>> i have no doubt that i'll see mr. putin, and he and i have always had a business like relationship and it is entirely appropriate that he is there to commemorate d-day given the extraordinary sacrifices that were made of the people of the soviet union during world war ii. and should we have the opportunity to talk, i will be repeating the same message that i've been delivering to him throughout this crisis. keep in mind that although we haven't had formal meetings i've spoken to him by phone repeatedly from the outset of the protests. my message has been very consistent and that is that russia has a legitimate interest in what happens in ukraine given that it's on its border and given its historical ties, but ultimately it's up to the people of ukraine to make their own decisions, that russian armed forces annexing pieces of a

neighbor is illegal and violates international law, and the kinds of destabilizing activities that we now see funded and encouraged by russia are illegal and not constructive and there is a path in which russia has the capacity to engage directly with president poroshenko now. he should take it. if he does not. if he continues a strategy of undermining the sovereignty of ukraine, then we have no choice, but to respond and perhaps he's been surprised by the degree of unity that's been displayed. i do think the fact that he did not immediately denounce the outcome of the may 25th election

perhaps offers the prospect that he's moving in a new direction, but i think we have to see what he does and not what he says. with respect to the future of the united kingdom. obviously, ultimately, this is up to the people of great britain. in the case of scotland, there is a referendum process in place and it's up to the people of scotland. i would say that the united kingdom has been an extraordinary partner to us from the outside, at least. it looks like things have looked pretty well, and we, obviously have a deep interest in making sure that one of the closest allies that we will ever have remains strong, robust, united and effective partner, but

ultimately these are decisions that will be made by the folks there. with respect to the eu, we -- we share a strategic vision with great britain on a whole range of international issues and so it's always encouraging for us to know that great britain has a seat at the table in the larger european project. i think in light of, you know, the events that we'll be commemorating tomorrow it's important to recall that it was the steadfastness of great britain that in part allows us to be here in brussels in the seat of a unified and extraordinarily prosperous europe and it's hard for me to imagine that project going well in the absence of great britain, and i think it's also hard for

me to imagine that it would be advantageous for great britain to be excluded from political decisions that have an enormous impact on the economic and political life. so this had is why we have elections and we'll see the arguments made, and i'm sure the people of great britain will make the right decision. stephen carlson. >> thank you, mr. president. have you been surprised by the backlash that's been whipped up by your decision to do a deal to free bowe bergdahl and what do you think is motivating that? in retrospect do you think you could have done to work with congress or done a deal sparing him and his family being caught in the political cross fire? prime minister, how do you respond to your criticism to meet with vladimir putin and his meetings with other key leaders are devaluing the punishment that was meted out to russia by

throwing it out of the g-8 and finally should qatar be deprived of the right to host the world cup and if so, is anyone willing to host it it? >> i'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in washington, right? that's -- that's par for the cour course, but i'll repeat what i said two days ago. we have a basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform behind. we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about and we saw an opportunity and we seized it, and i make no apologies for that. we had discussed with congress the possibility that something like this might occur, but

because of the nature of the folks that we were dealing with and the fragile nature of these negotiations we felt it was important to go ahead and do what we did and we're now explaining to congress the details of how we move forward, but this basic principle that we don't leave anybody behind and this basic recognition that often means prisoner exchanges with enemies is not unique to my administration. it dates back to the beginning of our republic and with respect to how we announced it, i think it was person for people to understand that this is not a political football. you have a couple of parentses whose kid volunteered to fight in a distant land.

who they hadn't seen in five years. and weren't sure whether they'd ever see again. and as commander in chief of the united states armed forces i am responsible for those kids, and i get letters from parents who say if you are, in fact, sending my child into war make sure that that child is being taken care of and i write too many letters to folks who unfortunately don't see their children again after fighting a war. i make absolutely no apologies for making sure that we get back a young man to his parents and that the american people understand that this is somebody's child and that we don't condition whether or not we make the effort to try to get them back. do you have a second question?

