hagel was reluctant to give a personal assurance if something was unknowable. defense secretary ash carter is taking a conservative approach. years after president barack obama signed an executive order to close guantanamo within a year, a number of detainees has been cut from 240 to 116, and half have been cleared for release. most not facing charges. >> the pentagon says because they sent teams to looks at fort levon worth, and the naval brig. doesn't mean that's where the prisoners would go. one of things they are doing is figure out how much it costs to retrofit a prison. they need places for military commissions to take place for the support staff, and also looking at federal prisons that are not in the military. any time they identify a location is immediately a position to bring prisoners to the united states >>> that's jamie mcintyre. to look at guantanamo we are joined by jonathan hanson, author of "guantanamo, an american history", and senior lecturer at harvard university. the united states operates military facilities across the globe, including in

, because hagel was often reluctant to give his personal assurance of something that was unknowable.rent defense secretary, ash carter is also taking a conservative approach. six years after president obama signed an executive order to close guantanamo within a year, the number of detainees has been cut from 240 to 116. and nearly half have been cleared for release, with most not facing any charges. the state department says it is working full-time to find countries who will take guantanamo prisoners, many of whom were cleared for release years ago, but have nowhere to go. meanwhile the white house is still searching for a prison in the u.s., willing to accept what it calls thor reducible minimum, the several dozen detainees judged too danger to ever be released. >>> among the prisoners who were cleared for release years ago is this inmate. the yemeni native has been in guantanamo for 14 years and on a hunger strike since 2007. force fed through a feeding tube he reportedly weighs only 75 pounds now. the obama administration is divided over what to do with the case. his lawyer spoke

it was a source of tension between former defense secretary chuck hagel and the white house last year. hagel was reluctant to give personal assurance to something is that was unknowable. >> ash carter is taking a cove approach -- conservative approach. six years after an order was signed to close guantanamo bay within a year, the number of detainees has been cut from 240 so 118. half cleared for release, most not facing charges. the state department says it's working full-time to find countries that will take guantanamo prisoners, many were cleared for release, but have nowhere to go. the white house is still sear searching for a prison in the u.s., willing to accept the two dozen detainees judged too dangerous to be rereleased. >> our guest represents one of the detainees. why has he been there and for how long in guantanamo bay. >> like most of the men in guantanamo bay now, he has been there for 13.5 years. he's been on hunger strike for 8.5 years, and his weight declined to 74.5 pounds. so... >> he has been cleared for release. when did that happen? >> roughly five years ago by si

katie hagel talked to her for tonight's my kron 4 story. >> reporter: this teen is a sophomore, and it all started a few years ago. her parents gave her 100 bucks for christmas, but she had to use the money in a way that would make someones' life better. then it just snowballed from there. >> i'm dinali. this is my kron 4 story. >> reporter: recycling is a pretty common saturday chore. for dinali, the pile of bottles and cans grows every weekend. >> $2 per pound of cans, a dollar per pound of bottles, 10 cents per pound of glass. >> reporter: she's saving the money for surgery, cleft palette surgery. >> -- cleft palate surgery. >> kids with this can't talk or smile properly. >> reporter: poor families can't afford the price, so dina slirks turning cans and bottles into dollars and cents. the recyclables come from her temple, her high school, even her mom's office and nearby businesses. over the years, she's raised enough money to fix 160 smiles through the help of charity smile train, more than $40,000. >> i feel really good. i want to keep doing more and more. >> reporter: other stude

that was former secretary, chuck hagel and the white house last year. hagel was often reluctant to give him assurance to something unknowable. six years after president obama assigned an executive order to close guantanamo within a year, the number of dap he's has been cut from 240 to 116, and nearly half have been cleared for release, with most not facing any charges. the state department says that it's working full-time to find countries who will take guantanamo prisoners, many of whom were cleared for release years ago, but had nowhere to go. meanwhile, the white house is still searching for a prisoner in the u.s., with irreducible minimum, judged too dangerous to ever be released. tony? >> nine suspects are now facing federal charges for an insider trading scam that allegedly used computer hackers to net as much as $100 million in illegal profits. members have early access to confidential press releases, and took advantage of the information to make trades before the deals were announced. >> for more than five years, hackers largely operating in ukr

