risks with our personnel, personnel and with our allies in the region. quick, final question if i might. yes. is there any congressional plan on this issue? anything that you as a member of congress can do. the chair of your committee your powerful committee? we re seeking documents right now in order to delve further into the release of some of these individuals who, obviously, have turned out to be an ongoing threat. and at the same time another step that we re trying to take is to block the closure of guantanamo because we think that s driving the release, the immediate release of these individuals who have a pattern of carrying out terrorist attacks against civilians and against u.s. military. chairman royce, thank you for your time. thank you very much michael. coming up three more candidates entering the 2016 presidential race. the gop field is now more crowded than ever. which of the republican candidates is the rodney dangerfield on that list? told myself for so l
what they want to do and travel where they want to travel while al qaeda is still carrying out a war with us and the taliban is still making war on the united states, that is throwing caution to the wind and taking enormous risks with our personnel and with our allies in the region. quick final question, if i might. yes. is there any congressional plan on this issue? anything you as a member of congress can do, the chair of your committee, your powerful committee? we are seeking documents right now in order to delve further into the release of some of these individuals who, obviously, have turned out to be an ongoing threat. and at the same time, another step that we re trying to take is to block the closure of guantanamo because we think that s driving the release, the immediate release, of these individuals who have a pattern of carrying out terrorist attacks against civilians and against u.s. military. chairman royce, thank you for your time. thank you very much, michael
associates. that was forbidden under the transfer agreement. you are not supposed to get back with those people. you can call your family members and you can complain. you can complain about how you were treated and complain about the united states and you can t call people up and engage in conversations that could lead to plotting or planning. there was a clear indication the intelligence community thought that is what was going on. barbara starr, thank you. let s get more now from the chair of the house foreign affairs committee congressman ed royce. barbara starr just made the observation that these five guys were to have been released anyway. we should be grateful that we were able to get bergdahl back in exchange for them. michael, the difficulty was the premise that we should have released the individuals who were what the deputy minister of intelligence. the deputy minister of defense of the taliban. a third individual that was very close to osama bin laden. a fourth who w
question. the intelligence community never really said that. we had multiple sources that told us he had been in communication phone, e-mail, with known taliban associates. that was forbidden under the transfer agreement. you re not supposed to get back with those people. you can call your family members. you can complain. you can complain about how you were treated. you can complain about the united states. but you can t call people up and engage in conversations that could lead to plotting or planning. there was a clear indication the intelligence community thought that s what was going on. barbara starr, thank you. let s get more now from the chair of the house foreign affairs committee congressman ed royce. congressman, barbara starr just made the observation that these five guys were to have been released anyway. maybe we should be grateful that we were able to get bergdahl back in exchange for them. michael, the difficulty was the premise that we should have released the indi
seriously enough if they allow two or three separate messages to come out of the same government. charles? this is scary in three ways. number one the north korean leadership is probably clinically nuts or certainly paranoid. and we have no idea what they can do and what they will do. and if they have the min apartment turized weapon eventually they will get it anyway they an absolutely could hit san francisco or los angeles. they share everything. they are helping in syria. we know they are helping iran. and if they learn how to minaturize accelerate s iran going nuclear. in the midst of all of this ramadi falls. this announcement from north korea. the president gives an address to the coast guard academy and talks about climate change as the great threat to our national security. that is the scariest of them all. you have ed royce the house foreign affairs chairman who sees the intel