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of the middle east. today, a third group of hostages was released as part of a four-day temporary truce between israel and hamas. we learned one of those hostages is american toddler abigail mor edan. who turned just four years old on friday while in captivity. now she is free. as the deal stands right now, 50 total hostages are promised to be released in exchange for 150 palestinian prisoners. this is the first truce after weeks and weeks of fighting. and a rare moment of positive new...

to increase the assistance getting into the gaza civilians who need help, and to facilitate release of hostages. who we know that innocent children in gaza are suffering greatly as well. because this war that hamas has unleashed is such with consequences. thousands have been killed, and from the earliest days of this crisis, ive worked closely with president sisi of egypt. israeli government, killing duel of jordan, and others that the region to expand the delivery of humanitarian assi...

With just over a month left go before eleaves office president obama has been busy in the last 24 hours working on key legacy issues. the president is planning to block sales of new offshore drilling leases in parts of the atlantic and arctic and working on transferring prisoners out of ga guantanamo bay and granted pardons and clemencies to hundreds of prisoners convicted of non-violent offense pms i want to bring in athena jones traveling with president obama in hawaii and we have cnn senior p...

Clear in his year-end press conference, if congress doesnt act to close guantanamo bay, that he will. take a look. >> we will wait until congress has definitively said no to a well thought out plan with numbers attached to it before we say anything definitive about my executive authority here. >> but congress has repeatedly prohibited him from transferring prisoners from guantanamo to the united states, and in fact just this november the president signed a defense bill which barred him again. qu...

>> this kind of political correctness in the way we focus on domestic terrorism is stupid. right? it really is stupid. these are very different groups with very different characters, that have very different threat profiles. >> thats why another position is necessary. the white house referred questions to the justice department and the obama administration is constantly evaluating new strategies to combat vile ent extremism. brett? pentagon officials are scouting sites in colorado as potential...

In seoul. thank you. 15 minutes past the hour. french officials urging calm in france after the second car attack on pedestrians in two days. 11 people were injured on monday when a 37-year-old man rammed his vehicle into the crowd of holiday shoppers in the city of nantes. police say the suspect stabbed himself several times. does not appear to have terrorist motives. on sunday, a man shouting god is great, rammed his vehicle into the crowd injured 13 people. a new setback for the efforts t...

And frankly whether or not the president could do the same sort of thing to empty guantanamo out. before this, it did not seem like the president had the power to everyone ty guantanamo. does what just happened here mean he has more power than we previously understood? exact lay year ago president obama renewed his call to shut down guantanamo. he then appointed two new envoys, one at the state department, one at the pentagon, to start the work or restart the work of trying to close guantanamo. ...

President could do the same sort of thing to empty guantanamo out. before this it did not seem like the president had the power to everyone ty guantanamo. does what just happened here mean he has more power than rewe previously understood? exact lay year ago president obama renewed his call to shut down guantanamo. he then apointed two new envoys, one at the state department, one at the pentagon, to start the work or restart the work of trying to close guantanamo. he literally reopened the offic...

Obama renewed his call to shut down guantanamo. he then apointed two new envoys, one at the state department, one at the pentagon, to start the work or restart the work of trying to close guantanamo. he literally reopened the office of closing guantanamo that had been shut down during his first term because they werent getting anywhere against congressional resistance. since the president renewed his commitment and renewed the effort to close guantanamo, there has been a small trickle of prisone...

Press. they have done some things, put some new envoys in place, for example, they have done a few, a trickle of releases, some of which -- not necessarily happy about because of the way they were done. but there does seem to be an eagerness to get the ball ro rolling. when ive seen so far is not really a strategy to get you to that end state of closing it. >> and, rashad, i see you nodding your head. we should say on the other hand, the obama administration is very much behind this latest deal ...