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No dice. its been almost seven years since that executive order was signed and guantanamo is still open. now the defense department is about to release their pentagon plan for how guantanamo could be closed. that plan is due any day now. we are told it will come out this week. it is expected to be released to the public and congress and the white house. we see republicans making this issue into a hillary clinton issue. dont elect hillary clinton president. shell close guantanamo. what if after a...

That plan is due any day now. we are told it will come out this week. it is expected to be released to the public and congress and the white house. we see republicans making this issue into a hillary clinton issue. dont elect hillary clinton president. shell close guantanamo. what if after all this time president obama closed guantanamo. what if he got it done? what if he could do it before the end of his presidency so it didnt become the first item on the to do list of either hillary clinton or...

Thing that would have done differently. he did this on wednesday. do we have that sound? >> i think i would have closed guantanamo on the first day. the politics of it got tough, people got scared by the rhetoric around it. >> i want to bring in what dick cheney said in this playboy interview. he said i cant count the hours we spent on what i considered to be a totally wasted exercise arguing about lets close guantanamo. its still open today. its still there for a reason. and i found that quote ...

All right. lets look at the morning papers. "usa today," the pentagon says the mastermind of the 2013 attack on a mall in kenya was killed by a u.s. drone in somalia. officials say the drone struck a vehicle driven by garar the leader of the group with ties to al qaeda on march 12th. it claimed the lives of 67 people and let more than 200 injured. from the huffington post president obama says if he could redo his time in office he would have shut the detention center in guantanamo bay, cuba on...

Decision. major general michael leonard, first commanding officer at gitmo joins me now by phone. general, thank you very much for being with us. tell me what has caused you to change your mind? >> well, andrea, my mind was changed several years ago. ive spoken out actually while i was still on active duty saying that we need to closed guantanamo. currently im part of the nonpartisan coalition of 55 retired generals and admirals around the country that believe u.s. terrorism should adhere to gen...

Shaikh mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters in a new york city court. >> not to be egocentric about this, but i was right. i think that had we gone along the path that i announced at that time, we would not have had to close down half of manhattan. it wouldnt have cost $200 million a year, and the defendants would be on death row as we speak. >> holders plans quickly collapsed in a sea of concern from republicans in congress and others that such a move potentially could endanger the united s...

Guantanamo and into the real u.s. justice system. so now more than four years after the president signed the or theered to close guantanamo, which everybody thought was a fore gone conclusion, not only has the white house not closed guantanamo, but congress with the help of the presidents own party put up a series of barriers to keep that from happening indefinitely. that is what happened four years ago. today this president charged back into that fight, explicitly calling on congress to get out...

Election. guantanamo was definitely going to be over. it was going to be closed. and then it did not happen. less than a month after the president signed the order to close guantanamo, republicans in congress started trying to block any of the prisoners there from being transferred to prisons in the u.s. not in my backyard. in response, democrats in congress folded. they caved. and they, democrats as well as republicans, took away the money the white house needed to close guantanamo. the next ye...

Point of view, he would like to have closed guantanamo, have tried people. its intractable. this gentleman, i dont know the particulars of this case is from yemen. the government does not want to return prisoners to yemen he says in the op-ed. republicans are unwillingç to have people go through the civil-legal process here. >> to be tried. >> the courts wont hear their claims about treatment because congress has told the courts that they dont have jurisdiction to hear the claims about treatme...

The pentagon gave a speech saying we need to think about when we bring the war on terror to a close. when is it over? >> its never over. >> that is the problem. we had a person on the program who is the only one to vote against the use of military force. its the document from which all authority flows. she is proposing we repeal that operation. we are out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead. al qaeda is the al qaeda that attacked us has been destroyed. >> if you do it and theres an attack on...