>> 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 circumstances and personal

conduct of sergeant bergdahl and disappearance from outpost in afghanistan and subsequent capture by the taliban. army general and chairman of the joint chiefs responded to questions about conduct saying as to the circumstances of his capture when he is able to provide them we will learn the facts. like any american he is innocent until proven guilty. our army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. looking into whether the deaths of six soldiers were related to the search for bowe bergdahl. the possibility that the deaths could have been prevented has others lashing out against his release. as brett stevens writes in the "wall street journal" i spoke with a highly decorated former special forces operator and asked what he thought about bowe bergdahl. the operator suggested a firing squad might be appropriate.

mick is live at the pentagon. what will this inquiry likely look like and how possible is it to determine whether the soldiers who died died trying to look for bowe bergdahl. >> shortly after bowe bergdahl disappeared from his base his fellow soldiers say he simply got up and walked off the base voluntarily. the army did conduct an investigation of sorts that is classified but reportedly in that case they found or determined that bowe bergdahl did, in fact, leave voluntarily. you know, now they are looking at entirely different circumstance because they will have more information at hand because they will have an opportunity at some point if he chooses to talk to bowe bergdahl himself to see just what was he thinking at that time and if, in fact, he did voluntarily walk off the base and how he was taken into custody by and

captured by the taliban. so it's very squishy ground right now. everybody wants firm answers about just how this procedure is going to be carried out. but we are told here at the pentagon that the primary objective right now for the military is to get bowe bergdahl up to full speed in full good health and back home in the states to meet with his parents. i talked to one military law expert who says what everybody has to do right now is cool down a little bit once bergdahl gets home and then have a very systematic thorough investigation into exactly what did happen here. >> that sounds pretty rational. thanks so much. let's go to nbc's richard engel. reuters is reporting that senior members of the taliban who were released in exchange for bowe bergdahl had more freedom than we thought.

we thought they would be in home confineme confinement. is that report accurate? >> no. i don't think it is fully accurate. i think a lot of it is based on the assumption that they would be on home confinement. they said they would be under surveillance and that their travel would be limited. and the countries today told nbc news that they will be under surveillance, that they have no intention of allowing these members of the taliban to join the taliban again, to engage in political activity or present a threat to qatar or to the united states. so i think it was a question of perception. if people thought that they would be heading back into some sort of custody the countries were saying they are not going back into custody, won't be wearing ankle bracelets or anything like that but will be watched. it is a very small country. if you want to keep tabs on people it is not the hardest

place in the world to do it. >> real quick because obviously the u.s. trusted enough to broker the deal in the first place. how close -- i am assuming that security cooperation is very close between united states and qatar and they would have interest in keeping tabs on these guys for their own -- >> it's very hard to determine qatar's foreign policy. they seem to have multiple often overlapping sometimes conflicting allies and interests. they have very close relations with united states. at times they have also been very close to hamas, muslim brotherhood and hezbollah. they are a bit of the black sheep in the gulf. so not popular with the egyptians at all.

suggests that they want militant groups operating on their soil that could potentially become a threat to qatar or the united states. >> it gets more complicated the more you dig into it. appreciate it. nbc's kelly o'donnell just wrapped up a briefing with john boehner. >> speaker boehner was not a part of this briefing. this was a briefing with a small group of reporters and gop aid. there is now a public statement from john boehner on the record raising questions about how this prisoner swap took place. there is a lot of dense new information coming through. i am going to give you some of the headlines from this. what we have learned is that congress was briefed in a very select way in november of 2011 and january of 2012. i am talking about the speaker

and the key chairman of committees, armed services, intelligence told about the possibility of the swap with bowe bergdahl and some not entirely identified detainees from the taliban. conversations took place at that time. serious questions, i'm told, were raised from members of congress about things like were all other options exhausted. what was the risk of doing something like this? what threats could still take place for american personnel? lots of serious questions that were raised. what followed were letters written by members of congress to the administration. i am told secretary clinton at that time responded back in a letter and that letter is classified. what we were told is that at the end of the conversations that members of congress were assured that no further discussion would take place without being notified. they were told at the time they say that the sort of situational opportunities for an exchange had diminished, in effect, the opportunity to swap bergdahl for

