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Going live. so not too many people knew about it. and its something, of course, that was ksh came down from the highest levels. >> did you get a sense of how they personally feel about it, given that this has been their mission for 12 years now? >> well, its hard to get to them about how they personally feel, because theyre in the military. so what theyll tell you is, the president of the united states wants to close guantanamo bay, they want to do what the president wants to do, but until that ...

What are you most looking forward to this summer? you can talk to me on twitter. my handle is alex witt. inside gitmo, with an nbc news white house producer who spent the week at the detention center. what she learned about the more than 100 prisoners who remained there, with including the interesting way they get their news. and another live look at miami, here at 7:13 a.m. eastern time on this beginning of summer day. the eyes may be the windows to the soul. but in the case of the lexus ls.....

Billion defense spending bill for 2015. it happened friday. the recent prisoner swap of five taliban members for sergeant bowe bergdahl prompted one significant amendment to the bill, though, blocking any guantanamo bay detainee transfers for a year. 149 prisoners remain at gitmo, consider 15 who are considered high-value detainees. and among them, the five 11 9/11 co-conspirators who are on trial. this week they attended a meeting that the fbi tried to spy on their defense team. joining me now,...

Baghdad. this follows that partial evacuation order by the state department that took place over the weekend and this comes as isis militants captured another city in iraq, this tyke -- this time taking the city of telefar. well keep you posted. >> attorneys from gitmo confirm those gitmo detainees knew all about the five prisoners being swapped for bowe bergdahl by watching it right here on fox, and thats not all the television theyre watching. listen to this. >> they get satellite tv. they get...

And that costs the federal government $76 billion. >> i think the food stamps is a necessary program but it could be drawn better and work incentives could be strengthened. fraud can be reduced. basically the american people want to be sure that poor people arent starving on the streets and children in particular. the same is true of social security. it has lots of problems, but the public is convinced that we dont want old people having to struggle to retain a dignified life. there are programs...

Maintaining a train of thought. past reports show he was tortured and headed in solitary confinement for hundreds of days at a time. in november, "60 minutes" got inside gitmo. while the cameras were rolling, a voice from one of the cells was heard pleading. >> please, we are tired. even if you leave us to die in peace or tell the world the truth. you cannot walk even half a meter without being chained. is that a human being? >> joining me thousanow is diref amnesty security and rights program, ...

Cell. my arms, legs and head are strapped down. i never know when they will come. sometimes they come during the night as late as 11:00 p.m. i want to bring in our chris lawrence from the pentagon to explain this very unusual you hear from a prisoner of war in an op-ed. how did this come about? and is there any response to what he is going through or what he alleges he is going through inside gitmo? >> this isnt normal, first of all, suzanne. but theres nothing normal about the situation at gitm...

Early puberty in girls. a police helicopter in los angeles makes an emergency landing after taking a bullet to the fuel tank. an 18-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder yesterday after witnesses saw him fire at the chopper from his front yard. the man was reportedly upset about someones death. a wikileaks is at it again releasing a cache of classified military documents concerning the activities of terror suspects being held at the guantanamo bay prison. >> now these documents reve...

Happened. >> nato afghan officials are saying 470 prisoners have escaped, confirminging a tunnel was dug. one afghan official saying it was started from a house 100 meters south of the jail. the taliban really reveling in this. they seemed to almost break the news of this event, talking about a tunnel 320 meters long, that took them five months to dig. also saying that amongst the escapees are 106 of their signer commanders -- senior commanders. >> police say they have recaptured 8 of the escape...

9/11. earlier on "american morning" we asked national security analyst peter bergen for his take on this document dump. >> they dont change our basic knowledge of the events that happened after 9/11. they do fill in details. at one point osama bin laden was so strapped for cash after the 9/ 9/11 attacks he borrowed $7,000 which adds to our general understanding that osama bin laden didnt have a great deal of money at the time of the 9/11 attacks. >> i continue to find that fact fascinating. >> r...