trauma center nearby, but he succumbed and died of his wounds at that it trauma center in northern iraq under u.s. military care. a number of hostages were rescued, about 70, but it turned out according to pentagon at this point they don t think any of them actually were kurds. they are still trying to figure out who these people were. that open admission from the pentagon really did not know who was there. so why did they undertake this mission? pentagon officials saying it came at the request of the kurds, that the kurds are valuable allies and that defense secretary ash carter made the decision he wanted to help them. barbara starr, thank you. time for an early start on your money. european and asian shares up on hopes of more stimulus from the european central bank. yesterday the dow surged 321
bergdahl may not have talked about his five years in captivity, but he is recovering after a week under u.s. military care. the pentagon said he is now speaking in english to the medical staff treating him, participating more in his recovery treatment, and is resting better. the administration continues to insist bergdahl s health and safety were at risk and to make the point showed senators a classified video of bergdahl from december 2013. he looked terrible and i think that video should be released at some point. he could barely talk. he couldn t focus his eyes. he was downcast. he was thin. he looked like a man i looked around the room as that video was shown and i think it was clearly effective. when the video stopped, it wasn t very long, maybe 30
i think they all realize that no one will have an outright majority. so they know they re going to have to form a coalition government. for that reason, they know they re going to have to work together in some manner. so i think they will work through this and they will decide how they re going to work together. and they will move together forward to form a government. does the u.s. military care who is the leader of that next government, who the next prime minister is? we don t. we want the iraqi people to choose and we want the individuals that the iraqi people choose as part of the council of representatives to decide. we will not get involved being involved in selecting the next prime minister. how worried are you that it could take a long time, though, to form the next government? the last elections resulted in weeks and months of delay. that could be an issue this time around. well, of course, we are concerned about that. but we have plans in place. we ve worked very
people for the election. do you believe the winners and the losers will cooperate in the next step? i think they all realize that no one will have an outright majority. so they know that they will have to form a coalition government. for that reason, they know they are going to have to work together in some manner. so i think they will work through this and they will decide how they re going to work together and they will move together to form a government. does the u.s. military care who is the leader of the next government, who the next prime minister is? we don t. we want the iraqi people to choose and we want the individuals that the iraqi people choose as part of the counsel of representatives to decide. we will not get involved in being involved in selecting the next prime minister. how worried are you that it could take a long time to form the next government. the last elections resulted in weeks and months of delay. that could be an issue this time around.