this hour. this hour an american is free for the first time in five years. That in and of itself is good but there are serious questions about the cost to free Sergeant Bowe bergdahl and concern bordering on anger about how he ended up in taliban hands to begin with. Was he a deserter . Bergdahl is treated right now in germany. Special Operations Forces picked him up from the taliban on saturday after almost five years of captivity in afghanistan. He was in pakistan for a big chunk of that. In exchange, five taliban prisoners were released from guantanamo. Some suggest that is a price too high to pay especially given that some of his fellow troops say he deserted his post and that at least six soldiers were killed in searches for him. Some of those troops say he should be courtmartialed. Lets bring in our senior White House Correspondent joe johns. We should say, theres no publicly verified account of how Sergeant Bergdahl left his post but there are suggestions that he walked off. The
people i knew, were scurrying all over the city of los angeles looking for this. it caused traffic backups. that s what i find weird. i don t like that kind of fervor of people scrounging, trying to get what s left of money. what happens if two or three or four, five people find an envelope at the same time? is it well, in the hollen beck area of los angeles yesterday, which is an area that is not affluent, they did have to call police to make sure nothing more was going to happen when people found this money. for now, it looks like a fun game but i don t feel like if we re on the verge of something weird here. last word. definitely does sound weird to me. i think there are better ways to get the message across of being altruistic and doing more for your brothers and sisters. i don t think this social experiment is the way to go. a lot of food banks out there. jeff gardere, nischelle turner, really appreciate it.