steve: president obama spent eight years trying to shut down gitmo while detainees returning to terror pose little threat to the united states. one of them carried out a attack in iraq. a british national released from gitmo who later was able to travel to syria and joining up isis as well has killed himself. here to discuss is deputy assistant to president trump dr. sebastian goreca. good morning to you, sebastian. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning, everybody. steve: does it surprise that you this isis suicide bomber in iraq was a former gitmo detainee? >> unfortunately it doesn't. if you look at the great work done at the long journal people like tom jocelyn. we know that at least 30 if not more than 40% recidivism rate from the people released at gitmo. so, president obama released lots and lots of people that were there for a very good reason of what happened. almost half the time they returned to the battlefield. this individual not only was he released, he was given compensation of more than a million dollars by the british government. who claimed he had been mall treated. a

first, president trump has vowed no more detainees will be released from gitmo. >> gitmo, we're keeping that open. and we're gonna load it up with bad dudes. >> narrator: npr correspondent arun rath follows the complicated story of one of the last to be released. >> do you think there was a misunderstanding about the terms of your release? >> narrator: and later, a collaboration with retro report, drawing on rare footage, a forgotten story about guantanamo's past. >> it felt like you were in prison. i mean that's what it was to us. it was being in a prison. >> narrator: how the u.s. naval base became a detention center for haitian refugees. and the legal battle that set the stage for today. >> this is essentially guantanamo, episode one. >> narrator: tonight, two stories about guantanamo-- its past and present. >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant

put them in gitmo. no rush to close gitmo. >> greg: there is no alternative for it.ttlefield as a earth, which is where it is, they are everywhere. it's the only option. and it's in cuba. >> bob: put them on trial. >> kimberly: why? they don't have the rights. they are not u.s. citizens. >> eric: imagine what they could call for. >> kimberly: let them go ahead and spread jihad in the american prison system. that's exactly what we need. give me a break. we have enough problems with gangs, people like ms 13. >> greg: and the irish gangs, bob. >> dana: i would end by saying that there have been -- i think the school of thought backed up by some evidence that for a long time gitmo was the recruiting school for jihadists. they would say look what they are doing to us at gitmo. i think that's past. that was back 12 years ago, 15 years ago. i think we have a safe place to put jihadi's that we can get intelligence from on hold. we should do it. >> eric: it's not even on american soil. it's out the continents. >> kimberly: lu got to go. directly ahead, who are democrats going

guy in gitmo picked up in afghanistan, that's where they got him.oose in britain because he's a british national. if they sent him back to britain, pick it up. >> bill: he was born ronald fiedler, 50 years old. big human rights effort to get them out of gitmo back in 2010, he did. he was part of a lawsuit in which 16 other men got 12 and a half million dollars. from the british government because they sent him to gitmo in the british government said there wasn't any evidence against him, they said he was in the sudan it connected to al qaeda. >> bill: the guy's was the british government but what if they have to do with them going to gitmo, that was a usa operation print >> they facilitated, he served two years in gitmo. the lawsuit was 2010. this bill and how much did you get from london? >> $1.2 million. >> bill: 1.2 million he's back in britain. >> he's back in britain in 2004, 2014 after a decade his sister said he couldn't get a job he goes to syria. there is a furor that he was able to leave. he's in syria and isis says he's the one driving th

intelligence figures, 18% of former gitmo detainees have return today terror.n 12% of suspects are doing so, those are the numbers president takes very seriously as he vows to keep guantanamo bay open. >> the president said before, we don't telegraph what we are going to do. he has made clear that he believes that guantanamo bay served a healthy purpose in the national security and make sure we don't bring terrorists to our seas. jackie: john kelly tells katherine, gitmo cells may soon be filled with home-grown jihadists as well. >> if an american terror suspect was overseas, would you support sending them for guantanamo bay for questioning? >> if it was legal, i think guantanamo offers some opportunity. >> settlement money for his so-called suffering at gitmo which he accepted before reportingly fleeing to fight with isis in syria, very upsetting. heather: obama administration was warned about this possibility, so -- thank you, jackie. >> the antisemietic threats targeting our jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a sad remind

