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With the u.s. officials considering releasing afghan detainees as an incentive to bring taliban to peace talks, senator mccain calls that a dangerous and desperate move. >> the release of prisoners takes place after you reach an agreement. not before. >> this is a crazy idea. >> shutting down the facility has proven to be challenging. >> they have a desire to close guantanamo bay. but what do you do with the detainees there? the high value detainees or the high level detainees? >> whitman and colleagues say the department of defense and the intelligence community should carefully study key fac...

state of illinois. he's been talking to people about the fight for america's future, even as he steps up his own fight for reelection. >> when i travel through down state illinois, iowa, the midwest, i am absolutely confident about this country. and the reason is because of you. the reason is because of the american people. because as tough of a time as we've had there's not a country on earth that would not ready change places with us right now. >> the president told me just yesterday in iowa he knows voters will hold him accountable for the constituent of economy, so he's getting r...

Budget. you have to decide whether the political loss was worth the ultimate goal you achieved. in this particular case, republicans were sending a signal they didn't want to shut down the government. would they have gotten the blame? sure. i think the blame would have gone to virtually everybody in the room. >> we had one military mom on that was flabbergasted that her family's, her son's family would not be paid and suffer consequences because of a possible shutdown here. how much of a role did that play in these negotiations and knowing hey, we have to get something done and quickly. >> i t...

A great deal of support for this. i mean, yes, the support for the idea of protecting civilians in eastern libya, nobody in this country particularly wants to see revenge attacks being wrought by colonel gadhafi on innocent civilians in eastern libya. but there is a lot of reticence in britain about the need for britain to be involved in yet another war in the middle east. there's a lot of concern about whether the country can afford it. we're going through great austerity in this country at the moment. there are budget cutbacks, particularly in the military budget, as well. and so these are i...

Idea of protecting civilians in eastern libya, nobody in this country particularly wants to see revenge attacks being wrought by colonel gadhafi on innocent civilians in eastern libya. but there is a lot of reticence in britain about the need for britain to be involved in yet another war in the middle east. there's a lot of concern about whether the country can afford it. we're going through great austerity in this country at the moment. there are budget cutbacks, particularly in the military budget as well. and so these are issues that are playing on the minds of many britons tonight as they ...