>> okay. you can ask him about football. >> first of all, the issue of meeting president putin. i think he's right to have this dialogue particularly if you have a clear message and clear point to make. i think there is a world of difference between having a dialogue with president putin and excluding someone from an institution assing aive in kant as the g-8 and now the g-7. i think he was right to exclude russia. i think i was one of the first g-8 leaders to make that point and it was totally the right decision and there is a difference between the meeting we just held which did not include russia and having a bilateral meeting and discussing the issues on ukraine. on the issue of football, we should let the investigation run its course, but of course, england is the home of football as is the inventor of many sports, tennis, rugby, skiing, tennis -- >> baseball, basketball. >> i'm not sure it would go all of the way. >> i just want to be clear here. you did invent the english

language, though. we appreciate it. >> you've made changes to it. but they don't hold us back. >> the final question from itv, i think. >> itv news. you spoke about the importance for you and your allies to be in complete lockstep on the crisis in. ukraine. if if this crisis shows no sign of deescalating you say the next step will be sanctions. are you in confidence that you will be in lockstep with the g-7 allies because there will be costs and consequences for them and economies as sanctions get widened. prime minister, my question to you, you spoke force level about the threats of the threats of extremist ideology to britain and its allies and by your own govern am's estimates there are several hundred british

citizening learning to fight and kill in syria. with regard to extremist ideology in schools particularly in schools where there's been a lot of concern, don't you think it is unseemly, but wrong for members of your own government to engage whether the priority should be protecting british children against extremist ideology? thank you. >> first of all, let me say on the issue of sanctions and the issue of lockstep between the u.s. and the european union. i think it's been striking, actually, over the last few months how we've been tiebl stay as unified as we have, and i pay tribute to barack for his understanding of how important it is for us to try to work together and deliver these messages together and i think it surprised people and i hope it surprised president putin. in terms of tackling extremism. i set up the extremism task force which i chaired after the appalling murder of lee rigby because i uponed the government

to make sure it was doing everything it could to driver it out of our schools, off of our colleges and out of every part of national life and it's very important that we recognize that you have to deal not only with violent extremism, but also the sink of extremism, of tolerating extremist views and the whole government is signed up to that agenda and is driving through changes to deliver that agenda. as for these issues for the last day or so i will get to the bottom of who has said what and what has happened and i'll sort it all out once i finish these important meetings i'm having here. >> i think what has been striking is the degree of solidarity between the united states and europe in dealing with the the ukraine crisis. i think a lot of people anticipated very early on that immediately the two sides would fly apart and, in fact, there

has been consistency in affirming the core values that have been at the heart of a united and prosperous europe and that's despite the very real economic consequences that can arise by applying sanctions against russia. i think europeans understand the reason we've seen such extraordinary growth and piece on this continent has to do with certain values and certain principles that have to be upheld and when they are so blatantly disregarded, the choice is clear. europeans have to stand up for those ideals and principles even if it creates some economic inconvenience. now, having said that, sectoral sanctions are broader.

they'd be more significant. our technical teams have been consulting with the european commission to identify sanctions that would maximize impact on russia and minimize adverse impacts on european countries, and that work is ongoing. my hope is that we don't have to exercise them because mr. putin's made some better decisions. i think, by the way, it would also be better for russia because the russian economy is not in good shape right now. we've seen significant capital flight just from the sanctions that we've already applied. that could easily worsen and if we had sectoral sanctions, i think it will inevitably hit russia much worse than it hits europe which has a much more diversified and resilient economies. do i expect unanimity among the

28 eu members? i've now been president for five and a half years, and i've learned a thing or two about the european union, the european commission, the european council, sometimes i get them mixed up, but the -- >> welcome to the club. >> but the basic principle that if you have 28 people sitting around a table that not everybody's going to agree, i think we take that for granted, and i also think that if, in fact, we have to move to sectoral sanctions, it's important to take individual country's sensitivities in mind and make sure that everybody is ponying up, that everybody is bearing their fair share. some people are going to be more concerned about defense relations. some people are going to be more concerned about the financial sector. others might be more concerned about the -- the trade in basic

goods and services. so that's the technical work that's being done. again, my hope is that we don't have to use it, but i've been heartened by the steadfastness of europe thus far. i think that people underestimate the degree to given the history of this continent certainly in the 20th century that people are not interested in seeing any chinks in the armor and they recognize that that's worth working for. all right? thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you. >> good morning. i'm francis rivera in for chris jansing. we have been listening to a joint news conference at the g-7 summit in brussels with president obama and british prime minister david cameron. the president and prime minister were pressed repeatedly on the way forward with v lad meier t

