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The election i want to close guantanamo, it would be closed now because a whole lot of republicans are using this as a political issue, something to stuff the president with. they could go to the super max in colorado. there's one waiting in illinois. it can be done. and we should expedite the trial process. >> joe, but there's something between closing it, shutting it down tomorrow and beginning to repatriate some of these -- i know their countries don't want them. what the state department has just done and what obama has just done is picked a brilliant lawyer named cliff sloan who is one of...

After members unleashed a blood-thirsty attack. >> the thing that was so extraordinary is that the rifles didn't stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest security correctional facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape...

Animal in a cage. the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview underway. >> quiet on the set, you >> it's a prison, you know. >> all right. let's roll tape. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to his

>> that's right. my passion for this issue actually began a few years ago when i visited guantanamo to report on the military commissions, was concerned about the detention conditions there. miles away at my own state of connecticut was a super max prison holding people in solitary in conditions thrive al the ones in guantanamo. when we began working on the film, what we heard was this language that the super max was built for the worst of the worse. these are dangerous violent offenders. when you dig in more, the proliferation of prisons and we've had solitary since the early 19th century, bu...

Attorney general with a different pledge. he all see submitted last year there was no gun walking program in fast and furious and 7 months later says, whoop be there was. taking this attorney general's word on it, i'm sorry, not satisfactory. i think the reason congress is upset is they know how this administration is operating. it's a high level of concern. megyn: he raised a question whether they could get around that by moving the people not from gitmo to this facility in til now but to another facility, maybe moving people out after super max to thompson and moving into the super max. i wa...