the taliban had somehow been sidelined because of other conditions. so did congress have some knowledge of this? yes, according to senior officials who are telling us they had been told about the idea of it. the real fight that is ahead now will be about what does it mean for notification. i'm told that speaker boehner was not personally notified, that an aid to the speaker was phoned at 11:52 a.m. saturday morning after the operation had taken place. the speaker himself was not notified by the administration. and about a half hour or so later a public statement from the president came out. there are strong concerns on the parts of members of congress and the senior leadership about the process of notifying congress. this will be waged in hearings coming forward. there will be a lot of discussion but the issue that really congress is trying to say

through house gop aides is that while there was knowledge of the potential that there were a lot of serious questions raised and there were assurances from the white house, they say, that the law would be followed in terms of notification and they believe that did not occur. >> thanks very much. lots of great information. really appreciate it. m i would like to bring in democratic leader bill nelson of florida. i hope you got a chance to listen to what kelly o'donnell was saying about the process of trying to secure the release of now-sergeant bowe bergdahl that date back to november of 2011 into january of 2012 when there were briefings to select members on the hill. have you ever had a briefing about this situation as a member of the senate armed services committee? >> no. and i can tell you there are other leaders of other committees that feel like they were not briefed but recognize

that the president in signing one of the pieces of legislation into law issued a signing statement that in effect said that he reserved the right to act quickly in the interest of the country. so when it gets right down to it i don't think any law was broken. the question is should congress have been notified simply because of the relations between the legislative and executive branch? that is a different question and a lot of people here, democrats, as well, that feel that it should. >> well, the question, then, sir, if, in fact, notification had been made, let's say, given the fact you have members of the opposition party particularly who oppose this deal on the face, what might have been the process had such a notification taken place if you believe the administration's place that time was of the essence because of

health or safety? would that have drawn things out weeks, months? >> i think there are times that the president will have to act without notification. i think this is really much to do about nothing with regard to the notification. i think the questions as jim said there are a lot of facts that we don't know, he used the word squishy. for example, we are going to have to not pre-judge but if this young soldier walked off his duty in effect abandoning his post, in effect deserting, then that puts a different light on a trade of one for five. but we don't know those circumstances. we don't know, for example, what was his mental state? his condition at the time. these are things that we are

going to have to find out in the future. >> you, yourself, were sort of on active duty during the vietnam era. in your opinion if this young man walked off of his base and was subsequently captured i think there is a fine line between deserting and trying to join the other side but walked off the base and got captured. that reduces the burden on the united states to bring him back. if those facts were true and if he walked off the base willingly would you oppose an operation or swap to get him back? >> my personal preference it puts a different light on it. if that is what occurred -- >> puts a different light on it meaning you wouldn't do it? >> you have to remember what general dempsey said today. he said the policy of our military is you go and get an american regardless. and then you determine what the facts are. now, that is what the administration did. >> and, sir, you are saying it would have put a different light

on it meaning you might have opposed doing it at all? you might have preferred to leave him there if the facts were that he walked off the base? >> remember i said i'm not prejudging. but to answer your question, if he didn't desert then i think there is a real question of whether you would go in and trade one for five. >> senator bill nelson, thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. up next, gitmo is now five prisoners lighter. we will discuss how the bowe bergdahl story is re-igniting the push to close the u.s. prison camp at guantanamo bay. i will tell you about the gun guys who are so extreme even the nra wants them to cool it. [ female announcer ] grow, it's what we do. but when we put something in the ground, feed it, and care for it, don't we grow something more? we grow big celebrations, and personal victories. we grow new beginnings, and better endings. grand gestures,

