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now as president, i have tried to close gitmo. i transferred 67 detainees to other countries before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states. these restrictions make no sense. after all, under president bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from gitmo with congress's support. when i ran for president the first time, john mccain supported closing gitmo. this was a bipartisan issue. no person has ever escaped one of our super macs in the united states ever. our courts have convicted hundreds of people for terrorism. or terrorism-related offenses including some folks who are more dangerous than most gitmo detainees. they're in our prisons. and given my administration's relentless pursuit of al qaeda's leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never been open. [ applause ] >> so -- let me finish, ma'am. so today -- so today, once again --

prison, it's got to be gitmo. >> well it should be gitmo.ll run a prison as you'll find. prisons are not nice places, but these people were picked up on the battlefield. they are down in guantanamo because of their danger they pose to the united states. there is a process that handles them in a humane way, and closing it i would really want to see what he says, and what he plans to do. bill: well that speech also could touch on the war on terror and how it's changed since 2001. you'll hear a theme of al-qaida designate of mated in areas in afghanistan and pakistan, and touch on the homegrown terror cases like boston, massachusetts. if you agree that the war and terror has changed over the past 12 years, have we in effect changed with it and done that well? >> no. the united states still has not engaged the battle against the ideological battle against the terrorists in the world. and they exist, they are radical islamists. this administration is unwilling to even use the phrase about islamists and training of terrorists. it seems to me that

>> gitmo, fifth question down. talking about the hunger strike at gitmo. president obama doubled down on closing gitmo. here we are, what are we five years since he promised to close gitmo the last time. interestingly enough he kept it open to executive order. >> you didn't think virginia tech was odd to mention. >> eric: the question was should americans be afraid going forward. he said no, ball games and continue to run your marathon. really quickly, ed henry asked the most important question of all. >> dana: the question. do we have it? it was a great question. i'm offended on ed henry. [ laughter ] >> dana: my assistant has it to read for you. >> eric: i have two pages of notes from the press conference. he asked -- i'm assume talking about the benghazi. i'm quoting him, not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked our job is to make sure that embassy are safe and secure. if you have time to be up to speed on all these other things including a phone call to n.b.a. basketball that she gay and coming out, mr. president i think you have tim

he seems more aloof by bringing up gitmo, and to what end? >> he wants you and i tonight to discuss gitmo, instead of discussing the woman yesterday who took the fifth amendment. neil: we led with that. >> a startling development. neil: like washington we can multitask. >> i have legal advice for mr. rosen, he should sue federal government, that would lead to discovery, they violated his civil rights in a way outrage aus by putting him in there as an unindicted coconspirator. >> why do they do it? >> the first judge refused their request to get records, so they

that's gitmo. cigarettes are his gitmo. >> so assad uses chemical weapons and you will quit smoking? >> tobacco is a chemical weapon, guys. look at the studies. do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us, red eye at fox news.com. do you have a video of your animal doing something? no turtles. oh yes, bring the turtle. and click on submit a video and we might use it. still to come, the half time report from tv's andy levy. he is our tortoise. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by jaguars. the large cats in central and south america that are larger and stalkier than help petereds with large spots. thanks, jaguars. >>> well, we will ask andy about that. let's see if we got anything wrong so far. we go to andy levy. hi, andy. >> hi, greg. >> what is wrong? >> that light is blinding. >> i got my teeth cleaned. i went to the dentist. you should try that once in awhile, going to the dentist. >> man blows life savings on carnival game. tom, you seem shocked that his life savings was $2 600. pathe

the problem at gitmo is not that we're holding suspected terrorists. the problem at gitmo is over 50% of the people we're holding have already been cleared scheduled to go home and yet are still there after 11 years. as antithetical to american system of law and the constitution as you can conceive. >> john: 15 seconds. >> if you're talking about abroad clearly gitmo is worse. domestically to target somebody with a drone, you have to know where they are. if you know where they are our constitution says you go and you try to apprehend them so they can have their due process rights. both instances completely violative of the constitution. they're both terrible. >> john: time to declare a winner of tonight's ask a tea partier and the winner is going to be announced right after the break. they thinking? a >> john: as always, when we play ask a tea partier today's winner scottie nell hughes for being such a good sport. >> we knew it. [ applause ] >> john: okay, thank you. if i may my friends today was america's national day of prayer and it was fitting that

