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 A Vote Of No Confidence - White House Press Briefing by Robert Gibbs 5/19/09 — Wednesday, May 20, 2009 —  Q Robert, back on Guantanamo. Are you saying that you have a plan that will satisfy the concerns of Congress and that -- but that hasn't been shared with them yet? The President has a plan --MR. GIBBS: I don't remember that -- I appreciate that, but I don't remember making any remark like that. Q So do you believe that the plan that the President will outline or discuss on Thursday will be enough to satisfy the concerns of lawmakers, such that they will put the money back in the bill? MR. GIBBS: Well, let me try to say what I said earlier. The President and Congress will work together on a timeline for a renewed request for whatever resources are needed. The President still believes it in our national interest to close Guantanamo Bay; that's why he signed the executive order. And Thursday he'll outline his thoughts on detainee and detention issues, as well as the other issues like photos and memos that I talked about earlier. Q The main concern on the Hill seems to be that detainees will be released from Guantanamo either inside the United States or will be even held in prisons inside the United States, which some find objectionable, or that they'll be sent to other countries and released there. So will the President address these concerns in his speech on Thursday? MR. GIBBS: Yes. Yes. Q And does he have some plan that -- for doing something else with these detainees, other than -- MR. GIBBS: Well, let's not get -- I'm not going to give the President's Thursday speech here on Tuesday. Q You'd probably do a good job of it. MR. GIBBS: Well, I'm not quite as tall. But I think the President will outline in greater detail his thoughts and thinking on this. He'll outline the reasoning of why he strongly believes, and many in both parties believe, that closing Guantanamo Bay is in our best national security and foreign policy interest. And he will go through a number of the decisions related to that and other issues that we've discussed in the last few weeks that all relate to it. Q Isn't this, though, kind of a vote of no confidence, this withholding of the money that he has asked for? MR. GIBBS: No, I don't agree with that at all. Congress | Guantanamo | President Obama | Press Briefing | Robert Gibbs | War on Terror | White House Press Corps Labels: Congress, Guantanamo, President Obama, Press Briefing, Robert Gibbs, War on Terror, White House Press Corps >> Full Story
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