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this needs to be the year congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at guantanamo bay. because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military actions but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world. >> that was president obama four months ago setting the stage for a ramped up push to follow up on one of his original campaign goals. and the subject of his first executive orders to close the u.s. prison camp at guantanamo bay. the president reiterated last week telling west point graduates that american values and traditions do not permit people beyond our border. to the republicans on capitol hill to the exchange of five taliban leaders who have been held at gitmo for an american prisoner of war. as josh rogen writes republicans

on capitol hill worry that the transfer is a prelude to a bigger move, the emptying of guantanamo entirely. even republicans who approve of closing gitmo are criticizing the release of the taliban leaders. >> the plan is and what we are trying to implement at some point is moving the hard core high risk people too great a risk to be released to facilities in the united states of america. >> members of congress are upset about the prisoner exchange for a number of reasons. when it comes to closing guantanamo the question is why are they acting surprised that the president is moving forward with a plan he has been talking about since day one. i want to start with you on that question because this is not a surprise. the president came into office saying we should close the prison camp at guantanamo bay.

are we down to the fact that the only way he can do it because congress opposed it from the beginning is the only way to do it to basically make deals with other countries to take the prisoners? >> with one soldier we saw the reaction, the shocked reaction. the truth, congress approved last year of a bill that says we are not even allowed to transfer them to other countries or take them in. what is the end game? strategically it is hurting us with our allies. uk today are criticizing us over guantanamo and other things. the italian government is refusing to cooperate because they are concerned of domestic back lash. republicans are criticizing president obama over the exchange, the prisoner exchange and saying it will be used as a

propaganda tool by al qaeda. the number one propaganda tool to recruit and to speak against americans is guantanamo. if you want to diminish that then you need to address this issue. >> that is, i think, the sort of self-evident reason to close guantanamo and why some republicans support doing it. what are the structural obstacles to actually closing the prison at this point? >> well, the real surprise of this decision was that there are 149 detainees at guantanamo today and there are 78 of them who have been cleared through a process of review with the interagency and national security review. and they have been approved to leave with assurances or to be re-patrioted with diplomatic conversations with their home countries. and these five men jumped the queue. they were not on the approved list. they were described as

indefinite detainees. the focus has been getting out the 78 who were cleared. that leaves you with people for whom the solution seems to be as senator mccain said moving them to lockups in the united states. if it has done anything it has made congress more skeptical about the processes in place which are designed to reduce and close that detention center. and the obstacle is at this point correctly finding nations that are willing to take in people and help them be re-settled because the united states has said we don't want them on our oilsoil. you have european countries saying why should we take them if the united states won't? >> also, the united states don't trust these countries. where are you going to send them? to saudi arabia. the majority are pakistani and

afghan four countries we don't trust because of abuse of human rights. these guys will be out of prison in two days because we can't prove in a regular court if any of those guys, individuals actually admitted to the crimes that they were accused of under torture. you can't take this evidence in a regular court civilian system. we have to think ahead of our times. i don't think obama will honor this promise. i feel sad to say that. i think the next president or madame president will have to think because we have today americans fighting and will come back to the united states and to western countries. and you have war on terror that will go on even when we withdraw from afghanistan. how we are going to deal with these issues, this will be for the next president to deal with. >> i wish we had more time.

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that groups collectively spent $8 million so far. about twice as much as has been spent by the two campaigns. six term incumbent senator cochran and chris mcdaniel. perry bacon senior political reporter from jackson, mississippi and nicholas, a political reporter for the "new york times." what is all of that spending buying? that you cannot turn on the television without being bombarded by ads or are these campaigns putting it into the field? >> it is mostly tv ads. i was watching this morning. i saw three different ads bashing cochran all of which are from various conservative groups. it is really for his campaign that money is going to ads basically arguing cochran has been in the senate too long. the entire focus is too long in the senate. he is the establishment.

