there. shannon: during the brief sean spicer said the president believes guantanamo bay serves a healthy purpose. another top advisor to the president says the president says it is an important tool. the previous administration the president vowed to shut it down and said it was a recruiting tool. your response. i don t think there is an option here to this argument. we don t have a choice, either you bring them here to the united states where they are subject to the rights of our courts or you release them to third countries where they are often then released out into the global population and turn against us. so we don t have a choice to keep it open. it is unfortunate but we have to. let s not forget, shannon, the taliban five, the five leaders that were exchanged for bowe bergdahl, who knows what they re up to right now. shannon: good question. michael. we re seeing the president live. we have to let you go. thank you so much for joining us to talk about gitmo. bill: so as
everything under the sun. and he was a neighbor of mine in greenwich village in new york city and shared a great love for the neighborhood and the restaurants and life of new york city. our best to his family and tough week around here when you think about brenda buttner from the other day and now we ve lost two really dear colleagues. shannon: so amazing both of them and so different in their personalities and the way they tackled life. with alan, no matter where you were with him on issues, he always stuck to his point and defended it with gusto and a great sense of humor, able to laugh at life and himself as well. i felt like smiling. bill: you think about what they created with sean and alan together. it s a great loss around here and to alan in the heavens at the age of 66, we say so long until another time and i reminder along with the passing of brenda, just how precious life is every day.
down. he replaced this fiction of electability with this revelation of electricity and brought people in. also i think donald trump, because he is not a legacy candidate, not a bush or clinton, he is the first candidate of his type, that non-politician, true outsider, who is coming to shake up the system. bill: that was from last hour. kellyanne conway during an interview at cpac, the conference is well underway in maryland. vice president pence speaks later today. president trump takes the main stage at this hour tomorrow morning. so what s that going to be like? matt schlapp, chairman and running the show. matt good morning to you and thank you for your time. kellyanne conway called it t pac last hour. a play on president trump s name here. a lot of young people at cpac, a lot of conservatives. what is your anticipation for
ultimately if somebody has illegally entered your country, you have every right to send them back to that point. frankly, there is nothing mexico can do about it. they are always saying that given that over half the people that cross that border and get stopped come from other countries and say mexico is sort of acting as a conduit. in saying what he said he sounds rather like somebody from a rogue state. bill: here is my feeling on this. take this one. even without action, even if he were just to take the words of the memo coming out a few days ago, you are sending a message that things are going to be different. and you are going to face them one-on-one to explain things without a filter. you aren t going to hear this based on a report or rumor. we ll come and tell you what the deal is. that this is, nigel, a departure from what the rules have been over the past several years. which is straight shooting.
sure they were you want to get this right. healthcare is too important not to. bill: march and april will be busy, that s what sean spicer said yesterday and it s quite clear. can these rallies, these raucouss, whatever you want to call them, protests, can they exact change when you have no power? and the only power you have when you don t have a majority in any branch of government is the power of resistance and that s what this amounts to so far. well, first of all we re alleging that these people are paid and alleging that they re democrats and liberals. that s not the facts bear out. they show their i.d.s and showing the district that they live in and many of these people voted for these individuals. to say they have no power, i don t agree because if these people that are protesting actually show up and vote, whether they are democrats or republicans, many of these republicans who are up in a couple of years could lose their seats and you watch how