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Benghazi and other placees. we have to maintain the course here and do what is necessary. some people should be put to death because they killed americans in combat. i don't see why we keep them arrive. >> this is the latest cnn, orc poll released in march, 56% of americans pose his plan to shut down guantanamo compared to 40% who favor its close ush. >> barack obama committed from the start to apologizing to arab nations and muslim leaders across the world. he is committed to shutting down guantanamo. it is again like apologizing for america. he should not be apologizing to guantanamo. and he...

Political and national security experts. phil mudd, starting with you. what stood out to you in the president's approximately 45-minute speech? >> wolf, quite simply tone and temperament. step away from all the details and go back eight years. we have a new president talking about change who says i am going to shut down guantanamo and pull out of places like iraq. reality is a brutal teacher. guantanamo closure was opposed by congress. it's still not closed, obviously. isis was the reality that taught the president you cannot pull out that quickly. we have a president-elect now who says i migh...

The gitmo provisions that would bar transfers is something i've continuingly opposed. i think we really ought to shut down guantanamo and i think putting these restrictions in, keeping this detention facility open only serves to aid as a rallying cry for jihadis around the world. it also i think inhibits us in working with allies who strongly disagree with maintaining this facility. so, i think this is a mistake, but as you might imagine, a big bill, there are going to be things you like and things you don't. >> let's talk about last night donald trump revealing to the surprise of apparently h...

Capacity. if anything, they got their idea from hillary clinton. terrorists will always find a reason to be terrorists. they found a reason before with when america wasn't in afghanistan and iraq. they found reasons in paris. the idea that we will have a foreign policy if we hug everybody and love on everybody and not call terrorists terrorists somehow we are going to be safer. i think it is pretty clear that strategy does not work. look at what president barack obama has done. he tried to shut down guantanamo. he went early on into the middle east and said, i will get them to like us again. h...

They now believe that within their coalition, this is an issue they can defend and sell. >> quickly, let's talk about guantanamo bay. one of the initial promises in 2009, it may have been the very first, first full day there in the oval office made by president obama to close down guantanamo. fast-forward, eight years, still open detainees there. what's the likelihood that will be an executive order that comes down the pike. >> congress is not going to do it. we have seen in this gun control order continues, a pattern of his second order where he is ush ping the boundaries on executive authori...