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All the graves and said i, because of my decisions, a lot of these people are here. he takes this very seriously. as most of us do. and most of us -- all of us should. but, he is saying this guy has the freedom to teach in the classroom because of what these men and women have done. steve: the guy is a government and history teacher. what form of government and history is he teaching. ainsley: is he teaching 17-year-olds. steve: we have one of the kids from that class. victor cuevas who taped th...

United states. >> its an ideological obsession. its the administrations belief you can handle terror through the criminal justice system, that its a crime against the united states, not war. thats a view that would surprise the detainees at gitmo who think they are at war with the united states. the whole idea of shutting gitmo down and bringing them to prisons is to begin the process of going through due process federal criminal trials. thats where the administration has been since day one when...

Love to join the teams of sympathizers in the united states. where would they go next, why would we want to welcome this danger into the u.s. its been perfectly safe in cuba. why keep it there. >> what has not changed in the last 6 1/2 years is the presidents mindset. its impervious to the reality of whats going on in the rest of the world. impervious to the rights of isis and creation of a new caliphate. impervious to boko haram. impervious to the collapse of yemen. he thinks terrorism is like ...

For all of your -- with terror threats rising here and around the world, is this any time to be closing gitmo down? cuba is demanding it and now the white house is appoint agnew envoy to help do it. the white house says keeping gitmo open is too costly. it puts a target on our backs, but john tammany disagrees. what do you think, john? >> i have lot skepticism about the war on terror too, but if were going to be at war and if in fact gitmo keeps us safer and if it makes it less likely that terro...

Theyre going to ask for having gitmo given back to them, and the neck thing on their agenda is theyre going to ask president obama please give us fort knocks. >> logical shutting gitmo down make us less safe? >> i think its hard to say, but one thing i think will always make us less safe is if we let public and in particular international opinion drive our foreign policy. i, again, have major skepticism about a lot of whats gone on with the war on terror. i think wr is the health of the state. i...

But 2015 could be the year the president can make some progress on his vow to shut gitmo down. suzanne, victor. >> barbara starr, thank you so much. weve got cnn military analyst retired army general spider marks joining us from washington. i want to pick up on that point barbara starr just made about the yemenis. we know that 64 of the 102 eligible to be transferred -- 64 are eligible to be transferred, 54 of those are yemeni. what do you do with those? >> the bigger issue, youve got 132, and...

Accomplishing that with the lowest numbers of detainees there since it opened in 2002? >> i think president obama said right from the beginning he was going to close gitmo down. one of the things we do know is we are getting intelligence and have been getting intelligence or hes been getting intelligence from prisoners in guantanamo bay which have been held illegally. i think thats the point. i think what he should do is start to release hostages, in this case, where he has via uruguay. we have ...

President obama assumed the presidency eight years into ten-year effort. by the time he assumed the presidency, we were already hot on the trail of bin laden thanks to information obtained from our black sites, information from hardened terrorists that gave us the information because they were subjected to our enhanced interrogation program. so he deserves credited for going ahead with the operation, but to spike the ball and assume sole responsibility and credit for killing bin laden is not rig...

President obama assumed the presidency eight years into ten-year effort. by the time he assumed the presidency, we were already hot on the trail of bin laden thanks to information obtained from our black sites, information from hardened terrorists that gave us the information because they were subjected to our enhanced interrogation program. so he deserves credited for going ahead with the operation, but to spike the ball and assume sole responsibility and credit for killing bin laden is not rig...

>> president obama has said what we did was torture. >> well, president obama is entitled to his opinion. when president obama condemns the covert action, activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that exists between intelligence officers at the pointed end of the spear hanging right out there and the government that authorized them and directed them to go there. >> you have a couple of things to think about here. these c.i.a. agents now even if they could question possibl...