but guantanamo supposed to close, should be closed, guantanamo, because guantanamo, that's not good forhe united states. never. amy: that's jihad abu wa'el dhiab syrian prisoner at guantanamo for more than 12 years. he was released to uruguay speaking to us in english from .is bed, on a hunger strike at the time of our interview, he just come out of a nine-hour coma after refusing water as well. throughout our interview, which we did just after he revived, he was very tired and weak. he would sometimes switch to arabic from the english, the language of course he felt were comfortable in. this is dhiab speaking about why the u.s. wouldn't want to release the video of his force-feeding at guantanamo and more. courts the u.s. does not want the world to see the truth about what happens in guantanamo. they want to keep the black box closed and to show instead that the black box is full. but it is indeed actually empty and a lie. they can't let the world see the video and know the truth, because the truth will contradict the reasons the u.s. is holding the prisoners. for example, i have paper

prisons overseas, they were transferred to guantanamo ten years ago. the government says khalid shaikyh mohammed, known as k.s.m., was the architect who brought the planes plot to al qaeda leader osama bin laden. ramzi binalshibh was allegedly his right-hand man, the liaison with the 19 hijackers who carried out the attacks. walid bin attash allegedly helped train the hijackers in camps in afghanistan. mustafa al-hawsawi and ali abdul aziz ali allegedly funneled money to the hijackers. >> they've already admitted to it. they'll get convicted, and the death penalty will be justice served. >> reporter: but that outcome is neither guaranteed nor coming soon. with the military commissions mired in procedural roadblocks and interminable delays, prosecutors and defense attorneys involved say it won't be concluded before the year 2020. former united states attorney david kelley was part of a team of federal prosecutors in new york that wrote the book on prosecuting major terrorism cases. the first chapter was the trial for the 1993 world trade center truck bo

faces are sensorred at guantanamo. names are sensorred at guantanamo. entire place is built on racial. but i draw rather than take pictures because i work in obscure medium, i was able to say things for accurate. >> i'm curious, they probably weren't used to an artist being there? did that confuse them censor wise? >> there's an artist basically since -- i want to say at least eight years. and she's an extraordinary artist and i feel like her work that she's done at the court is actually like the eye of history there, it has the transparency and accuracy, however, yes, there's basically just jim and one other artist filtered through there but artists in general haven't visited the way that photographers, reporters have. it was a strange thing. i did once have -- had a pair of glasses that i use today see from the back of the courtroom and they were confiscated. [laughter] >> larry, can you talk about the story behind the book? i mean, the story behind it is almost amazing as the book itself. >> sure, i can not begin writing about who gets to tell the st

naval station in guantanamo bay cuba. until january 21, h.r. 5351 would prohibit the transfer of any detainee held at guantanamo not just the united states but also to any foreign country. the republican leadership could have chosen to use these final months to work constructively with the administration on how to transfer to other countries the approximately 20 remaining detainees who have been cleared for transfer. the republican leadership could have chosen to help build a consensus around a time frame for transferring to maximum security facilities in the united states, the remaining detainees, who have been charged with crimes or deemed too dangerous to release. instead, they chose to bring this bill to the house floor and close down any and all reasonable avenues to safely and securely reduce the population at guantanamo. mr. speaker, this is simply crazey. continuing the operation of guantanamo prison is a threat to our national security of our own making. it damages our relations with key allies and partners. it p

but guantanamo is supposed to closed. should be closed, guantanamo. guantanamo is not good for the united states. never. marriedaughters getting in turkey. an event he had longed to be at. he continues his hunger fast. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i am juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show with an explosive new report that reveals the extensive influence of corporate cash in u.s. elections through third party groups that do not have to disclose their donors. the report published by the guardian is based on 1500 leaked court documents from an investigation by wisconsin prosecutors into possible illegal fundraising by governor scott walker for the third party group, wisconsin club for growth, a 501 organization. prosecutors gathered hundreds of email messages that show exchanges between walker, his top aides, conservative lobbyists, and leading republican figures s

