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Turn. congress set laws in place that did not allow him to close the detention facility. there's been some controversial releases. in fact, his own pentagon has pushed back on some of those releases. of the 41 who are left at guantanamo bay, most of them are considered too dangerous to release. at the same time, there's not a legal process in place that would allow them to hold them indefinitely. shepard? >> shepard: thanks, jennifer, john and ed. the president-elect and his family and others have arrived. the laying of the wreath is beginning at arlington.

>> yeah. it's an unabashedly negative development for hillary because she wants to cruise to the nomination with as little controversy as possible. what bernie sanders does is to put her at risk in both iowa and new hampshire and to force her to blunt his appeal to move further and further to the left on economic issues involving redistribution but what sanders said on friday was will hillary take on the big banks like goldman sachs, will she come out for the reinstitution of glass ste gal to separate investment from commercial banking. sanders has the biggest crowds on the democratic side and...

Welcome back. we're back with our panel. john hilsenrath, ed rollins. steven ratner, chairman of willett advisers, former counselor to the u.s. secretary of the treasury. steve, thanks for joining the conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to ask you about the economy where we are. tim geithner just out with his book "stress test." it's been seven years since the dark days or six years since the dark days. how would you characterize things? >> actually, i'm in the middle of reading tim geithner's book, and it gives you nightmares. it just brings back all of the fear and how close we ...

Here? ed rollins was principle adviser to president reagan. he is also a fox news political analyst. the word on the fed is john's specialty. good to see you both. these numbers are mind boggling. are there cars that have not been recalled yet? >> i'm sure there are. i think it has damaged gm dramatically and obviously the new president there is trying to get this thing out of the way. if you're going to buy a new car, which will help move this economy forward, are you going to go buy a gm car? it's not like one or two but it's been a dramatic recall effort. it wouldn't give me confidence. >> ...

Cash and you're going to pay up front. who knows if he's going to do that with the europeans. >> strongest economy in europe and china, one of the strongest economies in the world, you can basically have pretty strong -- >> putin protected his flank. if there is push back, you have now got a huge push back. these are clean energy supplies so the chinese, the chinese are willing to pay up for it. they actually got a great deal in this case from the russians. >> we will take a short break. more on this with john and ed. the unofficial kick off to the summer season or the year's half way mark and...