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colleges, some do a fine job but many of them recruit kids in, the kids don't graduate but they're left with the debt. and if they do graduate, too often they don't have the marketable skills they need to get the job that allows them to service the debt. none of these fights have been easy. all of them have been worth it. you've got some outstanding members of congress who have been fighting right alongside us to make sure that we are giving you a fair shake. and the good news is more young people are earning college degrees than ever before. that's something we should be proud of and that's something we should sell brarkts but more of them are graduating with debt. despite everything we're doing, we're still seeing too big a debt load on too many young people. a large majority of today's college seniors have taken out loans to pay for school. the average borrower at a four-year college knows nearly $30,000 by graduation day.
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americans now owe more on student loans than they owe on credit cards and the outrage here is they're just doing what they're told they're supposed to do. i get letters from people who said i do everything i'm supposed to do and i want to pay my debts off but i can't make ends meet. if somebody plays by the rules, they shouldn't be punished for it. a young woman namd aed ashley f santa fe wrote me a letter and she said "i am the future -- she put "am" in capital letters so she'd know i knew she meant business. she said "i'm not even 30 and i've given up my future because i can't afford to have one."
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i wrote her back and said it's a little early in your 20s to give up. so i'm sure ashley was trying to make a point. but it's a point that all of us need to pay attention to. in america no young person who works hard and plays by the rules should feel that way. now, i made it clear that i want to work with congress on this issue. unfortunately a generation of young people can't afford to wait for congress to get going. the members of congress who are here are working very hard and putting forward legislation to try to make this stuff happen but they have not gotten some of the support that they need. in this year of action, wherever i've seen ways i can act on my own to expand opportunity to more americans, i have. and today i'm going to take three actions to help more young people pay off their student loan debt. number one, i'm directing our secretary of education to give
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more americans who are already making their loan payments a chance to cap those payments at 10% of their income. we call it pay as you earn. we know it works because we've already offered it to millions of young people. ilt saving folks like andy hundreds of dollars potentially every month, giving graduates the opportunity to pursue the dreams that inspired them to go to college in the first place and that's good for everybody. we want more young people to start their own businesses, becoming teachers and nurses and social workers and to be in a position to pursue their dreams. and we want more young people who act responsibly to be able to manage their debt over time. so we're announcing steps that will open up pay as you earn to nearly 5 million more americans. that's the first action we're taking today. the second action is to renegotiate contracts with companies like sallie mae that
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service our student loans and they owe students the support and flexibility that they deserve. that's number two. number three, we're doing more to help every borrower know all the options that are out there so that they can pick the one that's right for them. we're going to work with the teachers associations and nurses associations, with business groups and ymca and nonprofits and companies like turbo tax and h & r block. tomorrow i'm going to do a talk with tumbler to get the word out. you're laughing because you're saying what does he know about tumbler? well, i have kids so i'm hip to all these things. plus i have all these 20 somethings working for me all the time. >> i'm going to be signing this executive order. it's going to make progress but not enough.