what struck me most was that the problem by 2009, the problem with guantanamo wasn't guantanamo. it wasn't the conditions. by that time the physical conditions for detainees were substantially better than many stateside american prisons. the period in which there were allegations of mistreatment of detainees was over. but what was troubling about guantanamo was the sense that we had people at that point who had been detained by the united states for eight years, no charge for most of them no trial, increasingly our own government research suggesting that many of those people had been plucked up by mistake and shouldn't have been there in the first place, and yet they were there with no foreseeable prospect of release. and that still shocks made built. it shocked me when president obama eventually sort of embraced the idea of indefinite detention because of future dane dangerous. >> host: one thing in your book you come back from this trip and you write in the book that you had tried to write about this issue inside your own chain of command and you said if we were convinced some

these are people who should never be let out of guantanamo.ly if we are going to release them or transfer them or not continue to hold them, we should be clear with the american people and others about the risks involved. >> shouldn't every average american out there, these assessments are being rewritten and not truthful, i mean, is there any way to hold people accountable and shouldn't they be rightly outraged over that? >> i don't disagree entirely with you on this although, you know, you may be shocked by that i just want to look at numbers, okay? even though math is not my favorite subject. when you look at 177 of those who were either transferred, resettled or released and those are three different things from guantanamo under the obama administration 12 now up from six in january have entered the fight or rejoined terrorist efforts. six of those, by the way, were from the former administration, former president bush who released over 500 of these individuals. so here's my thing. you know, are we more concerned about closing guantanamo b

these are people who should never be let out of guantanamo. certainly if we are going to release them or transfer them or not continue to hold them, we should be clear with the american people and others about the risks involved. >> shouldn't every average american out there, these assessments are being rewritten and not truthful, i mean, is there any way to hold people accountable and shouldn't they be rightly outraged over that? >> i don't disagree entirely with you on this although, you know, you may be shocked by that i just want to look at numbers, okay? even though math is not my favorite subject. when you look at 177 of those who were either transferred, resettled or released and those are three different things from guantanamo under the obama administration 12 now up from six in january have entered the fight or rejoined terrorist efforts. six of those, by the way, were from the former administration, former president bush who released over 500 of these individuals. so here's my thing. you know, are we more concerned about closing guan

closing guantanamo bay. until they leave office they are not just going to say, we're not going to do t they think it's important. again i won't relitigate that argument, but there are people who feel passionately it is the right thing to do. it's not what we're talking about doing here. we're talking about 20 people who have been deemed not to be a threat to the united states that we're nonetheless incarcerating. the president is talking about transferring them. not talking about transferring the 41. not talking about closing guantanamo. it is still in law that we can't close guantanamo. so it's not about a campaign promise. it's about upholding the values in the constitution of the united states of america that says that if we have you incarcerated and it turns out that our evidence was wrong and you are not guilty of what we thought you were guilty of or thought were you a threat to us in the way we thought, then we should release you. not hold you. we're not a dictatorship. we're not a country like sadda

with respect to guantanamo bay.m not ready to concede that it may still remain open because we're still working diligently to contie to shrink the population. i continue to believe that guantanamo is a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations. that the clouds and sours some of the counterterrorism cooperation we need to engage in. it is not necessarily and it is expensive for u.s. taxpayers. is there strong resistance in congress? absolutely. but as we continue to shrink the population to the point where we're looking at 40 or 50 people and are maintaining a multimillion dollar operation to house these people, the american people are asking why should we spend this money on this when it could be spent on other things. there is no doubt that because of the politics in congress right now, it a tough road to hoe. you know, i expect to work really hard over the next four months, five months. four and a half months. margaret brennan. >> thank you, mr. president. can you tell us if last night philippine president duer

he wanted guantanamo closed as well.the problem is we couldn't give him the viable alternative and we kept capturing people, we had to keep somewhere and so when his term ended, the obama administration came in with that pledge to close guantanamo but he was apparently never presented also with good options and for that reason guantanamo remains open today. it's a decision that both bush and president obama have struggled with because of the very nature of the type of people these people are and the very nature of the war on terror. >> host: the decision to not find a way to house them here, do you feel at the end of the day that that was -- legal considerations or political considerations were the primary driver there? >> guest: i would say they were both very important. politically, again, we are talking about -- we are still in 2001, early 2002 when we are capturing people. we felt that the american people would not stand for bringing the terrorists. once they set foot on american soil, we were unclear, the lawyers we

