jacobson. we have heard this through the media, lovelady family in texas was told that the united states doesn't negotiate with terrorists. their son was later killed in the algerian attack. does the united states have a policy that we don't negotiate with terrorists or we don't have a policy? >> what i can tell you is that i don't believe that the bergdahl exchange is an example of negotiating with terrorists. i believe it is an exchange of prisoners, something that we have seen historically toward the end of war. >> thank you very much. the chair will recognize the ranking member, the gentleman from california, mr. sherman. five minutes. >> let me first put to rest this absurd argument that these five taliban prisoners would have had to have been released under the laws of war when we concluded combat operations in 2014 or when we were down to a couple hundred trainers in 2016. i'm pleased to note for our record that just last week, the general counsel of the department of defense, steve pres

jacobson. did the president by not consulting congress 30 days before in your opinion break the law? >> congressman, that's my understanding of the law. i'm not a legal expert but my understanding of the law was that congress was to be consulted. >> dr. jacobson? >> i'm not a lawyer and europe all going to argue about that statute but i think what the president did acting on short notice was absolutely the right thing to do. >> the gentleman yields back his time. many chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. castro for five minutes. >> thank you. . and mrs. andrews, my condolences and safe travels back to texas. i agree with part of mr. yoho's statement. i want to focus on the policy. he agreement that was made for sergeant border, that was made and there is still a debate whether it was good or bad but i think the most constructive thing we can get out of this hearing is what do we do in the future? first, if someone leaves their unit. , should we go retrieve that person? and second, wha

jacobson.id the president by not consulting congress 30 days before in your opinion break the law? >> congressman, that's my understanding of the law. i'm not a legal expert but my understanding of the law was that congress was to be consulted. >> dr. jacobson? >> i'm not a lawyer and europe all going to argue about that statute but i think what the president did acting on short notice was absolutely the right thing to do. >> the gentleman yields back his time. many chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. castro for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. and mrs. andrews, my condolences and safe travels back to texas. i agree with part of mr. yoho's statement. i want to focus on the policy. the agreement that was made for sergeant border, that was made and there is still a debate whether it was good or bad but i think the most constructive thing we can get out of this hearing is what do we do in the future? first, if someone leaves their unit, should we go retrieve that person? and second, what

jacobson. you keep saying or i heard you say a couple times the end of the war or reference to prisoner swaps. i'm just wondering, has the taliban, as far as you know, stated that they consider the war to be coming to a close? >> congressman, i was referring to the end of conflict in the second world war in korea specifically. >> so the paradigm is not the same, is my point. we might be drawing down, but the taliban, are they going to continue to fight? >> well, the taliban has been in talks -- >> as far as you know, do we have any reason to believe right now that they're not going to continue to fight when we stop? >> i don't believe we're stopping the fight. >> we're just disengaging. so the war is going to continue, as far as you know. >> we're still working with the afghans. >> all right, i got it. i got it. so when you say these folks that we released have been so long gone that they can't be relevant, are you aware that mr. baghdaddy, who's currently running isis was released in 220025. i

in the "crossfire" tonight, mark jacobson and claire lopez.k, don't you think it's reasonable, since this apparently was said to the senators last night that this video was a decisive purpose for them making the decision they had to move now, although the video is selveral months old? the taliban clearly knows what's on the video because they took it. wouldn't it make sense to share with the american people? >> i don't have a problem releasing it if the department of defense and the white house don't feel it's going to endanger the lives of anybody. i have a problem with the reaction to the video. that's in particular this notion that, well, he was drugged, therefore bergdahl wasn't in jeopardy. the military made a unanimous recommendation, we must get him now. the president said, go do it, leave no man behind. that's the right thing to do. my concern is, what are we going to do? wait, leave him there and have him end up on a taliban deheading video? >> he's criticized now for having done that. i want to get your view of this comment about the

