donald trump promising to not only keep the terror prison at guantanamo bay cuba open but to repopulate it with new detainees. there may be some progress tonight toward doing just that. national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us about it from the pentagon. among president obama s first orders after taking office was to close the u.s. detention facility at guantanamo bay. the obama administration released more than 200 prisoners in eight years. president bush released 113 of the 122 gitmo detainees who retain to the returned to the battlefield. candidate trump vowed to keep gitmo open. we are going to load it up with some bad dudes. jeff sessions, rod rosenstein and the director of national intelligence, dan coats, visited guantanamo bay. i have been there a number of
prison. 41 prisoners remain, including accused 9/11 mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed. keeping gitmo open is expensive. $10 million per detainee in year. if they were held in a super max facility it would only be $100,000 per year. bret: jennifer griffin, thank you. fox news alert, update to the story. the arrest of an active-duty u.s. army soldier on terrorism charges. fox news has confirmed the arrest of ikaika kang. fbi says he s been under investigation for more than a year. accused of swearing allegiance to isis, attempting to provide military documents and training to isis. the bureau believes kang was
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governor christie s running ads. he s pledging to handle gitmo and keep gitmo open. i know he s making tremendous progress in new hampshire. is it enough with independents? i would say christie and cruz are the best with independents. he does well when it comes to security. i think he ll have a good showing in new hampshire. pretty steady at third behind rubio in new hampshire if you believe the polls. leigh, getting intense. yeah, it sure is. no longer too early to talk about it. it is here. 25 days away from iowa. leigh carter, thanks so much. thank you. 20 minutes now after the hour. next on our rundown, it was an event all about preventing crime. so what happened? the reporters covering the event got robbed. you can t make that up. did you have trouble sleeping last night? are you having trouble waking up. dr. segel here. sandra woke him up. i absolutely love my new york apartment,