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No dice. it's been almost seven years since that executive order was signed and guantanamo is still open. now the defense department is about to release their pentagon plan for how guantanamo could be closed. that plan is due any day now. we are told it will come out this week. it is expected to be released to the public and congress and the white house. we see republicans making this issue into a hillary clinton issue. don't elect hillary clinton president. she'll close guantanamo. what if after all this time president obama closed guantanamo. what if he got it done? what if he could do it be...

That plan is due any day now. we are told it will come out this week. it is expected to be released to the public and congress and the white house. we see republicans making this issue into a hillary clinton issue. don't elect hillary clinton president. she'll close guantanamo. what if after all this time president obama closed guantanamo. what if he got it done? what if he could do it before the end of his presidency so it didn't become the first item on the to do list of either hillary clinton or whoever the republican might be who could beat her. president obama's former white house counsel...

Thing that would have done differently. he did this on wednesday. do we have that sound? >> i think i would have closed guantanamo on the first day. the politics of it got tough, people got scared by the rhetoric around it. >> i want to bring in what dick cheney said in this playboy interview. he said i can't count the hours we spent on what i considered to be a totally wasted exercise arguing about let's close guantanamo. it's still open today. it's still there for a reason. and i found that quote interesting because it's not still there because the president tried and failed or he realized n...

All right. let's look at the morning papers. "usa today," the pentagon says the mastermind of the 2013 attack on a mall in kenya was killed by a u.s. drone in somalia. officials say the drone struck a vehicle driven by garar the leader of the group with ties to al qaeda on march 12th. it claimed the lives of 67 people and let more than 200 injured. from the huffington post president obama says if he could redo his time in office he would have shut the detention center in guantanamo bay, cuba on his first day. >> exactly! >> why didn't he do it tomorrow. >> do it tomorrow. >> do it tomorrow r...

Decision. major general michael leonard, first commanding officer at gitmo joins me now by phone. general, thank you very much for being with us. tell me what has caused you to change your mind? >> well, andrea, my mind was changed several years ago. i've spoken out actually while i was still on active duty saying that we need to closed guantanamo. currently i'm part of the nonpartisan coalition of 55 retired generals and admirals around the country that believe u.s. terrorism should adhere to geneva constitutions and our international domestic legal operations. so i'm in good company. i've ha...