>> what is weird really quick is that cochran's response seems to be to kind of run on the fact that he has been in congress for a long time. let me let you listen real quick to mr. cochran. >> when a republican majority as chairman of the appropriations committee i can help stop wasteful spending and make sure our conservative principles are at the forefront of our policy decisions. [ applause ] >> and, of course, perry, the irony being that the appropriations committee is the spenders in congress. how is that irony working in mississippi? >> it's an irony cochran has to deal with. he is already going to win the votes of people who want to make sure their senator brings money back home. when i was at the trail yesterday it was striking how much he was trying to say i am for appealing obamacare.

i am going to be stopping spending which is a silly thing to say except if your focus is trying to woo the tea party conservatives. he has a very soft spoken tone but very much being loud and proud about how he, too, wants to repeal obamacare like the rest of republicans. >> you have written a lot about the big money in politics. it is flooding into the same old campaign tactics. this could have been a campaign in 1989, this whole idea of wasteful spending and i will be the one to cut spending. is it ironic that all of this money isn't buying any new tactics? >> it is a logical consequence of citizens united. we are watching this money migrate out of the parties and out of the candidates into the outside groups. that is where the heavy artillery is now. they can raise a lot more money and can spend a lot more money. we are seeing a classic tea party establishment primary. you have the long time incumbent

who is puzzled that being the appropriations chair isn't considered the fantastic credential. now they have to rebrand themselves as the guy as the chair and budget cutter at the same time and has shown how quickly the winds have shifted. >> he is sort of stacking the deck. is this, in fact, tea party outside group spending that we are seeing? these are not swing states. thee are republican states where the outcome is predetermined. does it seem rational? do people in the donor world think that is rational? >> this seat will probably be a gop seat no matter who wins the primary. it is a good lean for them. it is also the place where the tea party groups and other conservative groups can really make their mark. their goal is not to win a general election but to reshape the gop and shift its own

principles over to the right. in that sense these campaigns are very, very effective for them. >> so i have to ask you about a strange thing going on down there and hopefully you can explain it to me from the clarion ledger newspaper asking democrats to vote for thad cochran. it appeared in the mississippi link, a weekly newspaper aimed at the african-american community. what is that about? can democrats vote in this republican primary? >> so mississippi the way it works is it doesn't register voters by party. you can show up and if you voted for obama, bill clinton, you can show up today and decide i want to vote in the republican primary and vote for mcdaniel or cochran. cochran knows he is kind of the hero from hurricane katrina time. if black voters vote in the primary they would vote for him. in fact, he was asked in the trail about this yesterday, senator cochran, are you behind this and he said no. he emphasized i am happy with

anyone who wants to vote in the primary. i will not tell anyone who to vote for. he is keeping the possibility of having a few democrats lift him over the line. this ad is funded by a group that is a pro-cochran group. not the cochran campaign getting to the point of where we don't know where the spending is coming from. with that said this specific ad is a pro-cochran group trying to encourage a few democrats to support cochran and put him over the line. >> back to the rationality point. part of what they are trying to tell african-americans is vote for him instead of trying to woo african-american voters with spending, precisely the thing he opponent is running against him for. i don't see the point in any of this. it seems irational to me. >> there is one thing here. he can't control the campaign. it is a classic illustration of some of the pit falls here. you don't control your own message when these outside groups are coming out here

spending millions of millions of dollars on your behalf. >> to you, perry, what are the polls looking like? is thad cochran in trouble in mississippi? >> he is definitely in trouble. polls show a very close race, photo finish. we don't know who is going to win. seems like mcdaniels has a little momentum. the scandal has not seemed to hurt him as much as i thought it would. it is very close. it is not going to be like beven and mcconnell which was very decisive. no matter if cochran wins or loses this is a sign the tea party if they come into a small state like this and spend a lot of money they can push an incumbent to the edge and have done that here. >> southern politics, it seems to be a theme this campaign season. thank you both for being here. appreciate it. m. >> thank you. next, guns recognizes advocates are up in arms. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts,

