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in the state of florida like jeb bush and charlie crist who used state aircraft to kind of fly to fundraisers or political events or fly to their home, so i think they re trying to get around it and avoid some bad press potentially, and so there s, you know, it s part of being in the game as you re going to get knocked around a bit. but david, you agree this isn t typical of candidates to do? well, listen, i think that governor bush and governor childs and governor crist, i bet you they wish they had thought of it before. i think the citizens of the state of florida deserve to know what their governor s doing, where he s traveling and what he s using his resources on. so i m not a fan of the blocking, and i think people are entitled to know and it shouldn t be done. jamal, so as we know, the governor has been traveling. he was in japan and currently in israel and at an event yesterday there, desantis was asked about a former guantanamo detainee who
isis. that s not what director clapper said yesterday. he said isis is metastasizing and going into other areas other than iraq and syria which we have seen in libya. we were able to kill a former guantanamo detainee who was recruiting in afghanistan. and we have seen them inspiring attacks as well. martha: if you are not realistic and presenting a realistic picture to the american people. god forbid something happened here. how are they going to explain that given what they have been telling everyone? i think it s very problematic. the intelligence community will tell you what they know based on what information they received and things happening around the world. i think it s important the
and i agree to senator mccain. we would be able to have an interrogation. i think people are naive when they want to get rid of guantanamo. we need to get as much intelligence out of them as possible to save american lives. bill: he wants to close it down. he s the president. he has two years and four or five months to do that. report report it s obvious that s his strategic plan. the guy who planned the shoe bombing attack was a former guantanamo detainee. one of the terrorists behind the benghazi attack was a former guantanamo detineee. we are naive if we think terrorism is going to go away. it increased and isis is evidence of that. bill: on isis as a veteran.