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Question them. we must be clear. terrorists are not merely criminals. they are unlawful enemy combatants. >> jesse: that is significant. >> dana: i've always been for keeping gitmo open. the purpose of it, which was to hold enemy combatants and able to question them and there's been this constant tension of should you bring them to the united states where they would get all the due process afforded to people in the united states. i think the answer that should be no. al-baghdadi was a prisoner at gitmo. he was released. where did we catch them again? or he's out come out there committing terro...

Who we are and show us what we can be. >> melissa: of course, the speech being met with mixed reaction. we're hearing from the white house now principle deputy press secretary raj shah joining me live from the north lawn. thank you for joining us. a lot of emotion in last night's speech and a lot of people standing up and cheering panning out to the crowd and seeing the people that were being honored. talking about the policy, though, there was something for everyone to love and something for everyone to hate when he talks about creating paid family leave, keeping gitmo open, making the nuclea...

Divisive way on immigration. then there is gitmo. gitmo got a standing ovation. it was sort of an uncomfortable moment. if you want to keep gitmo open, it should feel like a necessary evil, not something you stand and applaud. it's not happy day to keep gitmo open. it should feel like well, unfortunately we have to -- >> good point. >> i sort of like that one really sort of startled me. what are we cheering about gitmo? so it wasn't the speech that they sold it to be. and honestly, i just don't -- you know, i go through these things, especially these teleprompter speeches he gives. it's not hi...

Prison. 41 prisoners remain, including accused 9/11 mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed. keeping gitmo open is expensive. $10 million per detainee in year. if they were held in a super max facility it would only be $100,000 per year. >> bret: jennifer griffin, thank you. fox news alert, update to the story. the arrest of an active-duty u.s. army soldier on terrorism charges. fox news has confirmed the arrest of ikaika kang. fbi says he's been under investigation for more than a year. accused of swearing allegiance to isis, attempting to provide military documents and training to isis. the bureau...

Donald trump promising to not only keep the terror prison at guantanamo bay cuba open but to repopulate it with new detainees. there may be some progress tonight toward doing just that. national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us about it from the pentagon. >> among president obama's first orders after taking office was to close the u.s. detention facility at guantanamo bay. the obama administration released more than 200 prisoners in eight years. president bush released 113 of the 122 gitmo detainees who retain to the -- returned to the battlefield. candidate trump vowed to keep...