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Danger to the people of colorado, the people of kansas, the people of this country. steve: sure. >> that's why some people rejected this around the country. steve: now, 11 senators, lawmakers are calling for the president to expand the use of it. all right. what do you mean expand gitmo? >> absolutely. during the campaign and now as president, president trump has talked about using guantanamo bay to keep enemy combatants, to keep really bad people in a secure facility off u.s. soil where they don't add additional or gain additional rights, to make sure that we can get the intelligence we need ...

Best friend. you have to do it, as he said, with cigarettes and beer. but i also talked to general petraeus who has had more enemy combatants under his capture in iraq and afghanistan than any commander in american history and said this torture, a, is immoral, and b, it doesn't work. even if it works in a teeny, weenie little way, it's not enough to get the kind of value you need and isn't enough to justify the damage it does, to the kind of blowback it could have to american troops and other american sints around the world. it is just not worth the actual pain of committing that kind of illeg...

Basically search your room without a warrant? >> i don't believe -- >> no, they can't. your constitutional rights attach to you. so, the people will say, well, he was in afghanistan. that doesn't matter. what the court is telling us, no american citizen has a constitutional right to join the enemy at a time of war. in re: curan, that case involved german german sabatures, who land ed in long island. are you familiar with it? >> i have that case and have read t. >> they were german american citizens who had context in the united states. they were seized by the fbi and tried by the military. wha...

Hear about as a country. if the united states government picked up ten isis fighters who were invading, who were crossing over the border into the united states and we have these fighters in custody, there would be a lot of attention to that. right? there would be a lot of questions raised. like where are we holding them? are they being held in some local facility at the border? are they being moved to a high security prison? are there some people in politics who want them moved off shore to guantanamo? these are isis fighters. will they be enemy combatants and need to be held in an offshore p...

>> i think it's a contradiction. and we don't know yet. look, he's picked some very aggressive people to serve at the department of defense and other places. we'll see what they come up with as a strategy for doing this. but at the moment, he hasn't said too much that would be a big change in what we're doing now. >> and mary, one thing i think there will be a difference, he's not going to close guantanamo. >> no. >> in fact, he may even send some enemy combatants to gitmo if they're captured in theaters where they are not going to be normal prisoners of war. >> let's hope so. also, obama's le...