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Will hear more about that and get more from her as the afternoon progresses, shannon? >> i do think that we will, and a number of the members of the committee are attorneys themselves or served as judges or prosecutors or the things on her resume' too, so they speak the same language when it comes to pressing in on how she looks to the text of a statute. she has said i go back to the original idea of the person who wrote that text, what they meant at the time. so we are getting more of the contours of where she's coming from. but i think because we have other legal minds and people have served...

Homeland left safe. you talk about a jail break of terrorists. it is not about the doha agreement. we saw thousands of hardens jihadists escape the bagram prison. these are individuals who -- >> i hear you. i've been there. >> -- this decision on guantanamo, these individuals, al qaeda, isis-k, the haqqanis, they were all released because of the over run of bagram air base. >> true. >> and now they are on the loose again. >> i've been to that prison will you i about note that 5,000 were released under the doha agreement under the trump administration. we could have a longer congress. congressm...

He also got some support, some other witnesses spoke in his favor, including jeffrey, a well-known democratic lawyer who praised him and had high words for him. >> a big surprise to a lot of people in the washington legal communities. the former solicitor general under barack obama, very active in fighting the bush administration on guantanamo, but he embraced judge gorsuch, and that's a sign of which way the wind is blowing. >> the whole question is not whether he is going to be confirmed, he's going to be confirmed, and the question is whether he will be confirmed going through the process a...

>> can you tell us about the policy on guantanamo. >> on what? >> on guantanamo, whether it be expanded, whether it continues to be brought to guantanamo, transferred out. >> i don't -- i think -- i don't have anything to announce with respect to its expansion or its use, expansion use. i think the president has commented on the importance of guantanamo in the past and the need to maintain that the people who are there are not people who seek to do anyone good. they're there for a reason. and he has no plans to close it, if that's what you're asking. as far as the future goes in terms of expan...

Former ambassador. vince, for folks that read the footnotes carefully and sometimes where the action is, this court went out of the way to cite wartime rulings and the case your organization won on guantanamo. why? >> it's very interesting to watch the clip of george bush react very differently than donald trump did. george bush said i respect the court's ruling and don't agree and interesting to go back to the days and never thought george bush would be more gracious given those human rights abuses and the reason they cited that case which is significant, back then filing that case, the presi...