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Pat, great to see you. it has been a while, so i will start with you. you have analyzed media and politics for many years, when you look at this type of coverage and you look at the what do you say to the media? are they getting the trump bump for the ratings? and do they need it or will they survive without it? >> i assume that they would survive no matter what, but they have been building their ratings on this. it did not start the early dayse of this administration. as pew says, we have had i...

Results. we cant do that anymore. we cant spend money on programs just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. thats a state decision to fund that particular portion, to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we to want give you money for programs that dont work. i cant defend that anymore. we cannot defend that anymore. $20 trillion in debt. were going to spend money, were going to spend a lot of money but were not going to spend it on programs that show ...

Just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. thats a state decision to fund that particular portion, to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we to want give you money for programs that dont work. i cant defend that anymore. we cannot defend that anymore. $20 trillion in debt. were going to spend money, were going to spend a lot of money but were not going to spend it on programs that show they deliver the promises we made to people. >> do work or dont wo...

And in fact our success in dealing with terrorists through our justice system reinforces why it is past time to shut down the detention facility at guantanamo. [ applause ] this is not just my opinion, its the opinion ofany military leaders. during my administration, we have responsibly transferred over 175 detainees to foreign governments with safe guards to reduce the risk of them returning to the battlefield. weve cut the population at git mo from 242, to 159. -- from being transferred to pri...

Right. that was a clear rebuke to donald trump, especially on this issue of a religious test for muslims. a lot of strong language coming from the president. at the very end, we also heard a thank you from president obama to these troops who are here listening and cheering on their president. this was the first post presidential speech barack obama gave. he sounded like a historian, like a law professor, when hes laying out in six bullet points what we wants his counterterrorism strategy to be r...

Even though our allies often times will not turn over a terrorist if they think that terrorist could end up in gitmo. even though groups like isis use gitmo in their propaganda. so were wasting hundreds of millions of dollars to keep fewer than 60 people in a detention facility in cuba. thats not strength. until congress changes course, it will be judged harshly by history, and i will continue to do all that i can to remove this blot on our national honor. [ applause ] number four, we have to fi...

These poor people being forced to choose between getting burned alive and jumping to their death. thats what we had in our head. thats what we were worried about and were trying to prevent. >> its very easy now years later to say, oh, we did so many things wrong in america. so terrible. but given the choice of saving an american life or not, you would have to do what you can. i have to tell you this morally superior intellectual elite that dictates to us what our values should be at a moment of ...

Dictates to us what our values should be at a moment of national survival is just hypocritical. >> i know that you went down to git mo and actually observed some of the trials. do you feel like this is too much of an effort to bend over backwards to protect terrorists? these are terrorists we have at gitmo playing soccer. some of these tactics were very brutal, but do you feel like the pendulum swung too far to the other side? >> its way too far. could you imagine this happening at nourmburg, fo...

Momentum. the virt tu of the phrase is also its weakness. if isis starts advancing more slowly, you can claim you helped stop their momentum. also the same thing if you take steps that have really discreet military meaning, taking territory and cities away from isis and killing its command strubl structure will matter a lot more. the fact we got a lot of vagueness says volumes you about how they are piecing this together. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, ezra. >> coming up, ther...

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