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i'm joined by paul rieckhoff and adam kinzinger, republican congressman from illinois.he's an iraq and afghanistan veteran, still serves as a pilot in the air national guard. i have you both here to talk about the fallout from the va scandal, shinseki's resignation. let me start with you on the release of the taliban prisoners. as a member of congress, a republican, do you oppose what you just heard from secretary hagel and his rationale for releasing them. >> let me say this, welcome home, bowe. there are a lot of questions about why he got captured. so i'm going to celebrate him coming home. the release of five mid to high level taliban is shocking to me, especially without coming to congress. it says in the law you have to notify congress, and then putting five people potentially back on the battlefield. even though our troops are out in 2016, which i think is shocking that the president once again went along with the timeline like he did in iraq, you now are going to have five people potentially on the ground targeting american troops, afghan troops, and the afghan

paul rieckhoff called it surprising. he said he'll have to move quickly to show he is committed to and understands the generation of veterans. >>> this is the final day. the supreme court on its last scheduled day is expected to make several major rulings. one involves birth control coverage under the affordable care act. hobby lobby and other businesses claim they could not or should not have to cover contraception as part of their health care plan. a second major ruling involves labor unions. justices could decide today whether unions can collect dues from all private or public employees they are hired to represent. >>> also today, president obama plans to ask congress for more than $2 billion in emergency funds to deal with the significant rise in people flooding across the u.s. border with mexico including here thousands of unaccompanied children. >> we have to house these kids and take care of them until the machinery under current law allows us to send them back. do not send your children to the borders. if they do

i'm joined by paul rieckhoff and founder and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans. and adam kinzinger, republican congressman from illinois. he's an iraq and afghanistan veteran, still serves as a pilot in the air national guard. i have you both here to talk about the fallout from the va scandal, shinseki's resignation. congressman, let me start with you, though, on the key point of the release of the taliban prisoners. as a member of congress, a republican, do you oppose what you just heard from secretary hagel and his rationale for releasing them. >> let me say this, welcome home, bowe. there are a lot of questions about why he got captured. as you tried to get an answer to, that you did not get an answer to, in terms of abandoning his post. so i'm going to celebrate him coming home. the release of five mid to high level taliban is shocking to me, especially without coming to congress. it says in the law you have to notify congress, and then putting five people potentially back on the battlefield. even though our troops are out in 2016, which i think is shocking t

paul ryko rieckhoff squared off against glen greenwald. >> how did you know that the information he revealedid not cost american lives? how do you know that? >> what american lives, is there a single piece of evidence -- >> looking at the information and making -- >> what edward snowden did is, he didn't release a single document. he came to two of the most well-regarded newspapers in the world and he said, i am giving you this material and i want you very carefully to vet it, and only release that which is necessary to inform my fellow citizens about what their government is doing. >> history will be the ultimate decider with the facts, but do we know whether anyone has died because of the snowden leaks? and the if not, has it really hurt national security? >> we don't know and we don't know the full extent to whatever that it might have affected national security. i think if it has in real sensitive ways, perhaps the government doesn't want to say. but what you saw there were two guys who enjoy stirring the pot, stirring it together. i think that's essentially what that was. >> it was, and