the hunger strike at gitmo nears the 100th day. we have a look at when's going on inside that prison. we have exclusive look at the grounds. we want to warn you some of what you are about to see and hear is graphic. >> reporter: cnn got exclusive access to camps five and six. most of the detainees are being held. we saw individual cells, media rooms with leg shackles bolted to the ground. an area that used to be filled with detainees. right now, the camp six denan knees are held in individual cells like these. patrolling those cells, young guards the age of college students. for the first time, we're seeing the faces of those that guard the detainees. >> they use vulgar language and i have had a lot of experience with that, unfortunately. so especially caucasian females they don't like us at all. >> reporter: she is 21 and called every name in the book. >> most common is [ bleep ]. they'll say i'll piss all over your face. they'll say you have had [ bleep ] thrown on you. you've been disrespected. you're thrash now. >> reporter: th

obama is at it again, saying gitmo's got to go.sday, the president promised to revisit the issue. does he think it's critical for us to understand guantanamo is not understand that it is efficient and expensive? >> it is critical for us to understand that guantanamo is not necessary to keep america safe. it is expensive. it is inefficient. >> does he also think it hurts us in terms of our international standing and lessens cooperation with our allies and it is a recruitment tool for extremists and needs to be closed? >> it hurts us in terms of our international standing. it lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts. it is a recruitment tool for extremists. it needs to be closed. >> for more, let's go live to this turtle. >> that reminds me of prom night. when i woke up next to a turtle. i was in the bushes. what could i say? >> lucky. >> tom, if we close this, what's going to happen to those people? nobody wants them. >> i know. there is an island in the south pacific that says they'll take them. but even they

when i ran for president the first time john mccain supported closing gitmo. this was a bipartisan issue. no person has ever escaped one of our super mats or security in the united states, ever. our courts have convicted hundreds of people for terrorism. or terrorism related defenses, including some folks who are more dangerous than most gitmo detainees. they're in our prisons. and given my administration's relentless pursuit of al qaeda's leadership there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never been opened. today -- so -- [ applause ] so, let me finish, ma'am. so today -- so today, once again, today -- i'm about to address it, ma'am, but you've got to let me speak. i'm about to address it. let me address it. why don't you let me address it, ma'am. why don't you sit down and i will tell you exactly what i'm going do do. thank you, ma'am. thank you. thank you. ma'am, thank you. you should let me finish my sentence. today, i once again call on congress to lift the restrictions on detainee tran

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now, as president, i have tried to close gitmo.ed 67 detainees to other countries, before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states. these restrictions make no sense. after all, under president bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from gitmo with congress' support. when i ran for president the first time. john mccain supported closing gitmo. this is a bipartisan issue. no person has ever escaped one of our super max or military prisons here in the united states. ever. our courts have convicted hundreds of people for terrorism. or terrorism related offenses including some folks who are more dangerous than most gitmo detainees. they are in our prisons. given my administration's relentless pursuit, there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never been opened. [heckler] [ applause ] >> quiet down, please. >> let me say, this ma'am. >> very important. th

can you lay out the real story behind gitmo and the issues that we're facing with gitmo?son that it's been so difficult to close is, you know, there are some people in guantanamo who are too dangerous to release and can't be prosecuted. the exact number is a relatively small proportion. there are also people in gitmo who should be there and will be prosecuted by military commissions. there are 86 people that a task force of justice officials, department of defense officials, have cleared for release, which means, either, generally speaking, will be transferred to their home countries, prison system, where they'll be monitored and eventually released or held on to by those countries. so, there are quite -- about half the population is being cleared for transfer to their home countries. the problem there, of course, is that quite a number of them are from yemen. and people who are involved in anti-american attacks, who have been in the yemeni prison system, and who have escaped. so you want to have a yemeni prison situation that you feel very confident about, if you're goin

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 bullets here, guys. >> i like how he is giving a human element to the drones. is this going to be a pixar. >> i have to take a break. >> we have to take a break. coming up, do good luck charms really work? jedediah talks about her book. whatever works jedediah. first, look, it is hot chicks. those must be stockbrokers and a story about stock markets falling after concern the u.s. may scale back monetary efforts. >>> is it grand or a waste land? according to the u.s. census bureau, whatever that is, texas is growing lie leaps and something called bounds. yes, eight of the 15 fastest growing large u.s. cities and towns over the past year were in the lope -- lone star state with people moving there in droves which i believe are large compa

can and will gitmo be closed?ansfers of some detainees out of gitmo for the first time in awhile. but i don't think gitmo itself will be closed any time soon. that remains a distant prospect largely for political reasons. >> transfers where. here in the states? overseas? >> no transfers, the initial transfers i think we'll see will go overseas. there are a number of -- 86 of the detainees there have already been approved for these transfers. it's just a matter of getting the certifications to get those transfers going again. 56 of them have been -- are yemeni. they're from yemen. so there's been a lot of concern about political instability in yemen and what might happen if they were returned to that country and fears they could be released or escape. >> for those who might be transferred elsewhere here in the states how is that different in terms of their treatment and everything about it? than being kept in gitmo. >> well, of course, they can't be trazer iffed here to the united states, congress has blocked that

