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Pressure. >> reporter: when it comes down to the calculation as to whether or not he's too big a liability for the administration to hang onto. where are we? >> reporter: some legal analysts who once worked at the justice department is says all that really matters is the opinion of the president. >> he seems to be hold ago strong hand internal leave. he has the backing of the president and there have been no smoking gun documents that have come out so far. we've seen e-mail traffic among junior officials. at the end ever the day if there is no document that directly ties the attorney general i...

Tension camp has angered many of the president's core supporters and now attorney general holder has made a new and striking pledge that appeals to that base as well as to countries critical of american detainee policy. >> we have an election coming up in 2012 in november of 2012. we will be pressing foreclosing of the facility between now and then. and, after that election, we will try to close it. >> the statement conflicts with reality. where more than half the remaining 171 detainees are from yemen, and they and not be sent home because of political instability and because the gulf nation ...

Through the end of next year. and that's something. certainly not just in terms of his political calculus, but also in terms of economic stability for the country. but it really was the only thing that he ended up winning in these negotiations and they were fought almost entirely and concluded almost entirely on republican terms. >> here's a big question with no obvious short answer. how did this happen? you have a democratic president. you have a democratic senate. obviously the house controlled by republicans. but it seemed the small group of complains drove the conversation and drove the pr...

Was he wrong to believe this would work for him? >> very stark political terms, not in any moral terms, just stark political terms. >> absolutely. charlottesville, too. there have been controversy after controversy where the conventional wisdom is this is the end, this goes too far. proven wrong over and over again. i think there is some feeling that the had idea of the thousands of kids taken from their parents for parts unknown and in some secrecy, the administration is being -- is not being transparent where they are, how they're being treated or how they'll be reunited and in some cases i ...

Congressional leaders, should the president's core supporters panic? that's the focus of tonight's angle. as i noted last night it was terrific for the president to let the sunlight in during that back and forth at the white house. transparency is long overdue in the legislative process, it's something i've been asking for for years. he was engaged and enthusiastic about having both sides of the table, it was really good. he also reiterated that the wall and ending chain migration was a prerequisite for any deal on the so-called dreamers. not so reassuring was when this went down. >> you turn ...