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This "washington post" piece. "white house officials are exploring options for the unilateral closure of the prison." and even that seemed a little unbelievable, right? who are these sources? who's telling the "washington post" this? and what could they possibly mean? but then this happened yesterday. >> the president has indicated a willingness to use as much of his executive authority as he can to try to take the steps that he believes are consistent with the national security interest of the united states, and that's closing the prison at guantanamo bay. he does not believe that the million...

Unbelievable, right? who are these sources? who's telling the "washington post" this? and what could they possibly mean? but then this happened yesterday. >> the president has indicated a willingness to use as much of his executive authority as he can to try to take the steps that he believes are consistent with the national security interest of the united states, and that's closing the prison at guantanamo bay. he does not believe that the millions of dollars that are expended every year to keep that prison open is a good use of taxpayer resources. it's not. in fact it's counterproductive. an...

Their human rights. so much work still has to be done, but there are active negotiations going on with respect to those detainees. >> bring you back out to the panel, isn't that the conundrum, let them out, they have somewhere to go. congressal rules, can't bring them here, and in another prison, they would be imprisoned indefinitely. it's not an obvious answer. >> that's why he's stuck. not wanting to keep the prison open, but it's the least bad of political options available. and restrictions imposed through congress. i think that's why it's persisted for so long. >> the other issue too, a l...

Force feeding the 100 detainee who's have been on a hunger strike for 100 days. we're learning now not only how much money is being spent and waste the because of the current standoff with detainees, but also how much taxpayers, that's you and me are shelling out to keep this prison open. chris lawrence has been given access and reporting live for us all week on this exclusive series. he has more tonight in an "outfront" investigation. >> the workers still cook three meals a day for gitmo's detainees. up to 100 hunger strikers send them back, wasting thousands of dollars a day. president obama...

We're learning now not only how much money is being spent and waste the because of the current standoff with detainees, but also how much taxpayers, that's you and me are shelling out to keep this prison open. chris lawrence has been given access and reporting live for us all week on this exclusive series. he has more tonight in an "outfront" investigation. >> the workers still cook three meals a day for gitmo's detainees. up to 100 hunger strikers send them back, wasting thousands of dollars a day. president obama signed an executive order to close gitmo on his second day in office. more than...