farwell who contributed to the report on bergdahl s disappearance, also a veteran and served in the same area of afghanistan as bergdahl. also a reporter embedded with the u.s. troops in afghanistan. best-selling author recently of the most faithful spy. great to have both of you with us. alex, the u.s. military has this motto, right, leave no soldier behind. and you just heard tom s reporting. in this case, was it the right thing to do? is there ever a case where it isn t? no, i don t think there is ever a case where it isn t right to do. maybe we don t know for sure. it certainly looks like he is on the deserter side of that chasm. but that doesn t mean you don t go get him. among other things, until you get him you don t know whether or not he is a deserter. he should be subject to our justice system, not the taliban s justice system. so anybody who says he was not worth getting, i don t buy that. anybody who says we shouldn t
central to such efforts, a military touchstone found in the army ranger creed, he will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy. it s often unspoken. i don t know that it s written or codified. but if you re taken captive, we re going to do all we can to get you back. reporter: that commitment has led to amazing moments such as the special forces rescue of private jessica lynch, captured in iraq. and he told me we re american soldiers, and we re here to take you home. and i looked at him and i said yes, i m an american soldier too. reporter: the goal of rescues the fallen can undeniably be complicated by circumstances and costs. in the blackhawk down case, the battle to save troops cost 18 american lives and hundreds of somalis died too. so while bergdahl s fellow soldiers roundly agree he deserved rescue of course, he needs to be saved. he is an american soldier. we never leave anybody behind. reporter: they also want accountability, saying it
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tied every day, i couldn t walk out to the helicopter. had to have two of the special forces people help me out. and they gave me sunglasses because the room i was in was just totally dark all the time. wow. so when you see that, you think, i mean, he could have been walking because he had been shackled? or stumbling as he looked. that s the way it was in my case. he was similar. i don t know for sure exactly what his case was. but in mine, because my muscles had become so weak from being tied, i had to have somebody help me out to the helicopter. and cade, you know, the taliban makes it clear that they wanted to get out of there. they also say of course don t come back to afghanistan, because you won t make it out next time. that pretty much does set up obviously, it could just be a propaganda video, so who know what s the relationship was like. but it certainly doesn t sound like he had at this point wanted to be with them or anything like
tonight we begin with the breaking news. at this moment, top white house officials just finishing briefing the senate. it was a closed door briefing on the prisoner swap in which bowe bergdahl gained his freedom. officials from the state department, the defense department, and national intelligence were all present. and we re going to hear from one top republican who was at this briefing in just a moment. but first, there are major developments in the case today. first of all, we got the images of the handover. these are the first ones we ve seen. the moment bergdahl s taliban captors turned him over to special forces. that video released today by the taliban. u.s. officials say they re reviewing the video. we re going to go through it frame by frame, coming up. you re going to hear what they said and be able to watch this go down. it s pretty stunning video. also today, new details from the army official investigation into bergdahl s disappearance. bergdahl s commanders referred t