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Coast? >> we see published reports and correspondent from bp to the british justice minister jack straw that basically said the lack of prisoner transfer is going to put a road black in our deal, our $900 million deal to drill oil over the libyan coast. when you look at that, and you look at in addition to that, that the doctors that made the analysis about megrahi's health were ultimately taken care of by the libyan government to get the best possible analysis, to give him the opportunity to be released from prison, you have some really strong evidence here that really requires the type of in...

Those prisoners there. and the reason they're there is because the administration decided that releasing them was dangerous. and in this case there was a kind of prisoner transfer. i mean, how many times today has the issue of the israelis releasing 1,000 to get one been brought up? the numbers here are not extreme. >> so david, when we think about guantanamo, to the extent there's a serious policy or values discussion here, guantanamo's not just a peace of land off the coast of cuba where some people are still held. i should mention 70 of them, by the way, give or take, cleared for transfer, ...

Alive. 182 americans are very much dead. the prime minister brown echoed concerns but insisted his government had nothing to do with the decision. somebody let that guy out of prison. wendell goler has the news live at the white house. >> bp officials suggested privately the decision to release abdel baset al-megrahi on humanitarian grounds may have saved the company because bp was pressing the british company to complete a prisoner transfer with libya to help bp negotiate and oil deal. scottish officials say neither bp nor the british government was involved in the decision to release abdel b...

The memo makes clear the u.s. was released but said if magra he would be released, the u.s. referred him be released in scotland and turn over to a libyan prison. mag heie is still alive, a doctor says he could be around ten more years. two hundred seventy people died in the pan am bombing, most americans, jenna. jenna: bring us back to the date of that release, wendell. why would the u.s. not support a prisoner transfer to libya? >> well, it may be the u.s. certainly has no confidence in the libyan judicial system and it may than they didn't want to set a precedent of prisoner transfer with t...

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