soldiers dying as a result of efforts to find and rescue sergeant bergdahl. sheryl, the pentagon points out that matthew was killed many september, more than two months after bergdahl disappeared, and they question the connection. your reaction? they still kept looking for him. that s what they were doing. i guess when it first happened they shut everything down, but the missions kept up trying to look for him and rescue him. the military points out that five soldiers were killed in the three months after bergdahl disappeared and eight soldiers in that part of afghanistan were kill killed. i don t want to diminish the loss of your son.
sergeant bergdahl. the pentagon points out that matthew was killed in september, more than two months after bergdahl disappeared and they question the connection. your reaction? they didn t find him. they still kept looking for him. that s what they were doing. i guess when it first happened, they said shut everything down, but the missions kept up, trying to look for him and rescue him. the military points out that five soldiers were killed in the three months after bergdahl disappeared and eight soldiers in that part of afghanistan were killed in the same three months the previous year. i don t think they are in any way trying to kmsh diminish the law of your son but they are pushing back on the idea that there s a link and somehow this is being blamed on bergdahl s desertion. i ll say two things about that.
they need to understand they could be the next story where something happens and they re not told the truth. the american people immedianeedw the truth about bowe bergdahl and the decision to let five of the worst go when 12 years of u.s. troops, foreign troops, people risk their lives, families lives have been upended to take those type of people away from either put them away or kill them and now we say we were only kidding and let them go. there s a big problem here. this is why we re doing this. matthew was an honorable person. everybody loved him. we are doing this for matthew. we re doing it for the soldiers like josh. ken. cheryl. swrosh. thank you all so much for coming in today sharing your stories with us. thank you. thank you, chris.
voluntarily left hurts us because we may not have been here if he didn t do that. take us back to the weeks and months after bergdahl disappeared. how much did that affect and change what your unit and matthew s unit were doing? after bowe bergdahl purposely and willfully walked away, every single mission that we did was tilted, was focused on finding bergdahl. maybe not every single mission was kicking down a door because we had intel that bergdahl was there, but we were finding people, we were finding either locals that had said they had information about where bowe bergdahl was or maybe we were just trying to go and talk with the locals to see if they knew
somebody happened and they are not told the truth. the american people need to know the truth about bowe bergdahl. they need to know the truth about the decision to let five of the worst go when twelve years of u.s. troops, foreign troops, people risked their lives, family s lives have been upended to take those type of people away and either put them away or kill them, and now we say we were only kidding and let them go? there s a big problem here and this is why we re doing this. matthew was an honorable person. everybody loved him, and we are doing this for matthew. we re doing it for the soldiers like josh. ken, cheryl, josh, thank you so much for coming in today, sharing your stories with us. thank you, chris. how could the president and top advisers have miscalculated