>>host: end in 2009 you take a trip down to guantanamo? >>guest: it was very strange have you been there? it is very beautiful but barbwire and mahorn guards with this incredible beauty is a tropical island. but what struck me most other they and the real qualities of the resort by the sec -- by the sea, what struck me most that the problem with guantanamo was not guantanamo but the physical conditions for detainee's from the state side presents listen . there were allegations when it was over but what was troubling about guantanamo people at that point word 18 by the united states eight years. no charge for most of them. no trial. and in increasingly around governor research suggesting they were picked by mistake and should not be there but yet they were there with no prospect of free these. that still shocks me a abundant when president obama eventually embraced the adl of indefinite detention. >>host: that is one thing that wanted to talk about some you come back from the trip and you write that you tried to write about this issue with

the kbs -- habeas proceedings in guantÁnamo aren rather extraordinary. supreme court went to great lengths to canvass the history of the rate -- writ as it existed in 1789 in england and then came up with the decision that -- came up with, the only substantive, procedural opinion in the -- statement in the opinion is that the hideous to to be -- the habeas has be, quote, "meaningful." the national tradition to documents with the way that habeas was conducted in 1789 in england -- if you do, there is history with respect to access to documents under the ancient writ, and that was, unless you had a proprietary interest in the document, you didn't get access. the english case, i can't remember, cited in the supreme court opinion, which i haven't up, but it'sedged an old opinion. i think that would support our opinion here that. >> -- >> i think that would support our opinion here that, even if you are looking back to the writ of 1786, i would suggest also there is no right of access to information in haveas proceedings, -- habeas proceedings, much less clas

they know you're not going to close guantÁnamo. they know a lot of this stuff.times there's a downside to that the there is a resistance to change, okay, which every president has to cope with. the senior civil servants also know that if they just wait this guy or gal outcome everything is going to start all over again. so that is a problem with that but it's the layering that i think is really magnified a problem that the presidents have going in, which is the problem of spending all their time in a marketing campaign or any communications campaign, and not enough time actually making what they promised happen. yes? [inaudible] >> as political media evolves and there is a particular need for greater communication, dui count for this, maybe dynamics with politicians and media and how they communicate speak with know, i really don't, because i am less interested in communication in this book and more interested in effectively implement in policy. interestingly enough, right, for liberals or progressives this is important. because liberals and progressives want th

guantÁnamo is maybe one of the clearest examples.ere we are we are seven and half years into this administration and we have not closed guantÁnamo. a lot of this, no offense no offense to speechwriters, who i love. a lot of this is that some of these lines that the speechwriters come up with are so wonderful sometimes. they're so compelling and i mean nothing differentiated barack obama from george bush more than i going to close guantÁnamo. everybody at the time was saying no you're not.ty pri who is going to take these people, you really going to put them in maxon security prisons. are the communities went to going to go crazy. on and on. it was all kind of knowable. that is one of the things that i emphasize in thecal >> well, i mean, i think you have to balance that, i think that hillary clinton was late in coming to her college free college position because she knew, what -- she knew all the problems with it, including the fact that it could end up being a giveaway to rich kids. to harvard and yale. so that's a real problem with

the other issue is guantanamo bay. one of the signature issues, the president would like to do -- close it. they added that makes it difficult to transfer the chinese out of guantanamo bay. detaineesharder to -- out of guantanamo bay. make it harder to close. and there is an acquisition reform provision that house members do not fully agree with. they will have to work out those things. the president is starting to over the bill guantanamo bay issue and racing defense spending. democrats if you're going to raise defense spending, then he had to raise domestic spending. -- you have to raise domestic spending. compromise?he area this is a must pass bill? >> that is what the fed talks will say. we must have the defense authorization bill. we must do it. it is really important. they're going to have to find a compromise on this. i think you'll have to end up dropping the $18 billion. i think that will go away. >> you will be back with susan shortly. as a look at another key issue that congress may address, and gun violence

