Inside Obama’s final push to transfer Guantanamo detainees

Name: Inside Obama’s final push to transfer Guantanamo detainees
Uploaded: 2016-12-21T00:23:57Z
Duration: P347S
Description: According to a New York Times report, the Obama administration has notified Congress of its plans to transfer more than a dozen of the 59 prisoners who remain at the Guantanamo Bay detention center before President-elect Trump takes office. Charlie Savage of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how the president has chipped away at the prison population there.

Clip: 12/20/2016 | 5m 47s

According to a New York Times report, the Obama administration has notified Congress of its plans to transfer more than a dozen of the 59 prisoners who remain at the Guantanamo Bay detention center before President-elect Trump takes office. Charlie Savage of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how the president has chipped away at the prison population there.

Aired: 12/20/16

Rating: NR

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