with illegal aliens. the idea raises the question of what to do with the remaining prisoners. detainees isn t really an apt description of these men. if anything militant against the president s promises to close the gitmo prison it is the energized rein of terror in the middle east. the taunting declaration dedicated to destroying the west. the president is telling us that releasing terrorists to their old battlefields is a fine thing to do. will he say this after the next skyscraper crumbles into atume when a new kind of bomb blows a passenger jet out of the sky? a poll reveals that 66% of the american people want to keep gitmo open. 29% favor removal of the inmates to u.s. prisons. the recent trade of five taliban
not being an career politician. the republicans represent the rich. that s because the media builds that narrative. there s more money coming from the democrats for the campaigns. you have to remember this elect is historic. she could be america s first robot president. what do you mean by that? because what you just said from the book, it is so it s so sterile and it s so cold and the one thing that really bug me is how she how she criticized the bush doctrine in the book, while adopting almost every part of his foreign policy. i mean, they didn t get rid of drones. they just treated it like a new form of outreach. they still kept gitmo open. everything that worked under bush they kept. it s okay to use the bush doctrine unless bush is doing it. then you have to say you are different. exactly. does that make sense? i followed. slowly. hey.
released a new video urging voters to get behind the proposal to close gitmo. the song is aimed at a senate bill considered this week which would loosen restricting on transporting detainees, back to your home countries or prisons in the u.s. it seems to me that we re losing opportunities to gather intelligence. reporter: senator kelly ayotte wants to keep gitmo open. she got the fbi director to admit that his directors prefer long investigations. more flexibility, better for us. reporter: but james comey also said housing terrorists in a supermax prison like the one in colorado would not make the community more dangerous. i don t know any threat around that facility. we ve housed some really bad people for a long time. reporter: a bigger concern is what happens to dee takenees sent back to their home countries. since it opened, 603 detainees have been transferred.
guantanamo. congressional opposition has blocked president obama from sending most detainees back to their home countries or prisons in the u.s. it seems to me that we re losing opportunities to gather intelligence. reporter: senator kelly ayotte wants to keep gitmo open. more flexibility, better for us. reporter: but james comey also said housing terrorists in a prison like the one in colorado would not make the surrounding community more dangerous. i don t know any threat around that facility. we ve housed some really bad people for a long time. reporter: what happens if detainees are sent back to their home countries? since it opened, 603 detainees have been transferred. more than 60% of them, 100 in all, returned to terrorist activity.
bill: back of the book segment tonight, watters world on labor day weekend, thousands of muslims gathered in washington for the islamic society of north america convention. today, of course, the 12th anniversary of 9/11 so this edition of watters world is especially appropriate. what is the muslim convention? i m here to gain more knowledge about my own religion. great to be with your fellow americans who happen to be also muslim. i m not muslim. but you are here at the muslim convention. yes. president obama still has gitmo open. yes, he does. does that bother you? it does. so, gitmo? that s terrible. and they are being tortured. the u.s. is torturing people. they are force feeding them which is one form of torture. what are we looking athere. burkini. this is a burkini i