Bush Speaks at Walter Reed Medical Center Groundbreaking Ceremony

MIKE EMANUEL, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: President Bush told me that he finds that Supreme Court ruling very disappointing. The White House has warned one consequence of the ruling is that detainees could be freed here in the U.S. if a judge determines there's not enough evidence to hold them. Now, the president was here in Bethesda, Maryland, for the groundbreaking of the New Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. After that, I spoke exactly with the president about being commander in chief, about what it's like to pin purple hearts on wounded warriors, and also about that controversial Guantanamo decision by the Supreme Court.

The president said that basically he finds that -- you know, he was quite disappointed that a bipartisan law was struck down by the high court, and here's his answer to that question.

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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: ... analyzing the decision, how to move forward. And there's no decision that's imminent on Guantanamo. But, nevertheless, we have an obligation to live under the law, and so we're fully analyzing the impact of the law.

EMANUEL: Do you feel pressure to get it resolved by the time you leave office, sir?

BUSH: Well, I -- you know, I understand this is the law of the land, and we've got to adhere to the law of the land and will.

And this is a far-reaching decision, where, you know, people taken off the battlefield, foreign fighters, you know, are now given the same rights as American citizens, which is an extraordinary decision, particularly after we passed the law that did have a way forward, that would have, you know, satisfied the need to protect our secrets and at the same time given people access to the judiciary.