Cenk Uygur
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Will We EVER Close Gitmo?
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May 1, 2013
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6:49Now Playing"Amid a protracted and widespread hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, President Obama on Tuesday vowed to revisit the idea of closing the detention camp, though he conceded that "ultimately we're also gonna need some help from Congress."
The president, speaking to reporters Tuesday morning in a press conference, told CBS News' Bill Plante "it is not a surprise" to him "that we've got problems in Guantanamo," which he had pledged to close in the 2008 presidential campaign."*
Obama said that Gitmo must be closed in a press conference. Then why won't he close it? It seems like he's said he wanted to close it several times with good reasoning. Then why does he keep folding on the issue? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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