Five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay released. We want to get your take. Should the u. S. Negotiate with the taliban for the only prisoner of war . Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet, cspanwj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. Have a fourth line for active and retired military, 202 5853883. No negotiating with terrorists versus leave no soldier behind. With the war in afghanistan boding down, the plight of bergdahl has left the u. S. Government trying to reconcile those two longstanding policies. The official declined to be identified. The Defense Department is also involved. Declined comment, but Bowe Bergdahls family welcome d the statement. We welcome this development and we applaud the unity and purpose and resolve of the white house and other u. S. Government agencies involved. We hope everyone takes this opportunity seriously. We are cautiously optimistic these discussions will lead to the return of our son after more than four and a half years in captivity. We want to get your thoughts. What do you think about this . Should the u. S. Negotiate with the taliban for Bowe Bergdahl . Should they be negotiating over this . Those are the numbers on the screen. The daily beast first reported about these discussions. Josh rogan had the story. Last month, the press revealed that the taliban had delivered a video showing that americans only prisoner of war was still alive. Was thatnot reported the u. S. Government requested this proof of life as a precondition to resuming direct talks over a prisoner swap. For prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Postnday, the washington story online was published tuesday in the paper. In an effort to free american , theve, Bowe BergdahlObama Administration has tried to resume talks and sweeten an offer to trade taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Five prisoners who have been held for years would be released to protective custody in qatar in exchange for the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Lee, sterling, virginia, active military. Lee, what do you do . What do think about this . Left the reserves in 2012. Served with the marines pows have a special place in our hearts. , but i do notout think we should be negotiating. A way to be finding bring our p. O. W. Home, but i feel very strongly that we should not negotiate like this. It is a code. It is our position that once we start negotiating this way, we lose the edge and the enemy will know that we could falter. Tryhe same time, we should with all of our might to bring him home. Host what does that include . Caller that includes with force. And capability, there is no way that we cannot bring in a strike team. We are fighting a war. We should we found the bin laden. We should be able to find him. Host there have been reports that it is difficult to use some sort of military strike to go in there because they not sure where he is. Think that is what we need to be we need to be our allies. Cents is that we have not been doing enough. The easy way out is to negotiate. This situation, that is the easy way out. The hard way is to put together and work with our allies. No way wed there was would find bin laden. Theres a code that we never leave a man or woman behind peer we never leave a Service Member behind. You think it is appropriate that this is being negotiated through diplomatic channels . The military is involved, but this is mostly being done by the state department. Caller i know this has been doing things that have been done in the past, but i dont we should not be negotiating at all. I think we will be taken advantage of in the future. Host the United States believes one route to getting him back may be through qatar officials. Bowe bergdahl is believed to be held by operatives from the haqq ani network. It is not clear whether they would abide by any agreement among the United States, qatar, and the taliban. I think we should negotiate. I think the taliban and should tell you the United States government i think the taliban and should tell the to letstates government everyone out. The guy that was before me, he is living in a fantasyland. This war should have never happened. When did you serve . Caller i was in the navy. I got out in 1980. Host did you serve overseas . Caller i was in the philippines. This takedo you have on afghanistan . What we are doing in afghanistan and in guantanamo is horrible. The way we are torturing and waterboarding people and doing everything we claim we would never do. Look at our black prisons all over the place. Prisons where we kidnap people and put them in there and no one ever sees him again. The things were doing in the world is around us. I am glad i am out of the military. We have nothing but a bunch of sock puppets in our government. ,ost chris, democratic caller would you think . No, thanks. I also want to comment that i like the sure that you are wearing. Host nathan, what do you think . Person ise previous crazy. We went to afghanistan because bombed us. E we should not negotiate at all. They killed their own prime minister. Good bunch of dirty bastards. Host should we negotiate . Caller no, we should bomb them. Osama was a block away from the police station. Maybe we should give them some more f16s. Host democratic caller. Caller i would like to say that i do not even know why this is an issue. Respect, one of your caller said he thought the military diplomacy. Diplomacy is the way out of this. This man should not be sitting there another day longer. Host paul, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, retired military. Negotiate should not with any of these terrorist groups. It gets us nowhere. It sets a horrible precedents. This soldier walked away from his