prisoner of war. could the five taliban commanders freed from gitmo return to the battlefield? >> i'm not telling you that they don't have some ability at some point to go back and get involved, but they also have an ability to get killed doing that. i don't think anybody should doubt the capacity of the united states of america to protect the americans. >> i heard john kerry this morning say don't worry about them in doha. you can't help but worry about them in doha. it's hard to be comfortable when you really haven't been briefed on the intri catcies of carrying out this agreement. >> and trial run, hillary clinton kicks off her campaign. the book campaign. selling her new book is the elaborate rollout a prelude to the next campaign as presidential 2016 in suspense. seems not if but when.

>> i have to make the decision that's right for me an the country. >> is the party frozen in place waiting -- >> no, no, people can do whatever they choose to do on whatever timetable they decide. good day, i'm andrea mitchell back in washington. new details about bowe bergdahl's imprisonment are beginning to emerge. nbc news has now confirmed that bergdahl has told pentagon doctors he was hold in a metal cage in complete darkness for weeks as punishment for trying to escape. he continues his recovery landstuhl germany. the many obama administration still defending the swap. >> what i know today is what the president of the united states

knows, it would be offensive and inkpre inkpre inkprensable to leave an american behind and we would consciously choose to do that? that's the other side of this equation. i don't think anybody would think that is the appropriate thing to do. >> i'm joined by the deputy spokesperson for state department, marie harf. great to see you. thank you for being here. >> of course. >> all of the questions that have been asked are not necessarily whether to bring a prisoner back but the price paid and the lack of notification. first of all, to the lack of notification, dianne feinstein hardly -- has been extremely -- bipartisan concern on the hill there was no reason not to notify either the big eight, the committee chairs. what does the administration say to that? >> i think two points.

first is that we were operating in a very short time frame here, that we absolutely assessed that our military commanders assessed if any detail about this swap became public, before it actually happened, that sergeant bergdahl's life would be in increasing danger. he was being held as we now seen by a group that's ruthless and didn't know what they would be capable of doing. very concerned for his life. >> let me ask you about that. the bin laden raid was completely briefed for 11 months and in the 48 hours prior to the raid was briefed to the top leaders -- >> it was not actually. it was not. the bin laden raid was the only other time we -- >> in fact, that was claimed initially by tom done lynn in a conference with me a week ago. but since that time mike morrell said it was completely briefed and he was acting cia director. in contemporaneous time frame i talked to a senate chairman the

day after the raid and he said i couldn't talk to you that sunday we were together, it was briefed. >> i was a spokesperson if you remember. what we're talking about bergdahl, the architecture what this might look like, was briefed to congress, including who the five would be, including what the swap would look like. that was fully briefed to congress. but the specific operational details when the swap would happen for operational security as was the case with bin laden were not briefed prior to the operation because we believed that was a necessity. >> i don't want to argue the point because i don't want you put on the spot. >> it's my job to be put on the spot. >> on sunday afternoon before binladen was announced, i was standing next to a senate chair who said i have to go and later the next day said to any, i'm so sorry i was being told about the and i didn't want to risk standing next to reporters like

yourself. i know this from dianne feinstein and mike rogers. >> we can create history on bin laden but when it comes to bergdahl, the architecture of this entire swap had been briefed and quite frankly was discussed publicly. >> briefed back in 2011. >> and 2012 and 2013. >> and leaders in a bipartisan way said don't trade these five. the administration knew they would be getting objections in advance, is that why they didn't tell them? >> not at all. it was entirely for operational security reasons. we were aware of different points of view people had on this. a few points on these five men and reengagement with the fight, under this administration we have put in place very string ent processes to determine that we can sufficiently mitigate the risk that terrorists, if they -- the possibility that these gentlemen -- >> do you trust qatar. >> it's not about trusting qatar