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joining me now, mark jacobson. he served in afghanistan as adviser to general david petraeus. mark, i'll begin with you. you worked on some of these issues with petraeus in the bush administration. in iraq, let's just take the example of iraq, not even talking about taliban. in iraq, all of that was conducted under the normal laws of war. there were insurgents who tried to kill american troops, who blue up marines with ieds who were released back, am i correct? >> if you take a look back at the arguments during the early phase of the iraq war, there are going to be people in conflict who do bad things. look even further back, this is when larry was at the state department, take a look at the arguments over the taliban and al qaeda. there were nazi ss officers during the second world war who were treated as prisoners of war. if they were war criminals, tried and in many cases executed. >> colonel wilkerson, this is a situation which there is a category of men being held in guantanamo being prosecuted by the american government for acts of -- for plots or committing acts of terr

ladies and johnson and please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you doug and that was great and i thought i kid eat the rest of my lunch if you started on my bio. that could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long unfortunately, which just shows my age but it is really really a pleasure to be back here to be at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room and now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at its not the easiest to see all of you so i apologize. i will try and speak to the room without looking like i'm following a tennis match. [laughter] it is particularly nice to be here because it is a reunion of sorts with so many people that i know from jobs i have had before this from trips to the border, from trips to mexico, from so much of the work that we have all done together to work on order infrastructure, border issues back also to things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years with the exception of the cohort that in this room that wasn't born when i started w

these welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] -- please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you, duncan. that was great. i thought i could eat the rest of my lunch if he was starting on my bio. it could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long, unfortunately. which just shows my age. but it is really a pleasure to be back here at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room. now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at, it's not the easiest to see all of you. i apologize. i will try to speak to the room without looking like i am calling a tennis match. it is particularly nice to be here. it is a reunion, of course, with so many people i know from before this, trips to the border. trips to mexico. so much of the work we have all work on bordero infrastructure, border issues, all sorts of things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years. with the exception of the cohorts in this room that weren't born when i started working on mexican issues. there are more of those than i would like to admit. i am del

is mark jacobson, senior advisor to the truman security project and former advisor to general mccrystal. good to have you with us. >> thank you, thomas. >> i think it's safe to say whoever wins the election will have little time to savor victory. >> i think that's right. you have had two successful elections the first round and it looked like the second round has gone well despite violence but i think that from the outset, you are going to have the new president who is going to have to prosecute the war. he is going to have to deal with the economic situation and,home, i didn't the taliban to the peace table. >> how will was nick divisions affect the president. ? you have pashtoons. gani is pashtoon? >> both would have to gain the support of the southern and eat earn pashtoons in order to get a consensus to bring peace to afghanistan. i think that while ethnicity of the candidate could be important for this, i think it will also be volume real politique agreements between the center in kabul and the areas in the south and the east. either candidate will have to create that base after th

jacobson, thank you for your 20 years of service in the military, including your deployment to afghanistan. first, as to a preliminary issue on iraq. let me point out that we do not have forces in iraq. we do not have a status of forces agreement with iraq. president bush established president malki in 2006, and in this governance is responsible for the violence taking place in the country today. it should not be surprising that malik he refused to enter a status agreement under president obama. as to releases for guantanamo, while we are focusing today on five guantanamo prisoners being released, resident bush released over 500 prisoners from guantanamo. most of them were dangerous. over 100 of them we know they are fighting us on the battlefield and we know where. most of the others are fighting against us as well. we just can't pinpoint where they're located. what did we get for the 500 that president bush released? absolutely nothing. except thank you notes from their native countries. as to section 1035d, the president has filed a report. members of the committee can go read it. it is

we're standing by, john, for that. >> wolf, i believe i still have mark jacobson with me.e you still here? >> still with you. >> mark, the question i was getting at before and, wolf, chime in too. we're talking about what's happening on the ground right now in iraq. there are shia militias that appear to be taking up arms in the southern part of that country. a fighting force is moving and helping defend the area around kirkuk. if these groups fill the vacuum, does that make the situation on the ground there even more complica complicated? >> that's exactly what's making it more complicated. the forces doing pretty well. also, they are there attaining kurdish political goals which are control of mosul. a political balance shift in the north. in the south, it should have been expected that they would call for shia militias to come up. reports now that al sadr is out controlling his forces as well. the problem is long-term for maliki. there is a view now or there may be a perception among iraqi people that not just political power but military power resides elsewhere other t

