that is why basically all presidents are advised not to weigh in on criminal cases but donald trump clearly doesn t care much about such advice and i guess that s also some of his appeal to his supporters so he continues to throw a red meat to his base and doesn t care much about conventions or legal standards in terms that we know that the u.s. president had suggested cindy ings i-pod to the guantanamo detention center in cuba today he seemed to pull back on that but his attorney general was speaking earlier and he was pushing that idea further as well what is happening here. when i think i think the attorney general jeff sessions was talking about this issue in more general terms pointing out that both the military legal system with the detention center at guantanamo bay and the civilian judicial system are in the