i answered it i am very grateful that sergeanéntt] bergdahl is back. my heart goes out to his family. but, the responsibility of the commander and chief is to make tough decisions. and those decisions place first priority on national security. in other words, i would have made efforts to arrange for a prisoner exchange, depending on what it was. but not at the expense of putting american fighting men and women in greater danger as a result of this. all right. you know this admiral said well, when a guy falls overboard, we always it doesn t matter how he fell overboard. look, not if that shift is in battle with the enemy. not if that ship may go into harm s way like miles if they went after him. first you take care of national security. then you take care of the individual. unfortunately, that s the nature of war which is a very cruel business. now, you, as a prisonerrer of war in north
i answered it i am very grateful that sergeanéntt] bergdahl is back. my heart goes out to his family. but, the responsibility of the commander and chief is to make tough decisions. and those decisions place first priority on national security. in other words, i would have made efforts to arrange for a prisoner exchange, depending on what it was. but not at the expense of putting american fighting men and women in greater danger as a result of this. all right. you know this admiral said well, when a guy falls overboard, we always it doesn t matter how he fell overboard. look, not if that shift is in battle with the enemy. not if that ship may go into harm s way like miles if they went after him. first you take care of national security. then you take care of the individual. unfortunately, that s the nature of war which is a very cruel business. now, you, as a prisonerrer of war in north
other republicans valueying for it that will be a big primary. trying to get the magic 10 to retake the senate now they are looking at eight. shepard: former president clinton and many members of congress attending the funeral today of congressman jack murtha. our top story on a fox trip across america. pennsylvania. political leaders, friends, and family remembering the long-time congressman at a church in johnstown. murtha served for 36 years. he was the head of the house appropriations defense subcommittee. he died last week after complications from gallbladder surgery. california. a meeting 42 years in the making. a woman from florida who bought a bracelet to support a vietnam prisonerrer of war finally meeting that p.o.w. in san diego. sir, sherri. how are you? it s so good to meet you. shepard: former air force colonel says he never considered himself a hero. we couldn t believe that
enemy combatants. now, there was a time when if you got an unlawful combatant you could deal with him, what the law called summarily, meaning stand up against this wall and we will be right with you. in fact, there were germans who about prosecuted at the end of world war ii for shooting partisans that is french resistance members who didn t fight in form. didn t carry arms openly and they were shot summarily. those germans were acquitted because that was not a war crime. it was because they were not fighting according to the laws of war. if you fight according to the laws of war, you get treated as a prisonerrer of war, if you are fighting as an unlawful combatant, then you can be dealt with summarily. when you were the attorney general, one of the you were on the national security team, one of your responsibilities was to make sure that we were doing everything that we could to prevent a terrorist attack from hatching again. with these five being released you have national securi