gitmo is a jail . enough. extreme betting Ãit sounds like something horrible.iscrimination. how dare you keep everyone out. yes. gitmo, borders Ãthey are so mean. why shouldn't they be? his words are rough but times are tough. don't hire anybody to be a guard dog. >> jillian, you are anational security expert. are they that out of bounds?i found the reasonable . it's a little bit different. he is straight out of brooklyn. so, what i was going to say was that he's not talking to tough. it's that he sounds like. >> you spelledit out . [laughter] i play it safe. >> he didn't sound like he so tough to me. these guys are terrible. we have to get rid of them. they are bad dudes.>> you rememberwhen tommy , the obama era spokesperson was on special report. it's one of our dish network programs. he said the word dude and everyone freaked out. now, the president says dude in a national dress. >> he's like do Ãcome on. >> it's insulting. >> rob, have you bought my theory that is fairly traditional?he's not a polished politician. he will do a really weird thing in washingt

could americans end up in gitmo?t the white house is saying about that and oliver north here to weigh in. plus there is this today. >> abby: demonstrators fighting the dakota access pipeline facing a deadline to get out hours away. will this be their last stand? that's coming up. olay eyes. ageless. whattwo servings of veggies? v8 or a powdered drink? ready, go. ahhhhhhhh! shake! shake! shake! shake! shake! done! you gotta shake it! i shake it! glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesn't, saving you in out-of-pocket medical

he was released from gitmo, got a million pound compensation from some lawsuit he filed.ese are bad dudes, to quote trump. they need to be kept there. >> bret: the bbc is reporting the pentagon want to go that far as of yet. there is clearly a problem that has been all over the globe. i want to turn, mara, to this issue of anti-semitism. the president dealing with that today. his daughter, ivanka, tweeted out last night, "america is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. we must protect our houses of worship and religious centers." this is after all these series of threats today, this morning. hillary clinton tweets out "cemetery desecration and attacks are so troubling. they need to be stopped, everybody must speak out, starting with the potus." here is today. >> president trump: i think it is horrible. whether it is anti-semitism or racism or anything you want to think about, having to do with the divide, anti-semitism, likewise, it is just terrible. >> bret: they reiterated that at the press briefing. >> they even had a statement that he read about it.

i think people are itching to repopulate gitmo. >> actually charles, bad dudes do bad things, that'sot surprising, what's surprising is when you find out these people were paid. we paid these people and released them. extremely troubling. american policymakers, european policymakers need to take a hard look who these people are and reconsider releasing them. president trump is right. he gets criticized for the way he uses words and things he said. when you load up guantanamo bay with bad dudes, need to be sustaining it, if not keeping these people. there it's unbelievable to think we paid these people before releasing them. charles: yeah, captain nash, it is unbelievable, and a lot of people, the british government actually -- he was a british citizen, they appealed to us to let him go, we were treating him inhumanely, and gave him a million pounds, he lived in a quarter of a million-dollar house. took a picture of himself in this truck before he blew himself up. a million pounds and a new lease on life isn't enough to deter these guys. nothing can, we should keep them locked up if w

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he may be a gitmo detainee.icknamed the briton held from 2002 to 2004. he sued and won a million-dollar settlement from the british government. his return to terror could make him part of a draw dropping statistic showing 18% of detainees return to the battlefield. and colorado authorities defending their controversial release of illegal immigrant later arrested for murder. the denver sheriff's department said it had no legal grounds to hold him after posting bond for theft charges. just weeks later he is charged with robbing and killing man. ice claims it was only given 25 minutes before -- notice before the department released him defying federal order to hold him. also in this morning. brand new heart-stopping video of tmz of the moment that harrison ford came within seconds of an air disaster. watch this. you can see his yellow plane passing just feet over american airlines jet with over 100 people packed on board that flight. the 74-year-old actor missing the runway as well instead of landing on taxiway on

so yeah, gitmo, borders, there also mean, but why shouldn't they be. trump's words are rough but times are tough. are his initiatives that out of bounds? i find them reasonable. he is straight out of brooklyn. >> what i was going to say is it's not that he's talking to tough and too bad, it's that he sounds like. >> is so unclear to me what i am allowed and not allowed to say on television . he doesn't sound like he so tough to me. he sounds like my uncle at thanksgiving. when he talks about national, he says these guys are terrible, we've got to get rid of them. they're bad, they're bad dudes. do you remember when the obama era spokesperson, i think he was on special report, it was one of this networks program. he said the word dude and everybody freaked out. now the president is saying dude in a national address, but he's saying bad dudes when tommy said he was saying like what's up dude. it was insulting. due by my theory, he's fairly traditional but he's speaking our language but he's going to do something really weird in washington and say what he

