Vice President Joe Biden said he expects the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed when he and President Obama exit office at the end of January.

It is “my hope and expectation” that it “will be closed before I leave office,” Biden said Thursday during a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in Stockholm.

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