bit it's an acknowledgment that president obama learned, bringing in a chuck hagel, an outsider like this, i thought that was going to work and it didn't. i need somebody who is going to be -- who knows every little thing bit. need a bob gates. i i almost think the pick of ash carter is an acknowledgment that bob gates is exactly the continue of person you need running the pentagon, somebody who i call a super staffer, not a politician. >> host: i had forgotten, until i read the book, it was a question from you that prompted the redline comment on syria. walk me through that. the question i have is, was there a bigger foreign policy mistake that the president made? or was this the biggest? >> guest: well, i think history will judge that. i think the management of the arab spring is going to be the most debated part of his foreign policy legacy going forward, because if not that are not, if not for this, i ale former senator who said pushing out mubarak, the president of the united states telling protesters we're with you, publishing out moammar gadhafi, telling libyan protesters we'r

hagel was often reluctant to give his personal assurance of something that was unknowable.urrent defense secretary ash carter is also taking a conservative approach. six years after president obama signed an executive order to close guantanamo within a year, the number of detainees has been cut from 240 to 116. and nearly half have been cleared for release. with most not facing any charges. the state department says it is working full-time to find countries who will take guantanamo prisoners, many of whom were cleared for release years ago, but have nowhere to go. the white house is still searching for a prison in the u.s. willing to accept the several dozen detainees judged too dangerous to ever be released. >>> meanwhile in two days the u.s. flag will be raised over ambassador in cue da. we'll have special coverage on that beginning at 9:30 here on al jazeera. >>> music may help people with epilepsy. when listening to music the brain wave patterns of people with epilepsy are different than the brain waves of normal people. researchers hope music can one day be part of new

the previous defense secretary chuck hagel was drummed out of office in part because the people inside the white house did not think that he was releasing enough of those qualified detainees. there is concern that the ref tillereftively new defense secretary ash carter under current law the defense secretary is ultimately responsible if someone who is released then goes back to the battlefield. so it's a very, very difficult situation, and it's not a simple as the president making a phone call and saying go ahead and release these men. there are a lot of strictures in place to make that complicated. >> thank you very much, indeed. >>> u.s. presidential hopeful hillary clinton is handing her private e-mail server to the country's justice department. the candidate has been under criticism when it was revealed she used her private e-mail to send correspondence when she was secretary of state. clinton's political opponents accuse her of side stepping record keeping rules. >>> keeping a closer eye on the satellite orbiting mars. many more are expected in the future. neave barker explains. >

the whole point of the chuck hagel thing, not that he wanted a weak secretary of defense, but we wanted someone and felt like it was year he wanted more influence over it. he feels like the pentagon was always against him. >> host: he is about the have his fourth secretary of defense. each of the previous three had criticism about relationships with the white house and some directly critical of the president himself. does this saytioni something ab the lack of what the president's understanding of this position is? >> i think it is the latter. i think it is are eminder it is hard to manage that building. this guy is cutting keith with clinton and critical of the president's leadership decisions and how he managed the pentagon. he thought the inner circle was too tight and the white house has nothing but praise for ash carter and thinks he knows the building inside and out. i think it is an acknowledgment of president obama and he learned bringing in an outside i thought it would work and it didn't. i need someone who knows everything about it. so i almost think the pick is an acknowledg

despite the mounting evidence regarding the opinion, secretary of defense hagel rolled that opinion out on december 20, 2013, with trumpets ablast at a ceremony in the pentagon's hall of heroes, he gave the marine corps an award for being the first service to earn a clean opinion. the assistant commandant of the marine corps, general john patton accepted the award, did he so with quote -- " "reluctance, then bolted from the stage at frank speed" -- end of quote. why then would general paxon take off like a scalded dog? was it because he sniffed a bad owed with the so-called clean report and all the colorful presentations that were made by secretary hagel? at that point, the word was already seeping out. the opinion was allegedly rigged. i heard rumblings about it and began asking inspector general rimer questions because of all the controversy we asked his independent audit quality watchdog assistant ashton coleman to review the audit. mr. coleman sent inspector general rimer reports in october, 2014, and may of this year. these reports ripped the fig leaf clean off mr. blair's charade.

