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Good morning to you, welcome back. >> good morning, bill. bill: you ran this program for two years, right, 2006 and 2007? >> yes. bill: now we're down how many in gitmo? >> 26 detainees from over a dozen countries from high number of 779 overall during the bush administration. bill: first executive order signed in january 2009. president wanted to close gitmo. it has not happened. do you believe he will be able to do that now? >> hard to see how he will be favorable to succeed in that. in part because the republicans will control the senate and house. the president had a good window in first t...

Consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the united states and the interests of justice, i here by order. >> well, that order has never been able to be followed through with, but political and public opposition has kept those plans on the shelf since, along with legal questions about how to move the detainees, practical questions about where to send them and security questions about the danger they would pose once released of the it hasn't stopped president obama from trying to empty the prison anyway. >> i've been very clear about the fact that over time we're goi...

People who were for it was left. because of all of these other factors, the impetus was on the administration to push this deal through. so, these five guys were very bad guys, everyone admits. there were some inside the administration that thought they were bad guys who wanted to kill other afghans, not necessarily americans -- not necessarily americans abroad. i guess we'll see now that they're released who was right. >> colonel davis, let's get to you now. i want to ask you first, what was your role, sir, as gitmo prosecutor. second, did you know these five taliban members? and your reactio...

They have to get like run it through nasa to get the verification. >> the exact change. >> they have to send it up to the satellite somewhere. >> i don't want to get emails and texts and stuff. >> sure you do. >> but the coin purse where the exact change person? you you know, oh, i think i have that. and fishing out pennies. >> there is a person who brings back a head of lettuce that they bought the day before. now this spoiled. you spent 779 cents on the darn thing. >> that's a seinfeld episode taking back peaches. >> i got a bad peach. >> we all got a bad peach. let us know what your superma...

Started as a relatively minor incident. you have close to 20% of the prison population is hunger striking. and you have general kelly with the u.s. command overseas say that this is what you are seeing is an expression of frustration with the uncertainty of their face. you have a number of prisoners who are cleared for release three years ago. 86 people cleared for release by a presidential task force three years ago. 86 people have been cleared for release who are still being held and still being detained. we are talking about people -- i mean, we had 779 detainees since