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we are just out here, you know, supporting basically our god-given right to own and possess firearms. >> everybody can exhibit and have their freedom of speech that they want. the problem is when speech becomes intimidating. >> they say it is their god-given right. the growing open carry movement is giving some people and evethen national rifle association the hebe y jebe ys. we have been reporting on the texas open carry folks for months. you have seen the pictures and videos of them walking around stores and restaurants and little league games with long guns on display. a growing number of businesses are telling the gun toters to leave the firearms outside. the latest, sonic and chili's told the group no weapons please. now the nra is speaking up and

called on open carriers to cut it out saying it is such a rare sight to see someone saddle up next to you with a rifle across his chest. not only is it rare, it is down right weird. it can be down right scary. emphasis from the nra. it makes folks who might normally be perfectly open minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question motives of pro-gun advocates and it is just not neighborly. the open carry texas people say it is not neighborly to criticize patriots. a statement on the facebook page reads quote the more the nra continues to divide members by attacking some aspects of gun rights instead of supporting all gun rights the more support it will lose. . what would be your argument against what the nra has said? it is unusual to be standing in

line at the coffee shop and have one, two or 100 people walk up behind you all with guns strapped to their backs. that is unusual and you understand that that frightens people? >> to explain here. what a lot of people do not understand there are already 44 states that allow open carry handgun. texas is not one of those. that is what we are trying to achieve. as the law is written right now we are only permitted to open carry our long guns and black powder pistols. the reason for this is because and the reason for us walking with them is because we have no other option. >> that's what you are saying it is. and you know that in your mind and you and your group say that to each other. if i'm at the quiznos with my kids and having a meal and i'm not read up on your facebook page or a member of your circle or friends and i don't know you and haven't talked to you all i see is a bunch of guys walking in with huge guns strapped to

them. do you understand that that scares people? >> in the past we were actually invited into these establishments. >> that is not what these guys are saying. these restaurants are saying they don't want you doing this. i still need you to answer the fundamental question. do you understand that it scares people to see a bunch of guys with huge guns walking in when you are sitting there unaware with your kids? >> the first point is we actually have a totally different policy now. we are digging at the past here. we have a policy. i understand where the nra is coming from in their statement. we got together four major open carry organizations in texas, open carry texas, texas carry, gun rights across america came together and came up with a new plan which was to not bring long arms into restaurants where we had not been preevviously invit

by the ownership. >> does that apply to home depot. one of the offshoots of your organization was this saturday and i believe about 150 people showed up in the parking lot which i tell you would have scared me to death if i saw that many armed people in the parking lot. do you condone that? >> open carry tarrant county and open carry texas are not affiliated. we are entirely separate. >> do you think that was a good idea to do that just this saturday? >> they were outside as far as i know. >> it is still frightening. do you think it was a good idea? >> i don't know what their arrangement was with management. i can't speak on their behalf. >> i am asking you to speak as not somebody -- just as an ordinary guy. if you were in a movie theater given what happened in aurora given my kids don't want to sit by the door because that shook them so much when the shooting took place, given you had a mass shooting in a theater do you

think it would scare people in a movie theater if you walked into a movie theater with your long gun exposed? >> i'm not aware of any group that has walked into a movie theater. >> do you think it would scare people? i can't get you to answer a very simple question. do you think it scares people to see not alone one armed person but a bunch of armed people in this day and age? do you think it scares people? >> i think it has the potential to do anything, to have all kiepds of emotions. >> does it scare people? >> it can potential could have a large range of emotions. >> name some of the emotions you think it could illicit. >> most emotions we get is support with people walking up to us whether outside on the sidewalk, on the street or if we when in the past we did restaurants. in the past when we did we didn't have any terror. we didn't have any fright. all we had was really interested

people wanting to know why don't you guys open carry handguns? isn't that rifle overkill? we get to explain to them it is a strange law but we can't open carry our glaucs. >> if people were digging it and everybody was so excited to see you and thought it was awesome, why have seven different restaurant chains said please don't come back? obviously people weren't excited to see it. maybe they didn't tell you or your group because they were afraid of people with guns so they told management. seven restaurant chains said we don't want you here. >> it is because of a consorted effort by a group that is backed by michael bloomberg, an antigun control group. and they have started trolling, coming into our pages and seeing where we have been and they turn around and start petition drives and get people not even in our state to sign these petitions and say they won't come to that restaurant if they see our members inside there.