. >> bill: the trump team now planning to keep the detention center open at gitmo.a former detainee recently went back to the battlefield. is keeping that facility open the right call? a former green beret commander gives us his take on that next. >> shannon: talk about having a golden ticket. some lucky lotto player is waking up today a multi-multi-millionaire. did you buy a ticket, bill? >> bill: not this time. >> shannon: it's not us, then. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ only at&t offers you all your live channels and dvr on your devices. data-free. entertainment. your way. only from at&t. >> bill: as we reported last hour here on america's newsroom a sad day for the fox news family. our friend and colleague alan colmes has left us too soon. his family releasing a statement that reads the following. alan colmes passed away this morning after a brief illness. he was 66 years old. he leaves his adoring and devoted wife jocelyne crowley. he was a brilliant guy. hysterical and moral. fiercely loyal and the only thing he loved more than his work was his life with jocelyne. he will be missed

they have never shown that a travel ban or gitmo aids and recruitment.e do know your adversaries always say that when ever you go after your enemy, that helps your enemy. but they are trying to tell you is, please, be a sitting duck, don't do anything, let us come and kill you, death to america. >> the ninth circuit court of appeals decided not on the merits of the executive order. they decided washington state would be harmed if this travel ban were to stay in place. mention that some unnamed person from another country who is not even a citizen here, somehow not getting to the state of washington wasn't going to harm the state. trump pointed out they will fight this on the merits of the executive order. on the merits, the executive order will probably stand. >> first of all, is he on vacation? >> no. but you did read some of your research. >> i did. interesting, "the wall street journal" and charles krauthammer who said it was hastily written, they deserve what they got, it was bad policy. but on the merits of the wall that it will win. ultimately, if

what do you mean expand gitmo? >> absolutely.alked about using guantanamo bay to keep enemy combatants, to keep really bad people in a secure facility off u.s. soil where they don't add additional or gain additional rights, to make sure that we can get the intelligence we need from them to protect our men and women in uniform around the globe. steve: all right. i know that donald trump is working on apparently an executive order regarding gitmo. >> that's correct. steve: have you guys been dialed in? are you part of the process at this point? >> there has been some information that we have seen from elements of the white house. what we know is a focus, i hope, as our letter mentioned on this periodic review board that has let some really bad people be released. have you people in guantanamo bay right now, the nephew of khalid sheik mohammed helped plan the september 11th attacks. steve: sure. >> you have got people in there who bombed the "u.s.s. cole." have you bad professional jihadist who don't deserve to be on u.s. soil. they

we're showing pictures of this former gitmo prisoner. he was captured in 2001, released in 2004, eventually given a million british pounds for what he endured at gitmo and a couple of years ago went through turkey joined isis and was engaged in suicide attack on irkies. what can you tell us. >> the most important thing is the dates. 2001 when he was picked up, when he was released. that points to two problems. we were not at all careful who we rounded out and put in there nor were we careful about who we let go. this is a conflict we had with the british government i forget how many. there were a number of british citizens and they wanted them released. back in 2004 that was done. a lot of people take that statistics and they say look at all the guantanamo inmates that president obama were released. but they were all vetted and determined to be releasable. back in the bush administration it was more chaotic. after 9/11, when the afghan war started iraq war started there was a lot of chaos and uncertainty and i think this particular inmat

logic behind the gitmo release. sure, some will return and try to kill you but at least we are trying to do the right thing. it's worth a few bad guys getting through view can demonstrate your moral superiority. enhanced security, longer jail sentences, real borders. feel-good sentiment over safety, it's the exact opposite of a border, travel ban, new prison. it is a child's view versus an adult. if america wasn't so lucky to have a moat of oceans, the infant would turn the country into a porous hellhole. it is something adults understand. restriction enhanced freedom, security maintains rights. for liberals, restrictions are mean and i can't being -- bear being seen as mean. the right doesn't mind being hated. we get it. a locked door is exclusionary, and how dare your safety take priority over progressive emotions. adults accept being unpopular and safe. it beats being admired and dead. member how the left always champion safe sex. the key is protection. extreme vetting is terror control. it is a catastrophe condo

