response panel, aaron burns and democratic strategist and brad woodhouse, president of the democratic super pac american bridge and former democratic party communications director. brad, you first. this is a backfire. they didn t want to wait for the military officials, the two-star general to come out and make the first official comment, but as it is right now they see nothing wrong with what he did in captivity. what do you make of it? i think this will backfire. look, we ve seen this time and time again, ed. we ve seen it with death panels and we saw it with all types of questions about this president that the right wing in their zeal to appeal to the far right fringe and in furtherance of their hatred to the president they ve overshot the runway and they ve done it here. the american people understand the principle of not leaving our soldiers on the battlefield, letting the chain of command deal with any discipline issues
five years as a prisoner. the republicans and the right-wing media have been trying to frame bergdahl and his family as dangerous defectors. sergeant bergdahl s father who in the rose garden the past weekend has made anti-american tweets and statement, one of which was i m working to free all of the get gitmo prisoners. god will repay the death of every afghan child. he said he was growing his beard because his son was because his son was in captivity. your son s out now. so if you really no longer want to look like a member of the taliban, you don t have to look like a member of the taliban. are you at a raisers? two-star army general is investigating the exact circumstances of bergdahl s 2009 disappearance from his post in afghanistan. bergdahl returned to the united states this month and was moved to san antonio earlier this week. he has not been questioned yet.
major operation against the militants along the afghan border. pakistani jets killed more than 100 militants. pakistani taliban responded telling foreign companies to leave immediately in an equally damaging response is in store. russia set to stop the supply of gas to ukraine. they failed to reach a deal. ukraine owes $4.5 billion. this latest disagreement comes after they shot down a transport plane that killed 49 people. a two-star army general appointed to investigate circumstances behind sergeant bowe bergdahl s disappearance, how and why he left base and got captured. the circumstances are still unclear. he was part of a taliban prisoner exchange. a senior defense official
ukrainians owe them $4.5 billion. they could not reach a deal last night. it comes days after they shot down a ukrainian transport plane that killed 49 people. a two-star army general is appointed to say how and why bergdahl escaped. he was freed two weeks ago as part of a taliban prisoner exchange after being held almost five years in afghanistan and pakistan. a senior defense official declined to name the general before the formal announcement. now, a pentagon prosecutor says the five freed in the swap for bergdahl likely would not have been convicted anyway. 200 guantanamo detainees would have escaped and been released when the detention center
settlements in the west bank. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says hamas is responsible for the kidnapping. he s asking mahmoud abbas to, quote, do everything to help bring them back in peace. we re learning new details this morning about the investigation into the disappearance of american soldier bowe bergdahl who you know was held captive by the taliban for nearly five years. a two-star army general has been tapped to lead the probe. since his release last night, soldiers accused bergdahl of being a deserter. earlier this morning, cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr shared new details about the investigation. reporter: that two-star general will begin working on that fact-finding investigation. it raises the question is bergdahl himself about to face those questions in a legal framework? what we are told that is that will happen. whether it happens this week or in the coming days, nobody is