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Leader. hes unable to build a consensus or build coalitions, resorts to going it alone and in a representative democracy that can be very problematic and hes using it to push some of his biggest agenda items. >> lets talk about one of the agenda items, youve got the president at his year-end news conference. you got military experts saying hold on a second, listen. >> by early next year we should have reduced that population below 100. and we will continue, continue to steadily chip away at the ...

Presidents measures can be inacted without congressional approval. and its a tactic hes used before, instructing white house attorneys to scour the law, looking for ways to allow the president to implement subtle but substantial changes to existing rules it happened with immigration and the epa. guns are the next target and later the white house may use a similar plan to lawfully empty the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba. >> president obama is going at it alone this has been his movement. its bec...

Next year, we should reduce that population below 100. and we will continue, continue to steadily chip away at the mblt numbers in guantanamo. >> but the commander-in-chief continues to face stiff resistance from the pentagon. the white house is still waiting for the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to sign off on several detainee transfer requests. >> it tells me that the new chairman is obeying the law and which is very important and his constitutional oath. he should not override tha...

They gained 10,000 people who had ties to terror visas but later figured this out and took the visas away. the feds couldnt answer were all those people who had visas taken away were. >> a gop senator turned poet ripping the obama administrations plan to shut down guantanamo. twauz the night before christmas all through the white house the president was transferring terrorists through the house. the terrorists were snug in their garden bed while visions of returning to al qaeda or isis danced in...

Do. i can tell you that as of today, there are still so many different pro-isis channels that are still operational on telegram. we know there are channels that are collecting funds for jihad ic ists around the world. they have plenty to catch up with. >> quickly, after the paris attacks this week, the president had been scheduled to try to submit legislation to shut down guantanamo, bringing those remaining detainees to the super max here. now it will not be because the votes are not there. pre...

You. president obama is apparently launching a new push to close the u.s. prison facility at guantanamo, apparently going to try to go first through congress, but if congress refuses, theres talk about more executive action. your response to that? >> weve seen how well thats worked. he didnt leave a residual force in iraq and now we have isis in iraq, and now the last piece is to close guantanamo. he tried this before unsuccessfully, but i think youll see an executive action to close down guanta...

You. president obama is apparently launching a new push to close the u.s. prison facility at guantanamo, apparently going to try to go first through congress, but if congress refuses, theres talk about more executive action. your response to that? >> weve seen how well thats worked. he didnt leave a residual force in iraq and now we have isis in iraq, and now the last piece is to close guantanamo. he tried this before unsuccessfully, but i think youll see an executive action to close down guanta...

Strike which the president has done a couple of times, then the individuals are dead. if we capture them and bring them to u.s. soil which guantanamo bay is then they deserve the rights of anybody on u.s. soil. thus -- >> look, its okay to kill people indris krim gnatiscriminately but once they are here on our soil they have our rights? >> costs do not go down if you shut down guantanamo. we went from more than 700 prisoners down to a little over 100. we have the same amount of personnel and the...

That wonderful absolutely was this worth it? i feel like the rest of us dont have obamas laser-like sharpness. you trade a deserter for five guys who go back to kill americans in the field. it gives obama a chance to close down guantanamo. the next time we catch them we can release them and skip the intervening steps. >> it is way above. >> there is no way we can hope to understand that. a u.s. official says three of the five we traded for bergdahl have tried to get back into their old terror ne...

Unilateral deal with iran, i wouldnt be surprised if he unilaterally closes down guantanamo and pushes a climate deal in 2016 as well. hes going to keep pushing boundaries of this. >> were going to see the most unbound executive that weve had possibly since a war time president. you might have to go back to franklin roosevelt to look for precedent. he knows hes not going to be impeached, run out the clock, no support in congress. frankly, its very, very difficult to stop the sitting president by...