the idea that we're going to allow people like him out of guantanamo and let them loose, we passed a law in the congress to prohibit any of these guys from coming into the united states and the president knows he can't do that so he's doing it in and around the congress and sending them to other countries that will take them. i think it's a very dangerous proposition. >> a lot of people are saying it's dangerous but he's moving forward with it. is there an alternative? where should those people go? >> i think what's left, there aren't very many left down there, i don't think they deserve liberty at this point in time. they deserve prosecution. we need to move forward with the prosecutions down there. we should be interrogating more of these guys we capture on the battlefield and bring them to guantanamo to get more intelligence. the intelligence we got after 9/11 was good intelligence and this administration does not seem very interested in doing that. >> congressman, good to have you on the program this morning. thanks very much. >> thanks, maria. appreciate it. >>> up next, dick gr

. >> take it to guantanamo and you are off the u.s.oil and crack the phone. >> bear -- you are with me on this, right? >> absolutely. and i will give up civil libertieses. if that will help stop a school from getting shot up, take my phone. >> if you pack bowls should you not pack heat? a federal appeals court upheld the ban of gun sales to medical marijuana gun holders saying it does not violate their second amendment rights. it comes in a lawsuit filed in 2011 by a woman who said a nevada gun store refused to sell her a firearm after she got her medical marijuana card. it the gun store cited a rule banning the sale of firearms to illegal drug users. the court said it is reasonable to assume the card holder use the drugs. adding that congress has reasonably concluded that marijuana use, quote, raises the risk of you irrational and unpredictable behavior with which gun use should not be associated. i don't know if i like this one. i like looking into phones, but i am a second amendment guy. >> this is nuts. there is no crime being comm

he wanted guantÁnamo closed as well.he problem is we could never give him a viable alternative and that we kept capturing people and those that we had captured we had to keep somewhere, we could not give them a viable alternative so in his term ended the obama administration came in with that pledge to close guantÁnamo but he apparently was never presented with good options and for that reason guantÁnamo remains open today. it's a decision that both bush and president obama struggled with because of the very nature of the kind of people these people are and because of the nature of the war on terror. >> the decision to not house them here, stateside, do you do you feel at the end of the day that was the legal consideration or political consideration through the primary driver there? >> i would say they're both very important, politically again we are talking about was still 2001 in early 2002 and were capturing people. new york is still smoldering from the attacks and we just thought that politically the american people

closing guantanamo doesn't mean what it used to mean. it used to mean ending indefinite detention, which was what guantanamo is about. now it means closing the doors on guantanamo and keeping a dozen people in indefinite detention, which is keeping the category alive in the american mind-set and legal system. >> let me open this up. i would argue if you went out to poll the american public, and i could be wrong on this, that that might not seem like a bad thing. they may not be aware or think about consequences. is this just karen greenberg being obsessive compulsive bhutan issue americans have lost track of and doesn't care anymore. we have seen horrific things happening, beheadings, human rights abuses abroad and terrorism directed at the united states. i guess my question is so what, not speaking on behalf of myself but on behalf of many people i know and around the country. how is that? >> here is why. here is the answer to that. that's 2,000 people, we don't care about them. we're over it. we understand the cause of 9/11. that's one

he wants guantanamo bay closed as well but we were never able to give an alternative.we had captured people that remained danger door had intelligence value and we had to keep them somewhere. we couldn't give a viable alternative so when his term ended, the obama administration came in with that pledged to close guantanamo bay but he was never presented with a good option and for that reason it remains open today. it's a decision that both bush and president obama have struggled with because of the nature of these people and the nature of the war on terror. >> the decision to not find a way to house them here states that at the end of the day, was that legal consideration or political considerations as the primary driver? >> i would say both. politically we are talking about that we are still in 2001. new york is still smoldering from the attack and we just felt that politically that people would not stand for the government bringing in these dangerous terrorist. we were unclear, the lawyers were unclear and without having the clarification of the court, we felt the sa

