there were any health issues with sergeant bergdahl. i can say that very matter of factually. he was probably coerced into mumbling the words that he mumbled. he didn t look good. no. but that s not enough to tell me that he s in imminent health danger from a health standpoint. in the taliban released video recorded on saturday, bergdahl appeared somewhat dazed but does manage to walk on his own to an american military helicopter. several senators say they want the previous proof of life video made public. meanwhile, bowe bergdahl s hometown of hailey, idaho, has canceled its planned bowe is back event. city ofgficials said they ve ben flooded with the angry calls and it doesn t have the resources to handle the thousands of protesters descending on the town. as they wait for him to recover and the debate over to free him intensifies, you have to wonder where the politics should go
the recovery, that s the hard part. that will certainly continue. a lot of news this morning for you. the latest on what happened with the bergdahl swap, what happened with the gm recall. they re investigating themselves. do you think they re getting the right answers. the newsroom has it all with ms. carol costello. we do have it all. have a great day. have a great day. newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com happening now in the newsroom, not sold. i remain as deeply skeptical today as i did before this. i was not satisfied. that did not sell me at all. i learned nothing in this briefing, nor did i expect to learn anything in this briefing. capitol hill not convinced. the white house hoping to answer questions about the bowe bergdahl swap. the public needs to know more about what happened. backlash in bergdahl s hometown. it was supposed to be called the bowe is back event. worries of a showdown in the tiny town of 8,000 shuttering a
not something that s set in stone. what the medical authorities here in landstuhl are saying is, look, the ultimate objective, of course, is to get him back home to the united states, but the pace of that will be set by the rate at which he recovers and heals and is able to reintegrate. and so, it s something that we think is a decision being made by the doctors and the psychoanalysts here on the ground. i wonder if they have to consider the firestorm of controversy now surrounding his return to the united states when that does happen. matthew chance at landstuhl, thank you so much. in bergdahl s hometown, many have been celebrating the news of his release, but now a townwide party has been called off. our george howell is in hailey, idaho, this morning. reporter: it was supposed to be called the bowe is back event. and here on the streets of hailey, idaho, when you look at the balloons and ribbons that line these streets, you can tell that this was supposed to be a big event. th
we don t know what the treatment was at the hands of his captors, either. he could have been tortured, kept in solitary confinement, all sorts of terrible things. so, there is little doubt this guy would have been traumatized by his ordeal nearly five years in the hands of afghan militants on the border between of sgafg n afghanistan and pakistan. but the other big issue is his side of the story, mentioned before. investigators are keen to learn how he fell into the hands of the taliban in the first place. in bergdahl s hometown, many are celebrating, but a party has now been called off. george haley responds. reporter: it was supposed to be the bowe is back event, and here on the streets of hailey, idaho when you look at the balloons and ribbons that line these streets, you can tell this was supposed to be a big event. there was a lot of excitement about it. but we ve learned that the city has decided to cancel the event. basically, as a matter of public safety. they say that th
about what happened. backlash in bergdahl s hometown. it was supposed to be called the bowe is back event. worries of a showtime in a tiny town of 8,000 shuttering a celebration. and we ask, how do we decide who gets rescued? i will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of an enemy. we don t leave americans behind. that s unequivocal. let s talk live in the cnn newsroom. and good morning. i m carol costello. you ve been watching coverage of president obama and david cameron s joint press conference in brussels. well, just a short time ago, the president, president obama, talked about the controversy surrounding his decision to swap five high-level taliban