himself up in mosul this week was that person was a former gitmo prisoner.e turned out to be 50-year-old run finland born in manchester, england who turned to islam, was captured in afghanistan and taken to guantÁnamo bay where he was for two years and the tony blair government lobbied for his really saying he has been misunderstood, he needs to get out of gitmo. under pressure the us released him, went back to britain, he sued for cruel and unusual punishment for his arrest in the first place, the government caved, gave him 1 million pounds, basically to buy his silence which is 11/$4 million because back to manchester, buys a house, can't get a job and years later goes back to syria to fight for isis and all ends with a car bomb attack on a military facility in the last several days near mosul in iraq. stuart: and he got 1 million pounds of british taxpayers. a crazy story. stuart: this one. maybe you like this. 214 violent protesters indicted on felony charges because they were rioting on inauguration day. >> 219 out of 230 arrested. these individuals fac

hold on, we have more on gitmo and executive order. ashley: we do.ing from sources within the trump administration, what we can expect on gitmo is not exactly going to move the earth, quote, unquote. it's rather the order will be intend today start changing changing the culture with regard to gitmo. they say there's no need for executive order to keep it open. it's already open, 1600 civilian and military personnel. it says what we are going to do is signal to the u.s. and war on terror is shifting back to the approach of capture and learn rather than not kill and sweep up. stuart: that's important. at the moment we drone them and kill them and you can't interrogate them. ashley: now get intelligence. >> that's such an important point what you made about drone and kill because that gets people overseas, jihadi's upset and that's underreported issue. >> the constitution doesn't and the laws don't and basic morality. [laughter] stuart: surely you would be in favor of this, capture, interrogate them in whatever you come to terms. >> any way in accordanc

>> and who's responsible now that they're out of gitmo. >> go to pbs.org/frontline for our virtual reality film "battle for mosul 360" with reporter ghaith abdul-ahad. >> two, three months since isis fled this area. it was set alight by isis. >> and read more of his reporting for frontline and the guardian. find out more about the making of battle for iraq in our interview with producer, josh baker. connect to the frontline community on facebook and twitter, and sign up for our newsletter at pbs.org/frontline. >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and ine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. and by the frontline journal

. - gitmo, right? guantanamo bay. which, by the way-- which, by the way, we are keeping open. which we are keeping open. and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me. we're gonna load it up. - with some bad dudes. bad dudes, get on in there. yeeah! and obama's trying to baby-trump-proof everything he can. think about it. he rallied democrats to fight to keep the affordable care act so that 20 millions would not go uninsured. he's made it harder for states to deny funding to planned parenthood. not to mention, he changed the password on the white house computer to "popularvotelol." and on top of that, just last week, president obama's justice department released a damning report exposing the chicago police department for routinely trampling on civil rights and using excessive force, which was chiefly aimed at african americans and latinos. yeah. and the reason the obama administration rushed this report out was because they knew. when jeff sessions is running baby trump's justice department, the only reports we're gonna get about the police is about how handsome t

he was released from gitmo, then what happened?> apparently it wasn't until 2014 he then became radicalized and made his way to syria and according to our affiliates channel 4 here in the united kingdom his wife tried to get him to come back and a couple of days ago he attempted a suicide bottom attack. they call him -- obviously in reference to the fact that he is a british national but really of course this story has as a lot of different twists and turns because when he was released in 2004 from guantÁnamo bay it was at the request of britain, now it seems as though isis is saying he is the one who blew himself up in iraq. >> doesn't this lead to bigger questions about detainees, release, nefarious questions once they're out? >> yeah, that's what's been found out statistically that are people who were detained in guantÁnamo bay, and went to iraq and syria and did things like this. it seems more are being radicalized and trying to go to those places but that certainly is a concern as we have been talking about various administrat

