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Into the military commission does not work. >> so its a political problem, legal problem, human problem. lets start with the political problem, because i mean the first thing that happened was they signed the order, congress rebe rebelled, right? heres just a taste what that looks like in terms of the change of opinion from republicans. well get to what the administration has done. this is senator lindsay graham in 2009 saying the president is right to want to close guantanamo and then in 2012 r...

Because of one of the most supreme court cases bears his name. when we come back, i want to play a little clip to remind people of the human stakes here. you talked about political problem, legal problem. theres a human problem. there are human beings who are rotting in a prison, even if it has nice facilities, with no access to their families, to their lives, and they have been there for in some cases 11 years and they havent done anything. thats the key point. there are people who have not don...

Outside our view it is now. and i guess my first question is, vince, what is -- what is the plan? i mean just walk me through what is the plan? i know the administration has signed two consecutive national defense authorization acts in which congress has explicitly prohibited any funds to transfer people from guantanamo to the united states. they have signed it with signing statements saying they dont believe that congress has that authority and that they disagree with it. they still want to clo...

Its very important to take what he said to the next point. i think this means there should not be military intervention. i mean there is already military intervention. the cia is orchestrating who gets the weapons. the u.s. military is helping to facilitate all of that so we are intervening in syria. >> theres not military intervention explicitly from our forces. >> explicitly, yeah, but its getting closer to that. but i think the problem here is were looking at a scenario where were denying tha...

Whichever side of the aisle, everybody just says, oh, its africa, let our government do whatever it wants. but you have the anti-apartheid movement and i would prefer the u.s. to france. >> robin, robin -- robin, you wanted to jump in. >> i do. whether its the united states or france, the reality is that military force is not going to solve the problem alone. bombing attacks are not going to remove the jihadists or the -- not address the core issues that have divided mali. and this is where you ...

Truth that the obama administration acquiesced to the late bush administration after the courts got done dismantling the more aggressive policies of the bush administration. they said were going to keep some of this stuff. thats what happened at the national archives speech in 2009. but i think guantanamo is not an essential facility. we can safely house terrorists inside the united states no matter how dangerous they are. what happened with guantanamo is that the administration bungle eld t ed ...

The united states to seriously think through what kind of humanitarian assistance can it give mali since the french are doing the dirty work, its time for the united states to get smart about soft power. >> horace, i want you to have the last point here. >> i think anyone who talks about france intervening in africa to help africans do not have a sense of the history of the destruction and killing and the torture that has been carried on by the french. this is an opportunist move by france -- >>...

About this issue, but i think its also a legal reality that now people are being allowed to create legal status over here and if they create it in maryland and they go on a trip and something happens to them on that trip, what happened, whats their status if they want to go to the local hospital. so, i think this is a -- this is a very complicated human problem and republicans need to take a deep breath and understand, we need to deal with the human side of this equation and understand that we w...

Flager, a key social activist here in chicago whos been fighting against gun violence and congressman elect hakeen jeffreys of new york. today, he was appointed to the house judiciary committee which is expected to take up the issue of gun control early next year. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >> father, why havent we done more to combat gun violence in this country? >> i think the number one issue is the primary victim of gun vio...

Its not just a christian problem or jewish or muslim problem. its a human problem. christians have to be more candid about how that poison of religion, the will to power is still within the churches. its a problem in our midst. >> joe, i think one of the problems we have today is that people are searching and finding what they want in celebrity that they end up sort of worshipping celebrity, as these people are gods, greater than normal human beings. when you talk about a john wayne and some of ...