obsession that guantanamo is a recruit.l for the jihadis when we're the only ones that bring it up. at first they were pit u putting prisoners in orange jump suits to signify gitmo and now they don't think bit anymore. the is going to push them out. all over the world. probably paying a lot of countries to take these prisoners. >> but 700 released, 200 have return to the battlefield and we heard from people within our own government they have killed americans. osama bin laden's cook and show fear is a leader -- chauffeur is a leader of al qaeda in yemen. >> one of this bodyguards were released and they're probably paying the countries to take them. bin laden's own people, and it's just crazy to me. he was never charged with anything. in december of 2001, while the twin towers -- ground zero is still smoking we run into a guy from yemen, not an afghanistan -- in afghanistan. not there building schools. he's there because he is a jihadi and because of our weird court rules -- we can't do a tribunal. they're not charged and th

right now there are 61 detainees still at guantanamo. that's down from 272 when the president took office. and there's a number of individuals there who are still approved for transfer by a unanimous view of the president's national security team. that's going back a number of years to 2009 when we conducted a very careful review that was led by career prosecutors, intelligence, military and other officials across the government. and so, we are working away at transferring detainees securely, humanely, because that's the top priority. >> and within the white house, is the goal still realistically to get this done by next january, or is it kind of an unspoken, that would be nice, but if we could get it to 25, that would be good? >> the president's been absolutely clear, he is committed to continuing to work this, to transfer everyone who can possibly be transferred. as he said this morning, it also -- this is a very big-ticket item when it comes to the budget. there is an exceptionally large amount of money that is being spent on this, $4

>> they're treated very well in guantanamo bay.igure out why he wants to close it and force all of these maniacs to go back to the fight? where do you store, where do you put these guys who are in fact terrorists? >> i think what they would do put them in federal prisons in the united states. a lot of people don't want them in their neighborhood. i personally don't see why this is such an important issue. maria: let me ask you about this. display of coca-cola cans at a florida walmart. it has been taken down after social media reacted to this offensive display they called it, mimicking the american flag and twin towers. both coca-cola and walmart apologized. do you think this is bothersome? >> yes i do. you know -- maria: is it a mockery? >> it was done with good intentions but commercializes a very solid -- solemn event. if you lost loved ones in 9/11, of course you would be upset. what were they thinking of when they did it? yeah, appropriate thing to take that down. maria: this is a very sensitive subject. in your book, includin

i continue to believe that guantÁnamo is a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations, that it cloudsd salaries some of the counterterrorism cooperation we need to engage and it's not necessary and is usually good for u.s. tax payers. is there strong resistance in congress? absolutely. but as they continue to shrink the population to the point where we are looking at 40 or 50 people and are maintaining a multimillion dollars operation to house these individuals, the american people should be asking the question, why are we spending this money that could be spent on other things when it not necessary for our safety and security. there is no doubt that because of the politics in congress right now it is a tougher go, but you know, i expect to work really hard over the next four, five months -- four and a half months. >> thank you, mr. president. can you tell us if last night the president of phillip and offered his apology to you and if you set the u.s. will continue to help the philippines pushback against china. last night, donald trump said vladimir putin has been more of a leader th

clinton wants to close down guantanamo. i don't know what donald trump has said about guantanamo but i assume he wants to keep it hope. what do we do with these people? mr. mccaul: i was a federal prosecutor, counterterrorism. many of these have already served their time, providing material support for terrorism is a federal crime and if they rved their time, our legal system, they're entitled to be let go. but it concerns me. can we monitor them? yeah. but the f.b.i. only has so many resources. we've had hundreds of foreign fighters going to the region, many of whom have come back and we have to monitor. if we can't arrest and charge them, we have to monitor them in the united states because we don't want the next act of terror occurring. when it comes to guantanamo, i've been down there. i saw khalid sheikh mohammed which was evil incar gnat. it was prayer hour, he was wing to mecca, very slender, it was spooky. are we going to bring him to the united states and have him stand rial and create a magnet for jihadists? we ha

