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With the wall not being built. at least thats not the direct issue right now. i think the president is trying. you can tell how difficult it is when you just saw luis gutierrez saying that lindsey graham and dick durbin is bipartisan, but working with tom cotton is not. that doesnt make sense, but it shows how difficult and how high the emotions are when were dealing with immigration. >> paul, i mean, to jacks point, i mean, president trump would not be the first president to, you know, realize ...

To make good to fix the human rights problems that the previous president left him, that he left the door open for the next president because he didnt ameliorate the human rights violations that president bush left him, it was a partisan statement. >> obama never prosecuted anybody for torture, he never closed down guantanamo, these were major failings on his part. he was not nearly transparent in the use of drones as we wanted him, we were highly critical in many respects. you can go back and r...

Rhetoric rather than about human rights, >> e didnt call me in the last eight years when we are being highly critical of obama. >> tucker: you werent being >> and being principal terror, to uphold the standards of human rights including the disabled. but let me summarize almost remember your summary of president obama, you said is one feeling was he didnt do enough to make good to fix the human rights problems that the previous president left him, that he left the door open for the next presiden...

Rights. >> you didnt call me in the last eight years when we are being highly critical of obama. >> tucker: you werent being -- >> and being principal, to uphold the standards of human rights including the disabled. >> tucker: let me summarize almost remember your summary of president obama, you said is onr failing was he didnt do enough to make good to fix the human rights problems that the previous president left him, that he left the door open for the next president because he didnt ameliorat...

Benghazi and other placees. we have to maintain the course here and do what is necessary. some people should be put to death because they killed americans in combat. i dont see why we keep them arrive. >> this is the latest cnn, orc poll released in march, 56% of americans pose his plan to shut down guantanamo compared to 40% who favor its close ush. >> barack obama committed from the start to apologizing to arab nations and muslim leaders across the world. he is committed to shutting down guant...

Benghazi and other placees. we have to maintain the course here and do what is necessary. some people should be put to death because they killed americans in combat. i dont see why we keep them arrive. >> this is the latest cnn, orc poll released in march, 56% of americans pose his plan to shut down guantanamo compared to 40% who favor its close ush. >> barack obama committed from the start to apologizing to arab nations and muslim leaders across the world. he is committed to shutting down guant...

Political and national security experts. phil mudd, starting with you. what stood out to you in the presidents approximately 45-minute speech? >> wolf, quite simply tone and temperament. step away from all the details and go back eight years. we have a new president talking about change who says i am going to shut down guantanamo and pull out of places like iraq. reality is a brutal teacher. guantanamo closure was opposed by congress. its still not closed, obviously. isis was the reality that ta...

The gitmo provisions that would bar transfers is something ive continuingly opposed. i think we really ought to shut down guantanamo and i think putting these restrictions in, keeping this detention facility open only serves to aid as a rallying cry for jihadis around the world. it also i think inhibits us in working with allies who strongly disagree with maintaining this facility. so, i think this is a mistake, but as you might imagine, a big bill, there are going to be things you like and thin...

Capacity. if anything, they got their idea from hillary clinton. terrorists will always find a reason to be terrorists. they found a reason before with when america wasnt in afghanistan and iraq. they found reasons in paris. the idea that we will have a foreign policy if we hug everybody and love on everybody and not call terrorists terrorists somehow we are going to be safer. i think it is pretty clear that strategy does not work. look at what president barack obama has done. he tried to shut d...

They now believe that within their coalition, this is an issue they can defend and sell. >> quickly, lets talk about guantanamo bay. one of the initial promises in 2009, it may have been the very first, first full day there in the oval office made by president obama to close down guantanamo. fast-forward, eight years, still open detainees there. whats the likelihood that will be an executive order that comes down the pike. >> congress is not going to do it. we have seen in this gun control order...