let's bring in retired navy captain chuck nash. let's get to the heart of this.t the heart of this, many people want to know, did bowe bergdahl commit an act of desertion which inflicted or caused pain and even death for some of his fellow soldiers? >> that's what this article 32 hearing is all about, kelly. article 32 in the civilian world in the judicial system would be more akin to a preliminary trial before a grand jury. that's where prosecutors, and in this case in article 32, an investigative officer, does an investigation, takes the data before a panel, the panel will then take a look at it. there is a military judge involved. and they will listen to what he has to say. the defense will present its side of the story. and then the article 32 panel will send its recommendation as to whether there exists enough evidence and cause for a convening authority to establish a court-martial. and that's what we're looking at right now. >> as you know, this had political fallout to it, going back to the day he was released in exchanged for members of the taliban who h

pleased to be joined by fox news military analyst captain chuck nash. who says chinese taking advantage of u.s. weakness. hello, sir. considering the chinese economy is falling apart is this emperor's new clothes display with the missile or do you think it pose as new threat? >> it's a threat system but really what it comes down to is, same thing with the russians. the russian economy is falling apart. they have grandiose plans to buildout military hardware and force struck tu but can they actually afford to do it? we hear a lot about this missile and russian stealth fighters. saying you have the technology and putting capital behind it to build it out, two entirely different things. lori: by the way, how much hacking went on by china to get the technology to learn how to build one of these things? >> oh, yeah. as we have learned unfortunately for the last decade or so the chinese penetrated just about every military contractor in the fry world. it is not a one-way street. we're very good. they probably understand computers at be whatever you can be ass

cheryl: chuck nash, would we need to commit troops, more forces?rth party in this report about this discussion is syrian rebels. >> yeah. i don't think the russians would have any part of a u.s. presence in syria, nor would we want to have u.s. presence in syria. it is a mess. when you start thinking of syria, i think we should really start thinking about bosnia, because that's what it's looking like it's going to be, a three-way partition. and that might be the end game solution as history sees it 20 years from now, but to get things settled down and to stop the firing, i think think it's g to break into a kurdish area, a government-controlled area and a rebel-controlled area, and then they're going to negotiate from there. cheryl: chuck, real quick, the russians have put tanks there. that is their only naval base outside of russia. >> yep. cheryl: it's strategically crucial to them. that's the hard part here, is to make sense of the fact that the russians who have been backing assad, funding assad would now want to be a part of working with us to

i'm joined by captain chuck nash, retired navy captain and fox news military analyst. ave you with us. >> nice to be with you, martha. martha: the story to give people background, james clapper, everyone knows the director of national intelligence position was specifically created after 9/11 so there wouldn't be situations where people weren't connecting the dots. his is to pull together national intelligence agencies to make sure everybody is on the same page. he spoke daily to centcom general stephen grove. he said he speak to him once in a while. that he was not circumventing the way people is supposed to flow. that he has not presented an overly rosy picture how things are going against icy. what do you think? >> well i think there needs to be an investigation to find out how frequent the contact was because if general clapper was truly reaching down to that level inside of the chain of command and bypassing his own people and others in the chain of command, then what that says is, either, a, he doesn't trust the people between where he sits as dni and the general t

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be with this conflict, chuck nash, military analyst is joining me. know, it feel like president obama wants to have it both ways here, the fact is that i think that everyone knows we're sort of trying to debate whether who worse evil, is it, sad or isis or -- assad or isis or is it instability in the region. >> he will not have a choice, the russians are in charge of what is going on, they have built a coalition, as opposed to failed u.s. strategy. to train people to do fighting, that did not work. z. resent foray into this we sent 70 fighters in they traded away 25% of their equipment, and ammunition to the al qaeda linked organization. putin said, saying, enough of this. rookies out, we're going to go in. we'll back assad. and u.s. you are in violation of international law because you are supporting nonstate actors against a state, a legal state. so, this whole thing, is a disaster, and un; fortune -- unfortunately, putin showing that the russians are back not just in syria but in the middle east, period. even the israelis are having negotiations w

you might criticize this plan, but as my friend chuck nash points out at least it's a plan.e don't seem to have one. >> and the russians when you consider how weak their position is in the world relative to a failed plan and a u.s. withdrawal from the world, it's done nothing, but really strengthen them. it's absolutely amazing what they've been handed. neil: all right, so you're in that room with putin and the president. putin wanted this meeting, the president didn't request it. why? >> putin, i think, wants the meeting because he is going to tell president obama that he is now in charge of what's going on in syria, that will be a relief, i think, to the obama administration because we've done nothing, but spend $500 million to get 52 guys trained in their first combat experience they were killed, captured or fled into turkey. so this is an absolute disaster what's been going on. isis has been strengthening, a lot of the isis feighters, a lot of them are coming from the former soviet union stands and they're going to return combat experience back into these border areas ar