with respect to guantanamo, i am not ready to concede that it may still remain open because we're stillg diligently to continue to shrink the population. i continue to believe that guantanamo is a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations, that it clouds and sours some of the counterterrorism cooperation that we need to engage in and it's not necessary and it's hugely expensive for u.s. taxpayers. is there strong resistance in congress? absolutely. but, as we continue to shrink the population to the point where we're looking at 40 or 50 people and are maintaining a multimillion dollar operation to house these handsful of individuals, i think the american people should be asking the question why are we spending this kind of money that could be spent on other things when it's not necessary for our safety and security? so, there's no doubt that because of the politics in congress right now it is a tough road to hoe, but, you know, i expect to work really hard over the next four months, five months, four and a half months. mark r margaret brennan? >> thank you, mr. president. can you tel

his own director of national intelligence put that number closer to 200 guantanamo, former guantanamo to the fight. even the "taliban five" were senior taliban officials. there are many other high level al qaeda operatives the president released or transferred. knows this. when he says in an interview he is releasing or transferring low-level individuals and only had a handful returned to the fight, we know that that is categorically false. stuart: why is he doing it? there is a enormous opposition to him doing this. we know that they're going back on to the battlefield to kill americans. we kw is. so why is he so committed to doing it no matter what? >> remember, closing guantanamo was a key part of president obama's case for election in 2008. this was the argument he made. we're going to take the united states on a different path. george w. bush has done this. we'll reverse most of george w. bush's counterterrorism policies and we're going to close guantanamo. he comes in office, second day in office he issues an executive order mandating guantanamo be closed within a year. he faced

when his term ended the obama administration came in with the pledge to close guantÁnamo.he was apparently never presented with good options and for that reason guantÁnamo remained so good today. it is a decision that both bush and president obama has struggled with because of the very nature of the type of people these people are in the very nature of the war on terror. >> host: the decision to not find a way to have been here stateside, at the end of the day do you think that was the legal consideration or political consideration were the primary driver there? just go and say they were both import. we are still in 2001. we are capturing people. new york is still smoldering from the attacks. we just thought that politically the american people would not stand for the government to get in these dangerous terrorists. that is a political consideration. but once they set foot on american soil, we work on clear, the laws were unclear about what rights but that clarification and the court, without a safer course of the two house and at guantÁnamo bay. >> host: in addition to wh

human rights groups have long said the force-feeding of guantanamo prisoners amounts to torture. in new york hundreds of , unionized professors are returning to work at long island campusity's brooklyn nearly two weeks after the administration took the unprecedented step of barring them from campus after their contract expired. as part of the lockout, liu cut off 400 professors' email accounts and health insurance, and told them they would be replaced. the lockout sparked a wave of protests b by bothth faculty and students, who arrived for the beginning of the school year to find their classes being taught by administrators with no experience in the fields. on wednesday, the administration agreed to end the lockout, restore faculty member's health insurance and permit them to , return to their classrooms. contract negotiations remain ongoing. to see our full coverage of the liu lockout, go to democracynow.org. in north dakota, another eight people were arrested wednesday after people locked themselves to heavy machinery to stop construction of the $3.8 billion dakota access pipel

of guantanamo? you don't think it is because of guantanamo? caller: in 2001 we didn't have anybody in guantanamo. host: so what's your concern? we have had some callers say what they thought drove this 15 years ago. what is your thought? caller: my thought really has nothing to do with anything except for the fact of what they believe. what they are taught i guess from childhood is that we are bad and israel is bad and whatnot. i hear these days is that guantanamo is causing everything. back then guantanamo wasn't even around. let's go to patrick in trenton, new jersey. for republicans. caller: good morning. the override is good for two points. we finally saw the democrats go against obama. finally seeing obama lose his power. that was beautiful. it's going tong, bring out the truth about 9/11. the truth comes out over time. -- website,b's day pilots for 9/11 truth.org. it outlines the whole cover-up of the truth of what really happened. nukes to bringd down the towers. that will eventually come out

