it this way or that way. i disagree with that. i taught constitution for ten years and believe in the constitution and will oboy the constitution of the -- obey the constitution of the united states. >> how do you square that, mike? >> i agree. >> the way you square it is there are different versions of up constitutional statutes and there are different degrees of problems in the statutes. the president in that statement, i think he has some language in it that was inartful and he would probably like to have back with the experience of office, but the key point is when you have a critical threat to the president's core constitutional authority such as the authority and the duty to be the commander in chief of the armed forces the president is not required -- >> let me ask you this, congressman. do you think this is a good thing we're getting people out of guantanamo and headed towards closing? it has been republican's chiefly who have tried to aattach as many strings as possible to make sure that cannot be closed.