entirely. we believe they will uphold their end of the deal. but as secretary kerry said we have a number of ways of keeping tabs on these guys once they are transferred. under the very string ent rules the reengagement rate for guantanamo transferred dropped from 18.6% in the bush administration to 6% in this administration. we believe that we've but in place does help prevent guantanamo detainees from returning to the fight. absolutely. >> let me ask you about two other incidents, terrible incidents. the attack on abdullah abdullah by the same group, the ha canny network in kabul. this is the same group on the leading candidate to be president, it would disrupt the entire system, wouldn't just be the runoff and now the karachi airport, we're talking about people according to many experts

in and outside of government knew where he was didn't make any effort to help us find him. how did we deal with five taliban being placed in qatar but same group still violent. >> it remains to be seen who was responsible for the attack on abdullah abdullah. in the first round the afghan security forces stepped up and took control for security and elections went off very well. we have another round of voting coming up this week. abdullah, abdullah is one of the two candidates in that election. what we've said is that these groups are a concern. but when it comes to making a determination about guantanamo transfers, the standard we use is whether we can substantially mitigate the risk that they will return to the fight and threaten directly united states national security interests. we believe the government has an agreement that will help us do that. we have eyes on these guys. if they return to the fight you

better believe we will go after them and try to recapture them or of course bring them to justice in other ways. >> we'll have to leave it there. marie harf, thank you very much. >> joining me now is richard engel. what about the fact that these groups and their affiliates continue these terror attacks and how confident can we be that these five who were commanders and now have access on the internet and by phone, will be not returning to a command in control role? >> it's possible that they will eventually turn into some sort of command structure and join the group again. accounts we've been getting through qatar, from the families of the militants, from the taliban itself, suggested this stage -- those five are going through their own kind of reintegration process. bergdahl has been missing for

five years and was -- spent five years as a taliban prisoner. these men spent over a decade in guantanamo. the taliban says they are not in particularly good health. they are themselves struggling to cope with the new surrounding that they are in. i think the larger question is the one you were talking about earlier with marie, these militant groups still operate very openly in pakistan and we haven't talked about syria. so there are thousands and thousands of militants operating in syria. so is it -- is the real danger from these five older -- not that healthy well known militants who are now being watched in qatar, the home of centcom, are they the danger or the 8,000 to 10,000 foreign fighters currently in syria, of which we know very little about. it's a question of priorities, which is the bigger danger. >> good point, richard. let's go to what we've confirmed

and "new york times" was first to record this weekend, the details of what bergdahl is saying about his i imprisonment. can you fill in these gaps? >> reporter: we haven't heard anything directly from bergdahl. this was coming from "new york times" report and then able to be confirmed out of washington, that bergdahl has started to speak. he's telling the -- what happened to him during the five years of captivity, a very sad and lonely, brutal time in which he spent a great deal of time in solitary confinement and the conditions of his capture only got worse after he tried to escape. at that stage his cap tors put him into a some sort of restraining situation. there's been different accounts about this, a small room, a cage, a box, but he was certainly put in a very confined position as described as

treatment as described as harsh, perhaps even torture. he is still here. he is okay physically, well enough to go back home to the united states but he's still receiving a lot of psychological treatment. we don't know how much longer he's going to be here. he could be leaving this week, could be in a couple of weeks. here officials aren't authorized to say anything. >> we understand he has not spoken to his parents or chosen to even though he can. thanks richard. new details are emerging from yesterday's deadly shooting spree in las vegas that left five people dead, including two people. police officers and two alleged killers, a married couple with a vendetta against the u.s. government. nbc news learned that the suspect's names are jared and amanda miller and lived in las vegas and a neighbor is saying she encountered the couple leaving with a shopping cart filled with weapons. they told the neighbor, quote, we got to do what we got to do

