next. joe is at the national memo, and joan wash is an msnbc political analyst. thank you both for being hee. joe, you wrote a book back in the day, seminole reading for anyone who wants to understand the clinton years, but i think it has never been more relevant the hunting of the president. president obama said in that sound bite that he was never surprised by controversy and this is par for the course. it seems it s only par for the course for him and bill clinton. am i right? no, you re right. president obama knows bill clinton. i think he s observed bill clinton s career. he knows hillary very well, who is likewise the target of the hunting as much as president clinton was. and will be more now as we are seeing with the benghazi hoax, and all the rest. so yeah, it does strike a chord. the thing about the characters
i kind of like that today. it s an outrage, okay, that the republican party in a coordinated way has cooked up a lynch mop against an american soldier. i don t care what he did. it s up to the pentagon to discover what he did, in a judicial proceeding that they will oversee, not reince priebus, not any of his minions or stooges. it s an outrage they re doing that to a soldier. i don t blame, as you said, the soldiers who are angry at bowe bergdahl. maybe they have the best reason in the world. this is not the right way to do this. joe has a great piece up in the national memo, and joan walsh, who has a pretty great book out, too, that you should check out. up next, the good news today in the affordable care act, as 6 million more americans now have coverage thanks to the medicaid expansion. now some republicans in the south are starting to ask, well, why not us? people like options.
lindsay graham is warning the white house about the need to get congressional approval before releasing any more. it s going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of gitmo now. without just a huge backlash. the people on our side are calling for his impeachment if he did that. not that we re rushing to judgment or using hyperbole or anything like that. after a briefing yesterday, that included the viewing of a classified video showing bowe bergdahl s condition just before the prisoner swap deal was made, some centers, including at least one democrat, continued to question whether sergeant bergdahl s health was actually failing. west virginia democrat joe m manchon said it was not a critical factor. you could tell he was drugged and in a different state five months ago. saxby chambliss called the video unconvincing. there s no indication that
and this principle, it should be more important to nobody than john mccain, that we retrieve the soldier and ask questions about whatever may have happened later. and the idea that even he has walked away from that, i think just shows how it s simply become a lot of us have captured the flip-flop on the part of many republicans who were clamoring, obama s about to leave this soldier behind. now obama went and got him? i mean, if the president does something, they have to be against it. it s interesting, because it has not been national news. it s also been some of the base, too. the national memo cataloged this flip-flopping, like john mccain, we re saying, we need to get this guy home. as soon as obama does it, then it has obama on it and it s a bad idea. even ordinary people, joe, it s been fascinating to watch, and chris hayes did this on his show last night, people on twitter chronicled by a guy named matt