people keep saying it's a recruitment troll and they say that about gitmo. there is no evidence.he press was when the decision came down. they were so excited but it was like the press one.it's a bit weird. >> they have been getting up so badly. the press was dishonest. >> untruthful. >> this is a the clintons that are just so honest as the day is long.>> they are off by about 20 points. i don't think this guy knows how to tell the truth but he gets himself in trouble. >> would you get this from? >> out of his mouth. >> that wasn't even the question. >> anyone who wants to go on about it Ãit's how many people who came out to vote illegally Ãwhy does he let them go. >> can i ask you a question? straight up Ãwhy do you hate him so much? >> idon't . >> we don't like each other but i don't hate the guy. i think he could be a nice guy but if the president of the united states Ãhe will not make it. >> the liberals are getting old and scary Ãnot talkingabout you but if you look at your side Ãit really is . >> that's a good argument. >> he was doing that trump thing. >> this is a crazy s

. >> gitmo could be expanding. plan under president trump for the prison, we will tell you about that. >> how can that be? everyone chocolates. >> i need chocolate. >> sweet treat just in time for valentine's they, "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> good morning. it's valentine's day. i almost forgot about that. you're watching "fox & friends first". >> thanks for starting your day was. thanks to fox news alert. security adviser front and center after white house shake-up. >> general mike flynn retiring overnight after calls to russia. griff, what happened and who is standing no n to replace him now? >> good morning, heather and rob. michael flynn, general flynn issuing the statement late last night. quote, unfortunately because of the fast-pace of events i briefed the vice president elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the russian embassador. i sincerely apologize to the president and vice president and they have accepted my apology. flynn had initially

president obama who worked hard to close the facility before he left office. 41 prisoners now remain at gitmoat's down from 242. nearly 18% of those detainees have returned to the fight according to government statistic. military judge slamming president trump calling his words to describe the disgraced army sergeant bow burdough. >> he was a rotten rotten deserter, a no good trader. who should have have been executed. heather: they played it during a pretrial hearing in north carolina claiming the soldier cannot get a fair trial. the judge has not made the decision yet. the u.s. tradeed taliban's worst for his return. >> playing host to celebration of violence against police. the afro-american cultural center planning a black panther party as part as black history month. movement known for its violence. school has not commented. yale also putting the pc pressure on clemson over slavery ties. clemson students unfortunatelying school to rename building, renewing calls to name after senator south carolina who was a slave owner. the school has yet to budge. heather: yukon's basketball team net 1

>> really it has to do with ruling of immigrants that were, detained at gitmo, and they said they had due process and habbuous corpus rightses and the base in guantanamo, cuba was defactor american soil. this is not the same thing. mexican soil is mexican soil. mexican soil whether five feet or 20 or a continent away. it is not controlled by the united states and constitutional rights cannot be exported across the border. not the fourth amendment or fifth amendment. i am sorry the child died and everybody grease on that. that is not the facts of the case. it is a larger legal principle of how far does the united states constitution extend and it does not go beyond the board. >> jon: brian, you have a different opinion. you think constitutional rights do apply to the mexican? >> this is a case where logic should trump legalities. it is not a case about the u.s. constitution. it is a case about humanity. we live in a country that implores others on human rights. but we set an example that it is okay for a border patrol agent to murder an unarmed 15-year-old who is playing and posed no r

greg: they said that about gitmo.er thing, too, is how giddy the press was when the decision came down. they were so excited. it was like the press won. that's a bit weird to me. >> yeah, but, listen, they've been getting beaten up so badly, there was a poll to show that the press was unpopular -- >> dishonest. >> dishonest. also something we didn't know. >> untruthful. >> ands this is, this is a big deal -- >> boy, those clintons, they're just as honest as the day is long. >> half the americans think that donald trump doesn't tell the truth, and that's -- i'll tell you they're off by about 20 points. i don't think this guy knows how to tell the truth. he gets himself in trouble. >> where are you getting this from? >> what do you mean? out of his mouth. >> no. that wasn't even the question. >> anybody who wants to keep going on about he's still back to how many people turned out to vote illegally in new hampshire -- >> i ask you a question? >> yes, sir. >> straight up, straight up, just honest, as honest as you -- why

