i am still working to free all guantanamo prisoners. god will repay for the death of every afghan child. the comment was deleted shortly after it was posted. cnn has no way of independently confirming the authenticity. it turns out, he s one of ours. reporter: it s a story with so many subplots that no wonder many are comparing bowe to brody on homeland. i am an american. reporter: this drama, however, is far from over. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. appreciate that, dan simon. all of those unanswered questions have turned bowe bergdahl s story into a political football and my next guests know quite a lot about that. joining me is lanny davis, crisis tales. and former white house special counsel for the clinton administration. brad chase is with me of capital media partners. he has been helping some soldiers who served with bergdahl to go public with their
criticism. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. brad, i m going to begin with you. your firm is giving media assistance to seven members of bergdahl s platoon that have spoken out. there are some accusations out there that many of these critiques surrounding bergdahl and his reasons for leaving the base are part of a coordinated republican effort to attack the white house. is there any truth to that? there s absolutely no truth to that claim. it s almost bizarre. i ve been branded as a gop strategist despite the fact that i ve never been part of the republican party. it s easy to try and go after me. but i ll tell you, i have voted in the presidential tickets over the years for candidates from both sides. but here s the question, though, that your partner at your firm is a republican strategist, former aide to mitt romney. how is that not part of an agenda? he s not running this.
murderers. thirdly, he did not disclose why he did not talk about dianne feinstein. if he s afraid of a leak, is he going to tell dianne feinstein that? is he going to tell the american people that he couldn t tell congress because he was concerned about a leak? he hasn t explained himself very well as a matter of crisis management. that s just not good. and you didn t mention the ceremony in the rose guard den. they think it made bowe bergdahl out to be a hero when he possibly may not be one. lanny? i don t mind the rose garden to celebrate an american in battle and not leaving americans behind even if we have to trade for them. the israelis have traded for i understand that but part of that is the optics. the optics are not good.
every afghan child. the comment was deleted shortly after it was posted. cnn has no way of independently confirming the authenticity. it turns out, he s one of ours. reporter: it s a story with so many subplots that no wonder many are comparing bowe to brody the freed american hostage on show times homeland. i am an american. reporter: this drama, however, is far from over. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. appreciate that, dan simon. all of those unanswered questions have turned bowe bergdahl s story into a political football and my next guests know quite a lot about that. joining me is lanny davis, author of crisis tales. five rules for coping with crisis in business and life. and former white house special counsel for the clinton administration. brad chase is with me of capital media partners. he has been helping some
the president hasn t told us that. thirdly, he did not disclose why he did not talk about dianne feinstein. and senior members of both intelligence committees. if he s afraid of a leak, is he going to tell dianne feinstein that? is he going to tell the american people that he couldn t tell congress because he was concerned about a leak? if that s the case, tell us. he hasn t explained himself very well as a matter of crisis management. that s just not good. and you didn t mention the presentation in the rose garden. that many people are taking offense to. they think it made bowe bergdahl out to be a hero when he possibly may not be one. lanny? i don t mind the rose garden to celebrate an american in battle and not leaving americans behind even if we have to trade for them. the israelis have traded for i understand that but part of that is the optics. if the president had come out