he campaigned on a promise to close gitmo in reiterated this promise just after being elected in two thousand it take a look i have said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on it and you will follow through on that then on january twenty second two thousand and nine and one of his first actions as president he signed an executive order calling for the closure of get mo within one year the president then created a special envoy post in early two thousand and nine dedicated exclusively to closing down gitmo this guy daniel fried was selected to the position and he spent the next year traveling around the world finding willing partners to accept current detainees at gitmo who would be released once the prison closes so early on when it came to closing gitmo the ball was moving forward. but then the president crashed head first into the post nine eleven political reality in america and in particular in congress right off the bat in may of two thousand and nine the senate blocked eighty million dollars requested by the president to close gitmo it was a n

close gli gitmo. where is that?m glad they are not going to close it. >> bob: keep this in some perspective. at the peak there was 770-something prisoners. down to 166. they couldn't, some of those they transferred in the bush administration and the obama administration. turned out they escape and go on to do terrorist act. they can't place the 160 people anyplace else. no one will take them. their own country won't take them. what obama realized push came to shove and they got to the bottom of the barrel, there is nothing they can do about it. >> eric: that is not what he realized. he realized putting political detainees at gitmo he said i'll sol tv problem, i'll kill them. drone them. >> dana: don't you think it's odd -- >> bob: what is wrong with that? >> eric: nothing. i don't think there is a problem with droning, and i'm for killing the bad guys via drones but the thing is he was against this type of -- wate waterboarding, he is against it. but drone is better. >> bob: kill the guy that is a number two -- >> i

first, what is up with gitmo?as wondering the same thing about you. >>> people started putting it elsewhere. what am i talking about? they are a little behind, and thousand he is reassigned. yes, the special envoy, i was one of those, for shutting down guantanamo bay will be moved elsewhere. he will focus more on yoga and who wouldn't? yoga is great for you. so the office foreclosing gitmo has closed. it is a signal that the obama administration has done some things that are realistic despite repeated statements otherwise. for more let's go to our reporter in guantanamo bay. >> that is not a lemur. >> have you been to the san francisco zoo and seen them? >> slow loriss -- everything in san francisco is fabulous. if you watch "red eye." slow loris is anything on the planet that matter. what i don't understand is when you look at that face why isn't that animal in anybody's home. there must be something evil about the slow loris that prevents it. >> they wander around your house while you are sleeping. >> i would lo

so it's time we embrace gitmo as a part of this country. and not as a place for permanently imprisoning people without charges in a kafka-esque labyrinth of human despair but more as a terrorist retirement community jihadi meadows. [ laughter ] after all, like our seniors, they wear brightly-colored jumpsuits, they're often on a liquid diet, and we try our best not to think about them. [ laughter ] and who knows, guantanamo bay may even become popular with our own seniors. after all, it's just like florida but with fewer cubans. [ laughter ] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause]éxéx [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest is the author of the short story collection "tenth of december." it's about time somebody novelized the calendar. please welcome george saunders. [cheers and applause] george, good to have you back. >> good to be here steencht it's been five years since you were here. >> too long. >> too long. >> stephen: for the people who don't know, the few people who don't know you are a macarthur gra

so basically the office for closing gitmo has been closed. it's like a dog out-living its owner. of daily. his job was to resettle detainees, which is realistic to ask a bystander to hold your bomb. bush knew that, but he is a republican so the press doesn't care. the obama administration doesn't feel the long held goal to close gitmo is realistic but that's okay, because everything under obama is okay. if i were him and sometimes i pretend i am at night in my closet i start a game called "what can i get away with?" and i spend time floating odd proponyous tic o orun t o that k d cl make m believenow. a caey sideith o iso ryinont mo ter gck bec te.a?now. thedana: dre >> l>>dana: it fintdal- aylthe of l keeso g down fnsoanill shoy >>t i hederobleml. >> dadr don andain t ly:you shoul bade rch cut gre unna no op w ig ng se onfti comin he s the media isb. hzin forffic ty th aiodoctor t as cser tve w theobe d er guy tthlicps >> bo wsgatillegho? w d ns e t >> bob: no, i defended the secret service. >> kimberly: c'mon. >> bob: i did. nd i got heat with it. ecause you don't a problem wit

