rad quoted this was a success especially given the facts they don t know if he was a deserter and what he might have done in captivity. general jack keane is here. we understand we leave no one behind. but is this the way we did it? i don t have problems trying to get sergeant bergdahl out of the captivity. it isn t an open-ended contract. if we wanted to make a deal for bergdahl and the taliban was asking for every single detainee at gitmo i doubt we would make that deal. if they were asking for just one detainee and that was the
bergdahl with himself and an experienced interrogator. thank you for your inside, general jack keane. and the release of the taliban leaders is reigniting the debate over the future of guantanamo bay. president obama has been vowing to close the prison every since he took office. but this swap has become so controversial many feel it could put more road blocks in that goal. catherine heritage is live with more. instead of paving the way it looks like it could do opposite. that is right. observ observers say this may have had the opposite affect and it damaged any good will on capital hill to close the camp and made transfers more difficult. the political reality is this
1,000 waiting six months or more according to ig report. speaking of ig, how about department of justice investigation, criminal investigation, putting people in jail? absolutely. i believe there is criminality here. trying to walk through that to make sure all the fact have been put in place. i asked attorney general holder to be involved. eric: what has he said. he hasn t responded which is typical. eric: you have deaths. you re a congressional committee. you asked the attorney general of the united states about this and he has not responded? he has not responded. you would think that the white house would understand this is not the appropriate way to take care of veterans in this country. that all of america is paying attention to what is going on. there is a spotlight focused on the department of veterans affairs, unlike any that has ever been before. and regardless of whether the bowe bergdahl story pushed it off the front page we re not going to quit especially in the house
the real bowe bergdahl story revealed. our guest says anonymous military officials said there is a bigger story in the media not reporting the real number of soldiers killed while searching for the sergeant and how far are the administration go into silence for former platoon members. expert and columnist bill robinson joins us today from the beautiful city of dallas. good morning to you, bill. good morning, steve. how are you? doing okay. let s start with the intimidation. who is being intimidated by whom? i received a call last sunday, sunday, june 1, from a man who identified himself as working for the pentagon. he told me that he had read my columns in the huffing ton post called american hero stores and he thought he could trust me. he told me that there was a bigger story that the american people needed to know, that the white house
condition of army sergeant bowe bergdahl and they are weighing in on what we are learning. you will hear that at the top of the hour when we come back.