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Again. admitting the health care law isn't so affordable. >> and a detroit lion player gets his one-game suspension overturned after trying to allegedly hurt a quarterback. >> and a tv star speaking out about why her plastic surgery was the best thing ever. >> and all of that plus one lucky guy coming up head. >> i might sneak in there. watch out. shutdowning down gitmo has been one of the president's key goals since taking office and with five more detainees transferred out the number is closer to the administration goal of a hundred, a group that could be transferred to united states priso...

Prisons. that is making president obama good on one of this goals: shutting down gitmo. catherine heritage is live in washington with more on this. >> reporter: this latest transfer is part of an excelerated push by the obama administration to clear the center. the obama administration is willing to accept more risk and fewer conditions to transfer the men. the state department acknowledges this change in strategy openly. >> we talk about closing guantanamo bay we all wish this was done years ago. but we are moving forward. there are 132 remaining and 62 are approved for transfer. >> reporter:...

Made sense because he needs drones to close gitmo. gitmo is third base. i may be old, but the abbott and castello routine, that's always the answer. you put these people in there because they are going to kill you and when they get out where do you put them? i don't know. gitmo. >> wait. why is it a given that you need drones to kill gitmo? >> you have to kill the people because have you no place to put them. >> we are talking about an infinite number of people. they think the suicide bombings are justified and that's 350 million people. the drone will get a hernia. >> i am running out of bull...

>> america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute. >> he said conventional air power is precise to drones and more likely to cause casualties and outrage. >> conventional air power or missiles are far less precise than drums. and they are likely to cause more civilian casualties and more outrage. >> of course, left unanswered is whether he believes it will be constitutional to kill any citizen without due process or whether any president should deploy armed droned over u.s. soil. >> for the ...

Huge international law. >> i think his legacy is his biggest legacy. it is toast either way. >> here is the weird contridiction, gavin. the preference is to detain and interrogate, but he wants to close gitmo. how do you do that? where do you keep them? do they stay at your place? >> that was some big shoes to fill there, barry. remember a few weeks ago when drones was the most embarrassing thing and ran paul did that huge speech? it is like somebody pee their pants and they are accused of rape and things. and they say remember when i peed my pants? >> that was a strange metaphor. the other th...