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a campaign in waiting, otherwise known as book tour. but until the 2016 front-runner announces her real decision, she'll face a lot of questions like this from abc news about her power over the primary field. >> is the party frozen in place waiting for you -- >> no, people can do whatever they choose to do on whatever timetable they decide. >> but are they disadvantaged waiting for you -- >> i don't know -- >> bill clinton started to run for president officially in september or october of 1991. i just don't think that that's a real concern. people will do what they think is best for them and whether they choose to seek the presidency or not is very personal for everybody. >> kiki was a senior adviser to hillary clinton and now volunteering for the book rollout. good to see you. >> glad to be here. >> what hillary clinton said to diane sawyer skirts the issue of whether the party needs to know

or is there no longer any confusion in the minds of leading strategists? >> what my reaction to be is somebody who worked on a variety of presidential campaigns over the years, people want to run for office should get in the race. there are qualified people in the party, we have a great bench. if somebody is interested in running for president, they should run for president. we're two years out, there's a little time here. >> the elections seem to start earlier and earlier. >> i have found over the years, i think what it is, the work has always gone on that early and you know because you've been there to cover them. the difference is with technology now everybody knows about the work has been going on. my first presidential campaign i worked for was for dick gephart and volunteering in 1986. >> the other thing is is she potentially vulnerable from the left side of the party and ties to wall street that have been

discussed. elizabeth war has said she's not running and brian switser might be running. bernie sanders considered it supposedly. is there any way to compete with hillary clinton given her dominance of the field? >> i happen to believe personally if she runs for president, she's the most qualified to be president right now. she has to make the decision she wants to run. that's what primaries are about and the person they want to lead them. when we get into that primary, we'll know who's in and who's not and see where it goes. one of the things those of us who work in politics love is the surprise factor of any kind of politics. and anything is possible. that's what's great about it. >> this is another clip from diane sawyer's interview where she's talking about how she's been making money on the lecture circuit since she left office. >> it's been reported you made 5 million making speeches and

president made more than $100 million? >> well, if you -- you have no reason to remember but we came out of the white house not only debt broke but in debt. we had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgage s and houses and chelsea's education, it was not easy. >> do you think americans will understand five times the median income in the country for one speech? >> well, let me put it this way. i thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company as so many people who leave public life do. >> do you think the money thing matters to people? how does she reconnect to the working class? i should point out, we have the book. >> did not bring this to you. >> this is from a book store in washington, we bought it separately.

we know there are going to be several nbc interviews as well with our friend savannah guthrie and cynthia mcfadden. but this is a book we purchased. >> look, i think what most americans know about hillary clinton is the way she spent her entire career in public service and stood up and fought for them. whether it was the early work at the children's defense fund and advocacy as first lady of arkansas and kind of what she's done. what she's done around the globe for women and girls in a variety of settings and roles, whether it's founding an ngo, the reality is most people have to earn a living. she's certainly one of those folks and that's the relationship and rollout she chose to have and explains that herself. >> should we assume her strategist think that benghazi is the toughest thing she'll have to deal with? that is the -- to get that out of the way. >> i don't make any assumptions on any given day about what anybody is going to say about hillary clinton because i'm always wrong. what i do believe if she chooses to run for president, there will

be a primary of some sort, even if she's the only one in it and there will be a campaign, where candidates will have the chance to talk about what they believe in and people have the chance to ask her questions. >> do you assume if she runs joe biden doesn't? >> i make no assumptions, if the vice president chooses to run he's been a great leader for the country and there's all the opportunity in the world for him. >> he could make the argument he's better qualified snd. >> anybody running should make the argument they are the best qualified. you better know you're qualified and want to be president. that's why a lot of people have said publiccy if secretary clinton decided to run, they would support her because they know she is. we'll see what the future holds. >> thank you so much for coming in. >> thanks so much. >> now to a growing crisis here in the united states as a surge of undocumented children from central america are traveling alone and making their way across the border by the thousands, and overwhelming holding facilities across texas

and arizona where conditions are questionable. medical care inadequate. mark potter has the details. >> reporter: all weekend waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arrived at the station to be housed and processed by officials. they came to arizona from south texas where an illegal immigration surge has overloaded detention facilities. more than 800 children from el salvador and honduras and guatemala are being held in a border patrol warehouse. there are more than 47,000 unaccompanied kids caught trying to enter the u.s. illegally since october. >> a lot of times both parents are here already and they are trying to get together with their families. >> reporter: this group ranging in age from 9 to 18 was caught sunday by texas police after crossing the rio grande in search of their parents. the rise in immigration from central america began a few years ago. as many fled the violence and poverty and drug gangs there. last week president obama declared a humanitarian crisis

