? what you saw with apple yesterday is a move into real

life, into mastering, monitoring and monday tiesing the data flows that go through various aspects of our life, whether that's the thermostat in our house or various devices we use to measure heart rate and calories burned and steps and what not. when you look at google and see this innovations like a self-driving car or their own investment in nest, to govern a home or look at google glass, what's really going on here, this notion that they are all predicting and trying to make certain that data flows through all of these areas of our lives, cars and eyeglasses and coffee majors and refrigerators and these companies are competing to be the winner in the battle to be the operating system of our lives. if we think we right now have anxieties and trouble with security, with privacy, with battling cyber terrorism, with and with monopollly, we're in

for major public policy meltdowns over the next 20 years. that's why we should keep an eye on the companies. >> the fight for the home you mention and google's acquisition of nest, people are competing for the space. and the security concerns you're talking about are very much at the forefront of the reaction to this conference. politico wrote that ios being linked to your actual home and health could have major security repercussions and they were proposing perhaps more heavy regulations. do you think that's the answer? >> every time that we connect more things to more things and more people to more people, we're creating vulnerabilities and we try to convince ourselves we're all good until ten years after the major connectivity of all financial resources we see the target credit card meltdown ks that was thoroughly predictable and understandable. it should give us pause. when someone in china, working for the chinese government,

cracked the security on gmail and exposed very politically sensitive issues and people who were in real danger by the chinese government, google was able to turn that story from one of a deep security problem into one of human rights and free speech, thus working to its advantage. we can't continue to be fooled like this. the fact is, we're letting ourselves be drawn into these very insecure modes of connectivity, all for the purpose of serving centralized control by one or the other of these countries. we have an information ol garkky working and we're seeing competitions squeezed and squeezed, whether it's by internet service providers like comcast or microsoft or device providers like apple, we're seeing more and more of this concentration of power and that's what we should be worried about. >> you mentioned google's role in the human rights scene and it's very dicey for them trying

to access the chinese market is a huge business goal for them but they face constant obstacles in the last couple of days. google has been cracking down on chinese users access to services, the biggest crackdown that i have seen yet, the new york times -- the chinese government is cracking down on google services and they are expecting in the runup to the tiananmen square massacre. nine out of ten no access to major google services. what is the smart move to push progress but not alienate china? >> it's far too late for china to avoid alienating china. they have a strong investment in home grown services, services that are far more popular, even on a level playing field than google, among rank and file chinese users. google is really only used by people part of the kos month poll tan elite in china.

that's a whole lot of people because it's china. nonetheless, china doesn't need google. and if google needs china, googles is govern to make serious compromises on questions of security, questions of free speech and human rights. and you know, really it remains to be seen whether google finds that to be a worth while trade. today is does not. but google shareholders at some point might demand you need to get into this market. so i think it's foolish to try to claim some sort of more superiority for one company or another. the fact is they are all playing real politics and dealing with a pretty hard environment to crack in the people's republic of china. >> it's tough for human rights activists and tech companies getting the ire of the human rights activists. a less nef fair yus on is a xal is the competition with apple, steve jobs called it a holy war with google, accused them of ripping him off with their

operating system. critics are saying apple wasn't as bold as microsoft and google were especially at your own code conference last week. it sounded earlier your characterization was you disagreed with that. >> i disagree with it. >> what do you think the big area of innovation that apple is pushing now that ears aren't? >> i don't mean to be rude, a lot of things he said i don't agree with. >> hit back. let's hear it, kara. >> google put out a car which is adorable and futuristic and not going to be here for ten years. >> the driverless car. >> i rode in it. >> terrifying. >> what was your experience of that? >> i liked it, like riding a disney ride. it's not going to happen, it's xitding from an inspirational view -- >> let's clarify, you think it's going to happen but not immediately. >> think about the regulations. you think it's hard, uber can't get into miami, you think we'll have self-driving cars? it's a long road but it's

