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Early morning amman, jordan, looking at the citadel. welcome to viewers in amman watching there and around the world and here in the united states on cnn. no single story has generated the kind of heat than what's going on right now. inmates on hunger strike right now. medical officers force feeding some of them. whatever you think of the place and the people in it, what's happening there raises a a lot of questions. back with our panel in the fifth chair tonight, someone who was president at the creation of getmo, good to have you here. you said getmo should remain open. what do you think abo...

Cleared, it would show that there's some light at the end of the tunnel. >> the point is that the 86 who have been cleared, there are no countries that will take them. >> but that's not true. >> oh, come on, amy. >> there's no solution. bermuda won't take these people. >> oh, come on. >> how can you say yemen is not a solution? >> the senate intelligence -- >> that's not true, either. >> and for -- >> that's not true. i've done the homework on that. our good friend, peter bergen, manhunt, his document on hbo tonight has written copious articles and many others have as well of comparisons of re...

Cameras in their cells, blinding the guards' ability to watch them from the outside. so what we have now is the guards have stormed the communal camp, once the showcase camp. once the place where this detente exists and locked each man into his cell, up to 22 hours a day. so they can keep an eye on them to figure out who is at risk of starvation. so what is going on right now? is a completely different guantanamo. guantanamo under lockdown, like we haven't seen frankly since the bush years at the very beginning. when they were trying to figure out how to do this detention operation. >> andrea?...

Who has been living at guantanamo for more than 11 years and never faced charges described the situation in a "new york times" article. two times a day they tie me to a chair and my arms, legs and head are strapped down in one force feeding. they pushed the pube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurding more than usual because she was doing things so hastily. president obama refuses to send detainees back to yemen. i am a hun an being and not a passport and deserve to be treated by one. on thursday, they asked california senator dianne feinstein, monitors from the red cross told her staff that ...

>> they are still being tortured and some force fed twice day. if you've never seen a demonstration of force-feeding you're shackled to a chair and a tube is stuck down your throat to the stomach, you know that's torture. the torture is still going on and the residue is still going on. what has guantanamo done? it allows the current administration says we won't ship them there, to bagram or somewhere elsewhere we know they will not be taken care of at all. >> colonel lawrence wilkinson, thank you for joining us from texas. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, chris. george w. bus...