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Detaining indefinitely. we don't plan to try them. we don't know what to do with them. that is the real scandal. it's not about guantanamo. it's about our detention policies more broadly. >> you raise an interesting point. there was a report last year from the office of the director of national intelligence that found 28% of the 599 detainees that have been released from guantanamo were either confirmed or suspected of going back and engaging in mill tanlt terrorist activity. when you see that recidivism rate that, is a shocking number. as bad as the situation is, was the president naive to sa...

You said the $49 million they swant for high value detainees. there are 16 detainee that's fall in that category. so $49 million for the new facility is $3 million per diem takenee. so we're already spending $60 million a year just to operate guantanamo. should we be spending $3 million a detainee for something like this? >> you know, erin, when you're at the pentagon you discover when you breathe you spent about $1 million. every time you open your mouth you spend another $1 million. things are expensive at the pentagon. yes, this is a shocking amount of money to spend on a place we said we w...

And exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. our second story "outfront," extreme makeover, guantanamo. yep. u.s. commanders say they need

$49 million to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for "high value detainees," that includes people like 9/11 master minds. now this is according to "the new york times" and the money, i want to emphasize, $49 million, is in addition to the $150 million to $170 million that the top u.s. commander in the region says he needs tore improvements to the existing gouantanamo facilities. well, the problem is, well, this. investing in guantanamo would seem to break a rather big campaign promise from this president. >> we're going to close go guantana guantanamo. i will close guantanamo. >> p...