here you have defense secretary chuck haguele calling his family.cus is on his health, well being and reintegration for now. you see them reaching out. >> number two, and we have reported on one of these videos the u.s. was shown two different videos. because his health was apparently deteriorating. >> something gave an indication that now was the time. part of that was calculation that his health was declining. we are now learning that there was a second proof of life video. gave the same indication. you will have military doctors looking at this video his eyes, etc. and what they saw in those videos gave them concern and that that was part of the administration's reasoning for pushing for a deal now. he was serving over in afghanistan and the fact that he had left his post before. >> that's right. this is something that some of his colleagues, some of his former fellow soldiers had said. this is coming from our own barbara star his other soldiers said that rathder than being passive, he wanted to be more active, kicking down more doors, which is i

we will have a chance to hear directly from chuck haguel and is going before the committee tomorrow p. the house armed services committee the first time in public anyway will hear top administration officials grill order exactly who made the decision and why the decision was made and, of course why congress claims, anyway, they were kept out of the loop. something the administration insists they were told about months ago if not in recent days. >> in your conversations at the white house, did they suspect that this would not go down well? whether people were given advanced warning or general warnings or not? did they know that this was going to happen? >> they knew it was going to be controversial but they acknowledged privately they didn't know it was going to be quite this strong. especially because, as you noted at the top, sure, there are are republicans pouncing on it. have you democrat adam smith who is the top democrat, the counterpart that told us on capitol hill that he generally defends what the president did but said p he had just kept us in the loop there would be so much

not sure how we might have, but it does show that there's been a concern that martin dempsey, chuck haguelethers have had about this group for a long time saying they're the ones that are getting the arm so there's been a bandwagon saying let's arm the syrian rebels. and that money has been flowing into isis. host: next up is gayle from the independent line. caller: i want to go back the syria thing. like we are not responsible for giving syria help. when we left our planes, our military equipment, billons and billons of dollars in iraq and we'll probably do the same thing with afghanistan when we leave there. and this has taken over by the terrorists. and when is our country going to grow up? and not leave our equipment there. guest: the united states is not leaving equipment in syria because we don't have equipment in syria. we haven't will be fighting ourselves in syria. we've been help agent a low level to provide low level armments and strategic planning device and what we often called other capabilities which means intelligence. we haven't been leaving that merril. what has been happe