[Burnett:] Breaking news: President Obama spoke today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the crisis in the Middle East, expressing concern about the risk of even more escalation. Still, though, he reiterated Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Hamas. Now, on the ground, a new wave of Israeli airstrikes have been battering Gaza. All of this, Israel says, an effort to stop militant rocket fire from Hamas coming into Israel. Today, rocket fire from Gaza struck the coastal city of Ashdod, Israel. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in another attack. And Hamas released this footage of militants firing rockets into Israeli cities. Israel says more than 350 of those rockets have been launched this week, four into Jerusalem today. Meanwhile, Israel says it has struck at least 785 Hamas targets since Monday. Palestinian officials say more than 80 Palestinians already have been killed by those strikes. And now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the offensive is going to get bigger.
[Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:] This operation could take time. We resolve to defend our families and our homes.
[Burnett:] Already, Israeli tanks are poised at the border prepared for a possible ground invasion into Gaza. And Wolf Blitzer joins me now from Jerusalem where, obviously, it's incredibly tense and a place where you have rockets coming into a city where people are going about their daily lives. Wolf, what are your sources telling you about what to expect? As the number of rockets go up and up on both sides, are we looking at an all-out war?
[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn Anchor, The Situation Room:] The pressure clearly is growing on the prime minister of Israel and the Israeli cabinet to authorize a full-scale invasion, a ground offensive against various targets inside Gaza, not necessarily they say to reoccupy Gaza, which Israel vacated back in 2005, but to go after as much of Hamas' rockets and military firepower, their arsenal, as possible to destroy it. It's a pretty risky operation, though, because remember Gaza is a very small area, about 1.5 million Palestinians are crowded in there. It could be extremely bloody. And as you pointed out, the president of the United States spoke with the prime minister today. And I assume President Obama urged caution and restraint. I don't know how much longer the Israelis are going to feel that restraint, the pressure clearly building to move in.
[Burnett:] Of course, the pressure building, but as you say impossible to not kill children, civilians when you're looking at such densely populated locations. And when you arrived earlier today, Wolf, what have been your impressions so far coming into you know, it's hard sometimes to imagine just what a small space we're talking about, that you're about rockets coming into a city that really is the heart and soul of a country.
[Blitzer:] You know, the immediate impression you get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv and you're walking in the terminal and literally every 40, 50 feet you see a sign "shelter" and then there's arrows, where you go to a shelter, to a bomb shelter. And, of course, here in Jerusalem, you see that the Israelis, though, are a pretty hardy folk. They're going about with their lives but they're clearly concerned whether in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or other populated parts of the country especially down south near the Gaza border. So, it's a tense time. They've been through it before. They're not happy about it. But they feel they got to do something about it, so they're worried.
[Burnett:] All right. Wolf Blitzer, thank you very much. Wolf will continue his reporting there from Israel and Jerusalem throughout the week. Thanks, Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Thank you.
[Burnett:] And tonight, a new picture of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, posing with a Taliban leader. I want to show this to you because a few things to make clear. First of all, it's undated. It was while he was in captivity. It was posted on a pro-Taliban Twitter account that has put out a lot of propaganda pro-Taliban. Now, Bergdahl in this picture that you're looking at is seen with a top leader from the Haqqani Network. And the man the other man in the picture was actually killed by a drone strike in August 2012. So, we know that is at least that old. But we don't know the context of the photo. And what we really don't know is whether this smile that you see here was natural or coerced. And we'll keep showing you this picture. You can make perhaps your own judgment on what you think. But we're also learning tonight that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff, all of them, unanimously supported the president's decision to trade Bowe Bergdahl in change for five Taliban commanders. After five years in captivity, Bergdahl returned to the United States nearly a month ago. His reintegration process is almost over. OUTFRONT tonight, Roy Hallums. He's an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2004, spent 311 days in captivity, in chains, in a small space underground, in the dark, went through horrific things that gives him a real sense of what might have happened to Bowe Bergdahl. And, Roy, I want to start with this picture first. When you look at this picture, what do you think? There is Bowe Bergdahl smiling next to a Taliban leader.
[Roy Hallums, American Held Hostage In Iraq For 10 Months:] Well, when I see the picture to me it's completely staged. I mean, this Sergeant Bergdahl was being held hostage and everything he had every day depended on the hostage takers and possibly this man. I mean, whether he gets a drink of water, whether he gets to go to the bathroom, whether he gets food depends on everyone around him, not on him. And I'm sure if they wanted to take a picture, that would be an easy thing to do.
