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| US President Barack Obama makes Guantanamo closure plan | |
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| President Obama is delivering a year-end address before heading to San Bernardino to visit families bereaved by the terror attacks. | President Obama is delivering a year-end address before heading to San Bernardino to visit families bereaved by the terror attacks. |
| The speech and the trip to California are his last scheduled appearances before going to Hawaii for holiday until the new year. | The speech and the trip to California are his last scheduled appearances before going to Hawaii for holiday until the new year. |
| He is taking questions from reporters. Here is a sample of his answers, with some analysis from the BBC's Laura Trevelyan in Washington. | |
| Guantanamo Bay | Guantanamo Bay |
| Mr Obama said it was his expectation by early next year to have reduced the prison population at the camp in Cuba to below 100. | Mr Obama said it was his expectation by early next year to have reduced the prison population at the camp in Cuba to below 100. |
| He said he will present a plan to Congress to close it, keeping back the threat of using his executive powers if Congress rejects it. | He said he will present a plan to Congress to close it, keeping back the threat of using his executive powers if Congress rejects it. |
| Laura Trevelyan: The president who was elected on a platform to close Guantanamo Bay because it represented a stain on American values has been constantly frustrated by Congress. Now on this issue, as on so many others including immigration and gun control, the President is considering whether to use his executive authority to circumvent lawmakers. | |
| Who he thinks will win in 2016 | |
| Laura Trevelyan: If after eight years of President Obama in office, the American people don't vote for the Democrat's nominee in 2016, this will be seen at least partially as a rejection of the Obama legacy and his signature policy of Obamacare. |