i believe you were stationed at gitmo too, is that correct? >> i was there from september september 2002 to october 2003. liz: how many states are you coming from? >> we have veterans coming from every state in the union including alaska and hawaii when we came in december. we had veterans of foreign militaries have come. people all over the world is coming to see what is happening at standing rock. liz: they are in support not of the oil company as i understand it but you are standing in support of the sioux tribe. are you sioux? what is behind your support of this? >> i can't speak for all of the veterans in the country obviously, nor can i speak for many thousands who came with us out here in december. i can speak for me. when i came into the army the balkan wars were happening and we went there to stop genocide. what i've seen of what's been happening here in standing rock since april, if you replace a bubber bullets with live ammunition, to me that looks like genocide is. it is flagrant violation of constitutional rights, especially first

this is rooted in line of case about the rights of gitmo, those accused of serious misconduct, the court saying although we know deference to the president's determination on immigration and it is "beyond question that the judges have authority, action -- it's interesting because it speaks to what you have been discussing, immigration touching that who we let in but this case is saying those determination would not be precedent. what is the basis for this. a ruling that people are going to have strong feelings and disagreement about around the country. look, the idea that this could not be reviewed, justice department says nobody in the court should look at this, runs contrary to the structure of our democracy and they sidecite a c that george bush lost. >> senator, how broad do you think -- especially and it m cos to issues of immigration, national security? >> i agree this is a teachable moment. the legislature, the article 1, -- we should have given clear direction as to how people come to america. that leaves a void for the president and the president gets more discretion because con

logic behind the gitmo release.e will return and try to kill you but at least we are trying to do the right thing. it's worth a few

barack obama swore he was going to shut down gitmo right away.e eight years and figured he couldn't shut down debit know. elise jordan, the president campaigns like it's 1944 and he is going to have a sneak attack across the english channel for d-day. it is 2017. there are satellites all over the place and tles no sneak attack in the middle of the desert. if you move any troops around everybody will know that. yes, we will have a sneak attack. no, not even in the middle of the night. is there no sneak attack. this is one more example of donald trump talking big on on the campaign trail and becoming elected president of the united states and learning what all presidential candidates learn. it's a little bit tougher once you're in there. >> this rhetoric really bothered me on the campaign trail because it was so ignorant and showed no curiosity and understanding what it's like for a modern military to wage a battle like this. what is more concerning now is that he is actually commander in chief and is still making the exact same statements and hasn

. >> we're not closing gitmo.sident have gotten into a spat with michael moore after his speech railing with president trump arguing misleadingly about who opposed the war first. >> i was against the war in iraq from the beginning. >> all we know for sure is with millions of people watching the president will be ready. tweets ablazing for hollywood's biggest night. >> look at these people. what a bunch of losers, i'll tell you. you are a loser. >> make sure to stay with cnn for a huge political week. cnn will have full coverage beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and on wednesday senator john mccain and lindsey graham will participate in the next town hall. thanks for watching. i'm jake tapper. fareed zakaria is next. ♪ why do so many businesses rely on the u.s. postal service? because when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. ♪ that's why we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ here, there, everywhere. united states postal service priority : you dearthere's no

are we going to look forward to maybe the next couple days, next couple of weeks on some sort of gitmoy going forward? >> well, the president has said he will address any number of the issues that he talked about during the campaign. remember, first and foremost, this man that i work with every day, he is focused on the nation's security and, you know, in that regard, he has stated in the past his position on guantanamo bay. he has stated his position on terrorism. he has stated his position on isis. they are not to be contained or, you know, ignored. they are to be eradicated off the face of the earth. even in his joint press conference and his meetings today with prime minister abe, of course, they are talking about how their relationship, the japan-u.s. relationship is one of the corner stones of freedom and prosperity and democracy. but it also goes to national security interests, security interests internationally. >> eric: let's talk about this also today it's been resonating "the washington post as you know claims that secretary flynn had talked to the russian people about sanct

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politically the notion that someone who is not an american who is in gitmo because they might have been a terrorist doesn't get to come use our courts and our benefits. it was politically appealing. the supreme court rejected that said even with national security, there's access to the court. that reviewable thing is something that has not obviously been accepted by the ninth circuit or even other courts. for example, they did get a positive ruling that's been talked about less by district court in boston but that also did review and take the case. it didn't dismiss it for lack of standing and didn't basically say this is such a differential item of national security we're not going to touch it at all. they lost that round but there's a lot of other strong arguments on their side when they get to the merits. >> i want to talk about something else that i saw not necessarily on the travel ban, but on donald trump's national security adviser, michael flynn, who came in, sat down in the front row of that news conference. this is coming amid some serious allegations that he's facing. he flat