as a young man in austria he witnessed hagel productively -- hagel rejecting the interests of an individual in favor of the interests of the state. we tend to see german history through the lens of world war ii. what hayek sought to remind us of was that the evolution of german thought we dated and prefigured both the embrace of socialism in germany in the late 19th century and the later emergence of nottingham. as hayek -- emergence of nazi is him -- nazism. the theory of the collective good could not be realized without compulsion. the key to the practical input -- a limitation of that example was the promise of security. german society required from -- recoiled from chaos in the aftermath of the armistice that ended world war i. the promise of security became powerfully seductive. freedom from choice rather than freedom of choice. as hayek pointed out, far from increasing the chances of freedom and promise of security became the greatest threat to it, which explained why again, words continued to echo in my mind. in turning to this year's report anyn't intend to discuss insights there, w

judith martin, chuck hagel, ross perot, lisbeth taylor, john warner and webb. i'd.i'd like to read a few passages. okay, this starts off in april 1979 and i attended and i attended a meeting called for the purpose of generating publicity for vietnam veteran needs. suddenly the lone wolf who had not said a word stood up and throughout his idea. what about a memorial question? in view of the discussion, he came totally out of left field. what you mean someone said. i mean having a national memorial for vietnam veterans. vietnam veterans don't need a memorial, they need better benefits shot back feldman. a few others made similar remarks and some smirked while the man stood silently. no one spoke in support and i felt sorry for him. the idea felt out of place. after he set down a looking at him and thinking about his idea. while some veterans while some veterans truly needed more benefits, most didn't. all did need some recognition and acknowledgment of their service in the war. i had to face combat and hadn't been injured, but many had. i met some of the best people i

chuck hagel and ash carter are looking at all of those discharges to see if they should be reevaluated. in the meantime, we need those external partners because we want those veterans cared for. mike: if you are joining us in live stream land, tweet us your questions. we will ask your questions. what was the very best tip that starbucks gave you about customer experience? secretary mcdonald: howard schultz is a dear friend. mike: is he going to run for president? secretary mcdonald: i don't know. i'm not a political person. my political party is veterans. all i do is think about caring for veterans. howard, in his book "onward," he writes about his experience of when he came back to be ceo any when he walked into one of his stores and the smell of the place was burned cheese rather than coffee. obviously, appetite has a lot to do with scent. they introduced a breakfast sandwich. the cheese would melt in the oven and the smell would pervade the store. rather than try to convince him to buy febreeze, i think what that instance demonstrates is the importance of the ubiquity of experience.

thank you very much but i would be remiss if i didn't think secretary gates, phonetic, hagel for all i served under either incompetent or here in the pentagon. secretary mchugh, almost six years sector of the army, incredible dedication. great partner. thank you, sir. general dempsey, chairman, i can't thank you enough and your incredible leadership. thank you very much. to my fellow joint chiefs, great friends, and credible leaders who we've had a lot of tough issues we would face, and there's a lot of people who try to make a story about lots of infighting, and there's not. we understand the mission. we go forward together. would try to build the best force and it's been an absolute pleasure of mine to work with these true professionals it and want to thank our combatant commanders wh were out there one front lines every day ensuring that our nation's security remains the same. thank you all for what you do. thank you for being here today. also want to thank all the retired general officers. almost all of them are mentors of mine. i want to thank all of the sergeant majors that are

book have remained in the national spotlight over the ensuing three decades including buchanan, chuck hagel judith martin -- who's miss manners -- perot, elizabeth taylor, john warner and webb. i'd like to read a few passages. okay. this starts off in april of 1979, and and i attended the meeting called for the purpose of generating publicity for vietnam veterans' needs. suddenly the lone wolf who hadn't otherwise said a word stood up and threw out his idea. what about a memorial? in view of the discussion, he came totally out of left field. what do you mean, someone said. i mean, having a national memorial for vietnam veterans. vietnam veterans don't need a memorial, they need better benefits, shot back feldman. a few others make similar remarks and others smirked while the man stood silently. i felt sorry for him. the idea didn't deserve contempt. after the man sat down, i kept looking at him and thinking about his idea. while some vietnam veterans truly needed more benefits, most didn't. what all did need, however, was some recognition and acknowledgment of their service in the war. i ha

as a young man in austria he witnessed hagel rejecting the interests of an individual in favor of the interests of the state. we tend to see german history through the lens of world war ii. what hayek sought to remind us of was that the evolution of german thought pre-dated and prefigured both the embrace of socialism in germany in the late 19th century and the later emergence of nottingham. as hayek pointed out emergence of nazism. the theory of the collective good could not be realized without compulsion. the key to the practical input -- a limitation of that example was the promise of security. german society recoiled from chaos in the aftermath of the armistice that ended world war i. the promise of security became powerfully seductive. freedom from choice rather than freedom of choice. as hayek pointed out, far from increasing the chances of freedom and promise of security became the greatest threat to it, which explained why again, my father's words continued to echo in my mind. in turning to this year's report i don't intend to discuss any insights there, which i of the panelis