unit. When he did that, he surrendered the protection that he was under. That is unfortunate. I do not think we can get into the position of negotiating with terrorists. We should put as much pressure as we possibly can on pakistan. There is a country that harbored bin laden, imprisoned the doctor that helped us find bin laden. We should cut off some of the money we give them. Those are my comments. Bergdahl, this is his twitter page. He has been to afghanistan many times. He sent out a tweet in response to the stories that were ,eported by the Washington Post quoting, and now the United States is primarily focused on getting bergdahl home. They see this as a hopeful sign. In idaho, there are billboards that have gone up across that state asking for people to call their member of congress to get him home. Billboardowe bergdahl in eastern idaho. Should the u. S. Negotiate with the taliban over the release of Bowe Bergdahl . He was taken captive after walking off of his base, a decision that confounded his comrades and commanders. The u. S. Military launched a massive manhunt, fearing it would be nearly impossible to find him if he was smuggled into pakistan. The taliban offered to exchange afghan 1 million and 21 prisoners. That was dismissed by the United States. There are talks underway. Jay carney was asked about this yesterday. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] we will not discuss all of the details of our efforts. The president reiterated when he fy 2014 Defense Authorization act that we will not transfer a detainee unless the threat the detainee may be posing is only consistent with our humane policy. Exchange for a pow held by a terrorist group, would that be the kind of negotiation with terrorists that we have made clear that we will support an afghan led process of negotiation. We are not involved in active negotiations with the taliban. If negotiations resume, we would press the case of sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. We are engaged in an effort to see his return. Effort, document every but that includes our military, intelligence, and our tools. Host responding to her sports talking tots of the taliban and about the release of a prisoner of war. Givechange, the u. S. Would five taliban leaders that were being detained at gitmo to qatar officials. Our view is that this is a new hope for Bowe Bergdahls release. They say that anybody who spouts off about knowing what is going on behind the scenes is likely in a position to not know. Silence is the standard operating procedure. These deals employee nuance upon nuance and they are often as delicate as they are dangerous. We are getting your take on this. We will continue to take your phone calls. Some other headlines of the newspapers this morning from page of the Washington Times the Congressional Budget Office looked at minimum wage proposals from the democrats, wanting to raise it to 10. 10 an hour. The headline is that the wage hike is projected to cut jobs by half a million. White house gets hit again by the cbo. The New York Times put the story in their business section. Studies find mix effect in changing the wage law. She writes that is the mixed conclusion of an assessment of how raising the minimum wage would affect income and the federal budget. The report was released on tuesday. The white house disputed the budget math. The estimate of the potential loss jobs might be too hi. Mr. Furman said that finding no jobs affected all would be a perfect lady perfectly reasonable estimate. Jobs, less poverty. Inside the paper, here are the numbers. If you raise the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour, this will be the change in employment. The loss of about 500,000 workers. This is the numbers of workers who wages would increase. 16. 5 Million People would see their averages increase. The change in the number of people below the Property Threshold would decrease by 500,000. If you raise it to nine dollars an hour, 100,000 workers would be unemployed. It would have the impact of raising wages for 7. 6 million. Look at the difference between those two numbers. 10. 10 an hour raises it for 16. 5 million. That is in the wall street journal. We mentioned president obama is traveling to mexico city oh. He is meeting with the mexican president. Theyre talking about nafta and how to make changes to it as part of this trade agreement with pacific rim nations. We will be talking about nafta in the washington journal. We will take your phone calls about nafta 20 years later. From page of the New York Times this morning has the story about president obamas announcement yesterday. Was in upper marbury maryland yesterday. He does he ordered the development of tough new fuel standards. It is the campaign to tackle climate change. The new regulations to be drafted by the epa and the Transportation Department by 2015 and completed a year later so they are in place before mr. Obama leaves office are the latest in a series of actions intended to cut back on Greenhouse Gases without the sort of comprehensive legislation the president failed to push through congress in his first term. Yesterday thevent president announced this ahead of what the epa is going to do. Says thisork times will be in effect before he leaves office. Heres what the president had to say. [video clip] develop goal is to fuel economy standards for heavyduty trucks. They will partner with manufacturers and autoworkers and estates and other stakeholders, truckers, to come up with a proposal by march of next year. They will complete the rule a year after that. Businesses that buy these trucks have sent a clear message to the nearly 30,000 workers that build them. We want trucks that use less oil, save money, cut pollution. Onthat was president obama his latest