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It hurts us, in terms of our international standing. it lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts. it is a recruitment tool for extremists. it needs to be closed. martha: elizabeth pran joins us live from washington. what is the president proposing this time around? >> reporter: during a news conference yesterday president obama looking to reengage lawmakers, he says keeping gitmo open is not sustainable and only damaging to the u.s. image. this as he renews a old campaign promise to close the camp. more than a hundred inmates are fasting on a hunger strike, some for week...

Day one, january 2009, was to close the facility. >> now they have closed the facility that was to close gitmo instead. the president wants to do this. he believes it can be done. now in gitmo they have done quite successfully. there are number of military trial and convictions. they sent others home. no reason to go down there but idealogical opposition to keeping gitmo open rather than come here. in a youtube video never really seen can set off riots in egypt and libya imagine trying usama bin laden's son-in-law in new york. bill: this is federal court. lower manhattan. the amount of access ...

World. and the things that obama has done that have alienated the world are the things that bush did in the war on terror. these are things like the drone strikes and, of course, keeping gitmo open after he refused to listen to barak obama refused to listen to eric holder. i think it teaches you a lesson that defending america does not win popularity contests. >> brian: and never will. let's talk about this, any day now we could be finding out -- we know sometime in june the supreme court will rule whether obamacare's mandate is constitutional or not. you believe republicans, some of them are ...

Including americans who may be involved in terrorist activities abroad. i think they have kept gitmo open, they have taken a pretty, pretty strong position, they've had a lot of criticism on the left about it. >> well, i made the statement -- yeah? >> go ahead, jason. >> i would just say that, again, you know, republicans overwhelmingly in the senate and former bush administration officials had the support of -- >> megyn: let him respond. go ahead. >> you made this statement about gitmo. that's interesting. the president ran on that he was going to close gitmo, but then he started getting the ...

A lot are on myspace. we are dragging them kicking and screaming into the new millenium. it is the only thing he has done in two years that is cute and funny. my question is, why are republicans bummed out? what has he not done for you guys? i don't think anybody with a nobel peace prize starts a war. when he walks into the oval office does the peace prize go, i don't feel good. >> i agree with you on 70% of what you said. the guy has been -- the funny thing is, i -- i think he has been excellent on terror and he kept gitmo open, killed osama bin laden which i'm sure you are happy about becaus...