inspirational. i think what's interesting, apple did not do anything, paid $3.2 billion so that's a big deal. i think one of the things that is a problem, we're expecting constant wows in these companies and what's going on now is very important. the idea of planets are aligning, planet apple or google pretty much, that's the two of them and then there's different planets that go around them. i think that's what's happening. apple is really doubling down on it integration of all of the services flow through their devices. >> eco system and once you're in, there's a lot of incentive to not leave. i think that's interesting, they are going against other companies like drop box. drop box must be terrified because apple is doing what it should have done a while ago. same thing with music. every one of these companies has a xpet tore that's smaller. >> i think they are clearly still in the game. and you know, the competition is

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how would you feel if you went through the most horrific attack only to find the evidence was sitting on a shelf untested for years. that is exactly the situation that hundreds of thousands of people with rape kits stuck in a growing national back log find th themselves in. moments ago an important hurdle cleared. the senate progressions subcommittee approved $41 million in funding to help end the back log. it is a glimmer of hope for

hundreds of thousands waiting for justice. >> i lost my life for those nine years. >> reporter: in 2003 megan was a memphis area high school student. she loved art. she hoped to be a painter. everything changed one monday afternoon. she just had gotten home from school and letting her dog out when a masked man attacked her at knife point. >> i had just spent time from my home so i -- my body was the crime scene. >> that forensic examination is what is called a rape kit, a collection of dna evidence that police can test to identify a rapist. megan's kit was not tested. it sat untouched for nine long years. >> you live like an animal in the wild in survival mode

knowing there is this criminal out there and you are helpless to do anything about it. >> reporter: until 2012. >> tonight at 10:00 -- >> this man is now wanted by memphis police. >> when megan saw a local news report about a suspected rapist. she felt a cold shutter of recognition. he wore a mask and attacked with a knife. megan called the police and demanded they reopen her case. >> i found out on my birthday june 21, 2012 that his dna was found in my rape kit. >> anthony oliano, a serial rapist spending the rest of his life behind bars. megan was his first known victim. he raped six others while her kit sat untested. untested rape kits are a national problem but memphis holds the distinction of having the most untested kits in the country, 12,000 of them

representing a potential rapist walking free and a victim without justice. >> this is indefensible. i don't mind telling you that. >> reporter: the city is facing two lawsuits for victims like megan. he admits the city dropped the ball. >> why is this back log still there? >> because the issue hasn't been raised as intently as it has. >> reporter: responding to the outraged calls to end the back log will take money, money many cities like memphis don't have. >> going forward, yes, it is a money question. >> reporter: $5.5 million? >> approximately. >> reporter: in multiple years. >> to do it right. >> reporter: a 2015 appropriations bill being considered on capitol hill right now includes $41 million to help clear the nation's back log of 400,000 untested rape kits. >> i get letters, phone calls, i get comments from those out in

the community that my kit might be one of those kits. what can you do? >> reporter: district attorney says that money could make all the difference. >> it's not a matter of helping this office. it is a matter of helping the citizens of shelby county and quite frankly the citizens of the entire country. >> reporter: citizens like megan ebose. what would you say to women in other cities around the country who have gone through what you have gone through? >> i hope that you can see that if the system has harmed you, left you out in the cold, made you more vulnerable it is not because of anything you did but because the system is broken. >> thanks to our producer for his hard work on that story and to megan for sharing her story. you might be wondering how megan is doing. she is a recent law school graduate taking the bar in february. make sure you add your signature

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>> the army launches a full scale inquiry. fellow soldiers who served with the sergeant is speaking out. >> he is not a hero. he broke the bond by leaving us. >> he willfully left. >> he deserted not only the army but also left myself and my platoon and my company to clean up his mess. >> plus, it's primary day. voters in eight states are headed to the polls. if you follow the money the biggest story might be the mountain of cash. we'll discuss as we go date line miss. let's start with developing news on the future of the free p.o.w. u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl. nbc news has learned the u.s. army is preparing to launch a full-scale high level inquiry into