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>> thank you. >> -- because -- let me do the next question. in december 2005 after the passage of the detainee treatment act, you advocated that president bush should issue a signing statement to accompany the law. in an e-mail you sent to steven bradbury and others you said the signing statement would, and i quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized some time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the mccain portion of the amendment. this statement clearly, and in a formal way, would be hard to dispute late...

Ret let me do the next question. in 2005 after the passage of the detainee treatment act you advocated the that president bush should issue a signing statement to accompany the law in an e-mail to steven bradberry and others and this is your quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticizesome time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the portion of the amendment. this statement clearly and in a formal way would be hard to dispute later. puts down a marker to the affect that mccain is best read as essentially codi...

General believes it is not that americans should not go there, they should be tried in court. clearly, they are thinking about it. >> is a broad policy matter, i don't think it is necessary to do that. what we need guantanamo for us to keep the bad guys are already there, potentially, to put future bad guys and capture. the most important thing president trump can do to change, reverse what we have seen under eight years of president obama, what happened before these al qaeda or isis members get to guantanamo, that has changed the interrogation policy, or have an interrogation policy. the numb...

Americans should not go there, they should be tried in court. clearly, they are thinking about it. >> is a broad policy matter, i don't think it is necessary to do that. what we need guantanamo for us to keep the bad guys there who are already there, potentially, to put future bad guys and capture. the most important thing president trump can do to change, reverse what we have seen under eight years of president obama, what happened before these al qaeda or isis members get to guantanamo, that has changed the interrogation policy, or have an interrogation policy. the number of times i have spo...

Drone strikes, not just one. >> the republican leadership lives in fear of the tea party and the fact is over the course of the past now years, they haven't had a coherent foreign policy of the result of the rise of people like rand paul on the right. surprising no one, i don't think we've been giving the president enough credit in this discussion. this is a process to insure that our national security policy is consistent with our laws and our constitutional values that he took on from the moment he got into office that started with a review of our interrogation policy, a review of our detent...