what happened to him during that process and what he may have picked up during that process. all of that will unfold on the military s time and on the time of our national security interests. evan, to that point, clearly one of the things that the parents talked a lot about and we know a lot of people were involved in this. my understanding is that the operation to recover him obviously relied on a lot of intelligence gathering. i would imagine sort of bringing him home, as goldie was just saying, they ll want to try to debrief and try to get a sense from the intelligence side of what he may or may not know. there is still a bit of a mystery about how exactly he fell into taliban hands to begin with. that s a complicated story. not that it matters that much now but nonetheless, it is going to be a complicated story. he needs to talk with military interrogators and explain all that. beyond that, there s so much that he may have witnessed while in the custody of the taliban, even sma
if you negotiate here, you ve sent a message to every al qaeda group in the world that says, by the way, some who are holding you u.s. hostages today, that there is some value now in that hostage in a way that they didn t have before. that is dangerous. in response to the krcritici and concerns raised, secretary of defense, chuck hagel, and others reiterated the unique circumstances that led to the negotiations and the growing concerns about bergdahl s health. this was essentially, in our opinion, to save the life of sergeant bergdahl. as i said before, we had information that his health could be deteriorating rapidly. 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. goldie, steve, perry, evan
clinton is that it seems to be all politics all the time, from what we know about this book chapter, it s pure political spin and she s more focused on blaming the so-called vast right wing conspiracy than on the terrorists. right. okay, well goldie, steve, perry, back with us and jonathan allen joins us, co-author of the new york times best seller, hrc. appropriate to this conversation. so i m going to start with you, jonathan. playing politics here? really? she s playing politics. we just heard these two guys with the same talking points. yeah. the idea that senator cruz is above politics in this is a little marred to take. obviously he s being just as political as everybody else in the republican party is in terms of trying to make this an issue for her in 2016. i do think that there are some legitimate questions about american foreign policy and the extent to which we do expeditionary sploemcy and whether the state department was heeding warningings from libya
how much more dangerous benghazi was becoming. i think some people in the republican party have been serious about trying to talk about those things. who are those people? i m kidding. well, a congressman from utah brought up some of the more global issues. but the truth is most of what s going on from the republican party right now is trying to drag hillary clinton into that 2016 presidential race as early as possible. talking about karl rove before the talk about whether she d suffered a brain injury. they want to get her responding as a politician and try and get her to not be running for office without being a politician which is what she s been doing for quite a while now. goldie, i want to show you something. hillary said, i will not be part after political slugfest on the backs of dead americans. it is just plain wrong and it is unworthy of our great country. those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me. but then let s take a look at some of t
called keynect. that s their argument. i thought when the primary ended mcconnell would shift to the left more on that view and he is still the loud and proud repeal candidate in a state that has hundreds of people without health insurance. with kenect being somewhat popular in kentucky, at least in that exchange he seemed like he got caught off-guard somehow. i don t know why. but the core question through all his comments is most americans support xroe heecompr immigration reform. the republicans are struggling with how to deal with those popular parts of obamacare. mcconnell s basic position is repeal obamacare but put the good stuff back in. that s where he s trying to head. goldie, so both cantor and boehner on immigration i think we sort of saw a little bit