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To close more areas of the arctic and atlantic oceans to drilling. i've lost track on how many day he is has left in office but what is this about is this legacy building? final moments, what do you any? >> he's got about 31 or 32 days left in office before trump's inauguration. what you're seeing him do is on the clemency piece in particular, this is something he's taken personally and has really stepped up over the last year or so so you're seeing him try to get as many people pardoned as possible. on gitmo, it doesn't appear as though obama is going to be able to close gitmo over the next m...

91-3. the legislation prohibiting the president from transferring terrorists from gitmo to the u.s. is headed to the white house for the president's signature. on gitmo that's not a case of gridlock or congressional inacti inaction. the president's desire to transfer terrorists to facilities in the u.s. here is the president's former white house counsel greg craig. >> think he has the authority on his own, to close guantanamo and bring the detainees wherever he wants within the united states in a military facility. as chief he has that authority. i think he should use it. >> you can shoehorn a...

He has spoken out to the supreme court on behalf of detainees at guantanamo bay and submitted a brief that helped derail the military commission's act here in the united states. so he's been a proponent of rights for enemy combatants detainees in guantanamo bay in the past. he's a well-known military justice lawyer and obviously an outspoken advocate for the issues that he thinks are important. >> sure. we understand as well at yale where he now works, he teaches military justice. he teaches about disasters and gitmo, interestingly enough, to your point. >> yes. he's an expert on gitmo and his...

>> the funny thing is i agree with the president on gitmo. i think it should be closed. but i have serious reservations about the means he's used to achieve many of his policies. >> jonathan, thank you for joining us from george washington university. we appreciate it. another angle to this story, sergeant bergdahl's father grew a beard. very similar to the ones that his captors have. he learned his language. posted videos begging for his son's release. we want to talk about this. what's behind the actions of this father.

What does it mean when does things that are the opposite of what he promised? >> in some of those cases i think it is a little different. on gitmo he attempted to do something which was opposed by congress and had to back down. that seems a little different circumstance than saying i want to do a and then deciding i want to do the opposite. i don't think that is an accurate description. on this wires taps, i don't know what is going on. i know the intelligence committee folks seem to be saying even some of the democrats saying they thought this was vital for the defense of the country. so i ca...