Andrea Mitchell Tells GOP Senator: Gtimo ‘Hurting Our Standing in the World’

Kyle Drennen | February 23, 2016
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Talking to Republican Colorado Senator Cory Gardner during her MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell lectured the GOP lawmaker on opposing President Obama’s plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay and bring terrorist detainees to prisons inside the United States: “So we’re holding prisoners, paying for them, and arguably hurting our standing in the world because Guantanamo has become such a red flag everywhere in the world, when we could have them locked up in the U.S. and put away for life.”

In response, Gardner completely ripped apart her argument: “Well, actually, again, if you are a terrorist you belong in Guantanamo Bay. That’s where they should stay....And I think this idea that somehow if you transfer everyone out of Guantanamo Bay that terrorists are just going to surrender, that they’re not going to continue their fight against the United States or the west, is gravely mistaken.”

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