[Burnett:] Why, though, would they want him smiling in the photo? I mean, it seems like a lot of things that you see that come out of these hostage situations of the hostage looking afraid, miserable, trying to keep their calm and say what they're being told to say. Why would they want him looking happy and satisfied and smiling?
[Hallums:] Well, I think it's just part of the propaganda. They want to give the image to the world that they're treating him well when I'm sure they were not treating him well. I know when I was being held, there was a French reporter who was also kidnapped and held with me for about six months, and when she was being released, the sheikh who was the head of the gang told her well, be sure and write good things about us when you leave and tell the world that we treated you well. And she was talking to me late at night and said, how could people think like that? You know, they had me tied up, they had me in a hole under the ground, yet they want me to write good things about them.
[Burnett:] And, Roy, that's a pretty fascinating insight there. I mean, did were they ever asking you to pose or act in a certain way for pictures or videos or anything that they might release?
[Hallums:] Yes. In the video that I made, they messed my hair up, they wanted me to look sick because the gang that had me wanted $12 million for me. And they were trying to give the impression that I was sick and something was wrong with me so whoever might have the money would hurry up and give them the money before I was able to before I got more sick.
[Burnett:] And you know, Bergdahl's almost done with his reintegration process sources are telling us here at CNN. There's still no indication he's talked to his parents. I've talked to people who know Bowe Bergdahl and know his parents and say he was indeed estranged from them when he was younger as he went into the military. I know from your experience, though, you talked to your family immediately after being rescued. I mean, is there any reason you can think of at this point that he may not be ready to see his family yet?
[Hallums:] I can't think of a reason. That part surprises me because, as you said, the first thing I wanted to do was talk to my family and tell them I was rescued and I was doing OK. Why he might want to delay, I can't offer a suggestion on why he might want to do that.
[Burnett:] I mean, I know it's hard to say. But the other thing that I found interesting, Roy, and I was curious as to your point of view in terms of the decisions you made to go back to what you were doing before. You know, sources are telling us Sergeant Bergdahl is expected to be assigned to a new unit shortly. Obviously, there'd be an investigation into the circumstances under his leaving the base that night. But are you surprised given that and given what he has just endured that he would want to stay in the military?
[Hallums:] Yes, I was surprised when I first heard that. I thought he would probably get out of the military and go on to other things. It could be part of the legal process, I'm not sure that he won't be allowed to get out of the military until the investigation's finished. But it surprised me that he might want to stay, yes.
[Burnett:] All right, thank you very much, Roy. I always appreciate talking to you. Thank you tonight.
[Hallums:] Thank you.
[Burnett:] Well, John, Paul, George and Ringo, the Beatles in 1964 at the very height of Beatlemania. The photographs from that year are some of the most iconic images in terms of pop culture and music ever recorded. Tonight more than 50 years later, Harry Benson, the legendary photographer who took all of them while traveling around the world with a band, shares his memories on some of his favorite Beatlemania photos.
[Harry Benson, Legendary Photographer:] In Paris, that's when Beatlemania started, no question about it. After being number one in America, all of a sudden, instead of a crowd around the hotel, there was now a big, big crowd around the hotel, every day and screaming. I was on the same floor with them, and in the bedroom after the show, and Brian Epstein, the manager comes in to say, "We're number one in America." "I want to hold your hand." Happy, now, I've got happy Beatle. So another half hour and he comes in again to say, "We're on "The Ed Sullivan Show". We're going to America. So I said to them, how about a pillow fight?" They said yes. Then, John said, "No, no, no. We're looking child we'll look childish. We've got the look more mature" and the others went, yes, yes, that's right. Anyway, Paul was sitting having a drink on a couch stretched out and John comes up behind him with a pillow. Hits him in the back of the head, spills a drink. That started it. I like pictures to be spontaneous. I like movement in my pictures. The Beatles having a pillow fight. You look twice at it because you look again just to see if they landed in a big heap, which they did. You know, afterwards, I photographed The Who and a bit of the Stones and Michael Jackson and did a lot, but you know, after the Beatles, who wants to do Hall & Oates?
[Burnett:] All right, for more on the Beatles and the rest of the British invasion, catch CNN's Emmy-nominated series "The Sixties", tonight at 9:00. Next OUTFRONT, shocking new details about the so-called killer call girl whose link to a Google executive's death and police are now asking if there's another death in this sordid tale. And the man who wrote the book on surviving the bulls of Pamplona gored twice by a bull. Jeanne Moos has our story.