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Isil. >> reporter: not sufficient. isis leadership may be well dug in in syria and iraq, but this is a group now bursting across the global scene, jake. >> okay. that's interesting. barbara, i want to ask you about another important story breaking today. we learned this morning that the obama administration released ten detainees from guantanamo bay delivering them to the country of oman. that made it the largest gitmo transfer under president obama. what can you tell us about these detainees being released? >> reporter: well, this has been part of a plan of course all the way along to bring d...

2009. i went over 30 times. the detainee population has come down. the ratio is now 1.5 to 1. if you look at the veterans in this country, there are 21 million veterans. of those, 9 million are receiving va care. if you look at the va employees, it's 267,000. it's a 35 to 1 ratio. president obama has a flawed sense of priorities. we had 40 veterans in the phoenix area alone who died waiting for medical appointments. >> how would you rate the gitmo detain tees detainees, the care they received? >> it's a plus one. they don't have any kind of waiting list. they get seen on the same day.

Full support as they work to facilitate the transfer the guantanamo detainees form thesh who have been cleared to go to other countries. we call again on congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers, which have significantly limited our ability to responsibly redue the detainee population and ultimately close the facility. i guess the question is, is guantanamo ever going to be closed? >> that's a hard question. at the moment, president obama does not have the legal authority to close it. as a result of this political debacle of trying to try khalid sheikh mohammed in the united sta...

Holder says only al awlaki, anwar al-awlaki was targeted directly, shepard. >> you know, it's my understanding, jennifer, that the president is expected to make some very big news on guantanamo bay his speech tomorrow. >> that's right. in fact, the president during his speech tomorrow plans to announce, we know according to sources, plans to announce that he is lifting restrictions on the transfer of detainees from guantanamo bay to yemen. that process had been frozen. the transfer of those detai yemen had been frozen for some time. the renewed cooperation with yemen is likely to decrease the ...

Brig that is okay. that can move forward. and with get mothers perhaps they figure that the detainee population has already been so depleted there and military commissions are now moving forward in a way they find is better than under the bush administration, perhaps they feel there is a modicum of justice going on in these case and no reason to step in. that is the charitable reading that. >> if anybody can try to get inside the nine brains that is your job, pay you at the "huffington post" to do it mike. a great job. one more, arizona versus the united states. arizona's immigration law. obvi...