putin, russia and ukraine and the president was asked about bowe bergdahl? i'm never surprised about con fro versies whipped up in washington. that's par for the course, but i'll repeat what i said two days ago. we have a basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform behind. we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated and we were deeply concerned about and we saw an opportunity and we seized it and i make no a pol j gees for that. >> let's bring in chuck todd live in brussels. the president unapologetic about bowe bergdahl in that exchange. what are your takeaways? >> reporter: i thought he was surprisingly dismissive of the con ro versy around it in some ways and i don't know if that will do anything to quell the

controversy around people who have passionate about sergeant bergdahl. by saying it was a whipped-up controversy. washington is now reacting i think to what's coming from other parts of the country from people that served with sergeant bergdahl and things like that. so i was surprised at how he wanted to keep all of this in sort of a political arena and almost brush it off and dismiss it a little bit on that front. i think that just shows you sort of where there's a lot of tension on this issue. there's a lot of -- i'm hearing it from white house aides. . there's sort of this anger that's there. you're hearing it, the back and forth and the top take we're not debating that i think everybody thought we'd be debating at a higher level and perhaps just with the same polarizing intensity is the debate about what happens to gitmo next and these detainees next. other parts of what was said

here. it's notable that you hear a ratcheting back against russia and i say it this way. you didn't hear a lot about sectoral sanctions. the official white house released fact sheet of what happened with this g-7 when it came to the ukraine and russia. did not actually say talk about the idea that the next level of sanctions would be sectoral which had been the case a month ago. that's no longer the case. the threat is still quote, unquote, still there, but you can tell that some of the questions that the reporters had of prime minister cameron. you see what the europeans are doing here, they're trying very hard to balance their relationships between the united states and russia because economically a lot of countries on this continent are reliant on russian energy. that tension you could feel and see both in the questions that were asked and in the answers that were given that the european, the g-7 is united about sticking what they've done to so far to russia, but it is not clear if there is a road ahead if russia decides not to

back off on ukraine. >> that tension may be evident tomorrow on this trip. the white house moves to france for the 70th anniversary of d-day and vladimir putin is expected to be there. do you think there will be any sort of encounter with that? >> reporter: there is a chance that they will be in normandy itself and you heard the president asked about that and he seemed to acknowledge if possible that they have a conversation and the president again. he always describes his relationship with putin these days as we've always had a businesslike relationship meaning that he believes there is an ability to have a transactional relationship with putin. they don't have to be friends, buddies and not see eye to eye. at the end of the day, putin wants something in return. the awkward nature of the european nature is on display tonight in paris itself. president hollande of france is hosting president obama and president putin for an evening meal. he's calling his meal with president obama a dinner, that happens first.

he's calling his meal with russian president putin a supper. apparently to the french there is a difference between dinner in supper. to us in america, there's not much of a difference like the child of divorced parents, he's having two thanksgiving dinners. >> how interesting to have a seat at that table, both of them, supper and dinner. chuck todd, thank you, live for us in brussels. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor. let's start with you, nick. the president is being dogged by the bergdahl controversy saying this is not a political football. can he change his narrative with what chuck was saying, kind of dismissive in his tone. >> you can see today as well that he added this element of i write letters to the parents of lost soldiers, and i couldn't leave this guy behind. what you will hear as the counter to that. how about the soldiers who died on the search for bergdahl?

people involved in those operations? that sort of fact pattern is still in dispute. we're still anything to see a report on that. the counter is how do you balance the lives that were risked and trying to get him back with his life. >> we make no apologies to make sure we get the young man back to his parents. >> ambassador, we turn to you, let me ask you to put your hat on as an infantry platoon leader and commander of the army. president obama is still talking about his decision to trade prisoners for bergdahl. it's just after the taliban released the video of bergdahl being handed over to u.s. special forces in afghanistan, brief members of congress in a classified meeting, they called it a proof of life video which they used in part to justify securing his release. they said he was in poor health. bergdahl deal, explanations flopped and here's what some