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they leaked the benghazi chapter the one they clearly thought would be the most troubling subject. >> both of those can be true. as you're holding it up, it's thick and meaty and goes region by region and country by country and hard choice by hard choice. turns out most of them she got right, what a surprise. and except for the famous one where she says straight out, which she wasn't that good at saying last time around, that her vote to support the war in iraq was a mistake. >> led me read that excerpt. i should have stated my regret sooner. i held out against using the word mistake. it wasn't because of political expediency but i still got it wrong, plain and simple. she got it wrong politically as well as substantively. >> it's interesting because she says it's not out of political expediency and i think all of us have some -- at least some of us

have a hard time saying when we're wrong and saying straight out in plain and simple language we made a mistake. i think that to the extent hillary clinton talks of another point in the book about how she's tried to learn hard not to make the same mistakes twice. that will be interesting to see. having a hard time saying when she messed up is one of the potential flaws she has to deal with if she has another campaign. >> there's another excerpt which are the lessons from the 2008 campaign, when she met with president obama -- president-elect obama to talk about making peace and discussed first of all there were two things, racism and sexism that were very painful to the clintons and had to be dealt with. remarks on both sides, including some of my own had been taken out of context but the preposterous charge of racism against bill was particularly painful. barack made clear neither he nor his team believed that

accusation. as to the sexism, i know it arose from psychological attitudes from women's roles in society didn't make it easier for me and my supporters. this was the great peace making that was the prelude to her finally accepting the role of secretary of state. >> i would say, andrea, still in my mind, somewhat remarkable that it happened that way, because that primary, i covered it, you covered it. we were all there. was so drawn out, was so nasty, for months conference call versus conference call, meet me in ohio, barack obama, all of those back and forth. it is somewhat remark anl that they found a way to get beyond it. i do think, however, that the last passage you praed there, especially interesting. hillary clinton did not talk nearly as much as i thought she should have in terms of political efficacy about the historic nature of her candidacy and the difficulty of running for president as a woman, difficulty sometimes of being a

woman in sew siocietsociety. she's talked more about that since leaving the state department. my guess is she's going to talk more about the historic nature of her bid when she runs in 2016. >> amy, you've done some reporting on the people she's bringing in. first of all in the book, presumably down the road on the campaign, emerging of these two wings of the primary fight. >> right. >> back in 2008. >> right, it's pretty interesting. you had somebody like tommy vitor, he was throwing things at them every day and now he's working alongside her two main spokespeople. the big message is this is an unrivaled team, not a rivaled team anymore, that's their message, anyway. >> in the "washington post" abc, the new poll, ruth, it makes clear that she dominates and obliterates any potential rivals. what does this say about joe biden and any hopes that he

harbors? >> when kiki mclean was on she didn't want to answer the question about whether the vice president will run, i think the answer to that question is almost certainly no. there may be a primary challenge but there's not a lot of oxygen in the room for a vice president alongside hillary clinton. the poll is striking not just for how much she dominates her potential democratic rivals but how much she emerged unscathed -- what xajed from benghazi but still strong marks for her tenure as secretary of state. segtly higher marks than president obama has for his handling of foreign policy. >> but estimate, chris cillizza in the "washington post"/abc poll. 55% of democrats want awe primary fight. >> and 60% of people identify as liberal democrats want a