that was a form of contention last year, hagel was often reluctant to give his personal assurance of something that was unnoble. current defense secretary tear ash carter is taking a conservative approach. six years after president obama signed an executive order to close began to know mow within a year, the number of detainees has been cut from 240 to 116 and nearly half cleared for release, with most not facing any charges. >> the state department is working to find countries to take guantanamo prisoners many cleared for release years ago but have nowhere to go. the white house is still searching for a prison in the u.s. will to accept what it calls the irreducible minimum, too dangerous to ever be released. >> some cuban businesses are reaping the benefits less than one year after the u.s. eased sanctions on the country. we have more on cuba's emerging middle class. >> so close and yet so far away, a nation that took a different road from that of the united states, and for a time, cuba was the romantic vivid poster child for communism. ♪ >> it became a place frozen in time by an u

one hagel cannery make sure we are striking the right balance between maximizing safety so people can stay in their own home but yet not making them feel that big brother maybe not big brother but the adult child is watching them? >> the first thing a right to say with any monitoring technology there is the concept to opt in to give permission basically you are willing. i know that implementation of talk -- technology not necessarily under the guise but on the basis of a threat if you don't let me put this technology and your whole level have you moved because i am too nervous about your well-being to the view of living alone. will lead paint -- the loving threat to. [laughter] but it is important people understand that they're not necessarily opting in to have every move watching and people who design technology properly designed for the absence of activity in a window of time or near the refrigerator. the presence of a catch or a dog to jump or that you go on vacation here sensors say you're not moving. [laughter] a lot of thought has to get -- go with sensors but when configured pr

unit in austria he witnessed the evolution of german, political and economic thinking starting with hagelwho rejected the idea of the individual. at this distance we can see german history to the prison of world war ii to the rise of national socialism and the holocaust the what hayek sought to remind us was the evolution with the german fought predated and prefigured both the embrace of socialism in germany in the late 19th century and later emergence of nazi-ism and. hitler's rise in parallel with stones was at the end towards which philosophy pointed because the theory of the collective good could that be realized in practice without compulsion. key to the practical implementation of that agenda was the promise of security at this is what come back to the thought my father -- the promise of security can hardly disaffected. and did the times about to be defined freedom as security, freedom from choice rather than freedom of choice. as hayek pointed out for from increasing the chances of freedom the promise that security became the greatest threat to it which explained why my father's wo

former defense secretary chuck hagel told barbara star, he resisted pressure from the white house. >>yone at the white house has agreed with how i handled some of this. i have made it clear that i will not certify signing anything to release a detainee as long as i'm secretary of defense, unless i am convinced that it is in the best interest of this country about. >> a senior official tells cnn the team is working together to fulfill his pledge. >> i'm honored by his trust. >> ashe carter was compelled to make his own pledge. >> i would ask you to tell us and to make a commitment to this committee that you will not succumb to any pressure by this administration to increase the pace of transfers from guantanamo, will you commit to that? >> absolutely. >> further complicating the closure plan is figuring out where to send detainees that are not released. yemen is in a state of collapse. congress has forbidden the creation of a new facility on u.s. soil or using civilian prisons. >> so the pentagon is considered military facilities. >> we're working now on a proposal that will make congr

chuck hagel when he was secretary and ash carter are going to look at all those discharges to see if evaluated. but in the meantime we need those external partners because we want those veterans cared for. >> those of you for joining us in life streamline please tweet us your questions. twitter machine hashtag playbook for breakfast. we will ask you a question. what was the best tip of starbucks gave you about customer experience speak with our children is a dear friend and -- >> is he going to run for president because i don't know. you have to ask for our. i said he is a dear friend. i'm not a political person. my political part is a veterans and every day all it is think about caring for veterans. howard come in howard's book onward, he writes about experience when he came to be ceo of when he walked into one of his stores and the smell of the place was burnt cheese rather than coffee. obviously, appetite has a lot to do with older and since. what happened was that introduced the breakfast sandwich. the cheese would melt in the oven and the smell would pervade the store. other tha