so basically, the office for closing gitmo has been closed. it's like a dog out-living its owner.r dreams of daily. his job was to resettle detainees, which is realistic to ask a bystander to hold your bomb. bush knew that, but he is a republican so the press doesn't care. the obama administration doesn't feel the long held goal to close gitmo is realistic but that's okay, because everything under obama is okay. if i were him and sometimes i pretend i am at night in my closet i start a game called, "what can i get away with?" and i spend time floating odd n f.b.i. investigation. listen to the sot here to get menendez reaction. >> senator, i want to ask you to set the record straight i am hearing all these stories about the f.b.i. investigating you. >> bob: we have heard all the rumors from the daily caller. all the rumors. there is solid press evidence to go on. >> kimberly: bob, we thought this would make you happy. we called senator menendez's office and asked him for a statement, ask if he wants to come on fox. this is what we got. dr. melgin has been a friend and political sup

clearly signaling it's not closing gitmo at all. nary a mention on the big three broadcast network in the morning or evening news shows. but, back in 2009, when president obama announced his announcement to close gitmo, he covered it extensive i. chuck todd said he offered the world another olive branch. bob schieffer said he told the world we'll practice what we preach. >> political analyst on msnbc arguing that republicans are using hateful rhetoric on immigration issue was forced to apologize what many consider a harrell slur. tuesday, karen finney, national communications director said this talking about the g.o.p. the crazy ones on the right, start with the hateful language. that will kill them. let's not talk about race. >> bret: many people took to twitter to call her out saying cracker is a pejorative and racist toward whites. -- >> bret: we report, you decide. great britain is launching a new ad campaign with the message you don't want to live here. british media reports say negative ads would run in bulgaria and romania, h

in the middle of a kiss, they were viciously photobombed. [ laughter ] enjoy -- [ laughter ] enjoy gitmo, malia. [ laughter ] and the more i think about, the less impressed i am with obama's speech. and it's not just me. it's everyone on fox news. [ laughter ] >> the president made the case for big government. >> this speech today was an ode to big government. it was a hymn to big government. at his heart, i think president obama is a socialist. >> stephen: yes, at his heart he is a socialist. ever notice how it shares the blood with all the other organs? [ laughter ] well sorry, obama, your class warfare isn't going to work. fox news contributor and shamwow pitchman stuart varney knows the reason why. [ laughter ] >> rich people, powerful people, in america today, are reviled. they're dismissed as fat cats who don't pay their fair share. we just hate 'em-- rich people are evil. yet, along comes this show "downton abbey"-- rich people prominently featured and they're generous; they're nice people; they create jobs, for heaven's sake; they're classy; they've got style and we love 'em. tha

. >> president signed executive order on closing gitmo two days after the first inauguration.te house counsel could be heard on camera offering reassurance. >> executive order with respect how to dispose of the detainees? >> there will be a process. >> we'll set up a process where beau this will take place. >> after failing to meet the self-imposed deadline, craig left the white house. in media tour of the camp, fox news found president's executive order badly bleached by the cuban sun not far from where detine knees hupping laundry and -- detape knees hung the laundry or watched television. or the new soccer field. no detainees were waterboarded here. teams blame republicans for legislative blocks. >> the president can't do things unilaterally. he has to do things with congress. >> republicans say they are best equipped to hand the men but they point to data. since 2009 the number ofdy tain knees dropped from 242 to 166. but those suspected of returning to the battlefield jumped to 30%. human rights groups say they are disappointed with the president's lack of leadership on g

one thing he said in 2009 shutting down gitmo and it remains open today.ver apologize to america, get your response to these things he said just four short years ago. >> we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. our founding fathers -- our founding fathers faced with perils that we can scarily imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man. a charter expanded by the blood of generations. those ideals still light the world and we will not give them up for expedience sake. we will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waiver in its defense and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you our spirit is longer and cannot be broken. you cannot outlast us and we will defeat you. >> sean: and thereafter, america has become arrogant, he said. >> yeah, look, first of all, i want to compliment the president. i think it was wise for him to reject the goal that he laid out during the campaign of closing gitmo and find it open four years later. and wise

