Taking control of key cities, what was once unthinkable about this anti iraq war president. Ill be a president who ends this war in iraq and finally brings our troops home. As we come this i dont rule out anything. They come here and find a relief. A tiny shelter in texas home to families from Foreign Countries trying to get into america. You look into these peoples eyes, especially the children. What do you see . Fear. Theyre scared. Well take you live to the border border. Thats one for you changed your mind . I have to say, i think you are being persistent the hillary npr interview. Samesex marriage and a quip pi clinton. Im trying to clarify so you can understand. No, i dont think you are trying to clarify. What happened . Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im care costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin with Bowe Bergdahls return. Today for the first time in five years, the former p. O. W. Is on american soil. This is the plane landing in san antonio overnight. On board, Bowe Bergdahl and a host of people to help make the transition back to a normal life more easy. A physician, psychiatrist and officer in whats called a personal recovery specialist are on board that plane with bergdahl. Bergdahl is now in Brook Army Medical Center. His room is ready. Hes getting an entire part of the building devoted just to him and his recovery. At his side, attorneys, a khabibulin, Security Financial analysts. Most importantly of all, his family. That meeting according to experts will be the most stressful. Cnns Martin Savidge outside the hospital to tell us more. Good morning, martin. Reporter good morning, carol. As you pointed out, it was the middle of the night when Sergeant Bergdahl returned to the United States of america. There was no fanfare, no special greeting, and there was none ever intended. This, the military says and what comes next will all be strictly by the book. After five years in taliban captivity, u. S. Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is back only american soil, touching down overnight, bergdahl arrived at Lackland Air Force base in san antonio and was transported to a military medical facility with a room prepped for his ar looifl and a support Team Standing by along with his family. Just came out of five years of captivity. Well get a chance to find out what was in his head there that day when he was taken captive. The daily beast obtained letters purportedly written by bergdahl to his family while in cap captivity. They may give a glimpse into his disappearance that night in 2009. Writing leadership was lacking if not nonexistent. The conditions were bad and looked to be getting worse for the men that were actually the ones risking their lives. Penned in two different writing styles, one in cursive, the other in block print. The bergdahl family purportedly confirmed the authenticity of the letters revealed by sources in contact with the taliban. Im please asking for help rrp held hostage for nearly a year, american roy hallums can relate. When i did mine, they set a piece of paper in front of me and gave me a pen. Pun person sat on each side of me telling me exactly what words they wanted me to write. They wanted me to print it because they couldnt read english in script. Reporter at times bergdahls thoughts seemed to wander touching on mathematics, god and the universe. Several portions of the letter blocked out. Its unclear by whom. Words in letters oddly misspelled. In 2013 he wrote, if this letter makes it to the usa, tell those involved in the investigation that there are more sides to the situation. Carol, ive just gotten word from the military. Theres a press conference scheduled for 4 00 eastern time. Participating in that will be a Brigadier General from the army, also a psychiatrist and a doctor, both of whom are part of sergeant Bowe Bergdahls medical team who are treating him right now. One last thing, the reunion, thats what everyone here is focused upon. When will they see his family . Weve not been told a specific timeline. Dwoe know from the past in previous reunions, this is a difficult and emotional, albeit, very joyful time. The first meeting likely to only last a few minutes, carol. Martin savidge reporting live from san antonio. I want to focus in on letters allegedly written by Bowe Bergdahl and sent to his parents. Joining me is kimberly dozier, a contributing writer for the daily beast who obtained those letters. Welcome. Good to be here. Senator john mccain said earlier on new day that we shouldnt put much stock in these letters because they probably really werent written by bergdahl. In your mind were they . Thats one of the first things i asked myself when i looked at these. The letter writing doesnt 34567. While they say the kinds of things that you think someone in captivity would want to tell their parents, im okay, im being fed, they also go off on tangents. I had to show them to a number of u. S. And western officials before i had confidence that these really were at least delivered from the taliban to the red cross and purported to be written by bergdahl. Bergdahls family also saw things in them like the way bergdahl signed the first one in 2012 with a little paw print. They say thats something that he did with his other letters from the field, so they believe that they were real. They go on to say things like, in the second letter, hes aware of the investigation into his disappearance, and he wants to tell his parents why he walked off the base. He says that there was a high disconcern for troopers in the field, a lack of clear, logical and common sense thinking at the top, and that the situation was going from bad to a nightmare in the field. So was he writing this in case he never came back and he wanted to defend himself . Or another possibility is, the taliban had to be watching his every move, monitoring everything he wrote and approving it before it got sent off. Perhaps this was the kind of message that they wanted to send to tear down the morale of u. S. Troops in the field. Look, one of your own walked off because he had no confidence in his commanders and things were really bad there. Interesting. As you mentioned, there are a lot of spelling errors in the letter. This is one example, to all my friends and family in regards to the circumstance if you see how he spelled the word circumstance, thats way off. In the Washington Post they released excerpts from his journal. He misspelled a lot of things in his journal, too. Some of the things he put into code. What do you make of those misspellings ain the letters . I read through the bergdahl family letters back to bowe. We havent released those. Theyre about things happening at home, births, marriages, et cetera. A lot of misspellings in those letters as well. It seems that while this is a family thats very creative. They talk a lot about god, philosophy, but grammar and how letters are spelled, not really their high point. Strong suit. Strong suit, yes. You said you chose not to release letters from the bergdahls to bowe in captivity including a photo of Jani Bergdahl and bob with his beard. Did you deliberately not want to release that particular photo just because of privacy issues, or was there more to it . Privacy issues but also jani is veiled, she wears the same kind of veil that i wear when im in the field in kabul or especially in the countryside where you might come across someone who holds very fundamentalist beliefs. I also did that partly to show respect for their culture, but also so i didnt endanger the troops or the officials i was with by being a westerner who was offending local custom. I understand from the people who delivered the letters to me that they were advising the bergdahl family how to communicate with the taliban to make sure those letters, or to better ensure that those letters would actually reach their son. So they did things that were respectful of the local culture, and that might be seen in a very different context back here in the states. Understood. Kimberly dozier, thanks for sharing the information. We do appreciate it. Thank you. Still to come in the newsroom, militants march toward bagdad, but what happens if they succeed in capturing iraq . 