now. the president telling reporters it is something the u.s. has got to do. but many prominent republicans oppose it. all this comes as military personnel there struggle to deal with a massive hunger strike among the detainees held there. reports that many are now being force fed. doug mcelway joins us live from washington. the president proposed this before, but it didn t get very far, doug, why not? that s right, jon, he proposed it under democratically controlled congress but couldn t get enough votes. in 2009 the then chairman of the house appropriations committee didn t budget any money for closing gitmo in his budget, his reasoning the president had no plan when what to do with all the detainees should it be shut down. the same concerns exist today. the president has no detention policy on how to deal with enemy combatants. the world is a dangerous people. we are taking people off the battlefield and the president has no plan on how to do this. he may say he conceptually wa
to close guantanamo bay but this country needs a way to deal with enemy combatants. reporter: even the president s critics acknowledge the detention policy is uncharted legal territory, given the war on terror it may last for many years if not decades. many fear an indefinite detention of the enemy combatants without access to legal rights. and the notion that we re going to continue to keep over 100 individuals in a no man s land, in perpetuity, the idea that we would still maintain hyannis por forever a group of individuals that have not been tried. that is contrary to who we are and our interests and it needs to stop. reporter: guantanamo continues to impose unique stresses on the military, the ongoing hunger strike has forced the million tear tree t bring in an additional medical personnel to force feed the
conservatives dearly wanted. you could say karl rove really did use that base to come out for him in 04 when his election was not as sure, let s just say. one of the things that george w. bush telegraphed he would do for evangelicals was a constitutional amendment banning a gay marriage. he would move action on federal bans on abortion. that he would assemble a supreme court that would overturn roe v. wade. they got nothing for it with a president who probably identified more with them they got the iraq war. that s not what he ran on. he played to the very right wing feelings of evangelicals about israel, didn t he? that s right. evangelicals were some of the most supportive, even of policies like the detention policy, what we consider the torture policy. evangelicals stuck with george w. bush until the bitter end, got nothing for it. they got a war for it. they wanted that war. they didn t get the social issues they thought they were going to get moving forward on abort
one of the things that george w. bush telegraphed he would do for evangelicals was a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. he would move action on federal bans on abortion. that he would assemble a supreme court that would overturn roe v. wade. they got nothing for it with a president who probably identified more with them they got the iraq war. that s not what he ran on. he played to the very right wing feelings of evangelicals about israel, didn t he? that s right. evangelicals were some of the most supportive, even of policies like the detention policy, what we consider the torture policy. evangelicals stuck with george w. bush until the bitter end, got nothing for it. they got a war for it. they wanted that war. they didn t get the social issues they thought they were going to get moving forward on abortion and gay marriage. i think that s true. hogan, here s the story. i remember when ronald reagan was president and remember every time they had the right t
it seems to me it reminds me of the movie fatal attraction where the woman said, who was having the affair with michael douglas, i will not be ignored. you re not going to ignore the fact you ve been entangled with me. don t pretend to have a relationship with me and dump me on monday morning. george w. bush was elected and re-elected in part on a promise he was going to enact a lot of things social conservatives dearly wanted. you could say karl rove really did use that base to come out for him in 04 when his election was not as sure, let s just say. one of the things that george w. bush telegraphed he would do for evangelicals was a constitutional amendment banning a gay marriage. he would move action on federal bans on abortion. that he would assemble a supreme court that would overturn roe v. wade. they got nothing for it with a president who probably identified more with them they got the iraq war. that s not what he ran on. he played to the very right wing feelings