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support for keeping gitmo opened is 62% among democrats.losing gitmo was the throw-away red meat line you would do at any democratic event. >> you have two issue there is. when it comes to national security security, the underlying policy specifically around fear, informs so clearly how little rigorous discussion there is on the one hand. and on the other hand, when it comes to security in the american identity, that becomes this kind of broad support for throwing all forms of terror and torture, whoever you think is the bad guy that did you wrong so pliltally, the democrats capitulate to that particular philosophy. >> i said, that's understandable. we underwent an absolutely horrific attack in 9/11 and it makes sense. historically when there are these crisis or emergencies, there are broad crisis response powers. >> absolutely. >> that are granted and what happens after a period of time is there's retrenchment. >> absolutely. >> what we're not seeing here. and that's the question. >> this gets the fear thing. this is why the 112th congress

elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope to mizzen was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or for jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being obama bartered on to the people that fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that every secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spending us into having a. the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying israel must

elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope to ms and was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what they would be the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety net or the economy or for jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people the fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that whoever secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocket book to spend to keep spinning us into having. the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying

has indicated a willingness to accept him and the president could make a downpayment on the closing gitmo but again perhaps putting it to good i mean why isn't he doing it. is a question you have to put to the president i'm sure that there are many excuses but his commitment to end this injustice of detention without trial is one that we expect him to move on we don't want to see his second term and with that legacy because quantum obeys the one that usually steals the show when it comes to talk of a definite intention and torture but what about the other us in the tree facilities do we even know what's happening in those where there's a lack of transparency about the administration's treatment of those who have been detained in this global war on terrorism or more that has no geographic boundaries and no end and one of the reasons why amnesty and other groups are pushing so hard to close guantanamo bay is because we believe that those authorities that the president has assumed beyond international norms. and are you worried this may cut a spread if you like back obama says indefinite det

twice to sign legislation he first promised to veto that makes it more difficult now for him to close gitmo anytime in the future the national defense authorization act is the pentagon's spending bill but it also includes a section that restricts the executive branch's ability to transfer detainees out as outlined in section ten twenty eight basically the president signed a bill that limits his own authority to carry out a promise he made to the american people there are also sections ten twenty one and ten twenty two from the twenty twelve version of m.d.a. which allow for indefinite detention of prisoners including those who have never even been charged now as far as one hanum of itself there are some detainees who are believed to be al qaeda fighters about eight percent of them the other ninety two percent are not according to the u.s. government eighty six people there have been cleared for release and yet they remain behind bars at guantanamo bay these statistics are part of the reason several hundred people showed up to protest earlier this month on the eleventh anniversary of kuantan

one of -- [ inaudible ] >> eric: so, very quickly, after about the third time i told my son, that's gitmois like shut up. >> kimberly: stop talking. >> eric: fantastic movie. news junkie and following this stuff. >> dana: you get from your dad what they say to bob. shut up, bob. >> bob: all the time. start with you. >> kimberly: goodness gracious. do a royal update. i know you're dying for one. we have nice baby news. they are officially confirming the palace that the duchess of cambridge is expecting a baby. they have not said if it's a by or girl in july. she is not expecting twins, like credible sources like the newspapers

