kimberley is joining us live from washington, d.c.re seems to be news about two yemeni nationals who have been charged with conspiring to murder americans abroad. what do you know about that? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the u.s. justice department has just released a statement in the last hour or so saying they have announced charges against two yemeni nationals, a 36 year old, and a 30 year old. it is alleged by the justice department that these two individuals not only carried out attacks on u.s. military personnel in afghanistan, but also helped -- provided support to recruit a u.s. national to go into pakistan where that individual trained allegedly and then into afghanistan to also participate in an attack. these attacks were carried out between the period of 2003 and 2008, but they were arrested more recently in saudi arabia brought to the united states facing these charges today. if convicted they could face life in prison. >> and the united states of course conducts drone strikes in yemen as we know. they must be watchi

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george will former democratic senator, evan bayh, kimberley strassel from the "wall street journal" and fox news political analyst juan williams. welcome. before we get into the discussion on guantanamo bay i want to show you a couple of polls how americans are feeling about this. should it be open or closed. 56% say keep it open, 32% say close it. when we talk about the president transferring out detainees the question whether he's exceeding his authority, 34% say yes, 36% say no. what does that say? >> the administration has an uphill climb with the public and what happened in paris didn't help the atmosphere of all this. the administration's two arguments are passing strange. one that it's expensive. whatever it costs the rounding error is nothing in terms of the federal budget. then this the idea that gitmo is a recruiting tool for terrorists. as i recall the "uss cole" was attacked before gitmo was opened. the world trade center attacked twice before gitmo was opened. there's no empirical evidence let a lot plausible assumption that says people are becoming terrorists because of gi