jacobson. toy investigation is going disclose the real facts between sergeant bergdahl disappearance and capture but we have heard substantial evidence that he acted in an appropriate and inexplicable manner. can you describe the kinds of stresses that someone like sergeant bergdahl would have faced in afghanistan and whether that would cause someone, not everyone, but some to act in and ask bookable manner? i realize that the vast majority etc.r soldiers, marines, are subjected to those pressures and do not act inexplicably. >> permission to speak? >> you are asking dr. jacobson what situation he was an and i was there and at the same location and i could give you a first-hand account of what exactly he was going through because i went through the exact same conditions. will ask you then to respond first and then dr. jacobson to respond second. i was asking more and the general severe as to what you face, but obviously you know the specifics. >> we were at an observation post. we had the meals

it's why healthy food advocate michael jacobson worries the guidelines won't go far enough. >> the problem with voluntary recommendations is that nobody has to follow them. companies might fear that if they lower sodium levels, their competitors won't. their foods won't taste as good. >> reporter: he says consumer education hasn't worked. it's time to cut the salt for them. sodium levels in foods have a tendency to vary. so healthy food advocates say it shouldn't be hard to bring the higher salt options down to a lower level. firsmoughar 90sor is tpeor da ve f nd not hrrow it will make temperatures feel closer to 100 degrees. aside from the heat tomorrow, we also have storms on the way. because of the combination of both of these, it's going to be a first alert day tomorrow. the first thing will be the heat. this is the first thing you will feel tomorrow, feeling near 100 degrees. later, thunderstorms moving in. some storms could be strong. we could see heavy rain with some of these storms at times. in some cases, we could see gusty winds. this is all for tomorrow. we want to give you a he

jacobson and walls thank you for being here and your years of service. we all know that there are substantial questions surrounding the disappearance of sergeant bergdahl and the squaent decision to exchange the taliban five for his release. it may take months before we though for sure what transpired in the days and weeks leading up to the disappearance of aerm sergeant bo bergdahl. was he suffering from psychological trauma? awol? a deserter? rest assured answers to these questions will come to light and the army will take arks on whatever it deems appropriate. i'm a bit perplexed. when some members of congress already decided the facts of this case. we have a solemn obligation to leave no american soldier behind. and when the opportunity to get an american soldier back from the enemy presents itself, we take it. this country has a long history of getting american servicemen back through prisoners exchanges because we promised the men and women when they signed up bravely to serve their country we would do everything we can to protect them and ensure t

so jacobson tells us for incumbents, votes and victories decline as the level of spending rises.ng that you can frank out to your constituents. >> the thing that you can do for your constituents is basically do the basic constituent services stuff that members of congress do. people are always asking congressmen for help with one small thing or another. one of the things that i think sort of trickled out after this election was that a lot of people voted against cantor because they tried calling the office for some small reason and never got a call back and that sort of thing. to the point about the spending of money, i do think the point raised by the panel that eric cantor probably raised the profile of dave brat by naming brat in campaign ads, i think that's probably right. in fact this is not just something that happened in this race. a member of congress, a freshman, was telling me a couple of weeks ago that he actually thanked the leader of the other party for running ads in his district because he thought it helped get his name i.d. out even though it was negative. >> i wa

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you, duncan. that was great. i thought i could eat the rest of my lunch if he was starting on my bio. it could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long, unfortunately. which just shows my age. but it is really a pleasure to be back here at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room. now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at, it's not the easiest to see all of you. i apologize. i will try to speak to the room without looking like i am calling a tennis match. it is particularly nice to be here. it is a reunion, of course, with so many people i know from before this, trips to the border. trips to mexico. so much of the work we have all done together to work on border infrastructure, border issues, all sorts of things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years. with the exception of the cohorts in this room that weren't born when i started working on mexican issues. there are more of those than i would like to admit. i am delighted to be here

john jacobson says on twitter, why can't congressman issa subpoena about lois lerner's e-mails.that's a good idea. i would like to know what, if anything, is left on lois lerner's own blackberry and know that the company has hired to back up the irs e-mails in 2005 has in their files. but it absolutely strains kre dual at this has john and pat suggested that somehow all these e-mails have disappeared. i mean, this makes rosemary woods' 18 and a half minute gap during watergate look like a walk in the park. >> pat, before we go to you. jose writes on twitter, ms. faulkn faulkner, the irs has a -- recovery archive company that doug was alluding to. it's called sohn a soft. they spent from what i'm reading, money advertising. they might be a little motivated to go back and find the e-mails on their own service works. >> you wish somebody would. let me just say something. if you believe the 6,000 e-mails and all these things crashed and can't be recovered, and we're only told to the congress this week after being known for months, then you probably believe that after 642 days a man