. >>> plus a guantanamo bay prisoner, making a connection. looking in to his claims ahead. widespread rain, i will give you exact timing when the second round hits us. >>> thank you for starting off your morning with us. you are seeing rain across the board, it's in eastern locations. i want to show you your hour by hour, see the rain picks up county and greater cleveland by the noon hour we will see a slight break, in and out throughout your afternoon. by the 5:00 hour, we start to see things rev up once again. the big question today, will the tribe play at 4:10ing temperatures are going to be in the lower 70s. still that warm air in place. this one is going to be sketchy. we will see rain flowing through. might have a delay or possible cancellation. we will keep our eye on that. >> >>> we are nearing the end of the inner belt bridge construction project. a little late at the end of the tunnel. there is last minute work to be done. interstate 90 east over the bridge was closed overnight. it won't re-open until 10:00 this morning. closed until 10:00, the left lane of 77 nor

president, close close down guantÁnamo bay. mr.sident, scale down and back down the drone strikes. mrn refugees, support the rights of the palestinian people to lose in dignity and freedom like the rest of humanity. our fathers mentioned that when it comes to political power and stability, a values of justice even more than he values faith. that is why just society, even if it does not have faith will be blessed in this world with strength and might, and a muslim society that does not have justice will not be blessed with that power. there is no doubt, and i say this as a critic, there is no doubt that our country overall has many strengths and freedoms. the freedom freedom to criticize even as i stand on the stage. we appreciate those freedoms. american muslims, if you if you ever feel that the situation is too depressing, all you need to do is look over the pond and see the europeans. we think the law that we have freedoms farm better than our muslims brothers and sisters in europe. i'm still trying to digest these bands coming f

i continue to believe that guantanamo is recruitment tool for terrorist organizations. it clouds and sours some of the counter terrorism organization we need to engage in. it's not necessary and it's usually expensive for u.s. taxpayers. is there strong resistance in congress, absolutely, but as we continue to shrink the population to the point we're looking at 40 or 50 people and are maintaining a multimillion dollar operation to house these individuals, i think the american people should be asking the question why are we spending this kind of money that could be spent on other things when it's not necessarily for the safety and security. so there's no doubt that because of the politics in congress right now it is a tough road to hoe, but, you know, i expect to work really hard over the next four months, five months. four and a half months. margaret brennen. >> thank you, mr. president. can you el us if last night philippine president offered his apologies to you and last night, donald trump said vladimir putin has been more of a leader than you than he said you have r

he was released after the obama administration swapped him for a guantanamo bay detainee. he facing a court-martial which carries a life sentence. >>> no one fleunlsed his decisions about the bergdahl case. they argued he should be john mccain. mccain said he would hold a congressional hearing but those comments did not affect his decision. >>> a unc football player aaccused of defend -- allen artist told the associated press that he had consensual exis the woman and did not drug her. get the case behind him. he turned himself in on misdemeanor charges and expected to be in court tomorrow. they plan to speak with him after that appearance. >>> good morning. it's 4:36 many we are halfway through the workweek. taking a look at i-540. very quiet star to your wednesday morning commute. all green through raleigh. moving there. nice, easy commute into work on this wednesday morning from durham into fayetteville. flying out bright and early, new york, washington, atlanta, chicago if you're flying to the major airports. your flight should be arrives on time. no delays being report

law enforcement here are trying to block the white house from releasing terror suspects from the guantanamo bay prison camp. the house passed a bill to stop the remaining 61 detainees from being transferred. the move would interrupt president obama's plan to shut it down by the end of the year. >>> a new poll shows how worried french citizens are about another terror attack. it shows 97% believe there will be another i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. he's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. he's not a serious adult. i can't vote for donald trump given the things that he said. trump should not be supported. i believe he's disqualified himself to be president. the hawks are >>> and now, cbs 2 sports with zach. >> the hawk eyings are on alert this week with north dakota state and power house coming through. everyone is wondering how iowa can slow down the bison. last week, they put up a 50- spot in their overtime win eastern washington and the attention of bill parker and the hawkeye defense. >> when you see folks on the detail stuff, ga