i think jennifer keene's book that we've read last week gives us a good description of this mood that comes over many americans as the war is brought to a close. at the end of that book, she really captures this very well and there is this sense, for example, among the soldiers that that is it. we've done it. we've done our bit. time to go home. beyond the soldiers though there is this sense it is not only time to physically bring the soldiers back home, but it seemed a time for many people to rein in all of the innovations the experimentation, the reform that seem to drive the progressive era. time to rein that back in now. a number of the books we have read this semester touch on that mood. brand's biography of wilson really gets at that toward the end, doesn't he? in this sense the rise of the klan is one part of the swing back to a more traditionalist mood in the united states. it is not a mood that comes out of nowhere, however, after world war i. it had been there in the years prior. how do we detect, how do we measure the conservative mood coming back to the united states? one

jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. for more on this we go to general jack keen, chairman for the institute of the study of war and a foxws analyst. fox news is reporting that at least three of the fival taliban leaders who were transferred in this exchange for bowe bergdahl, have apparently tried to plug back in to their hold terror networks, in other words reengage in terrorist activity. what do you make of that? >> none of that comes as a surprise, most of us did initially like this deal that was made. i have no problems with attempting to get bergdahl back regardless of the circumstances that surrounded his departure from his post, but this deal was lousy right from the beginning as we all know, and here trying to get back into the fight and rejoin their taliban teammates i'm convince they probably will doing. >> military intelligence source tells fox that multiple m options were on the table in the bergdahl case that did not involve the prisoner swap of the taliban five, but that the administration's preferred option was to secure the army sergeant's freedom through the controversial transfer, what would you say to