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we need more. we got to have congress to make some progress. now, the good news, as i said there are some folks in congress who want to do it. there are folks here like jim clyburn, john tierney who are helping lead this fight in the house. we have elizabeth warren leading this fight in the senate. elizabeth has written a bill that would let students refinance their loans at lower rates, like their parents can refinance a mortgage. it closes the loop itself. i don't know, by the way, why folks aren't more outraged about this. i'm going to take a pause out of my prepared text. you would think that if somebody like me has done really well in part because the country's invested in them that they wouldn't mind at least paying the same rate as a teacher or a
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nurse. there's not a good economic argument for it that they should pay a lower rate. it just clout. that's all. so it's bad enough that that's already happening. it would be scandalous if we allowed those kinds of tax loopholes for the very, very fortunate to survive while students are having trouble just getting started in their lives. so you got a pretty straight forward bill here. and this week congress will vote on that bill. and i want americans to pay attention to see where their lawmakers' priorities lie here. lower tax bills for millionaires or lower student loan bills for the middle class. this should be a no-brainer. you got a group of far right republicans in congress who push this trickle-down economic plan,
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telling hard working students and families you're on your own. two years ago republicans in congress nearly let student loan interest rates double for 7 million young people. last year they tried to strip protections from lower income students. this year house republicans voted overwhelmingly to slash pell grants and make it harder for thousands of families to afford college. if you're a big oil company, they'll go to bat for you. if you're a student, good luck. some of these republicans in congress seem to believe that it's just because -- that just because some of the young people behind me need some help, that they're not trying hard enough. they don't get it. maybe they need to talk to andy. these students work hard to get to where they are today. chanel roberson, she's the first
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in her family to graduate from a four-year college. [ applause ] she's not asking for a handout. none of these folks are. she's working hard. she's working while she's going to school. she's doing exactly what we tell them they need to do. but they want a chance, if they do what they're told to do that they're not loaded up with so much debt that they can't buy a house, can't imagine starting a family, can't imagine starting a business on their own. i've been in politics long enough to hear plenty of people from both parties pay lip service to the next general ration and then they abandon them when it counts. and we, the voters, let it happen. this is something that should be
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really straight forward, just like the minimum wage should be straight forward. just like equal pay for equal work should be straight forward. one of the things i want all the voters out there to consider, particularly parents who are struggling trying to figure out how am i going to pay my kids' college education, take a look and see who is it that's fighting for your and your kids and who is it that's not? because if there are no consequences, then this kind of irresponsible behavior continues on the part of members of congress. so i ran for this office to help more people go to college, graduate and pay off their debt. and we've made some really good progress, despite the best efforts of some in congress to block those efforts. think of how much more we can do if they were not standing in the way. this week they have a chance to help millions of young people. i hope they do.
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you should let them know you are watching and paying attention to what they do. if they do not look out for you and then throw up a whole bunch of arguments that are meant to obfuscate, meaning confuse rather than to clarify and illuminate, then you should call them to account. in the meantime i'm going to take these actions today on behalf of all these young people here and every striving young american who shares my belief that this is a place where you can still make it if you try. thank you, everybody. god bless you. god bless america. [ applause ] there you go. that was quick.
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all right. the word of the day is obfuscate, the president getting a little laugh from his audience as he talks about initiatives he is putting in place to give more americans access to a program that lets them cap their payment at 10% of their income, saying he would like to renegotiate with the servicers of some student loans like sallie mae to get more flexibility, saying he's going to work with businesses, he's going to work with student associations, teacher associations and even turbo tax and tumbler, another reference that got a chuckle out of the audience and then the president going off the prepared text and say you'd think
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somebody who is making money and doing well like me wouldn't mind paying the same taxes as a nurse and if they are not willing to help, they are obfuscating and should be held to account. i want to, first of all, get both of your reactions to what you just heard. i'll start with you, tamara. what did you think on a policy level about these proposals from the president? >> well, on a policy level what the president laid out does a great job of doing one piece of solving the debt problem, and that is helping existing borrowers lower their monthly payments. that's a great first step. what it doesn't help us do is to make sure we never get to $2 trillion in student loan debt. we have to really knew commit ourselves to solving the root
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cause of this problem, which is that twice at state universities has tripled in a generation. >> and you know what, angela, the president did get to that. and essentially called out of the states to say they're not doing enough to cut into outstanding student loan debt. he called out congress. >> tuition rates have risen over 60% in some of these states. it's astronomical. you're talking about folks who can't afford, they're just trying to make it by and get into the top 10% of their class. so it was great that congressman miller and congressman tierney have introduced this measure called the bank on students emergency emergency finance act. i know we'll see tweets over the
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next couple of days. this is a big deal. the president has promised, after the state of the union address to use his pen and his phone and he's starting to do that a whole lot more and he's calling the gop to the carpet. are you going to do what you said in your autopsy report in reaching out to this other population? she's really going to make them put their money where their mouth is. >> every time president obama says something, there's a reflexive opposition and a substantive opposition. he'd like to see some tax loopholes closed down for the wealthy. so he'd like to see some of those shut down. that puts him in direct conflict with the republicans who on a substantive level just don't believe in anything that has any chance of becoming law? reason we really going to be stuck at the executive.