senators had to say about it. >> the video that we saw yesterday was a 90-second video. he was obviously drugged. as a layman i could tell that. he was probably coerced into mumbling the words that he mumbled. he didn't look good. that's not enough to tell me that he's in imminent health danger from a health standpoint. >> but after seeing that video dick durbin said he might have done the same thing. what's the challenge in justifying this prisoner exchange and how much do questions of bergdahl's capture complicate things? >> yes. there are questions here. the first question is whether you should bring a soldier back if you can and the answer to that is clearly yes. the second question, however, is what were the circumstances under which the soldier left his unit? we don't know the answer to that. there are suspicions, there's evidence, we should be interested in finding out the

answers to that question, but the level of this chorus needs to be higher on this and the level of attention to this needs to be proportionate to the issues. bring a soldier home and find out what the circumstances were when he left the unit. >> all right. let's talk about this, nick. with what we just heard from the president here sound bite from him talking about russia and the ukrainian governgovernment, wha the takeaway with the highlight on the crisis in the ukraine? >> the takeaway is we have few good options. every time i hear him talking about putin i imagine him putting his head in the sand like, oh, my god, this guy. our european allies don't want a lot of the aggressive, economic sanctions we could do to jam him up a little bit. it makes it hard. there's not much that we can do and as chuck said you see a slight parent backing down and even the threat of those

sectoral sanctions. >> we will watch especially with is upper and dinner and d-day with the 70th commemoration. we appreciate your perspective this morning. >> coming up, the new push to stop people from openly carrying long guns, and one mom's group who finally found a way to take on the gun lobe. president obama is trying to deal with a humanitarian crisis. tens of thousands of children coming across the border alone. we'll talk to an activist about how to solve the problem next. ♪

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♪ two major stories. one dealing with the second amendment and the other with the immigration issue that's been overshadowed with so much attention devoted with the return of sergeant bowe derring ball. an indiana-based mother's group that is targeting target. the popular retailer has become the latest corporation to be polled over the fight with

open-carry gun rights. moms demand action for gun sense in america, partly funded by every gun town safety cam camp is taking on open carry events some of which have taken place in target stores. yesterday they launched a petition requesting target's management ban customers from openly carrying guns and using the #offtarget to promote their cause. target responded with a statement saying, quote, at target, the safety and security of our guests and team members is our highest priority. target does not sell firearms or ammunition and as it relates to this issue, we follow all state and federal laws. joining me now is fonder of moms demand action shannon watts. thanks so much for being with us here. talk about the success from your group on this front on gun safety. we're talking about big-name companies, chipotle, starbucks, sonic, chili's, jack-in-the-box all making similar bans. so far no changes on target. do you think their logo will be

up there with the guns not allowed. we hope they'll do things to keep moms safe. we go there in droves, i go there almost every week, several times a week and 90% of the customers are women and mother. it's time for them to do the right thing. just last week in target someone left a loaded assault weapon in the toy aisle. they can prevent things like that from happening if they put an open carry policy in place that does not allow open carry in the stores. let's talk about the nra and their perspective. it seemed to think that these demonstrations are extreme. chris cox, head of the nra's said on their own website, quote, it is downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. it can be downright scary. it makeses folks who might normally be perfectly open minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motive of pro-gun. activists. they later backed away from social media backlash including

pictures of nra cards being cut up and the word apology. do you think the nra is nervous about this especially when using the vocabulary and the word choice of downright scary, down right weird. >> it is downright weird and it is down right scary and for one brief, shining moment we were on the same page with the nra supporting common sense reforms that would keep our family safe and they backtracked on that and that is unfortunate. what they said still stands. there is no taking it back. it is down right weird. >> as far as the nerves there, do you think that will be cause for any movement for anything else as far as the nra is concerned? >> they're being pulled in different directions. they're being pulled out of the main stream by these extremists and there is mid will ground we can stand on. >> do you think the strategy of, you know, getting these corporations in and their voice will actually result in some kind of action as far as your organization goes? >> absolutely. if you look at the fight for marriage equality it happened

just this way. they bypassed congress when they wouldn't do the right thing. they went to the states and having huge companies and we're having a huge win with the states and huge wins with america and congress will do the right thing. >> when you get impassioned, very determined and sometimes angry mothers. >> yes. >> sometimes that's when things get done. >> we appreciate this. shocking new members show a massive surge in the number of immigrant children crossing the mexican border alone to come to the united states. president obama says it is an urgent humanitarian crisis. about 120 kids arrive in the u.s. each day by themselves and most are coming from central america. officials say that number could climb to 60,000 this year and double to more than 130,000 in 2015 and so many kids coming over the federal government is running out of room to hold them. officials opened a shelter at lackland air force base in san antonio, texas, it's a shelter is slated to open as early as

