Obama to shut down Guantanamo Bay before end of office: White House

When I was on your show a year ago, you asked if the president was done, that he basically had lost the election, and there was nothing left for him to do, Everything you just laid out were things he got done in the last year, which of course we’re very proud of.

‘He feels an obligation to the next president.

President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address.

Obama will present his plan to Congress about how the facility should be closed and look for their approval, McDonough said, according to Reuters.

Obama claims that the prison has been used as a recruitment tool in propaganda for groups such as al Qaeda.

The president has argued the facility has outlived its usefulness, including being too costly to keep open, an argument McDonough repeated on Sunday. President Obama won’t be endorsing either his former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, or Bernie Sanders, reports Reuters.

The Obama administration has done what it can to transfer detainees to other countries.

But there is a small number of detainees who the administration says it would like to detain in a US facility for national security reasons.

Chris Wallace faced off with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough this morning over President Obama’s use of executive actions to go around Congress on various different issues. “We’ll do exactly what has been done in the past”, McDonough reportedly said in an interview for NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

Congress has explicitly banned the transfer of detainees to the US. Sanders to stand up and say, ‘I got this one wrong, ‘ ” Clinton said Friday on MSNBC.

“I will not campaign for, vote for or support any candidate, even in my own party, who does not support common-sense gun reform”, Obama wrote in an op-ed column in the New York Times on Thursday, days after he made a passionate plea about the urgency of fighting gun violence in America.