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>> reality is most americans have had it with this debt system. it's keeping way too many bright kids from enrolling or staying in college. about a quarter of students drop out before they have a degree. they're stuck with the debt but no degree. that is a bad position to be in. just from larger economic, sort of social mobility perspective, higher education in this country has torically and. >> and this seems like one of those things that in theory should be bipartisan. you've worked on the congressional side. what would stop something that seems like it would help both parties, frankly, if each party could say to younger, potential
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new voters, people coming out of college, want to be on your side, i want to help you not graduate with so much debt. what stops that from being a bipartisan message? >> the reality of this is the fact that if the president signs offit, there-in is the line in the sand. these are good politics for the president. but it's not just good for the president. it's good policy for the country. you mentioned 1.6 trillion in student loans. i'm one of those people that overborrowed. i have working on the hill is a privilege, right? you don't even have access to those kinds of dollars. and to be fair, sallie mae, it didn't go so far for private student loans, it only covered federal lons. that's a huge deal. >> exactly.
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that's the conundrum. you have to reach a and you wind of many, many students have been going into debt, not because people are bad people but because you're trying to pay for rent and other things and it becomes difficult. >> on these private loans, the interest rates are through the roof, a lot of them can be in the teens there's a lot of people out there who borrowed before 2007 that are paying really high rates on federal loans. we need to let them refinance those rates and bring them done. >> let's anticipate. there will be opposition to this. as i said, there's a part of the opposition that's reflexive. what do you think that argument
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will be? do you think it will carry anyweight? >> i think that the argument will be we can't afford to do this right now, the tax loopholes are different, these folks feed into our economy. >>. >> it's this very the people that grow into the economy and spend money at the grocery store, they don't matter? also the raising the wage piece, theers the very people it's talking about because they can't go and get good jobs. sometimes they check your credit, joy. so some this evenings should be bipartisan. >> i agree. some thanksgiving like education should be bipartisan. absolutely. >> angela, always great to see you in person. tamara, good to see you. we appreciate both of you.
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you're looking at live images from las vegas where moments ago law enforcement authorities began their update into the investigation of the mass shooting that has claimed five lives, including two police officers and the couple involved in the attack. they also say there is tape of the cici's shooting of the officers and that after the shooting they placed a gadston flag and swastika flag offer the bodies. gerald miller and his wife amanda entered cici's pizza. authorities say they shot and killed two police officers who were having lunch. those officers were identified as alyn beck and igor solido.
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this issin confirmed what happened next: "the shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition and badges, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge. they went to walmart and got into a shoot-out with police and it ended in a murder-suicide. a neighbor tells nbc that gerald miller told her, quote, we got to do what we got to do and said she heard the couple espouse anti- governme anti-government views.
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erica, i feel like every time one of these shootings happen, the details are outrageous, it's over the top, it's alarming and then people get over it really quickly. what is going to be the threshold for people to stop reporting on this day after day after day and actually get serious about doing something about the huge proliferation of guns in the hands of people who may or may not be stable? >> we were horrified to learn of tragedy in las vegas yesterday. frankly we node that nevadans and americans support common sense gun reforms that can prevent events like this from happening. last year the nevada legislature passed comprehensive background check legislation. we know the background checks make a difference. in states where comprehensive background checks are required,
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39% fewer officers are killed with handguns. two of those killed were there to protect and serve us and they were simply having lunch in the places where any of us go to eat and shot with our families and there was an innocent bystander as well. gun violence can happen any time and anywhere and that's why my organization any town safety are working so hard to pass reasonable reform that americans can support. >> you have the facebook page is out, there people read it and see what they're saying. if people are espousing these kinds of views, what in theory can be done about it? you can't stop somebody from buying a gun because they espouse horrible views or -- >> two things. we can pass background check. i may sound like a broken record, however, we do know they