tomorrow. joining me is sandy valenciano of the california youth justice alliance. she crossed the border with her family when you were just 4. let's talk about this with your personal experience behind it, why are we seeing this unprecedented spike in unaccompanied immigrant kids crossing the border? >> yes. i think that it would be very interesting to listen to the stories of each of these children, youth and kids who have been crossing the border, but speaking from a perspective from mexico, i think that lately in the last couple of years violence has risen extremely, and it's not safe for one to go in the streets. some countries -- i'm sorry, some states more than others, right? and i think the same goes for central america and south america where you have extremely risen violence in the streets, gangs and kids losing their parents so they're seeking other

relatives and other means for safety. >> unfortunate that violence is the reason why, let's put this in perspective and as far as the kids and where they come from. 90% are from guatemala, el salvador and honduras. once in u.s. custody they're prieded with medical and mental health services while they typically stay at a shelter for 30 to 45 days and before they're placed with a family member or sponsor, president obama is asking congress for an extra $1.4 billion. sandy, what do you think needs to be done here? >> i think that this has been an issue ongoing. we are just seeing it at a higher increase now, and i think that obama has or even past presidents haven't figured out a system or haven't figured out a program in a way to target or how to handle these incoming kids and i think now that the numbers have extremely doubled

now it comes to a time where they're trying to find ways to deal with the issue and i think that there needs to be a better system laid out. there needs to be a better way to deal will with the children who, for starters, really extremely need a lot of therapy and mental health in order to really cope with whatever drew them to come to the border, but i think that there really needs to be a system laid out, and that goes into effect of how the immigration system is really broken and how we have found this to keep pushing immigration issues back as far as possible, but then we have situations like this where they're to an extreme and trying to find a way to deal with them when they should have already been a system laid out. >> it's an issue you know very well you came to the united states when you were just 4 years old. thank you for sharing your story. hillary clinton releases the

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♪ here comes hillary. upon. her new book "hard choice chosc isn't out yet. it focusses of best of hillary moments including meetings with world leaders and the 2011 bin laden raid and not to be for gotten right there, left of center the famous text from hillary shot that set off the popular tumblr, too. she kicked off the media blitz with a cover story in "people" magazine, breaking the glass ceiling and even monica lewinsky, but the question everyone wants to know is the one she hasn't exactly answered just yet. is she running for president? let's bring in our strategist, political analyst and grillo.com

contributor, zerlina maxwell and robert traynham. >> out gate, it could be a tough media celebration. what can we expect from her? >> i think she's setting it up. she's following the playbook that everyone in the past has fol mroepd you put out this book and you have the cover where you're looking very tough and you have photographs, world leaders to remind everyone that she's ready to be president, and i think she talks about breaking through the highest and hardest glass ceiling and one of the things that we have to be concerned with is if she does run and if she does win making sure that the democrats in congress have the majority so we can have a functional congress as with hillary as president. >> you're saying as it goes with the equation of these things, book deal first. book relation is slowly going into it. >> yes. >> roadblocks have surfaced for clinton as she's begun the media

rollout. you were talking about benghazi and of course, monica lewinsky and the concussion story and her age. when they bring up some of these issues, particularly about her age, you know, right here leading drudge report asked if hillary was holding a walker in her new "people" cover, karl rove has been talking about her for a while. >> when ronald reagan ran for president in 1981 he was the oldest candidate ever to run, he was 68 years old. when mccain ran his age became an issue. i think it is a legitimate question and you don't want to be offensive especially to a female, but having said that hillary clinton has been a part of our conversation for the last 25 years and when we think we know her, she reinvents herself. she was a kandz at's spouse and first lady, and then in 2000 she became a candidate and in 2008 she ran for president and was

secretary of state. she will be testing out her themes throughout her book tour. she will see what res theys. i'm sure her team will do some polling numbers and she will make an announcement as to whether or not she will run or not. i suspect she will run, but it's fair game to ask about a candidate's help and it's fair game to ask about the age. >> i wish you could see zerlina's expressions. right away, fair game? >> sure. i think everyone is in agreement that we can talk about age as an issue, but talking about whether or not she is brain damaged or whether or not she's holding on to a walker when clearly everyone looking at the picture knows she's standing in front of a pool so it's probably a pool chair. age question is fair, health question is fair. when you're dabbling in sexism and ageism, that's when it gets dangerous reinventing herself, that's one way of looking at it and it's someone who has had a