primary. i think some of that -- first of all, people often hold two competing ideas in their minds. some of it is no one likes the idea of a corpsonation, they like the idea the person has to fight for the nomination. that said, she has a massive lead. these same people when given a choice to have a primary fight give joe biden 12% of the vote. it seems to me people want a fight but when given the opportunity to pick a fight they are not interested. >> and amy, does she have to move to the liberal base and then try to pivot back, the usual twist and turn we see in republican campaigns? >> i think she does. she has to give a nod to those elizabeth warren supporters and people who want something else. then she's going to go back probably to the hawk she was at the state department. she was a hawk. she was very -- she took stances that were much more conservative

than the president's, for example. >> thank you so much. your book is of course "hrc", setting up for the book tour of hard choice and ruth and chris, thanks so much. a spokesperson for actor and comedian tracy morgan said he's more responsive after surgery on the leg but remains in critical condition following saturday's deadly six-car pileup on the new jersey turnpike. the snl alum and "30 rock" star, a crash caused when a tractor-trailer slammed into his limo bus on their way home from a performance at the delaware casino. his good friend and fellow comedian, james mcnair was killed in that crash. kevin roper was driving the walmart tractor-trailer and didn't see the slowed traffic in time. the 35-year-old turned himself into police and charged with one count of death by auto. nbc news obtained a complaint

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from samsung. israeli president perez and palestinian president mahmoud abbas praying for peace. the pope told the men he hope the a summit of peace would reignite the peace making process, which of course has collapsed. ann thompson covers the vatican for nbc and joins me now from rome. wonderful to hear the bells there. and aaron david miller at the wilson center in washington but long time middle east peace negotiator for presidents of both parties, five presidents of both parties. and first to you, what was the motivation for the pope bringing them together in the certainly he's not going to negotiate borders and the right of return. but did he think he could create a climate that might facilitate returning to the peace talks?

>> that's exactly what his motive was, andrea. this was not so much about substance as symbolism, what the pope wanted to do was show the people of the holy land that these two leaders of this -- the opposite sides of this conflict, that dragged on for 60 years could come together and find common ground. they found that common ground in prayer. it was really striking, andrea. i was in the vatican gardens for the service. to hear the prayers in hebrew from the jewish tradition, the prayers from christianity and the prayers from the muslim faith, what was striking, they each touched on three areas, creation, forgiveness and peace. and what you saw there was what the pope was trying to say, i think, is that there's more that united states us than divides us. that was best symbolized in two things that happened yesterday. first was the warm exchange

between perez and abbas and then they walked down the path and watching them i couldn't help but think that here are these men, pope francis is 77 and perez is 90 years old and abbas is 79. they are working for a future they may not live to see. at the end of the service they exchanged a sign of peace and again, you could see that fraternalism and the pope said the way to break this conflict is to start addressing each other as brother. i think that was very clear. that message was very clear last night. >> and aaron david miller, you have gone through decades of watching failed attempts and hopes dashed, most recently john kerry's negotiations. is there any way to reignite a hopeful peace process among these players and actually -- it's not these players it's

netanyahu in israel because perez is in fact leaving this summer, the presidency. >> the gaps are still large on the big issues, andrea. and the reality is that after ten months and there may be any number of factors as to why this process didn't work, but certainly one of them is there's simply not enough ownership on the part of netanyahu and abbas, there isn't enough sense of pain or gain to get them to the position where they are prepared to take the risks involved. both risks in terms of existent shal risks and killed as a consequence of their efforts and in terms of the risks of political identity. what the pope did was really quite remarkable, a man of great moral authority and spirituality, lending that authority to a peace process is usually not characterized by much comedy friendship and

personal relationships. all of that is good. as my grandmother used to say, it's like chicken soup. it certainly couldn't hurt. the question with respect to the pope is whether or not what he's done leads to, for example, an active dialogue among muslim, christian and jewish leaders to try to create a more stable foundation to approach issues like jerusalem. this is in fact a conflict driven by note only security and land but driven by religion as well. these negotiators can use all of the help he can get. but at the same time, the pope's intersession simply cannot effectively overcome the obstacles that currently characterize the process. remember one other thing, the guy -- the missing ingredient in this meeting was benjamin n