gitmo's growing tab.night the calls continue to grow louder and louder and louder for the military to stop 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 hope. we have been given this access and reporting on the 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 four years have passed and the president's smiling face is still posted at the prison's headquarters. >> continue to believeguantanam. >> it costs taxpayers $25,000 a year to keep someone in federal prison. in a high security prison where convicted terrorists ar

but after him not closing gitmo and closing down the office that was in charge of closing gitmo i thinkse things are contradictory of what he set out to do. >> cenk: yeah, how about that, colonel davids. what are we supposed to do about that 48. what the president said in the speech, there is tainted evidence against them because the torture etc. but trust me i know they're guilty so we're going to indefinitely detain them i guess literally until the end of time and never give them a trial. what are we supposed to do with that group and is the president really betraying the american principles he says he's defending by saying we'll never try them. >> let me address two things. i think david brought you will military justice. we're not using the military justice process that would have applied to me when i was in the military. this is a subset unique to these detainees which is more of a statement of what we did to them rather than what they did to us. the notion of picking it up and bringing it to the u.s. a second rate system here is just as bad as a second rate system in guantanamo. p

instead, in the same speech he talks about ro closing gitmo. how do you gather intel is by getting the terrorists and interrogating them. seems to me that is missing link. you can look back the f.b.i. has looked back so many times in row. >> what is the cogent policy. they reported yesterday we have the benghazi killer and he is not droning them. think he looks terribly tone deaf to talk about something we already know. >> eric: parents you won't want to miss this one. bob has some advice. don't go away. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so you can make easy, no-fee reloads with cash and checks... and know you're not on your own. so you can get the reloadable card that keeps up with you. chase liquid. so you can. ♪ ♪ >> bob: there was a study published in the journal of american academy of pediatrics which says that links between snacking when you were kid and mental illness when you are adult. more likely to develop illnesses and anxiety disorders or become alcoholics. let me say, spanking once or twice and geting the hell beat out of you every day, i didn't i did beco

yesterday there was a code yellow medical emergency at gitmo, a regular occurrence at the prison. medics were called to the cell after a prisoner was reported nonresponsive. the prisoner was examined and determined to be okay. only six are facing active charges. 86 have never been charged with a prime and approved to release three years ago. two weeks have passed since then, the house has still not appointed an official to oversee the closure of the prison and oversee the transfer of detainees. when asked about it yesterday, attorney general holder replied that the administration was in the process of working on that. joining us is carol rosenberg who's been reporting since the first detainee arrived there in 2002. thanks for joining the show, and thanks for your continued reporting from gitmo, which is massively underdiscussed. since you have covered it for an extensive period of time, can you give us a sense of what it is like there now, with 86 detainees who are not charged with anything? >> well, the vast majority of them aren't charged with anything, as you said, only six are

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to hold military tribunals for gitmo detainees as well. now, ambassador, congress resoundingly said no to both before. how is it going to be any different now? >> well, i don't think it will be any different. i think the dominant theme of the speech is probably the precise opposite of what the president intended 0 to convey. he still doesn't understand the nature of the war against terror. he said repeatedly he wants to detain and prosecute terrorists as if this is a normal criminal law system problem rather than a war, not that we want to wage in perpetuity but this thing waged against us, and that informs the confused and internally contradictory statements the made, including once again coming back to trying to get rid of gitmo. >> kaitlin, i want to put up a knocks news poll on gitmo. a huge under of men's, 63%, do want to keep it open. senator kelly ayad, said -- we talked to her a couple hours ago. he said there is little appetite in congress for sitting it down. >> that's my sense and republicans want more assurances about what will

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what about gitmo, wendell?>> reporter: we expect the president will reaffirm his commitment to close the facility, but it's hard to see how he'll deliver. more than half the 86 detainees who have been cleared to return to their home conditions -- or home countries are from yemen. he signed an order that basically blocks anyone from going back there after the so-called underwear bomber tried to blow up a jet liner at christmas, 2009. that still leaves about a hundred of the hardest cases. >> the ones that are left are the most difficult ones. they're the worst of the worst. they're the ones that either we couldn't find any place to send them, or the people in those countries would have let them go, or the people in those countries might not have handled them in the kind of humane way that we believe prisoners should be handled. >> reporter: you can add to that a bipartisan majority of congress is still keeping the administration from trying and jailing the gitmo detainees inside this country. jenna? jenna: we're