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make a difference. cop killings are up by 53%. and 43% of police officers killed by guns, more than 40% shouldn't have been in their hand, they were prohibited purchasers. so background checks will prevent vaevents like this from happening. we've talked about taking measures that will temporarily remove guns out of the hands of dangerous people. this could have been the case of the u.c. santa barbara shooting. >> let's listen a little bit to the press conference that law enforcement authorities are having right now about the shooting. let's listen in. >> in washington and indiana, we believe they've only been here since january of this year. jared miller has a criminal background where he is a convicted felon for vehicle theft offenses in the state of washington, and as you well
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know, he said in his facebook post that that is one of the reasons that he was kicked out of the bundy ranch, because of his criminal history and background. we do realize that the events attracted a significant number of anti-government, anti-law enforcement individuals and we'll continue to investigate the aspect of this case that may be related to that. at this time i'm going to have assistant sheriff lombardo come up and give you information as to the current posture of our organization and then we'll be available for questions. thank you. >> thank you, kevin. like kevin mentioned, i'm assistant sheriff lombardo, i'm in charge of law enforcement groups. i'm going to inform you what our current posture is on the police department and where we're going into the future. kevin gave you a lot of
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information in reference to the event and i'm going to give you information hough we're going to respond forward. the sheriff mentioned yesterday the primary concern is the safety of our officers and the safety of our community, okay? what that means is we're not able to shut down when we have a tragic event such as took place yesterday. we have to continue to provide safety for the community. it's 24/7 job and we don't have the ability to slow down or not respond to calls. so how are we going to respond to that? we have gone to an emergency mobilization of our uniformed services. what that means is we go to an a/b roster, 12 on, 12 off. >> you are listening to an update on the las vegas shooting. jared miller, the alleged shooter, who killed two officers, was kicked out of the bundy ranch because of his criminal background. we did discover a facebook page
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believed to be amanda miller's, which mentioned she was an employee at hobby lobby, there were various photos on the site, as you can see they're plif rating on social media. the u.s. has the highest rate of gun related deaths in the entire world. with a conservative estimate according to the brookings institution of 270 million guns, americans have stockpiled almost half the private live owned firearms in the world. and law enforcement officers have to go about not just their jobs but even sitting in a restaurant dealing with an armed public that is in a lot of cases more heavily armed than they are. and now we have the right, people in the nra saying you just need a good guy with a gun and that stops a bad guy with a gun. these are two cops sitting in a
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restaurant, lost their lives and then other civilians was killed and what killed these laalleged shooters were themselves. >> we can't say there aren't warning signs, there are. the facebook page. this isn't an isolated case. this happened in santa barbara. the combination of gun extremism, radicalism plus lax gun laws is resulting in actions like this. lawmakers have to create reform that will allow us to take guns away from people who can be harmful to others or themselves. >> i think the thing that's going to stand out to a lot of people is that statement that he was kicked out of that ranch protest because of a criminal background. so one wonders whether background checks -- >> and we're still learning where he got his gun. we'll have to find out if it was a private sale, which wouldn't have required a background check. >> i'm tired of reporting these things but unfortunately we have to continue going on. erica from every town usa, thank you very. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back.
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there's a growing crisis unfolding in the southwest where immigration unofficials are dealing with a surge of undocumented children crossing the border. more than 700 children have been bussed to the border after detention facilities in south texas literally ran out of space. these children are housed together in a converted warehouse where they're being screened by authorities. >> these are children that have crossed the international line and they should not be in detention centers, they should not be in processing centers. they should be in a place that's more in line with being able to care for children, to help them reunite with their families. >> last week president obama declared it a humanitarian crisis and ordered fema to help care for the children. the president met with the nation's nurses behind closed doors at the white house to discuss immigration reform.
