<div class="jwplayer"><!-- wp:shortcode -->[jwp-video n="1"]<!-- /wp:shortcode --></div><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton slammed defense officials during an Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday on the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba amid Obama administration efforts to close the military-run prison. Cotton, an Iraq War veteran, said efforts to close the prison amounted to a political decision to uphold a promise from President Barack Obama's campaign. "To say that it is a security decision based on propaganda value that our enemies get from it is a pretext to justify a political decision," Cotton said. "In my opinion, the only problem with Guantánamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. … As far as I'm concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell."</span></p><div id="cqrcPostAdditional"></div>