. >> gitmo, we're not closing it down. >> would the president have gotten in a spat with michael mooreling against president bush in the iraq war in 2003 arguing about who opposed the war first. >> i was against the war in iraq from the begin. >> all we know for sure is that with millions of people watching, the president will be ready. tweets ablazing for hollywood's biggest night. >> look at these people. what a bunch of losers, i tell you. you are a loser. >> make sure to stay with cnn for a huge political week. this tuesday president trump will make his first fort worth congress. then on wednesday senator's john mccain and lindsey graham parm in the town hall that begins at 9:00 p.m. on wednesday. thanks for watching. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $6.95 per trade? uhhh- and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $6.95 online equity trades and a satisfac

bush on gitmo. 1974. nixon on the watergate tapes that he didn't want to release. they don't usually do it in that kind of tone or call judges so-called, and president obama was pretty self-conscious about it, talking about all due deference to the separation of power. >> for reading a 1986 letter written by coretta scott king opposing jeff sessions, who was nominated at the time for federal judgeship. now, of course, he is the president's nominee for attorney general, and as we have it right now, senior congressional reporter manu raju has elizabeth warren next to him right now, as a special guest. manu, take it away. >> last night, as you were carrying forward with your criticism of senator sessions, you were warned multiple times by the presiding officers, by senators that this could actually violate the rules of deck decorum in the senate. you pressed on anyway. why did you do that knowing it could violate the rules of decorum? >> i went to the floor to debate whether jeff sessions should be the attorney general of the united states. what i did was i quoted fro

will we refill gitmo? >> gitmo as i said before, is not just a detention facility.ery nicely to your, not just a detention facility. it linkses very nicely to your previous question. it is an intelligence asset. this isn't about organized crime or the mafia. we are picking up terrorists in the battlefield, not so they should be prosecuted in a court of law but for their intelligence value to keep americans safe. so i'm not going to comment on the president's decisions with regards to the guantanamo bay facility but it is a very important asset in our war against global jihad jihadism. stuart: you're part of the administration, sebastian. you deal with security. but our viewers are watching on the left-hand side of the screen the confirmation of scott pruitt for epa. earlier we saw the new secretary of state rex tillerson addressing state department employees. yesterday we saw steve mnuchin confirmed as treasury secretary. and dr. tom price confirmed at health and human services. as a member of the administration, it was, delay on cabinet nomination but it appears th

get rid of gitmo. >> i think you're saying something that is saying the sky is blue. the question is it lurching? how is that possible this early? for it to be fully understood in terms of the total geo political situation. sam stein, jump in. >> i have two questions for richard. i think it would be helpful to know what being noticed means. it's a loaded term in some respects but i don't think a well-defined term. the second question i have is in the backdrop of all this is the trump administration is supposedly and reportedly going to have much tighter relations with russia. we know russia has much tighter relations with iran. that seems like a weird dynamic that is going underdiscussed here al with your new allied. i'm wondering if you could discuss what role does russia playing in this and what does unnoticed actually mean? >> the short answer is nobody knows what unnoticed means and it's not a foreign policy technical term. i never heard it per se. it's a messaging as much for saudis and anybody else and the israelis will like it but something of a tougher line. >

remember in president obama's first week in office he signed an order to close gitmo within a year.ight years later it's still open because the courts and congress and the public fought him on it. if president trump can continue to sign executive orders but they will only be good if he gets the support of congress, judges and the american people. absolutely when he signs these orders he needs to explain why he is signing them and he needs to rally political support for them or else they will never be implemented. >> heather: the media will continue to focus on all of it. thank you very much for joining us today. >> bill: if you look outside you know winter is packing a punch. affecting a lot of people. felt like spring yesterday. whole different story today. millions in the path of the storm that will make that commute miserable. how long will it last and who is next? >> heather: we'll tell you. >> bill: we are watching the white house and wires waiting for a read-out of president trump's meeting with ceo fs of the airline industry. what their concerns are and business in america. t