we don t know where. we don t know under what circumstances for five years. as far as we know, he was not held with any other americans or any english-speaking people. we don t know that yet. i m not surprised that there are still questions, and until we get the facts exactly what the condition of sergeant bergdahl is, we can t go much further in speculating. but, you know, this is a guy who probably went through hell the last five years, and let s focus on getting him well and getting him back with his family. do you specifically believe that he was tortured? i don t know. again, david, i don t know until we can work this through, but, again, the first issue is his health, and then we ll get into all the other parts as to what his conditions were like and the follow-on questions to his captivity. mr. secretary, i just want to
of the program still and the fact that he is quite eloquent in his description of what he did and forceful in his own defense. can you understand people being uncomfortable with i understand being uncomfortable, but the fact is christa and i went about a week ago and visited the national 9/11 museum, and i would just urge people to go and visit the national 9/11 museum. what right does any single american have to decide that more than the president, more than the congress they re going to leak our secrets? this is the act of a traitor. you can decide that s too strong of language. he may be a patriotic traitor, he may think he did the right thing. this is treason. this is extraordinary dangerous to the country and if he gets to decide, what about the next person and then the person after that? we are in a war with people who want to destroy us. they re very clear about it, and he ended up aiding and abetting the enemy. i just i want to offer the other side for a point of discus
take hostages, and i don t think what we did in getting our prisoner of war released in any way would somehow encourage terrorists to take our american service men prisoner or hostage. in war things are always dangerous, and there are vulnerabilities as there are around the world, but our record, the united states of america in dealing with terrorists, in finding and hunting down those terrorists, is pretty good, david. i want to ask you one more about this. what about an investigation into what happened here? as we have reported, this was five years ago when sergeant bergdahl essentially left his command post.
to brook army medical center in san antonio, texas. there s a growing debate in this country over the agreement to trade sergeant bergdahl for those five taliban prisoners. there was a question about his safety. we found an opportunity, we took that opportunity, i ll stand by that decision. i signed off on the decision, the president made the ultimate decision. we did spend time looking at this. i think the big issue here is what s going to happen to these five individuals. if they re-enter the fight, it s going to put american lives at risk and none of us want that to happen. not secretary hagel or anybody. but if they re able to have after a year in kwat tore do whatever they want to, do there s no doubt they ll re-enter the fight. other ones have been released from guantanamo and re-entered the fight. we will bring you bob and janie bergdahl live as soon as
and we re, we re so much like afghanistan, i wish i could write a book about that. our character is a lot alike. the mountain, desert environment breeds tough people. people who know how to farm here and make a living. and it s hard. but it makes you tough. if it doesn t kill you, it makes you tougher. and we re just so appreciative of people in idaho. and throughout america, huge support and bowe s actually got, he s actually got millions of people around the world who are supporting him. my twitter friends, my intelligence network, my analysis network. my language specialists.