this is going to harden positions of congress had that you can t trust these guys. reporter: while military sources tell fox news that the transfer was seen by the administration as an important step to closing gaun thanh know, it may go down in history for the poster child for unintended consequences. it makes it harder to do two things, new transfers from the island and really hard for the administration to will sell the idea that it they need to bring some number of detainees to the united states for further detention even after the war is over. military spokesman said that bergdahl is improving is and is becoming more involved in his treatment plan, reintegration experts to overcome what was probably years of solitary. no time line for a phone call to his family or the transfer from the military hospital in germany. thank you. russia s annexation of crimea led president obama and others to freeze out president putin from this week s summit in brussels. they re hope will
government about his actual health condition, which is the issue they re it leaning on, than we re getting from the taliban, which is interesting from an administration who prides itself on being open and honest and tran parent. if it goes on any longer, we have to imagine there might be some witness tampering happening. at some point we re going to have to look at this guy, have him speak so america, have i judgment about how healthy he is or was, and explain exactly what were the circumstances of his leaving service. got about a minute left in this segment. george, i want to bring that point up to you, the failure to notify congress. they ve given a variety of reasons. it was too ur jentd. they actually had done the notification when they consulted with congress in 2011-12. and now today, well, if this had leaked then it would have scotched the deal and the taliban would have killed them. wouldn t the administration have been better served to say, you know, the president has the
afghanistan. when you learned and the fellow members of your squad and platoon learned that he was gone. i immediately said, he walked away. he walked away. he deserted not only the army but he also left myself and my platoon and my company to clean up his mess. the new york times quoted soerl who served with the sar instant under the headline gi s vanishing angered his unit. richard kohn said it was quote utterly repellent for president obama noeg bergdahl was a deserter to celebrate his parents. obama cites that the legal requirement to notify congress about releasing five taliban detainees from guilt mow. complaints made by democrats like dianne feinstein as well as republicans. sure some of the attacks have been excessive but even msnbc s chris matthews a one-time
notification whether it s the decision to make the deal in the first place is totally bipartisan. can the white house make this stick that this is just polit politics? i don t think they can, and i don t think they will on that part. because the white house you say they won t. they did. i think that would be a mistake. on some parts of this i think the white house was taken aback at how hard the president s critics went after the bergdahl himself and his family. on that one i think there was some whipping up. on the actual debate over should the swap have happened? was it a good trade? that s legitimate. the white house said it was prepared for that because when they raised it with congress in 2011 they were against it. maybe why they didn t notify them this time. on the issue of notification, did the president give congress heads-up. that s also a legitimate debate. there may have been a little whipping up but not on several of the major points of contenti contention.
if this was so urgent why did it take them four months to make the deal. dur the four months why didn t they have time to notify congress? that s why it looks as if they are trying to make up reasons to justify a presidential decision based problemly on the desire to begin to empty gitmo. and secondly, on the traditional idea of trying to get a captivity back. there s nothing new there. but the fact they had to come up with a new excuse today that they thought he might be killed, why would you say that the fourth, the fifth day. oh, by the way, we remember there s another reason. tells you how much they are reaching and how little you can really believe. the question i have is, what s going on in the hospital where he ain germany? they re obviously wanting to give him some privacy. we are getting infinitely less information of out of our own