BLITZER: Today in closed session, the Pentagon briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Bowe Bergdahl swap. There's deep anger up on Capitol Hill across party lines, specifically, why were 80 or 90 members of the Obama administration aware of the deal trading Bergdahl for five top Taliban detainees but Congress didn't find out until after the fact. The CBS News poll shows nearly half the country, 45 percent, disagree with the trade, 37 percent agreed. Tomorrow, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will testify before the House Armed Services Committee in a public session to defend the deal. Meanwhile, the House speaker, John Boehner, said he was never briefed on the Bergdahl swap. The swap that he says ignored the long-standing policy of never negotiating with terrorists.</s>REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R), HOUSE SPEAKER: We have violated that policy and, as a result, we've made Americans less safe here and all around the world. And we're going to pay for this. There is not any doubt in my mind. There are going to be costs, lives associated -- lost lives associated with what came out of this.</s>BLITZER: Our chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash is with me. Dana, this is - these are very strong words from the speaker of the House. And it gets to the key question, why didn't they trust the speaker of the House, at least give him a heads up a day or a few hours before the whole country learned that this swap was in the works?</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, first of all, Wolf, I think you're right, we should sort of take a moment and note how strong those words are. We might disregard some of the rhetoric that we hear about everything these day because people just see Washington as so partisan. But to have the speaker of the House say that the president, what he did, will cost lives, it's pretty strong stuff, and it's kind of -- it underscores the frustration that you're talking about.
Swap Violates No Negotiation Policy