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and i'm pleased to finally get a chance to say in person, welcome, sir, to msnbc, his new show launches next week at 10:00 a.m. congratulations, jose. >> thank you. >> we're now seeing childrening coming across the border alone. >> yeah. joy, to put it in perspective, there are about a thousand deportations going on in this day every country. we're talking about more than 2 million people deported under president obama's administration. so it is a huge amount of people that have been deported. and so far that has really been the picture that we are watching in this country as we talk about the fact that there is no comprehensive immigration reform
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coming out of the house of representatives, at least not as of yet. so now we have to add this to it. and we're talking about hundreds of children, just to give you an example, joy, yesterday, the day before yesterday, our correspondent in rio grande city, texas, which is about a mile away from the mccallen area, bumped into seven kids 9 to 18 years of age and they had crossed the border alone and they were looking for some authority to take them in because they're so worried about that journey that they had to make from central america up through mexico into the united states of america. why? because they have family members in the united states. something is happening in central america. let's bring out the majority if not all of the children we're seeing crossing the border are not from mexico, they are from guatemala, el salvador and from honduras. something is happening these last days in the central american region, a region that has been affected by gang
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warfare, increasing poverty and a whole lot of other issues but something recently has triggered a new wave of unaccompanied minors, kids that are 4, 5, 6 years old, making a journey that for many, many hundreds of adults has been mortal. they're doing it and yet what are we doing to deal with it? >> i'm glad that you brought that out. i think people reflexively think that all migration from the u.s. is from mexico, as you point out very smartly. it is not. and as you point out, there's something underlying this. in your reporting, has there been government-to-government contact between the united states and the state department and their counterpart in guatemala to find out what is the underlying cause? or are these children trying to reunite with parents and family that are already in the united states? >> first of all, i think we have to give kudos to the white house for stepping up to what is no doubt a humanitarian crisis on
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the border. they are dealing with this immediate crisis. but here's the question i have. where have authorities been for the last couple of weeks when more and more kids have been crossing alone? i think that -- we talked to a lady that crossed the day before yesterday with her 4-year-old son in tow, a lady alone. she said that in her country of origin, which i believe was guatemala, the coyotes -- these are the people who illegally bring people into the united states, parts of international crime syndicates -- told them if you cross the united states now and if you're pregnant or a small child, you'll be granted some form of temporary stay. that's a new thing they've been throwing, the coyotes. we've seen some crossing yesterday on jet skis. >> you also spoke with arizona
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senator john mccain. this is on your program on telemunde. >> if we have a border that we can propose, we wouldn't be having this difficulty. i continue to do everything in my power to convince my republican colleagues to take it up and take it up soon for the good of the country and for the good of the republican party in that order. >> jose, when you have kids crossing the border alone, as you said, thousands of kids, is it either or or is it both and? or does this strengthen the republican argument because they really want to just do border security? >> well, if you want to do just border security, how about letting the people that are here that have been working, many of whom have u.s.-born children come out from under the shadows and let's find out where everybody is, what everybody's doing and if there are criminals among them, let's deport the
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criminals. there's no one that wants to see the criminals that are undocumented who have to live with communities where these people are able to violate the law and you can't call the police because you're undocumented and you fear the police. so let's deal with letting the people who are here come out from the shadows and say here i am and then -- and then everybody is going to be clear on the fact that the border needs to be secure for immigration reform to work. but you can't just wish immigration reform to happen by no doing anything and you can't just wish that you're going to build a wall and that will somehow, if you build a 30-foot wall, someone will invent a 35-foot ladder. it just doesn't go away because you wish it. inaction does not cause action. >> sounds so logical, doesn't it? jose diaz-balart, thank you so much. the hardest working man in television. >> thanks.
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but let's make jet skis illegal. they're crossing the border now on jet skis. let's make that illegal. how's that? >> the lacklodge being hegic he stunning. thanks. >> still ahead, we're learning new details about bowe bergdahl's details as a captive of the taliban. stay with us. we'll be right back. because we're streaming the movie that you love. well, how do i win? because we ordered that weird thing that you love from the pizza place. how do you win, dad? because i used the citi thankyou card and got two times the points on alllllll of this. well, and spending time with you guys of course. that was a better answer. the citi thankyou preferred card. earn two times the thankyou points on entertainment and dining out all with no annual fee. to apply, go to citi.com/thankyoucards. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian.