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seems more aloof by bringing up gitmo, and to what end? wants you and i tonht to discuss gitmo, instead of discussing the wom yesterday who took the fifth amendment. neil: we led with that. >> a startling development. neil: like washington we can multitas >> i have legal adve for mrrosen, hehould sue federal government, that would lead to discovery, they violated his civil rights in a way outrage ausy putting him in there as an undicte coconspirator. >> why do they do i >> the first judge refused their requt to get rords, so they had to ratchet it u t make it appear he was committing a crime, and suggested he was a flight risk, how absd. >> he is wn you all go out to eat and pick up the tab. >> he got a heck of aawsuit, he should bridge it they violated his civil rights, they liabled him, they defamed him. neil: he is part of a larger pan of wheth the obama administration dirtly, but tramplingn a lot of things. >> it is, there is a connection with what irs is doing, and justice department, they are doing his bidding, they are trying to ple

neil: that protester calls for president to close gitmo. the president not liking the interceptions. i heard rude say really? america's mayor. and a day after a terror attack in london. mayor, awkward? >> probably never a good time to announce that you will take all of these terrorists out of gitmo, when nobody wants them, i don't know where he is going to put them. neil: you would think after yesterday's development he would put it off. >> the whole idea there is no global war we just had an attack in london, we have an attack in boston from two guys, maybe more, who did it in the name of jihad in the name of islamic extremist terrorism. we have this attack at fort hood is is described as workplace violence, the guy was shooting out yelling allah akbar, this is like a serial killer, there are 30 cereal killings, and -- serial killings, and you prefuse to admit there is a connection. neil: you do say the word terror, the president, you cite these incident the. global terror war, what is -- >> pretend they are isolatedins incidents of people

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sent a letter to the white house reminding the president he had a way to bypass congress on closing gitmo more than a year ago levin writes i successfully fought for a national security waiver that provides a clear route for the transfer of detainees to third countries in appropriate cases this is the president's first option using this national security waiver senator levin included the waiver in that same defense authorization bill allowing for the transfer of any prisoner out of good mo if quote the transfer is in the national security interests of the united states and the president did specifically say that go. antonymous always against our national security interests and that keeping it open it serves as a recruitment tool for extremists yet in more than a year since this law was passed in this waiver created the president has not once used it to release a single prisoner from guantanamo even while four prisoners have died there since he took office u.s. army captain and give most turn to jason right questions whether these men should be prisoners at all worse the worst who have don

>> take them gitmo.lligence out of gitmo on a prosecution about this? >> don't you think that is why they aren't picking them up? because he says he wants to close gitmo. he tries them this in civilian court. he flip-flopped on that issue. they could argue we war. them because they will lead us to other intelligence sources. i am not buying it. what really is b.s., the "new york times" identified the culprits sitting at cafe drinking down to the detail, mango juice and issued, strawberry and were they monitoring their phones too. >> bob: they didn't have enough evidence to convict them. >> greg: that is what is so confusing. bush is droning and administration is about erratic as lindsay lohan's heartbeat. none of these super sleuths were allowed to find out who pushed the video. >> the video maker is in court. he is rotting in jail. >> they are taking their time. glaciers move faster. >> eric: so according to the "new york times," president obama has his kill list and has whatever criterion. we are going

we'll try to talk gitmo and bush legacy. that ought to be a fascinating conversation. later in the program i've got climate change for you, i've got possibly the most racist ad ever. interesting. let's get started with guns. this weekend in houston the n.r.a. gathers for its

why don't we put congress in gitmo. >> bill: because congress -- gitmo is too good for some of these in congress. no, you know what? let's do what we do on this country. if we got the facts, let's file the charges combination them and bring them to trial and then they are guilty or not. that's the only way to find out but keeping people, you know this is the russian gullag. this is something we've always said america would never do is lock people up and keep them there forever without ever having a chance to go to trial. right? we don't do this. oh, yes, we do. eliot spitzer is next. >> radio meets television, "the bill press show," now on current tv. audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. s

most of gitmo's current occupants have been there to mark both, without trial. a dispute in february over conditions at the prison led to an armed clash, a six-man hunger strike that began on march 4th has grown to involve as many as 100 inmates, four of whom have been hospitalized the cries haz guards for-feeding them by strapg them to restrained chairs and forcing nutritional supplements. one detainee, samir described what it's line -- i will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube. as it was thrust in, it made me feeling like throwing up. there was agony in my chest, throat and stomach, i would not wish this cruel punishment on anyone. on monday at least 40 medical reinforcement arrived to assist in the crisis, which has prompted sharp criticism from the american medical association. in a letter to defend secretary chuck hagel, it says force-feeding violates core ethical values of the medical profession and every competent patient has the right to refuse medical intervention, including life-sustaining intervention, as of today conditions at t