we had been -- as finestein said we had been watching isis. we had been seeing it grow. it was one of the projects of a lot of saudi money. it's no -- it was no coincidence that after president obama' trip to saudi arabia at the end of march and his meeting with the king, two weeks later, the prince no longer held his post as head of saudi intelligence. it was because in part of the concern about the cunurturing o this isis group. when you think about february, end of march, now april, now mid-june, the speed and rep ied it with which isis has struck back and taken advantage of conditions inside of iraq to sort of move is something we didn't ant icipate in intelligence services. i'm not sure that we might have. there's been a band wagon of people saying let's arm the syrian rebels. let's do that. that money and resistance much of it has been flowing into isis whether formally or informally. >> next up is gayle from new jersey. independent line. >> i just wanted to go back to the syrian thing like we are not responsible for giving syria help when we left our planes, milit

with that said, let me play what senator dianne finestein said regarding the administration violating the law and not giving notice, and let's play it. >> i strongly believe that we should have been consulted and the law should have been followed and i very much regret that that was not the case. >> and so, jimmy, chuck todd is reporting that the president in the administration expected pushback from congress, but what they did not anticipate is some of the members of the platoon and the family members coming out to pushing back on the storyline if it was ever a part of the formulation that somehow bergdahl was a hero. >> well, listenk, i don't know if bergdahl is a hero or not, and that is why the military is to decide, and that is for the military code of justice. >> well, not deciding if he is a hero or not, but whether he is a deserter, but a court-martial or not. >> and the white house and the executive branch should have told congress well in advance and they have consulted congress twice on this issue in 2011 and 2012 and which you don't call the speaker of the house whether yo

. >> it tells you he made a very serious blunder particularly when he didn't tell senator finestein who'schairman of the intelligence committee. that's their job. >> they knew she were going after bin laden. she didn't talk. >> i think it was a serious air particularly when we know that 80 or 90 were wb within the state department. another problem is honestly that when any of us who know about this know the krend ecredential these five who were selected by the taliban, not us. it really does not hold water. in the military you are a unique profession. you put your life at risk. one of those responsibilities that's there is not to have something happen that puts the lives of your comrades in fwr t greater danger. >> coming up, new developments on the american pastor held captive in >>> well beau bergdahl is now safe at home in the united states, innocent americans are still being held overseas. the american pastor has been held in iran since 2012 because of his christian beliefs. with me now is the pastor's wife and her lawyer jordan of the american center for law and justice. all right, t

presidential candidate took a shot at fellow democrat and senate intelligence committee chair dianne finestein for her relationship with the intelligence community. quote, she was the woman who was standing under the street light with the dress pulled up all of the way over her knees, and now she says that she is a nun when it comes to the spy. across the aisle, ousted eric canter and all southern men sound effeminate and he sets off his gay-dar, and canter called his comments stupid and insensitive. >>> and now with the coinciding with the civil rights act of 1964, king had deep roots in atlanta, and now that is the city with the new memorial to the movement that he led. we take a look tonight. >> we are trying to take you back to the era that does not exist anymore. >> reporter: doug shipman is the ceo for the center of civil and human rights, and it takes v visitors on a path to the segregated south. >> we take it seriously that most people don't remember the civil rights movement, so it is contemporary, and uses technology. >> reporter: visitors can immerps themselves in the a lunch counte

. >> when you have lost dianne finestein, you have really lost the senate. >> and there is a questionpower that we should not dismiss. a lot of the commentators have said that it is the president's right to do something like this, and so it is clearly not an easy or straight forward decision in terms of how he brings congress into the discussion. >> yes. it is a difficult decision, but the issue is what about the optics of the presentation of it. >> and to the troops and the key thing here is to the troop ths.s i'm e not condemning or anything on the young man who is captured, but to the troops, if this was a john mccain who had been capture and tortured or jeremiah denton or a medal of honor winner, one thing, but at the end of the day, a lot of the troops are told to shut their mouth now and don't talk about this thing, and they are not going to be happy about this thing. >> and we will take a short break and come back to talk about economics and how to get the economy back on the even keel, and should the fed shift gears or stay the course ahead? our panel straight ahead on "sunday

dianne finestein hoist chair of the senate collegiates committee and the ranking republican on that committee with us as well as david road who is a writer and prisoner of himself a prisoner of the taliban for about six months. we will talk to him about this. there are overnight developments on this. the new york times is reporting that the sergeant is telling the people at the american hospital in germany where he now is that he was tortured, kept in the cage for a long period of time, and when he was in taliban captivity, he is saying this is because he tried to escape. now all of this is new information, and whether the authorities take him at his word on this, we do not know but i'm anxious to see if the intelligence committees have been briefed on this part of the story. thises a story that will go on for a while. we will try to get as much new information as we can this morning. >> so many angles to explore, we also reported this morning that there are death threats being made against his family. so i mean this is just a mess and has people upset this morning. >> you are absolutely righ

