Earnest: Obama ‘Stands by’ Decision To Swap Taliban Five for Bowe Bergdahl

BOLDUAN: “Is there any reconsideration of that major statement that was made by the president in coming out with Bowe Bergdahl’s parents to announce that swap in the Rose Garden? We know that comes - that’s a huge statement for the president to make, the optics of that, the message that sends. In light of these charges, was that a mistake?” 
EARNEST: “The message that was sent is this president, like previous presidents, fully subscribes without exception to the theory, to the principle, to the value that the Commander-in-Chief will not allow a member of the United States Armed Forces to be left behind. And it was important, an important message, for this president to deliver to the American people, but also to people all around the world that the United States and their Commander-in-Chief stands squarely behind our men and women in uniform, and with the commitment that we have made to not leave them behind.”