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Fleet works, and if its deployment grids and communications protocols, that can be very damaging, and even if its information that they, the average person has at one level or another, it confirms that information. >> were keeping a close eye on the sentencing hearing and well lit you know of any updates. >> thank you very much. the obama administration is divided over whether to use a drone strike to kill an american citizen, member of al qaeda, who is said to be planning attacks against the un...

American without due process? this is going to be interesting discussion. >> and the -- is the administration attacking our constitution? lets bring in fox news senior judicial analyst. judge, what do you think? >> good morning, guys. were all friends. >> on first bluff, you say if they want to kill us, even if theyre americans, we should be able to kill them, no? >> no. the constitution -- the people that wrote the constitution did not trust the power to kill in the hands of anybody, even the p...

republican backers. dont worry. you run. well take care of the money. >> he has rather moderate views on social issues conservatives may not be hip to. >> well talk a lot about that this morning. something else were talking a lot about. amanda knoxs first hope for freedom. the american student is waiting to see if her murder conviction will be overturned. she made her case to the jury earlier this morning. now an agonizing waiting game for her. part of what a tearful knox told the cour...

faults? >> and a new book tainting the legacy of walter payton. we talk to the author, right here, right now on cnn. hello, im don lemon. you know near the cnn newsroom. well start with a word that you may find uncomfortable. it is a controversy thats putting a hopeful into an uncomfortable position. governor rick perry has to respond to his association with the most poisonous word in the english language. perry and his family it is reported that they leased a hunting camp that went ...

i wasnt there. i wasnt present in that crime. >> prosecutors painted knox as a demonic figure who killed for the thrill. they described the murder as part satanic ritual and part orgy. the trial of conrad murray enters a second week in about 45 minutes. thats the michael jackson trial. the emergency room doctor who pronounced michael jackson dead is expected on the witness stand first. dr. rachelle cooper says that murray never told her that hed given jackson the anesthesia that alle...

and have a right to kill or capture enemy combatants trumps the fact that one or another of those combatants might have u.s. personhood wrapped around them. >> reporter: and the former ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee is in too, but she wants the administration to be transparent about its legal justification for killing an american without due process. >> i believe there is a good case. imminent threat beyond our ability to arrest him, the authorization to use milit...

Its the beginning of a dangerous new practice, giving the government power to assassinate an american without due process. >> al awlaki was born here, an american citizen. he was never tried or charged for any crimes. nobody knows if he ever killed anybody. if the american people accept this blindly and casually, we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys. i think its sad. >> meanwhile, governor rick perry had a much different response and o...

Recruiter. linked to so many different plots, from the ft. hood bombing to underwear bombing plat, cargo planes and inspired so many others. theres no question he was highly effective, a very busy man. the u.s. considered him very dangerous. >> now, there are these legal questions, as you know, that have been raised as a result of the killing of him and also of khan. these two men, they were american citizens. no trial. no due process. what are the arguments from both sides here? >> well, the ad...