You've sent a message to every Al-Qaeda group in the world that says that there is some value now in that hostage in a way that they didn't have before.
Mike Rogers: “You've sent a message to every Al-Qaeda group in the world that says that there is some value now in that hostage in a…”
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Mike Rogers criticizes the exchange of Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners, suggesting it encourages hostage-taking.
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They are encouraging a lot of people to get worked up to cross that line between what would be normal political discourse into radical, aggressive political behavior, including attempted murder, which you just saw in the UFC fights.
I think that the Democratic Party walked away from working and middle-class Americans a decade ago, and in Michigan, people are starting to wake up to this notion that we can't continue to do this and expect our kids to stay.
Matter of fact, I think all three of the Democrats who are running for the nomination are out of step already, and it's only gonna get worse. This really will be about crazy versus common sense in the state of Michigan.
It was not a great deal for us. We’ll never see any revenue from that thing, from what people around the bridge tell me, for a long time.





