namo, it is true that i have not been able to close the darn thing because of the congressional restrictions that's been placed on us. what is also true that we have greatly reduced the population. you now have significantly less there are some transfers that may be taken place in the next two months. there are a group of dangerous people that we have strong evidence of having guilty of committing terrorist acts against the united states. because of the nature of the evidence in some cases, that evidence being compromised is difficult to put them before they took always been the biggest challenge for us. my strong belief and preference that we would be better off glucosiiiing -- closing gitm gitmo -- and moving them to a different facility. explore options for doing that. keep in mind, it is not just a matter of what i am willing to do. one of the things you discover being president is there are all these rule as and norms and law and you got to pay attention to it. the people that work for you are also subject to those rule as ad norms. that's a piece of advise that i gave to the in coming

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