i m not going to diagnose this guy s health 3,000 miles away on a second video. he did look bad. i think the urgency there were a couple of things going on. one was the idea that he could be killed. now, you know, let s turn the story around. what if this deal hadn t been made and the story today is american p.o.w. dies in taliban camp and beheaded in kabul and the president didn t take a deal that was offered? we would be having all of the same criticism coming from the opposite direction and, you know, that is why i say, you know, the administration made it a very difficult decision. i m not sure i would have made the same decision but, on the other hand, i m not sure you know, i m a little uncomfortable sitting up here and saying, well, we would have done it differently and we would have sent four team instead of five or three. you know, whatever. senator, you make a fair point and that gets to a very important question that is starting to come out. the question of how this be
what more are you learning, jim. reporter: the white house expected the release of bowe bergdahl would stir up controversy but what they never saw coming was the personal attacks aimed at bergdahl even his family and all of it become a political football democrats say to damage the president. with the president in europe, the administration officials are playing defense over what they thought would be a feel good story. the release of p.o.p. bowe bergda bergdahl. agents to the president say they expected some controversy but surprised on the attacks of his family and a further effort to damage the president. it s very interesting to me that they with be willing to release five extraordinarily dangerous taliban members in exchange for this soldier who apparently left his post. we don t know all of the details. reporter: conservative critics have accused bergdahl s father of looking like a muslim.
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were killed looking for bergdahl, are we being kind of pushed into an analysis by political pressure? what is the value in this analysis, do you think? well, for myself as a journalist, what i m trying to do is look just at what we know at that time. there are here are the facts, let s establish them? right. i m sure have you some incredibly capable political correspondents in d.c. who might be able to address those questions. i m just trying to go back, you know, with my colleagues at the times go ae back and see what was happening on the ground at that time. do you feel that some of the pressure and the inquiry is somewhat artificial? we understand why the soldiers care about who died and what they were doing at the time. these are their brothers and sisters, but its existence in the realm of the dynamic of this store, what do you think it means in terms of the story this particular aspect who died doing what in the search for bowe bergdahl? i think one of the things th
obama still wants to close down gitmo. that is a 2008 campaign promise. he says if he releases any other prisoners and some on the right will talk about impeaching him. i don t know if we are going to get that far but it is aion are. i think an indication of some of the obama and white house problems in the second term. if you look at the trip to afghanistan, for example, feel-good moment. it s muffed by the fact that they accidentally released the name of a station chief for us. and then this seemingly a feel good. big rose garden ceremony. saturday weekend story. then there is more to come now. but it turns out, 2012 rolling stone did a big piece about this story so not like these were new facts that somehow we didn t know that, yes, in the fact there were questionable circumstances about why he was a p.o.w. when senators came out of