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details of sergeant bowe bergdahl's captivity have begun to emerge. he chafed at the medical staff when he was referred to as sergeant. he said he didn't go before the board and didn't earn the promotion to sergeant first
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class. officials say he is physically healthy enough to return home to the u.s. but not emotionally well enough to talk to his parents or family, though he did receive a letter from his sister. medical personnel are pressing him about details, they did not question him why he left his outpost. there is no schedule to do so. an official said physically he would be put on plane tomorrow but there are still a couple of mental criteria to address, the family unification piece and the media exposure piece. he's and you aware of the fire
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storm over the deal deal to fre, including death threats made to his parents back in his hometown. what actually happened before and after he alleged live walked away from his post isn't really clear at all, not least of which we haven't heard from bowe bergdahl. i wanted to start with you. we were talking a little bit in the break about some of the fact versus fiction. there's the story he was captured from a latrine or make-shift latrine. >> we don't know. we need to hear from bowe bergdahl. and to be fair to those in his
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unit, he needs to answer why he left the base. it's clearly a huge mistake. all these reports out there are really unclear and it's hard to know what's true and what's not true. >> and some of them venture into the conspiracy theory realm. there have been stories there was a radio intercept saying there was an american looking to talk to the taliban. you were talking about the wikileak intercepts, supposedly those radio intercepts. some are reporting there was an american trying to look for the taliban. is that true? >> some members of his unit remember the radio intercept being that it was someone looking -- it was an american soldier looking for someone who spoke english so he could speak to the taliban. when you look at the actual wikileaks documents, it simply says there's an american looking for someone who speaks english. i was with the taliban one-tenth of the time bergdahl was in captivity. they were saying he's in this
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village, that village, the majority of the reports were all wrong. we just don't know yet why he walked off that base and the reports that he did it to join the taliban, i have seen no, you know, no serious and credible evidence yet that that's true. >> and just from your own experience, unfortunately having to go through this ordeal, as i said, for a fraction of the time but seven months is a long time, right? and it doesn't sound like an experience anyone would want to go through, the stories he's telling about being in a cage, being beaten for attempting to escape, does that ring true? >> it does. for whatever reason he left the base, make he deserted, maybe he had a mental breakdown, he'll regret it the rest of his life.
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why didn't the pakistani military try to find him, they're our great ally, we've given them billions in aid but for five years they held him here and that's what forced this administration to do this deal. i find it very credible he tried to escape. i was lucky, i made it. i had an afghan journalist helping me. i'm sure they would is put me in a cage if they had caught me. >> does it seem credible the united states says you can have this offer but waited 30 days to vet that idea through congress. with bowe bergdahl have been in more danger with the u.s. having delayed or put off such an offer just in theory? >> i think to be honest that they had raised this idea in late 2011 with members of congress and they said, no, they did not support a swap. i think they pushed the deal through quickly because they knew congress would have posed it. they realized we're going to do this quickly or it's going to be blocked by congress.
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>> david, a unique experience and perspective to talk about this. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. show 'em the curve. ♪ it's beautiful. it's more than that... ...it's perfect. introducing curved ultra high definition television from samsung.
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an update now on the increasingly bizarre story developing out of las vegas. here are the first pictures of suspects jared and amanda miller. authorities say the couple killed two police officers at a cici's pizza. police say they're investigating claims that the couple was at the ranch of cliven bundy during a standoff with federal authorities earlier this year. just a few moments ago, police added two details about the mass shooting on sunday. here what's police say happened after the couple shot two police officers. >> immediately upon the shooting finishing, the suspects pulled the officers out of the booth and on to the ground where theyplaced a gasden on officers
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beck and put a swastika on his body and pinned a note to officer soldo saying this is the beginning of the revolution. >> they then went to walmart and they killed an innocent person. "the cycle comes up next." a strange day in news, my friends. >> absolutely. >> indeed, joy. but you covered it well. we're going to talk about the hillary clinton that's coming out, i believe, tomorrow and the data mapping that's going to come out of the plan for that book, the publicity plan for that book. we're going to talk about the secret service and have a man who stood in and protected three presidents. i don't know if he's ready for abby's line of questioning, though. we're going to talk about california chrome and the sour grapes that came out of his loss. and i'm going to talk about this
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the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. right now on "the cycle" thank your lucky stars you picked the place for politics to start your week because we are in overdrive. hillary clinton's book isn't even out yet and odds are this is going to be a best seller. i'm toure. talk about a page turner, we're going to read between the lines. >> an internal audit discovers what tens of thousands of vets already knew, they were not getting the treatment they deserved. i'm krystal ball. our own kelly o'donnell has been poring through documents. she'll be live at the white house. >> we have to spin about what
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happened at the belmont this weekend. i think the owner is the biggest loser. the cycle conducts its own gallop poll -- someone was paid to write that. >> i'm abby huntsman. this guy has 23 year and three presidents under his belt. let's hope that prepared him for his turn into "the cycle." can you feel the excitement? can you taste the anticipation? not literally. but for once we're not talking about the election music, i'm talking about hillary clinton's new book and what it may or may not mean about her white house hopes. the full 635-page door stopper goes on sale tomorrow. a million copies have already been