>> gitmo remains open almost four years to the day after that signing. >> as he said on the trail in008 and 2012, the economy was the job won. >> the bill is passed. >> president obama had big hopes for the $787 billion stimulus bill which squeaked through congress in february of 2009 with just three republicans in the senate and no one in the house of representatives voting for it. >> the most sweeping economic recovery package to our history. i hope this investment will ignite our imagination. >> he was calling for the bailout of automakers, general motors and chrysler to the tune of $62 billion. >> we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. >> critics call it a stimulus of waste and question the logic of government owning private companies but others say it saved the economy and called the auto bailout a huge success. >>the bailingout of general motors helped him in ohio and michigan and on the campaign trail. >> geithner, a chief architect of tarp and a.i.g. made the case before congress for tougher regulations on wall street. it led to the dodd-frank bill that the presiden

if the al-qaeda people in gitmo faced real red blooded american cats, who knows what we would find out. >> you are a sick man, ambassador, training cats to torture terrorists. that's the news story i am spreading on twitter when i get home. the new zealand environmentalist wants cats to be eradicated. isn't that always what new zealand wants? >> if you go back to the study in france. you have the socialist kind of thing. we will start killing others. they went after the chiuaua. they said cats kill chiuauas. you have cats and dogs fighting and we are encouraging this. >> the dogs report even safe. the dogs aren't even safe. is this just nature being nature? should we tamper with this or let it unfold? >> my argument is just how much free time this guy has on his hands. but in answer to your question, yes where do the cats come from? they are descendants from the other cats. >> i don't know if you have proof of that. >> this is off the section of the national zoo website dealing with cats. if you look at certain areas around the world, the east african savannah is rich with predators li

want on him obey detention facility remains open why is why this facility remains open with a former gitmo official. web exclusive web producer andrew glegg travels all the way to new zealand to catch up with mega upload creator kim dot com his newest internet adventures and the latest on his extradition case coming up. good evening it's tuesday january twenty second eight pm in washington d.c. my name is christine you're watching our t.v. . i do want to start with the news out of texas this evening several hours ago shots rang out on the campus of lone star college in houston now reports indicate that the shooting occurred between two students in the school's academic building three people have been injured and a fourth person is reported to have suffered a heart attack according to federal law enforcement and one of them is now listed in critical condition the lone star college has released a statement online via twitter the says lone star college confirms that the shooting was the result of an argument between two individuals the statement also confirmed that three were wounded the scho

it will includes limits on transferring gitmo detainees. so long current tv helloal al-jazeera america. they bought the low rated network co founded by president al gore. it plans to shut down current programming. the deal is worth about $500 million. >>> the tax man cometh coming in 20013 and he is wearing surgical scrubs. several new tax increases kicked in tuesday to help pay for president obama's affordable care act including one that has gotten bipartisan concern. jim engel explains from washington. >>> one proposal has drawn fire from democrats as well as republicans a new tax on the sale of most devices. >> this is a sales tax. >> a 2.3 percent tax on virtually every device you may think of those as pacemakers but it's everything contact lenses eye glasses and hearing aids. >> these are companies that make stethoscopes to syringes to x-rays to mri machines to prosecute thetices. >> it canned take revenue from innovative companies still struggling to get a foot hold and hurt job creation leading some democrats who supported the health

meanwhile, what are we learning, catherine, about the administration's plans to close gitmo? obscure internal state department announcement has revealed the administration's direction on closing the guantanamo detention camps. daniel freed, who has been charged with overseeing the transfer of detainees, has been reassigned, and no replacement has been identified. a military source told fox that this is a tacit acknowledgment that closing the camps is not a priority in mr. obama's second term. since 2009 the number of detainees has dropped under president obama from 242 to the current level of 166. 71 have been transferred out, the difference in the math appears to be that single death at the guantanamo camps. it's worth noting in the last four years the access to the camps even for journalists has become more ricked. this is rid slow from 2008 under -- video from 2008 under the bush administration where tours were frequent and included the high and medium security facilities. journalists can no longer tour the camps on the same trips where they cover the military trials. the