. >> mark jacobson is a senior advisor with thestr trueman project. he spoke to us about the significance of today's election. >> you have had two successful elections. the first round. looks like the second round has gone well despite some violence. from the outset, you will have the new president who will have to prosecute the war, deal with the economic situation andhome bring the taliban to the peace table. >> both candidates have said that they would sign the bilateral security agreement, which is the last step in securing these 9800 u.s. troops and probably several thousand non-u.s. groups in afghanistan to train and advice the ansf. what i think will be the challenge creating a sustainable afghan security force, not just one effective on the battlefield but one that can be supported financially from the afghan government. >> target, that goal is probably still at least a decade out. it has been two days since jewish teenagers went on a hike. the israeli government is holding the palled stenian authority responsible. palestinians havedined any i

mark jacobson is a senior advisor of the trueman national security advisory.hank you for being here. so we tried to layout the facts in an impartial manner what we know about bowe bergdahl and the audience can make decisions. it's discomforting to talk about, negatively, in any way about an american serviceman who has been returned to american soil, but do you as somebody who has defending him and defending administration see why that is taking place? >> megyn, thanks for having me. i do understand why the discussion is taking place. i think it's one that will continue. my concern is the level of things that have come out in the last 48 hours where people are trying to turn bergdahl into an enemy, before the debriefers have spoken to him and the political nature of the attacks are really disturbing. i find it almost offensive dick cheney would say he would be content leaving an american soldier back on the battle field. that doesn't sit well with me. >> a lot of guys don't think it was worth it, even if he were decorated, they would have questions whether it's

pretty constant, too, especially this time of year. [ noise ] >> reporter: brad jacobson and adrian live on one of the busiest streets in sausalito, 2nd street a few blocks from downtown. they are among the neighbors who have had enough of the traffic and the noise especially from tour buses. >> your privacy becomes jeopardized a little bit. >> i don't feel like there's any consideration for the people who live here we are not exhibits. we are residents. >> reporter: so the city is going to put a stop to some of the routes the tour buses take. now after crossing the golden gate bridge, the buses get off the freeway at alexander avenue, navigate the narrowing road that twists and turns through residential neighborhoods and eventually drops into the business district. here's where the rules have changed. the goal is to make sure to that the tour buses don't turn around here in downtown sausalito. instead, the idea is to make sure they keep going north all the way north until they reach their 101 on-ramp where they can then turn south and head back to san francisco. although brad likes the

with me now eric jacobson from morningstar.onic is it that the last or months the funds have the best performance in some time and yet now people continue to take money out of this fund. why? >> the whole story has been overwhelmed by a few other factors. ones that most bond fund investors, let's say a lot of bond fund investors started pulling money out last year in fear of rising interest rates and rising bond yields have entirely happened yet. then you also had the problem of pimco total return itself not performing well last summer. that compounded the issue and then you had coast cio and pimco ceo leaving in january. combined with a couple of other departures that made a lot of investors skittish and it's almost a perfect storm for that fund right now. >> gerri: it's interesting because i think bill gross undermine some of his own efforts with his comments which were a little loopp. all kinds of crazy things. what's going on over there? can they write this ship? >> i think they can. i do think it's a bit of a different shi

. >> and i want to play a comic from michael jacobson who is the founder and director of the public ofnterest which is organizing what he is calling the soda summit. let's play some of that. >> we have still not returned the sugar drink consumption to the levels of where it ought to be at, and something like the 1950s when the sugar drinks were an occasional treat, and something that you drank at the picnic or the ball game or the family dinner or on sunday or the birthday party, and that is the goal to get back to what we saw in the 1950s. >> el lee, is that realistic? sugar was in in everything then. >> and if we reduce the soda drink consumption, and the soft drink consumption, because there are just as much sugar in lemonades and eyiced teas, and fruit drinks. >> and if we could go back to where the juice aisle was half of the isle and now it is all isle. >> and more options in the categories of the flavored waters all natural and no sweeteners in them, and so we can with the education awareness and the awareness of the fact that it damages our health. it is not the complete cause

