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Subject ourselves to things that we used to call fascist. and this is why we need a real kind of frank, bipartisan conversation amongst the public in the country but what type of country do we want to live? >> part of the issue here is that there isnt a public opinion appetite on these issues is really low. both an interest and also, look at public opinion. this is bipartisan support for the presidents war on terror policy. support for keeping gitmo opened is 62% among democrats. closing gitmo w...

You lost your mind?! were at war. >> senator lindsay graham letting us know where he stands. >> that was colorful. >> president obama has been reluctant to create a legal system here at home that i feel comfortable with, so lets leave them. >> he ran on closing gitmo in 2008. and that hasnt happened. >> right. >> is it your idea that we should keep them indefinitely detaind? what about any sort of trial or due process or anything? >> they are all getting trials down there. all of them -- have be...

Certainly not the message that we want to spread to the rest of the world or do us harm. why do they need a u.s. presence here? they dont have a legal classification that warrants that type of placement. >> sean: ill tell you why, because they can get law books in our prisons and figure out ways to sue the united states of america. >> i think the president is in a big pickle on this. hes made promises all over the place. i dont think hes going to be able to owner o honor any of th. >> like closi...

Certainly not the message that we want to spread to the rest of the world or do us harm. why do they need a u.s. presence here? they dont have a legal classification that warrants that type of placement. >> sean: ill tell you why, because they can get law books in our prisons and figure out ways to sue the united states of america. >> i think the president is in a big pickle on this. hes made promises all over the place. i dont think hes going to be able to owner o honor any of th. >> like closi...

>> absolutely. and democrats have never marched behind this president. this is the same problem the president had on health care where his instincts were more progressive but he had this firewall of conservative democrats, and joe lieberman saying were not doing the public option. even when you look at the stimulus, you always had pushback from within the democratic party on more progressive things the president wanted to do. closing gitmo. that was democrats who sided with republicans, trying k...

People to say weve given 20 billion dollars to pakistan since 9/11. and they were housing bin laden? does any serious person believe that bin laden could have been in that town and the pakistanis didnt know it? you are going to find more and more information like that. and you have more and more questions come out. because the world view of the american left is fundamentally out of touch with the reality of the real world. so this information is going to make the presidents ability to continue t...

People to say weve given 20 billion dollars to pakistan since 9/11. and they were housing bin laden? does any serious person believe that bin laden could have been in that town and the pakistanis didnt know it? you are going to find more and more information like that. and you have more and more questions come out. because the world view of the american left is fundamentally out of touch with the reality of the real world. so this information is going to make the presidents ability to continue t...

>> this has been going on since 2005 when they first got the information. he ran with it all the way. >> he ran on closing gitmo. he learned that was an ignorant statement and he never closed it. it lead to capturing and killing bin laden. >> maybe we shouldnt know that it happened. >> exactly. >> it should have been kept classified. >> everyone needed to know. every american needed to know he was dead. it did not need to be detailed. >> you agree with him that hes not releasing the photo? show ...

>> this has been going on since 2005 when they first got the information. he ran with it all the way. >> he ran on closing gitmo. he learned that was an ignorant statement and he never closed it. it lead to capturing and killing bin laden. >> maybe we shouldnt know that it happened. >> exactly. >> it should have been kept classified. >> everyone needed to know. every american needed to know he was dead. it did not need to be detailed. >> you agree with him that hes not releasing the photo? show ...

Indefinitely at bagram. megyn: this is just sort of a window into the problems that exist now when we catch these terrorists and attach all these rights to them. what does -- im just thinking about the closure of gitmo, where are these people going to go? this guy gets a get out of jail free pass, there are others like him at gitmo, what is the obama administration to do? >> what is their plan? they dont really have a plan, megyn, and thats another part of the problem. thats why you dont just ha...