executive action. This headline about using authority. Imperial presidency. The Republican House chairman spearheading investigations of president Barack Obamas partystration urged his tuesday to unite against mr. Obamas imperial presidency. He said he is not running for president despite the setting in the nations traditional first in the president ial first in the nation president ial primary state. He questioned the leadership abilities of hillary clinton. I came here hoping to change the debate for those who do run for president. That is in the Washington Times this morning. The starledger has the story about a physicist who championed the liberal causes, but earned fame. Est he said he was leaving congress for a variety of reasons, personal and professional. Starledgerthe this morning. We are talking about whether the u. S. Should negotiate with the taliban and for the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Christine, cherokee, North Carolina, democratic caller. What are your thoughts . Caller i believe we should do whatever we can to get this guy out. I have a son in the marine corps. If it were my son, i would do whatever it took. Karzai is not our friend. He begged george bush to come in and help him. He has turned around and established in the back, negotiate with the taliban and. He is untrustworthy. Years andn gone five obama has done released so many presbyters from gitmo. What is five more . It is an opportunity to put tracking devices and these guys. Send them in for medical treatment and track them. Get our guy back. He has been there long enough. Host what would your son say . Caller i think you would agree. Two years in. He has not gone overseas yet area he is in North Carolina still. The Obama Administration has done more things to undermine our foreign policies than i can count. This is a bad idea and obama needs to get better advisers. Greg, what do you think . Should do whatever it takes to go in there and get him. If we have to do more bombing, do more bombing. If you have to send in an ateam type team, let them go handle the business. Do whatever they got to do. Get the man out of there. When those slick people come in there and say those racist comments, cut them quick. That is not fair to us or nobody else. You are a very pretty lady. The potential Movement Towards securing the release of captured u. S. Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. Reported by the daily beast and reported yesterday monday, excuse me. It was in the paper on tuesday morning. We are getting your take on this. What do you think about this idea of negotiating with the taliban and in exchange for the release of the only american prisoner of war, Bowe Bergdahl . Bristol, tennessee. Hi, james. Caller i am for releasing that guy. I have a sticker on the back of my car. I am with a veteran partnership that sponsors wounded warriors. We want our brother back home. Host do you think they should negotiate for him . Yes. R we want our brother home. If theyre going to fight a war, lets fight one to wipe the taliban and out completely. Outhe taliban completely. This is not cutting it. Host an email. They should do whatever is necessary to take care of our pow. Lovedyers go out to his ones. They fought for us. Now we have to fight for them. Garrett, republican caller. Caller we need to get our men back home. I wish the crisis that we have here in the United States, you the classes that we have, i wish everything here in the United States would be. He needs to come home. We have the equipment to do the job with. Lets do it. Lets not toy around with him. Lets bring our people home with able on. A story about violence in the ukraine. Ukraine hits tipping point. At least 20 are dead and thousands injured in antigovernment demonstration. No one knows who fired first. The death toll climbed to at least 20 people. Says that theyst nation of 50 million is on the verge of a civil war. Industrial might, producing everything from food to aircraft, means its markets will be a major influence on europes economic future. Thehas this story European Union is calling an extraordinary meeting of Foreign Ministers to decide the 28 nations reaction, including possible sanctions to the recent escalation of violence in ukraine. European Commission President said wednesday he expects the eu to adopt targeted measures against those responsible for violence and use of excessive force. That is the latest on ukraine, making the front page of usa today. Vice President Joe Biden waiting waiting in. He is calling on the ukraine government to use restraint against those antigovernment protesters. Were talking about whether or not the u. S. Should be negotiating with the taliban over the release of prisoner of war, Bowe Bergdahl. Charles, bristol, virginia. Democratic caller. Caller hello. We should negotiate to get him out. Host why is that . In the middle east, we do not have allies in that part of the world. Host jack, waukesha, minnesota. Why dont you see if you can use your influence with the producers to get a book tv wisode at the eagle center in abesha. As far as the ukraine, we are probably behind the turmoil over there. We love stirring up turmoil in other countries, even though we do not tolerate it here. Victoria nuland was caught talking on the phone saying f and arranging the person that we would want representing the government so they could be our little puppet. As far as the exchange with darrell from missouri . Exactly right. The guy from minnesota was exactly wrong. He said afghanistan attacked us. Is on the no afghan plane that hit in 9 11. The money came from saudi arabia. Host can i get you to weigh in on our topic . Caller yes, we should negotiate with the taliban. They are probably our creation. People we moved int