>> i'm surprised that you don't realize that people in these restaurants sitting with their kids are afraid of a big group of people with guns. that is a pretty simple concept. talking about trolling. i would love to rerack video of patriots following a marine veteran down the street with guns strapped to them video taping him and his license plate. we have had issues where open carry members have given out personal information of people who dare to call 911 because they were afraid. do you think following someone down the street with a gun, video taping their license plate -- we have incident of people having personal information given out. do you think that is a good idea? >> on one of the gentleman beiny text at all. >> do you think it is a good idea? >> i have been very vocal that i don't think that was a wise

decision. i understand people's point of view that more happened prior to shooting. as i explained to people the best way to react to people being hostile towards you is to turn the other cheek and give them a smile. >> i am going to ask you one more time. i think this is a fairly common sense question. in an age with mass shootings, where people show up and blow people away do you think ordinary civilians are afraid of a group of people who are armed? >> are you asking if the average person is afraid? >> would that illicit fear? >> the average person i would say no because we interact with them every weekend and we don't get the fear factor at least not in the state of texas. i can't speak to people in other states. we haven't had the same pushback. most of the pushback has come from other states. >> and seven restaurant chains.

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a "new york times" headline trumpeted the end of the vietnam war announcing u.s. forces out of vietnam. it was the bitter end to a war that at its peak in 1969 saw 543,000 u.s. troops deployed and until afghanistan was our country's longest war at nearly ten years. despite that headline there were americans who doubted the last p.o.w. had left vietnam. the sight of high profile p.o.w.s like john mccain didn't stop plenty of americans from believing we had left people behind. the p.o.w. issue dragged on for decades of protests, recriminations and conspiracy

theories. starting in the late 1960s one of the most vocal champions was texas billionaire ross perot. he even held rivaling ceremonies and became one of the most vocal proponents of the movement that claimed there were captured americans still alive in vietnam and claims that a video tape existed proving it. in 1986 perot was pitching a commission to find the p.o.w.s. he testified before the p.o.w. investigation saying the evidence is overwhelming that people are there. when the reagan administration and congress rejected him he staged a raid to capture the issue by sudden flight. that apparently was news to

ronald reagan and his vice president george h.w. bush who perot ran against for the white house a few months later in part out of frustration many thought over the issue. bill clinton certainly appreciated that. we no longer have high drama over america's p.o.w.s in part because there are so few of them. unlike previous wars where thousands were held captive you can count the number of missing or captured from afghanistan or iraq on one hand. in 2011 david fife wrote about the last two unaccounted for at the time. captured by shiite militants in iraq and executed and bowe bergdahl. six months from now when we get out of afghanistan we won't have a p.o.w. controversy. no one will be left behind. however you feel about bowe bergdahl is that not kind of a good thing.

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it is tuesday afternoon. cycling now the more we know about america's only p.o.w. from afghanistan the less we understand how was bowe bergdahl captured. how was he rescued and how will he recover? richard engel is in germany. we will speak live to a former navy s.e.a.l. commander. it is another primary tuesday in america. this time all eyes on mississippi. this primary fight has it all, the tea party, the establishment and a race that is neck and neck after a bizarre scandal. we are going to break it all down with our man from all thing's congress. >> and all over the storm cycle this afternoon. 35 million americans are in the path of severe weather right now. flooding rains, damaging winds and a tornahr