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In Poland as part of an overseas trip, President Obama defends the controversial prisoner swap that led to Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release. NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander reports.
Released prisoner Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl remains in stable condition as military backlash against his release grows. NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reports.
Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).
President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his decision to swap five Taliban militants for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who apparently walked away from his unit, even as the top military officer promised an investigation into whether the soldier deserted.
The sunbather was fine (but the same can’t be said of the fence directly behind him).
On the day that a strike was set to begin at Las Vegas casinos, unions representing the workers reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract June 1, meaning that 44,000 workers on the Las Vegas Strip and in downtown Las Vegas won't have to worry about taking care of their families. In a press release, the Culinary Workers said the new contract would protect health benefits and pensions and improve working conditions.
While in Poland, the President says regardless of the circumstances that led to Bergdahl’s capture “we still get an American soldier back if he is held in captivity, period.”
Former Army sergeant Josh Korder, who served with in the same platoon with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, joins TODAY to discuss Bergdahl’s controversial release.
Good morning, and happy Tuesday! Here are some of the stories we're following today:1. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release stirs emotionsWas he a deserter or hero? Should the U.S. have given up Gitmo detainees in order to free him?
Attorney General Eric Holder, citing an “escalating danger from self-radicalized individuals within our own borders,” said Tuesday that the Justice Department will revive a domestic terrorism task force.
