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Look, this is ridiculous, charles manson is a heinous man who commit heinous crimes and he is a u.s. citizen and, when you capture him you mirandize him and give him a lawyer and those rights an privileges do not apply to a foreign jihadist waging war against the u.s., captured overseas. hes outside of those -- that system, and outside of those rules and never before in american history, have we even considered taking an enemy combatant and bringing him into the u.s. system of justice and this i...

Texas -- >> granting osama bin laden the right to appear in a u.s. courtroom, you are clothing osama bin laden with the protections of the u.s. constitution. thats unavoidable and something youve skipped right past and its giving constitutional rights to enemy soldiers that is the profound problem, sir. >> you are talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. the reality is that we will be reading miranda rights to the court corpse of osama bin laden. he will never appear in an american co...

>> bill: next segment, charges that eric helder held back that captured terrorists deserve constitutional rights. he filed a brief that said an american president does not have the power to hold a u.s. citizen indefinitely and that the country should assume some risk in order for that not to happen. got to be fair, he has been consistent in his beliefs, but the fact that the brief is just now coming to light, fox news analyst dana perina. what is your real beef? >> here is the thing. when he was...

Charges attorney general eric holder held back liberal opinion that captured terrorists deserve constitutional rights. eric holder filed a brief that said an american president does not have the power to hold a u.s. citizen indefinitely. the country should assume some risk for that not to happen. to be fair mr. holder has been consistent in his belief. the fact that the brief is just now coming to light has fox news dana perino who joins us. whats your real beef with holder? >> here is the thing...

Interesting to me it was bill and i that broke the story on national radio on line and not the intrepid reporters. >> whats your problem with that? >> look, i think it has been instructive for america to have known how he approached detainee policy. one of the things that he said is there is an acceptable amount of risk taken to try people through criminal courts which is how they tried to do the underwear bomber rather than hold him as an enemy combatant. i take it at his word that not revealin...

>> bill: impact segment tonight charges attorney general eric holder held back liberal opinion that captured terrorists deserve constitutional rights. eric holder filed a brief that said an american president does not have the power to hold a u.s. citizen indefinitely. the country should assume some risk for that not to happen. to be fair mr. holder has been consistent in his belief. the fact that the brief is just now coming to light has fox news dana perino who joins us. whats your real beef w...

Of the court for a wide variety of pro bono lawyers and even someone named ken starr has defended those lawyers for defending a constitutional principle which dana also should mention was agreed with by two courts of appeals and the united states supreme court. >> right. >> hold on a second because on the case in particular that holder was a party to. they lost that case. the supreme court -- they went back to the supreme court, we might have a different law. the law of the land right now is you...

>> bill: impact segment tonight charges attorney general eric holder held back liberal opinion that captured terrorists deserve constitutional rights. eric holder filed a brief that said an american president does not have the power to hold a u.s. citizen indefinitely. the country should assume some risk for that not to happen. to be fair mr. holder has been consistent in his belief. the fact that the brief is just now coming to light has fox news dana perino who joins us. whats your real beef w...

Authority to hold the u.s. citizen or suspected terrorist back in the united states, for example, the underwear bomber, abdulmutallab, could be held as a enemy combatant. thats the law in effect at the motel. the supreme court hasnt ruled on it but thats the law. the fact they took the position he did is not in and of itself controversial. the issue that arise cents now is he said in the brief there is a risk to national security by providing suspected terrorists more constitutional rights than ...

Thats the big -- >> thats the question that theyre going to have to ask themselves is this goes back, remember, to the underwear bomber and the decision early on within the first 24 hours to mirandize and read the right to the underwear bomber. who wasnt even an american citizen and could have given us a lot more information had we not waited five weeks until the family convinced him. regardless of who this guy is, i let out a cheer thinking it was adam gadahn having seen some of the horrific th...