Transcript for If Obama Closes Gitmo, Marco Rubio Pledges To Reopen It As President

If President Obama had managed to close Guantanamo which Israel had absolutely and here's why we we have no longer. On an ongoing basis detain terrorists and so we're not getting interrogation there they're killed by a drone they're targeted and some other way. But there's tremendous valley in capturing people that are enemy combatants and from them being able to gather actionable intelligence that can not only prevent attacks against the homeland and abroad. But allow us to disrupt the cells that they've created in different parts of the world where no longer doing that as a as aggressively as we once did. And by the way the recent history of people being freed from Guantanamo is atrocious a significant percentage of return to the battlefield. A significant percentage for example the ones that went to Europe wires are not being accurately and effectively monitored and present a danger in the short and mid term for our country in the world. So I think the next president assets is gonna have to deal with the aftermath. Some of the prisoners that have been released.

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