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Some playground, from this footage we could count 14 abandoned tanks. And so it was that kurdish fighters moved in to occupy kirkuk, they said to stop it from falling. Kirkuk, the city the curds have long claimed as thais their historical capital. The kurdish fighters argue they are the only force for stability in this region because so many of the iraqi army has collapsed but the temptation for the curds is to hold on to kirkuk come what may, not just because of its oil wealth but because theyve always wanted it as part of a future kurdish state. The kurdish state is what might eventually happen here if iraq does indeed collapse. Its like deja vu all over again, isnt it . Iraqs embattled government says its troops have recaptured tikr tikrit. This video shows iraqis boarding vehicles to fight the militants. President obama says he does not rule out any option in helping iraq stop the terrorist advance. Possibilities include air strikes but not boots on the ground. Last hour we heard from a leading critic of the Obama Administration and its handling of iraq through the years. The iraqis rejected our troop retention plan, they didnt want to sign it. The American People wanted us out of there. The president won the election in large part by promising to end the war. Werent those all circumstances that demanded we get out of there. Its not our fight. Well, its interesting, that narrative. But the fact is we could have negotiated a residual force just as we could have in afghanistan. By the way, youll see the same thing happen in afghanistan thats happening in iraq if the president goes through with total withdrawal. Senator john mccain. Joining me by phone, a man who saw iraqs broken system from the inside and tried to fix it, david tafury tried to help rebuild the legal system in 2006 and 2007. Hes nouf in the iraqi city of erbil. Welcome. Hi, how are you. Youre within country. Tell us what the situation is from your perspective. The situation is very fluid right now. Its changed a lot in the last week. There are parts of iraq that are under control by isis soldiers who invaded this part of Northern Iraq. Theres no surprise that tikrit were attacked by isis troops. Im surprised it fell so quickly and the iraqi army surrendered so quickly. There are a number of questions now, will the iraqi army be reinforced by Prime Minister maliki . Will he send more troops and weapons to confront the fighters . What will the person ma do, protecting the border . There are questions about if any other country also get involved. Will the u. S. Help . The u. S. Spent a lot of time here trying to rebuild iraq, did a lot of training for the iraqi army and will the u. S. Come in to assist . The United States did a lot to train the iraqi army. Were seeing pictures of them simply giving up the fight. Thats got to be disturbing to you. It is. Its rather embarrassing for u. S. Foreign policy. We spent a lot of time and a lot of money here, and its an unfortunate result. So i dont think its a complete surprise that the iraqi army is not as strong as it was when the u. S. Military pulled out. It was clear that Prime Minister maliki was not doing what he needed to do. He made a number of mistakes including sunni arabs not including sunni arabs in the military. The iraqi army clearly isnt as loyal to him adds it was a few years ago and he needs to be to be an effective fighting force. In your mind since the United States was in iraq a long time, and if you look at things now, you can probably say it didnt accomplish its goals to say the least. So should america get involved again . Well, its going to be a difficult decision for america. But we have important Strategic Interests here in iraq. We certainly cannot let large parts of iraq fall to sunni militants who are extremists and will certainly do harm to the u. S. And u. S. Interests in the region and around the world. So there are Important Reasons why the u. S. Needs to Pay Attention and really needs to do something. It doesnt necessarily mean that the u. S. Needs to put troops on the ground. The u. S. Along with its allies need to make sure sunni extremists dont continue to control Populated Areas of iraq. David tafuri, thank you so much for providing your insight. We really appreciate it. Lets talk about the possibility of u. S. Air strikes, because thats not an easy proposition. Officials tell cnn that president obama has not yet decided to launch strikes as the military is pointing out, a number of concerns. That news just coming into cnn. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more now. Good morning. Good morning, carol. I think its absolutely right what you just said, the president has made no decision about air strikes and there are always other options he could decide upon. Intelligence sharing morks weapons shipments to iraq. Lets say it was air strikes. What were now being told is there are a number of challenges to develop a target set against these fighters, these socalled isis fighters. U. S. Officials are telling us it starts with the basic concept that the targeting problem is a lack of intelligence, the lack of credible, specific u. S. Intelligence on the ground. Who are these people . Where are they located . How do you target them . If you dont have the intelligence on the ground, you cant go against them. They have no fixed position. You see it from the video. A lot of them are just riding around in trucks. Theres no command in control, no air defense sites, no radars, no military bases to strike. So who and what do you really go after . If you start dropping bombs, the risk of civilian casualties may be significant. Again, when you look at all the video coming out of iraq, these people are largely moving not far from civilian populations. So people then say why not drones, just use drones and fire missiles at them. These are people, fighters on the move. You dont know who is in the vehicle. You dont know exactly where theyre going to be. Its very hard to determine from the air who exactly is on the ground and what you want to target . That may be the challenge the white house is looking at right now in trying to develop a target set. Barbara, on the intelligence angle of this story, you said we lack good intelligence. Weve been in iraq such a long time, you would think we have those resources on the ground. Lets remember, the u. S. Left at the end of 2011. This isis organization, this militant group has really surprised everybody with their speed, rapidity and strength and the numbers of fighters and what theyve been able to accomplish in a very short period of time. So they are on the move. Is there a broad understanding of who they are, who their commanders are, what their goals are