with respect to isis that s become a worldwide problem. a caliphate that intends to not only try to dominate the region but it s sort of a worldwide caliphate now on the internet where they re urging people to make attacks all over the globe. so both require the international community working in concert towards the goal of stabilization in that region. chairman please stay with me. up next we ll talk about what happened this week with sergeant bowe bergdahl being charged with deer issings and misbehavior before the enemy. if convicted, what punishment should he face. also, what more do we know about the five taliban members who were swapped for his release? we ll talk about that with the chairman. everyone wants to switch to t-mobile. but your carrier has you locked up paying off a phone. not anymore. now t-mobile will pay off your phone. stuck in a contract? we ve got you covered there too. anyone can tease you with a lower price for a limited time. only t-mobile guarantees your pr
that s what army investigators have been told. now, whether this is going to be a valid defense, a defense that the army will accept remains to be seen. it may not matter what his intention was. he is facing a charge of deer issings. this week we are learning new details of the conditions that bergdahl was held in for five years after he was quickly captured by the taliban when he left his base. he faced five year of isolation, beatings he was held in conditions that led to illnesses, wounds on his body all of this detailed by his lawyer in a release of documents. but, again, all of this will be up to the army justice system to decide if this is enough for those charges of deer issings to either stick or to be dismissed. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. barbara, thank you very much for that. in the case of sergeant bowe
bergdahl has been controversy frshl the start. some demanding to know how a swap with five gan taun mow bay detainees was possible. the administration and others quick to defend that trade. we saw an opportunity and took it. i make no apologyies for it. one of our analogies is we bring everybody home off the battlefield as best we can. it doesn t matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation. as a prisoner of war, bowe bergdahl deserved and we had the obligation and the commander in chief had the obligation to do what was necessary to bring him home. let s bring back in congressman ed royce, republican chairman of the committee the house foreign affairs committee. thanks for being with me again, sir. let s talk about this. if we do see a guilty verdict in the case of deer issings and misbehavior before the enemy for sergeant bowe bergdahl, what do you think a punishment should be? well i m going to let the army decide. it s their responsibility to
against sergeant bowe bergdahl not just charged with deer issings but base mist behavior before the enemy. bergdahl left his post in afghanistan in 2009 was capture and held captive and tortured for five years. for the first time we are learning what his defense could be. here s our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. sergeant bowe bergdahl s defense may be taking shape. defense officials tell cnn bergdahl has told army investigators he did not intend to desert that his plan, his intention, was to walk to the next nearest army outpost in eastern afghanistan into july 2009 in the middle of taliban country that he was walking to that outpost to report what he thought, what he believed at the time to be a lack of leadership order, and discipline in his unit. that that was his intention.