but i do not think michael hastings is worried about the next story. you are going to be thinking about an ongoing relationship. so, and yet, lara logan was extremely critical. john burns was critical. a lot of people were. i have never been a war reporter. >> given the kind of book you have written here about a lot of people -- most of whom you have seen at a public event -- is michael hastings good or bad? that whole idea of getting inside and blowing the lid off? >> look, without knowing the particulars, i think he is good. i think he wrote the truth as he knew it. obviously, i am not going to litigate whatever disagreements they may have had over ground rules. look, they spoke truthfully. i was struck at that point with the coverage around mcchrystal's comments. why would he let him in? that was a public relations on his part. for handling. it struck me. it was a process mistake rather than a mistake of over-candor. >> did you carry a notebook? did you carry a recorder? how did you keep track of what people said? >> a little bit of both. a lot of i

she criticized michael hastings, to you or to somebody else? >> that was in an interview with howie kurtz on cnn. >> what was the point? >> a thinker point was, something does not add up here. usually people in the field, if the brass trusts you and they feel you have treated them fairly, you will be invited back. look, michael a teams would not be invited back into a setting like that. i thought as a window into -- that was a window into the axis of journalism and the importance of being inside the team. obviously, journalists and the principal separate different functions. hastingshink michael is worried about the next story. if you're a reporter and a campaigner the field somewhere, you're going to be thinking about an ongoing relationship. laura logan was extremely critical. burns, was actually critical. i have never been a war reporter or battlefield reporter. >> even the kind of book you've written here about a lot of people, most of them you have seen at a public event, is michael hastings good or bad? that whole idea of getting inside a

bergdahl was later reported in june 2012 by the late michael hastings, had written a number of e-mails to his parents expressing serious misgivings about what the u.s. was doing in afghanistan. so there have always been questions among troops and officers about why bergdahl exactly left. was he leaving -- well, what the reason was behind his leaving the base. obviously, he was captured by taliban. obviously, he became a prisoner. we -- in varying different ways throughout the years it's been relayed to those of us in the media who have been paying attention to his case it might not be a good idea to report on his case, because efforts were being made to get him out. and sometimes those trying to free him, those in the u.s. government, either with the state department or the military, wereic maing efforts, and they thought that the more attention the case got, especially during sensitive times, the worse and the more difficult it could be for those trying to free him. finally it looks as though those efforts born fruit. earlier in this year, i believe in january, when there was a tape t

. >> reporter: an e-mails to his family obtained by the late michael hastings and published by "rolling stone" magazine, bergdahl made clear his disillusionment of the war. he wrote the following to his parents in his final e-mail home. >> his first letters home, e-mails home were very positive but then he said he became the e-mails became much darker. his son seemed to feel that the military was not this peace corps with guns ideal had he held. >> reporter: but this family received a different kind of letter believed to be from their son. delivered by other red cross. >> that brings newfound hope. that's like sitting around the camp fire that is going out and, all of a sudden, you find that one more log. >> we have a team of reporters working on this story for you. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr and cnn international correspondent nick rober -- nic robertson. >> what we have been understanding from talking to military and defense officials all day long is it was in the last week that this plan with the taliban basically came together. bergdahl in return for five detainees fro

another former colleague, michael hastings who wrote for "rolling stone." wrote for "rolling stone" many years to the peace they cut stanley mcchrystal, the general who was the commander of the armed forces fired because of his staff's kind of raucous anti-white house carousing and bad mouthing of the president and vice president and all of that and obama, as you know, flatly fired him for this and support nation -- subordination. michael died last year in a car crash. a horrible loss for journalist and as for people who care about dead, innocent civilians in various parts of the world. so i can talk about the afghanistan work that we did in the conclusions we came to. suffice it to say the afghanistan government, which was by and large he joked to any counting at all. ngos didn't have the resources to even begin the process of the united nations trying to do their best and really didn't succeed because i guess they came the closest because of the limitations they faced and the u.s. military, which started out as tommy franks put it on afghanistan and we do

. >> reporter: e-mails obtained by michael hastings, he made clear disillusionment with the war beforehe e-mails became much darker. his son seemed to feel that the military was not the peace corps with guns ideal that he held up. >> reporter: this month, his family received a different kind of letter, believed to be from their son, delivered via the red cross. >> that brings new found hope. that's like sitting around a campfire that's going out, and you find one more log. >> reporter: so family and friends of bowe bergdahl wait, word of negotiations brings renewed hope that they can trade the yellow ribbon still hanging on their trees for the son that they represent. jake tapper, cnn, washington. >> now we know the family's hopes have been met. army sergeant pow bowe bergdahl has been released from his captors in afghanistan to american custody. i want to go back to the white house to cnn correspondent erin mcpike. you, erin, you have been talking to white house officials but you also have for viewers that didn't hear the words of the president himself who released a statement telling

haste. they didn't appreciate that espn showed michael sam kissing his boyfriend after getting drafted into the nfl. >> it is being pushed in faces. >> had he been kissing his wife would you have cared? >> i would have said get a room. >> you wouldn't want to see a nicholas sparks movie and see people kiss? >> where is the camera when's that happened? >> amen. finally someone saying what i am thinking. let's see the finale. >> why does she not have the right to say what she means without being slammed? >> she feels that way and leave it alone. >> i don't think there is any argument about that. >> expru going to leave? >> i am going to midlands. >> okay, well next coming up. >> if i went there every time i wanted to do that i would have a pile of nickels. h> she feels that way and leave it alone. >> i don't think there are any arguments about that. >> are you going to leave? >> i am going to midlands. >> that's what you can say when you have an intolerant thought from now on. >> i don't mean to judge, but i am going to midlands. >> here is the thing, dan. it is easy to laugh at them. why can