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Restraint. >> they are iran financing some of the terrorists and others financing some other terrorists. iran who we are trying to have diplomatic relations with. this is the bottom line. no no, no. >> hold it. im bringing dagen in. this guy in uganda was released in 2006. that 30% number ultimately could be 50%, 70%. we know we are releasing people that want to come back and harm us. that is stupid. >> the question everyone must answer is the u.s. safer with gitmo closed? with fewer detainees a...

>> isis now trying to surround the capital of baghdad. >> where is the uss new york? thats the navy ship holding the benghazi terror suspect ak mid abukala and has been dark for more than a week. it he is expected to be arraigned in washington, d.c. sometime soon. but the fox poll shows america thinks he should be taken to gitmo instead. they think he should be tried in a military tribunal. 52 percent of americans say the president should keep it open 36 percent wants gitmo closed. >> remember w...

Bring up specifically that congress has a role to play here and asked them to lift the restrictions. people forget when president obama was first elected in his first term, one of his first two or three executive orders, there were two executive orders that ordered gitmo closed. there was an immediate vote there after, republicans and democrats said, alike, cant do it. restrictions, "a" you cant bring the folks on american soil, try them and release them. two, congress said you can release anybo...

Repeatedly, every time you start counting somebody out you get to the end of the year and say, he got immigration reform, the background checks and got a smaller budget deal but, i mean -- >> thats not a bad year. >> that would be a very good year for him. >> if health care support of survives. >> hold on, sam. yesterdays press conference the president faced tough questions about the revolt at gitmo. some of the inmates in a hunger strike. president again said he wants gitmo closed. take a liste...

Soccer, apparently. i was going to make a joke about michelle obama wanting them to exercise and keep health care costs down but you went there with a straight face, and i find that -- i mind that amazing. the other day the president was talking about slashing health care for our troops and veterans while were spending 3/4 of a million dollars for astroturf. look, chris, when you and i were kids we used to take four t-shirts in the field and throw them down and call it a baseball field. and thes...

Al qaeda uses as a recruiting tool. seven out of ten muslims in very major polling disapprove of the handling of guantanamo, its not just about al qaeda, its about our standing generally. will this affect it more largely in terms of, i dont see this as being -- khalid sheikh mohammed is not someone whos a huge hero in the muslim world. so i dont see this as substantially changing that narrative. what it does -- it just shows the continuity between the second bush term and obama, of which there a...

Values when dealing with the individuals? thats what sort of is amiss to me. and thats the problem with guantanamo bay overall. >> hadley do we really want these terrorists who have been there for years, to come to our shores and what congress member is going to want them to be in a prison in his or her district? >> well, exactly. im sympathetic to the criticisms of what happens at guantanamo bay. its worth looking into absolutely but bringing the detainees to u.s. soil raises a whole bunch of l...

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Up to the job of being fair and credible. gregg jarrett is live in our newsroom. eric holder at one point was telling us this trial is going to take place in new york city. it was not to be. >> reporter: right, no kidding, megyn. the last time mohammed was actually in court in 2008 he tried to plead guilty and so did his four other co-defendants. will he try it again tomorrow during his arraignment? that is the big question. he was captured in pakistan back in 2003, accused of masterminding the ...