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Hafitz, a law professor at seton hall, visiting research scholar at princeton, represented prisoners at guantanamo. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> do you know? could the president close guantanamo by executive action somehow? >> he certainly could do that. he could close it within the law, but he needs to be more aggressive. so far, he's made a lot of statements, he's well intentioned but he's not used the authority that he has to move aggressively notwithstanding congress. >> what kind of authority and how? what do you mean? >> i think there are a number of steps he could do at the...

President and, but it has not prevented him from continuing to push his team to try to -- to try to take, go as far as we can, to reduce the population there and ultimately get to a place where we can close that prison. >> white house press secretary josh earnest saying the president has directed his advisers to find a way to close that prison. he's seemingly saying find way to close that prison even without congress. president very disappointed in congress, so he has told us to go as far as we can to get to a place where we can close that prison. so that prospect has gone now from unsourced t...

Or veto, or simply vetoing the restrictions when they come up again. >> yeah. >> and the other thing is, you know, the only option is not simply transferring this group of detainees to the united states. other than the small handful of individuals who there are and should be criminal charges against, many of these detainees should be released. they've been held, i believe, lawlessly, for many years and i think this group of detainees, the ones who are purportedly too difficult to try, too dangerous to release, i think that's a made up category and those individuals as a first priority should b...