jacobson, what he was in over there, i was with bergdahl at the same location.and account of exactly what bowe bergdahl was going through because i went through the exact same conditions. >> joining me now, cody full. thank you for being with us. i know what was happening there. there was a democrat trying to get testimony on what happened to bergdahl from a guy we've had on the show. he's a nice guy. he's a democrat. he was in the armed services. but he wasn't in bergdahl's platoon. >> no, that's the thing. every question they asked him, he spun it, he never gave a real answer. this guy -- i'm sure he's a nice guy, i don't know him personally, i'm not going to judge him personally, but what i can tell you from his military experience, he's been in the navy reserve as an officer, in an intelligence capacity, so he's never been on the front lines. those guys are typically on a big base with all the home -- the pizza huts, the gyms, the phone calls, the tvs. he wasn't out there with me and bergdahl, and i was getting frustrated with -- they kept asking him, well,

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome wilbur jacobson. a back. >> thank you. that was great. the thought i could eat the rest that could take the rest of the afternoon. it is very long, but it is really a pleasure to be back at the wilson center. i have never been in this room, and alan . as lovely as it is to look get to with it is not the easiest to see all of you. our apologized. i will try and speak to the road without looking like travel following it to as much. it is particularly nice to be here because it is a reunion of sorts with so many people that are no fish caught from troops to the border, so much of the work that we have done together to work, border infrastructure, issues call sorts of did with the exception of the court said this robe when i started working on mexican issues. there are more than i would like to a bit. i am delighted to be here and to talk to this conference. one other caveat i will make is that it is with some trepidation that i address you because one of the next blessings about moving up into the position that i got low over two years ag

joining me is mark jacobson, senior adviser to the truman project. he was anned a providers to general petraeus. msnbc analyst colonel jack jacobs is here. thank you for being here. we have had a week now to start to digest this and sort of been unfolding story. we have a new interview with the president last night with brian williams. i want to make sense of one week and there were a couple issues and i want to start with a basic one. we heard about the principle of i heard do you jump off the ship or fall off the ship, doesn't matter, we leave nobody behind. was turning down this deal and letting him stay in afghanistan ever realistically an option? >> i don't think so. i wouldn't expect any command er in chief to even consider this proposition of leaving somebody behind on the battlefield. there are suggestions because of his political views, religion, you don't leave people behind. i was talking with someone earlier. my parents freaked out when i went to afghanistan both times. if i had been captured. do i want to say this nice jewish kid, not su

jacobson. do you believe there was a national security interest of the united states? >> yes, i do, congressman. >> mr. waltz. >> congressman, i believe america is less safe and the world is dangerous with the release of those individuals. >> czar jnt? >> i believe america is less safe and the world is also, in more danger. >> and mr. andrews, i'll give you the last word. >> thank you. i believe america is less safe and i believe these five guys are going to come after us and i believe that it was a must steak to release them and that mistake to release them and it didn't serve our national interest in any way. >> i want to thank all of you for being here. ms. andrews and the committee is adjourned. thank you. >>> on the house floor, lawmakers working on amendments to fund the department of defense next year. just under $80 billion is currently included for the war in afghanistan. work is expected to continue tomorrow on the measure. also tomorrow, house republicans will meet at around 1:30 eastern time to elect new leadership. this coming after majority leadlea lead e

jacobson thank you for your 20 years of service in the military including your deployment to afghanistan. the first as to a preliminary issue on iraq let me point out that we do not have forces in iraq. we do not have the status of forces agreement with iraq. it was president bush who installed maliki as prime minister of iraq in 2006 and the misgovernance of prime minister maliki is directly responsible for the violence taking place in that country today. it should not be surprising that maliki refused to enter a status of forces agreement under president obama. he refused to enter into long-term status of forces agreement with george w. bush the man who in effect allowed them to take power. as to releases from guantÁnamo while we are focusing today on five guantÁnamo prisoners being released -- release president bush released over 500 prisoners from guantÁnamo. most of them were dangerous. over 100 of them we know are fighting us on the battlefield and we know where. most of the others are fighting against us as well. we just can't pinpoint where they are located. and what did we get f