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That moratorium for so long. it was remarkable to see how quickly it was lifted. but it has been matched. some men are being force fed. they need to leave the prison immediately. >> let's -- i thought it was very -- it was interesting how the president addressed specifically the topic of the hunger strike. i want to play that and i want to talk about why it has taken him this long to get to it and we'll get to that after this. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing...

President obama giving the kind of intricate sweeping speech he is known for, addressing a whole host of issues touching on everything from our drone policy to closing guantanamo. let's bring in howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post" media group. spencer ackerman, senior writer for "wire" and writer for "the guardian." joining us again, congressman keith ellison. the why now of this speech? this is a speech people have wanted for a while. subordinates of the president has given versions of this. jay johnson who is a general counsel of departm...

Framework for his second term. i think this is -- don't forget, we're still fairly new into his second term and i think this is a thing that he had thad had on table. i think there's been increasing controversy about the drone program and especially about gitmo. and especially about those detainees who are now being force fed and i thing there are more than 100 of them. i think it's a combination of his feeling of what he needed to lay out by way of a grand strategy in a second term as well as more forcing events like gitmo. >> spencer, how surprising was the speech to you? how much was it wha...

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 ...

Obviously, if suspects do die from hunger strikes all of the time, although they're force fed when they don't eat, so coming on a hunger strike does cost. so the moral case he's made has not been about the national security. the prisoners that leave there have it go somewhere, and thoot been even t -- if you shut down the facility what to dou do? you transfer some and meef moving some intelligently to u.s. prips and the argument of the reality hits you personally. having represented there, are you hopeful or what do you hope