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Shaikh mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters in a new york city court. >> not to be egocentric about this, but i was right. i think that had we gone along the path that i announced at that time, we would not have had to close down half of manhattan. it wouldn't have cost $200 million a year, and the defendants would be on death row as we speak. >> holder's plans quickly collapsed in a sea of concern from republicans in congress and others that such a move potentially could endanger the united states. joining us now to talk about this, our senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. so you agree w...

Guantanamo and into the real u.s. justice system. so now more than four years after the president signed the or theered to close guantanamo, which everybody thought was a fore gone conclusion, not only has the white house not closed guantanamo, but congress with the help of the president's own party put up a series of barriers to keep that from happening indefinitely. that is what happened four years ago. today this president charged back into that fight, explicitly calling on congress to get out of his way this time. >> given my administration's relentless pursuit of al qaeda's leadership, th...

Election. guantanamo was definitely going to be over. it was going to be closed. and then it did not happen. less than a month after the president signed the order to close guantanamo, republicans in congress started trying to block any of the prisoners there from being transferred to prisons in the u.s. not in my backyard. in response, democrats in congress folded. they caved. and they, democrats as well as republicans, took away the money the white house needed to close guantanamo. the next year congress, again, took away money for closing guantanamo. in the last month when democrats control...

Point of view, he would like to have closed guantanamo, have tried people. it's intractable. this gentleman, i don't know the particulars of this case is from yemen. the government does not want to return prisoners to yemen he says in the op-ed. republicans are unwillingç to have people go through the civil-legal process here. >> to be tried. >> the courts won't hear their claims about treatment because congress has told the courts that they don't have jurisdiction to hear the claims about treatment. so guantanamo is just like -- going to be a brush fire that never goes out. because people a...

The pentagon gave a speech saying we need to think about when we bring the war on terror to a close. when is it over? >> it's never over. >> that is the problem. we had a person on the program who is the only one to vote against the use of military force. it's the document from which all authority flows. she is proposing we repeal that operation. we are out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead. al qaeda is the al qaeda that attacked us has been destroyed. >> if you do it and there's an attack on american soil then you are the president who ended the war on terror. this is a president of any...