. >> bret: gritmo is open -- gitmo is open. fisa was signed. warrantless wiretap operation.reased from president bush. >> we have a clear partisan difference. democrats do drone strikes which some call assassination and republicans do waterboarding and some call that torture. this is clear why this president is doing what he is doing. some of this stuff works. not withstanding what he said in the priest campaign. secondly, it's popular. it's not popular. widely acquiesceed in, with public opinion. he ran for re-election, one of the highest ratings consistently was on the fight against terrorism. he was over 50%. for democrat to score that strongly, on a national security issue was new in our politics. >> bret: charles, the silence from the left and those groups that were loud in the bush years is pretty -- >> hypocrisy is astonishing. but i welcome it. what it means is the rotation of power in a democracy is a fantastic asset. as long as republicans were doing the fisa and the wiretaps and were doing the patriot act in guantanamo and rendition, offense against humanity. demo

me wouldn't let him shut down gitmo, and then he said, i'm not going to veto it, and it's still not closedown. is the president ever going to shut it down or is he playing patty cakes with the republicans and we're going to keep those people in there forever. >> well it's time to exercise political capital and make this happen. he pledged that he was going to close guantanamo. but he has not followed up with lobbying congress and explaining to them why this is so important. in his own statement that he signed, he said keeping guantanamo is a danger to national security. if it is a danger to national security, then he needs to do more that this happens that restrictions are removed we send detainees back and we close the prison. >> cenk: the guys at guantanamo, is there any chance that they still have any intelligence fall down there? >> well, no. guantanamo is an ongoing debacle. from a human rights perspective and national perspective and from an intelligence perspective. no one down there has any actual intelligence. there is no reason to keep it going. >> cenk: thank you so much for joi

he goes further with drones, rendition, gitmo is still open.s a criticism -- >> bob: waterboarding? >> dana: he doesn't capture terrorists to interrogate them. he kills them. apparently is a-okay. >> bob: how else are you going to do it? >> greg: can i finish my point? >> bob: of course. >> greg: thank you. there is not a beep from the press over any of this stuff. so he got this amazing force field in ra sense reflects the factual proof that we have an infantile press. >> eric: bring this house, the "washington post" story dana points out, on the cover, talking about rendition going on. it's practice of holding terror suspects in other countrys and not using due process, but still getting information out of them. 2007, july 1, senator barack obama said practice of shipping away prisoners the dead of night to be tortured in far off countries. september 17, 2010, he said, "eliminate the practice of extreme rendition where we outsource torture to other countrys." here we have the ultimate hypocrisy. once again -- >> andrea: where is the media? >>

in 2009 president obama vowed to close gitmo and transfer prisoners to the united states. >>> former new york city mayor ed koch back in the hospital, having a hard time breathing and talking because fluid built up around his lungs. koch was released saturday after being treated for a week. repeated hospitalizations are common for people battling fluid problems. koch will miss tonight's premier of a documentary, unfortunately, about his life. >>> the italian lawyer put in the slammer for steufg the steak house is off the meat hook. gradzio said chow to his debt paying a $208 tap in court. he was the guy who said he forgot his wallet at home in the hotel and couldn't pay his bill at smith and wo- llensky. sounds like he might not get in too much trouble. he had the cash to pay, he just didn't have it there. >>brian: twa two weeks ago when mark rubio came to this couch and said i got this plan for immigration reform. and dick durbin said we've come together with a gang of eight with a plan for immigration reform and unveiled it yesterday. it seems there is a bipartisan push to get some

basically explain and defend to our allies in meetings why it seems that in the second term closing gitmority. how does he do that? >> well, you're right. it's a big diplomatic problem. it's an unpopular american policy. however, i think we've frankly handled the policy okay. i know president obama did continue to manage the process of having most of the detainees released or otherwise dealt with. as you know the number there today is a very modest fraction of the total that was there in the first place. i think we need to play up that fact more. and also play up that we have created certain kinds of due process. it's not normal american civil law, but due process to reassess the state of each detainee. i think that should go a long way towards satisfying any fair minded view. that's not going to satisfy people around the world. so as you point out, it's a diplomatic challenge. it's damage control. but i'm not sure we can do much better than that. >> do you think then though it's for the president to hand off even a reduced number. but a reduced number of detainees that's been there to th

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