house realizes they didn't comply with the notice, because they are apologizing and calling dianne finestein and claiming that because they had a signing statement when they signed the national defense authorization from last year that section 1035 and the transfer of restriction 30-day notice restriction is to deny the president the flexibility, and boosted up the separation of powers agreement, and that is what they are relying on here. >> and a patrick, quickly in the time that we have left, let me ask you about the circumstances under which bowe bergdahl first of all left. that question is what is motivating a lot of the pushback against this apart from the legal question, it is what the congresswoman was talking about in terms of the discomfort of the other military families that he walked away, and put others at risk who were searching for him, and what is that investigation going to help us learn for example that he was under an extraordinary amount of stress, and suffering from the post-traumatic stress, and there are i circumstances surrounding that that have not yet been determined

. >> thank you senator finestein. senator collins. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, welcome. >> thank you. >> it has been nine weeks since nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from their school by the terrorist group boko haram in nigeria. i believe the united states should have provided immediate surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence assets to locate these girls before they were split up into more difficult to find, smaller groups. i further believe that contingency plans should have been made so that our special forces who perform so extraordinarily well as we saw during this past weekend with their capture of the terrorists who let the benghazi attack, should have been on the ground, working with the nigerian forces to plan a rescue of these girls. mr. secretary, with each passing day, the future of these girls grows more and more precarious. there's no doubt that some of them have already been forced into early marriages, others have been taken across the border and sold into slavery. all have been required to convert to islam, according to the vide

. >> and p.o.w.s question the absence of a wider agreement, and dianne finestein said that any prisoner swap should have included a denouncement of international terrorism. and with the death threats that the parents have received a according to the fbi that we are hearing, when looking around, does the administration have to include more of what is being said including that? >> yes, a lot more transparency, and the administration got out ahead of itself, and having the rose garden ceremony and bringing tout parents, and treating it as nothing but a wonderful e haven't and then of course, all of the questions arrer rose that the administration had to nknow tha it was going to come up, and so to get out there to early surprised me and so certainly, a lot more transparency. >> and so back filling, and mckay to you, looking at secretary chuck hagel who will have to testify wednesday, what is the messaging to get ahead of this if they are behind? >> well, the message so far and they will try to drive home more aggressively is that regardless of what you think of bergdahl and with what he wa

it was not just republicans that pushed back but dianene finestein finestein, the chairman of the senatehe position that these five would end up back in the fight, which many people suspect they probably will, and the former chairman of the chiefs admiral mullen was against the release until he left in 2011 and more recent intelligence reports have taken the position closer to what you heard from gene is that they have been out of it for 12 years and most of the followers are dead and most people they worked with are dead, and that the u.s. has less of a target presence there, and in other words, they don't have as many americans to shoot at. >> and let's go to richard engel who is standing by now in landstuhl, germany, and nbc correspondent, and what do you have, richard? >> well, we actually don't have much. >> and it is worth the wait. thank you, richard engel. >> why not? now i think that that they are covering up -- >> well, not a lot of details. >> why? why? >> and we were expecting that perhaps he would be released today. but officials here are not even authorized to give us any s

. >> reporter: for people up on the hill and it is not just republicans, we had dianne finestein andexpress real concern about this whole deal and i think it will continue to be a big story, at least for the next few weeks. we will see when he is going to come back to the u.s. but just talking to some people behind the scenes, it could be months, they say before he is mentally stable to get out of germany. >> hey, by the way, thanks, brett for making me cry over the weekend. i was reading your book, special heart. my goodness, just bring everybody up to date. they probably know the story by now. >> reporter: special heart, a book about my son, born with five congenital heart defects and our journey through that. there is some funny stories, in the way of getting to the anchor chair, but dealing with my son's congenital heart defects one in a hundred kids have a congenital heart die affect. i wrote this to help families that have to deal with something similar. >> any daughter had open heart surgery at nine years of age. she had a hole in her heart. man, i remember what you went throu

finestein says she doesn't believe there was a credible threat. >> no, i do not. i've heard of none, let me put it that way. >> reporter: but the senior u.s. official says that once a prisoner exchange deal was reached with bergdahl's captors, the u.s. had to move quickly, because of intelligence, other taliban elements might kill him to keep him out of u.s. hands. and the fbi is continuing to investigate threats against his parents. chris. >> barbara, thank you for continuinging to drive the reporting on this. it's a story that begs understand, let's bring in matthew hoke, he's a friend of the bergdahl family and a marine captain. captain, thank you for being here. give us a sense of where the family is at? the tough news that he's not ready to speak to his family. >> good morning. thank you for having me here today. they're doing as well as you can expect with someone in these circumstances to do. they're very grateful for the support they're getting from their community. they're very grateful for the support they're getting from members of our be that can see t