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Good to see you today. this is not the only formerly detained terror suspect at gitmo who has returned to terror. >> that's right. in this case, sadly he became a suicide bomber, but we have a huge rate where these released detainees rejoin the ranks of terrorists and in most cases they become leaders in their various movements. these guys once they're released from guantanamo are rock stars in the jihadi world. my own personal experience in afghanistan, a man released to the afghan government and they released him and he became the taliban's military leader leading the attacks against troop s...

That's a good rule for life though. >> one of the things that i deeply respect about president obama, he has been welling to set aside his own political differences with donald trump to put the best interest of the country first. so the point is, i can't spend the whole briefing criticizing the president-elect. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> donald trump said that he was going to be stepping away from business to focus on running the country. i was wondering if that announcement comes as -- welcome news? >> what i can tell you is what president obama's approach has been a..ed by by an extrao...

>> one of the things that i deeply respect about president obama, he has been welling to set aside his own political differences with donald trump to put the best interest of the country first. so the point is, i can't spend the whole briefing criticizing the president-elect. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> donald trump said that he was going to be stepping away from business to focus on running the country. i was wondering if that announcement comes as -- [ indiscernible question ] >> what i can tell you is what president obama's approach has been a..ed by by an extraordinarily high standard...

Gloria, is there a trump doctrine that is emerging in we've seen over the past eight years, an obama doctrine. the trump doctrine seems so far a bit murky. >> it is a bit murky. first what we know is that it is not obama. that would be one way to describe it. we don't have a secretary of state yet. but what we've seen from donald trump is mixed messages on the question of torture, for example. we do know he wants to keep guantanamo open which is something the president said today that you cannot do. he called it a blot on us. we know that he wants to redo or end the iran nuclear deal, which th...

Last week it's unconstitutional. the ruling was the end of last week. by the end of this week, congress has to vote on whether or not to reauthorize that program. that's a pressing matter. we've also got to vote this week on the big defense appropriations bill. they will be studiously ignoring the question whether or not the war against isis in iraq and syria is an authorized war. actually takes active work to keep ignoring that question. while also authorizing this year's pentagon spending and as that fighting goes into its ninth month. there is also a very sensitive issue that's going to com...