collateral damage and the strike. i think for a long time we failed to integrate into a negotiating strategy our targeting plans against the haqqanis or other elements of the taliban coalition. i doubt very much that bergdahl is the limited constrained on our ability to use targeting of the haqqanis as part of a conscious negotiating strategy. i think the problem is that our targeting in the negotiating strategy have been on completely separate tracks for now. david and stephen, i have to leave it there. thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom. it may just be the most talked about story in the upcoming race to the white house. hear what hillary clinton is now revealing about her future. [announcer] play close-good and close.
question. if bowe bergdahl left base before and returned and those in charge knew, why wasn t he taken out of your platoon? why didn t leadership step in? well, those reports are not completely accurate. from what i understand, bergdahl had gone and spent time with the locals and it was just right on top of the hill top right where we were within plain sight. when they were looking for him where he was supposed to be, he wasn t there. it wasn t him wandering off or going to take pictures in town somewhere. he was basically speaking to the locals and interacting with them. i guess what i m asking, josh, is if he didn t really fit in with the platoon and he was causing conflict, and people were wondering about him, why didn t leadership step in and take care of the problem? because we were in combat. there were so few of us and
happened and let bowe recover and most importantly, let the family move on into let them ge on with their life again. it s been five years of suffering and grief on their part. i have to leave it here. matthew, josh, thank you so much for your insight. i ll be right back.
was very, very closely controlled. carol? we ve also heard allegations that the taliban tortured bergdahl while he was in captivity. can you tell us that part of the story? reporter: we re certainly hearing this from the united states, from sources there, that he when he was on the run, then recaptured, that the taliban punished him by putting him in a small cage or small box as punishment. what the sal ban source told us was that there was no cage involved. he didn t know the entire period of bergdahl s captivity. he did say the security around bergdahl made it very, very clear to bergdahl that there was no way he was going to get away from that situation and essentially he needed to figure out a way to deal with it and get on being held captive by the taliban, that there was going to be no chance of freedom after that first breakout carol.
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