netanyahu. perez is retiring and abbas is 79, thinking about his own legacy. key decisions have to be made not by peres and abbas but by benjamin netanyahu and abbas and those have yet to be seen. >> ann thompson, just finally, do we see that pope francis might delve into something he's passionate about. we saw what he did on easter sunday regarding syria. might be also sort of step into with a moral message, a spiritual message some of these other conflicts that he feels so passionately about? >> i think -- yeah, i think, andrea, we're seeing a new chapter in sort of the role of the pope on the world stage. i mean, we haven't seen a pope step into a global issue since the early days of john paul ii when he went to poland and helped bring down communism in

his home country. and we're -- what we're seeing pope francis in this situation and again in syria, two situations that he considers as he would say, unacceptable and he's willing to use his bully pulpit, if you will and the power of the moral authority that david spoke of and to use it, what's extraordinary about this is when you think about it, all of this happened in two weeks. two weeks they got these guys here to the vatican and arranged this prayer service, which is just lightning speed. and i think a testimony to the moral authority and power of pope francis. >> ann thompson, thank you so much and aaron david miller here at home. coming up, in the fight to defeat prop 8, the film makers behind the new hbo documentary join me next.

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fight? >> it has been such a great ride and we started off early on when we found out they were going to be partnering on what could be a historic case. at the time we didn't know there would be a trial and go to the supreme court. we thought this is a really interesting hook of these two people taking the partisanship out of the issue. so once we got to know them, they introduced us to the plaintiffs involved in the case and we realized this is a story about their journey. and the harm that laws like proposition 8 do to these families. >> and the way you personalized the two couples is such an important part of this narrative. they are every man, every woman. >> heart and souls our film. the initial hook was the odd couple of ted olson and david boyce, very early on we recognized the plaintiffs were going to be the heart and soul. we followed their lives for the five years, from the time they took on the government of california and followed their family's lives and went through the ringer. it wasn't easy to be a part of

the lieutenaawsuit up until jun 2013 when they finally had their weddings and it was an incredibly special day for us having spent five years following their families. >> the fact that other cases are still, you know, circulating around and moving up to the court ks you've got all of these challenges and wisconsin is the latest to overturn the ban and the attorney general says we're going to fight to keep the ban. >> the number keeps changing. we keep having to change the end of our film because the numbers keep changing so quickly. what you see in the wisconsin case where judge crab made argumentses to what perry made and the decision in doma, so many of these laws -- so many of these decisions are being based on. >> anthony scalia kind of said in one of his dissents what

you're doing is opening the door to all of these cases going the other way from his perspective. what really has changed in society since -- since you first analyzed this issue and chad grif fin, the spark plug behind the legal challenge, bringing them together. families across america are experiencing this themselves as they have for decades but experiencing this in open ways. >> and ben grew up in indiana and i grew up in georgia, which was not -- not a very lgbt friendly climate to grow up in. it wasn't as surprising as gay californians and the amazing part of the process of where we are today. judge walker was to strike down a ban and now you seeing in states it never would have happened, oklahoma and texas and

utah. it's an indication of where the needle is now. >> beyond marriage, what is the next challenge for the movement? >> i think it's so important for us for people to realize there's been so much work done before the case and there's so many more work to do. we were lucky enough as observers to see one chapter of this history but there are so many issues whether it's employment nondiscrimination to international -- human rights, there's so many things left to do. >> congratulations. we're all very excited to see it. >> thanks. >> thanks so much for doing this work, important work. and it was never more visible than last night in the tony, how mainstream this has partly cloudy -- become. the energetic opening number by hugh jackson but could not upstage neil patrick har ris who took home for his role and best musical revival. another big moment, brian

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