and realized, we re not doing thoughts and prayers, we re doing the other thing where we re going to smear not only this prisoner of war returning, we re going to smear his family, too, from the small town of hailey, idaho. so this is not normal and that s why we re seeing these flips. but, right. what if the script had been flipped? what if word leaked in a couple of months that obama had a real offer on the table to get the only prisoner of war. who was ailing and in ill health, which is what the words that be said from the administration. i don t know if they re telling the truth, but i suppose they probably are about that detail. yeah, exactly. there had been an offer on the table and the administration had not done it. and he had died in the hands of the taliban. obviously, there would be articles of impeachment within a week, right? so this was a and that s the tenor, that s what was so interesting about those tweets. the tenor of the activism around bowe bergdahl, in the
when i do what you tell me you want me to do. yeah. so there s about five elements and all run in different directions. little overlap. are you going over all five? because if so i m going to get some coffee. sure. you might want to get some coffee. i think you re right though. there were a universe of republican senators who said do whatever you can to get this guy home. this was a couple months ago. and it would have benefitted the administration if they brought them in and said here s what we re doing. we re thinking about an operation in a couple weeks. we ll keep you apprised. i think it would have done the administration a lot of good. i also agree with bill kristol. they should not have gone out and celebrated this knowing the history of bowe bergdahl. that said there is a whole host of nuance to this debate that s getting lost here. for instance the gitmo stuff. that s why you re mortals, we get lost in partisanship. that s why i m here.
away from the bergdahl parents? he said a million miles. he is a deserter, but we bring him to full justice but not leave him stranded over there. that is an argument one can make. you can make the argument as to whether or not the trade was right or not. the israelis sometimes trade a thousand prisoners for a single soldier. and put the president with the partners and arm and arm and as opposed to the soldiers who believe their sons were killed searching for bergdahl. that was a brave miscalculation on the part of the white house. they thought it was seen as a celebration and brought our guy home and it is anything but that. what happens with guantanamo? there is a lot of questions about the politics surrounding that. and harry reid made a comment
because the work leaked out. where s the argument? i m not thrilled with this deal, but it comes down to it, you sort of have to suck it up and take it and you make the best deal that you can like all grown-ups do in life. what s more to be talked about here? listen, i m in an institution here that s a lot better second guessing than it is actually doing things. there s a lot of second guessing to be done around here. but, you know, i think you have it right. there are questions. was it a good deal. but, you know, we don t know all the circumstances the president was facing. what the options were, what the counteroffer and offers were. this is something, you know, this is a tough decision that the president had to make and he brought the guy home. i agree with you. i respect you as a smart, fair guy. why is this such a why is this such a pissy partisan thing? why do we have people all going to to me it s been a difficult issue. i don t find any partisanship in my heart in this.
we re going to smear his family, too, from the small town of hailey, idaho. so this is not normal and that s why we re seeing these flips. but, right. what if the script had been flipped? what if word leaked in a couple of months that obama had a real offer on the table to get the only prisoner of war. who was ailing and in ill health, which is what the words that be said from the administration. i don t know if they re telling the truth, but i suppose they probably are about that detail. yeah, exactly. there had been an offer on the table and the administration had not done it. and he had died in the hands of the taliban. obviously, there would be articles of impeachment within a week, right? so this was a and that s the tenor, that s what was so interesting about those tweets. the tenor of the activism around bowe bergdahl, in the beginning, was he s being left behind by the traitorous barack obama, right? that barack obama doesn t want to bring this guy home. let me say