angst and today there is even more trouble. joining us from washington is lt. tony shamp and catherine herrige. what is new on the bergdahl story, catherine? well, we have been talking for the last week, bill with four of bergdahl s teammates, three of them spoke with on the record. they confirm they had informal meeting in december of 2009, six months after bergdahl walked away with admiral mike mowl is the president s chief military advisor and also the chairman of the joint chiefs they have been pulling security for the admiral as did this tour through afghanistan. pretty standard for mullen to kick out the leadership and higher ups so he could speak with these lower level enlisted here. four of bergdahl s platoon mates talked directly to the admiral who is president obama s top military advisor. correct. and told the admiral that this guy was a deserter and this guy did all kinds of
angst and today there is even more trouble. joining us from washington is lt. tony shamp and catherine herrige. what is new on the bergdahl story, catherine? well, we have been talking for the last week, bill with four of bergdahl s teammates, three of them spoke with on the record. they confirm they had informal meeting in december of 2009, six months after bergdahl walked away with admiral mike mowl is the president s chief military advisor and also the chairman of the joint chiefs they have been pulling security for the admiral as did this tour through afghanistan. pretty standard for mullen to kick out the leadership and higher ups so he could speak with these lower level enlisted here. four of bergdahl s platoon mates talked directly to the admiral who is president obama s top military advisor. correct. and told the admiral that this guy was a deserter and this guy did all kinds of
angst and today there is even more trouble. joining us from washington is lt. tony shamp and catherine herrige. what is new on the bergdahl story, catherine? well, we have been talking for the last week, bill with four of bergdahl s teammates, three of them spoke with on the record. they confirm they had informal meeting in december of 2009, six months after bergdahl walked away with admiral mike mowl is the president s chief military advisor and also the chairman of the joint chiefs they have been pulling security for the admiral as did this tour through afghanistan. pretty standard for mullen to kick out the leadership and higher ups so he could speak with these lower level enlisted here. four of bergdahl s platoon mates talked directly to the admiral who is president obama s top military advisor. correct. and told the admiral that this guy was a deserter and this guy did all kinds of
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i think it s offensive when i see people making and the president said this a political football out of this issue. but he asked for it. no, he didn t. yes, he did. you don t have a rose garden ceremony and not expect press. the right winging bloggers were calling for obama to get bergdahl, get our man back. what are they saying today? other soldier, obama didn t know he was this. obama didn t know. they have every other reason to go after obama. it looks like you re playing a political football game. what do you think, eric? is he making a point? juan? no. he talk as lot, but no point. just let me make this one quick point. we re going to move on to the bergdahl story, but one thing before we go a taliban commander told time magazine that they were excited to kidnap more americans because then they can can trade for more gitmo detainees. that s something we said on this show on monday afternoon, that it this would be one of the