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Leader. he's unable to build a consensus or build coalitions, resorts to going it alone and in a representative democracy that can be very problematic and he's using it to push some of his biggest agenda items. >> let's talk about one of the agenda items, you've got the president at his year-end news conference. you got military experts saying hold on a second, listen. >> by early next year we should have reduced that population below 100. and we will continue, continue to steadily chip away at the numbers in guantanamo. >> they're going to release 17 in the month of january. >> if you figure ...

President's measures can be inacted without congressional approval. and it's a tactic he's used before, instructing white house attorneys to scour the law, looking for ways to allow the president to implement subtle but substantial changes to existing rules it happened with immigration and the epa. guns are the next target and later the white house may use a similar plan to lawfully empty the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba. >> president obama is going at it alone this has been his movement. it's become a huge issue and it will remain a major issue going forward. >> especially on the 2016 campa...

Next year, we should reduce that population below 100. and we will continue, continue to steadily chip away at the mblt numbers in guantanamo. >> but the commander-in-chief continues to face stiff resistance from the pentagon. the white house is still waiting for the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to sign off on several detainee transfer requests. >> it tells me that the new chairman is obeying the law and which is very important and his constitutional oath. he should not override that for political considerations. >> a new "reuters" report details a pattern of pentagon officials th...

They gained 10,000 people who had ties to terror visas but later figured this out and took the visas away. the feds couldn't answer were all those people who had visas taken away were. >> a gop senator turned poet ripping the obama administration's plan to shut down guantanamo. twauz the night before christmas all through the white house the president was transferring terrorists through the house. the terrorists were snug in their garden bed while visions of returning to al qaeda or isis danced in their heads. he will continue to fight to keep terrorists at gitmo. >> the latest to remove confe...

Do. i can tell you that as of today, there are still so many different pro-isis channels that are still operational on telegram. we know there are channels that are collecting funds for jihad ic ists around the world. they have plenty to catch up with. >> quickly, after the paris attacks this week, the president had been scheduled to try to submit legislation to shut down guantanamo, bringing those remaining detainees to the super max here. now it will not be because the votes are not there. pretty much acknowledging now that guantanamo will remain open for the remainder of his presidency. he ...