we are going to load it up with bad dudes. canada donald trump promised to reverse president obama s decision to close guantanamo bay. the last administration said terrorist use as a recruiting tool. it was among president obama s first executive orders. guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. congress blocked efforts to close the facility. last night president trump signed a new executive order giving defense secretary mattis who quietly visited the facility before christmas 90 days to recommend whether those captured on the battlefield should be sent to gitmo for the first time in ten years. terrorists are not merely criminals. they are unlawful enemy combatants. when captured overseas, they should be treated like the terrorists they are. senator lindsey graham has been a loud proponent of keeping gitmo open. i thought the president showed a determination as commander in chief to win a war we can t afford to lose. that s going to be used by
prisons. not a single security incident. because the u.s. tax picker about four and $50 million a year to keep gitmo open. in 16 years, despite seven active prosecutions, there ve been no convictions by these military tribunals. see you on jennifer, thanks. event senator jim mattis considering a ban on personal cell phones at the pentagon. this comes after data from personal fitness training apps has shown up on the internet revealing the locations of military personnel. pentagon spokesman men s has no official decision has been made. white house white house chief of staff john kelly says the california high school teacher whose antimilitary rent went viral should go to hell. he made the remark on fox news radio. because the military a bunch of dumb blanks. lowest of the low. what s your reaction?
ainsley: if the economy continues to do well. that s what americans care about. that s right. this speech really made people feel optimistic that hadn t felt so recently. i think he did a great job. steve: thank you so much for staying up late and doing the dials. any time. ainsley: thank you. steve: meanwhile, president trump making a break from president obama when he said this. we must be clear terrorists are not merely criminals. they are unlawful enemy combatants. ainsley: he is also keeping gitmo open, he said. dan bongino is here to react. plus jason chaffetz on the behind the scenes moments that you didn t see what actually happened in the chamber. he is going to tell us coming up. steve: those guys need coats. there s nothing holding me back there s nothing holding me
you nailed it, here is a guy responsible for putting together 9/11 and what else would you do with him? they actually tried obama tried to use in my state of oklahoma down-in-lawton, oklahoma, one of our military establishments has a prison there. he wanted to put some of them in there and we were able to stop that but his result was he turned them loose. he turned them back to overseas. i was just really proud first of all a great speech that trump made last night. he made me proud and he touched on all the right things that i m interested in, rebuilding our defense and infrastructure. i was so glad he included gitmo in his presentation. jon: some of the president s critics have said he is racist to keep gitmo open. now pick somebody up on the battlefield who is trying to kill americans or kill american troops, why is it racist to
donald trump hired him, turned him loose, secretary matt exhibit is has been increasing tempo of attacks, we successfully took back the territorial gains of the caliphate and liberated 5 million people just in the time donald trump has been president. very successful anti-isis campaign. he talked about the fundamental flaws in the iran deal and new rules of engagement in the war on terror after just signing to keep gitmo open. president obama treated terrorists abroad more like a criminal investigation rather than a really rigorous, treating these terrorists as unlawful enemy combatants, donald trump was very clear, having moral clarity, these people are evil, these are unlawful enemy combatants, we are going to kill them or capture the man detained