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the political firestorm surrounding the release of pow bowe bergdahl has sparked a deep divide in social media and it's caused problems for politicians. bergdahl seen here in this video abandoned his post, that praise for his return have been deleted from their accounts. the website that tracks these

things. welcome home, sergeant bergdahl, a grateful america thanks you for your service. >> and from congressman jim, so glad that sergeant bergdahl is coming home safely, he is a true american hero. it's time for the reputation report and now jansing & company, a look at the top trends on social media and here with the exclusive analysis is howard bragman of 15 minutes public relations. >> what is the media or social media response here? >> the social media response is huge. it feels to me like dr. bergdahl is getting swift boated right now. people are trying to paint him a certain way on social media. this is a case where social media in 140 characters can't tell the whole story.

it's much more nuanced. it's much deeper. great "new york times" story on the deaths that were allegedly caused while looking for him and i think this is a case where we have to go a little beyond social media and really read and understand what's truly going on. the president stands by his decision, leave no man behind. >> it certainly contributes to the love/hate relationship many of us have with social media. on to texas senator ted cruz. he's been making headlines and won another republican straw poll boosting his profile. what's happening so social media with that? >> you know, i would say kind of mixed. fairly strong volume. ted cruz is what we would call a provok tour. this is a guy who likes to take positions that will cause people to respond and a lot of people don't like him. the ethical filter, he's way down. he's talked about hillary clinton and benghazi a great deal. he's talked about campaign spending limits under the guise of freedom of speech.

he's winning straw polls and what he's doing is solidifying his base. the base loves this guy. he loves the attention and this is a guy who is going to benefit in being in the straw polls from exactly this kind of social media, but i will say if he does get the nomination and he moves the general election, some of these pretty far right positions are going to be damaging to him in the long run. what's all of the social media buzz on california chrome? >> we are loving california chrome, almost 80% positive. we in california are excited. there's not been a triple crown winner in 36 years. this horse has a great story. a very inexpensive horse, a showy, flashy horse who seems to love the attention and we all know about the nasal strips that help the horse breathe and breathe right nasal strips is passing out 50,000 of them

hoping fans of belmont will be wearing them while this horse is running to the triple crown. we're happy for california chrome and we're pulling for him. >> brilliant marketing. can you imagine the executives who came up with that. thank you, howard. appreciate it. go for the triple crown on saturday and coverage starts at 4:30 eastern on nbc. as president obama leaves brussel aboard air force one we have to leave you today with a video everyone is talking about, the president working out at the marriott hotel gym in warsaw. it appears the video was recorded by a guest. there he is right there also working at the gym right there. is he bending at the knee or is he choosing which one? go for the 20? any for the 20, president! it looks like the president knows what he's doing when it comes to pumping iron. which one was that? looking good. and that does wrap it up as far as this hour of jansing & company. i'm francis rivera in for chris

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good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall and this is "news nation." developing now, president obama at a news conference in the past hour at brussels, belgium, forcefully defending the controversial prison swap with the taliban that freed army sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> i make absolutely no apologies in making sure that we get back a young man to his parents and that the american people understand that this is somebody's child and that we don't condition whether or not we make the effort to try to get them back. >> the president also dismissed the controversy describing it as being, quote, whipped up. >> i'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped

up in washington, right? that's -- that's par for the course, but i'll repeat what i said two days ago. we have a basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform. >> the president's comments today come after members of the senate received a classified briefing from administration officials late yesterday. senators say they were shown a proof of life video of bergdahl from last december. some say the video convinced them that bergdahl's health was, in fact, in jeopardy, but others from both sides of the aisle remain skeptical. >> i don't think from a health standpoint there was any issue that dictated the release of these five nasty killers in exchange for bergdahl. >> that did not sell me at all. the proof of life was five months ago, december? at that time he was