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Jeff bridges won for best actor for his performance in "crazy heart." the only movie i actually saw was "the blindside." >> look who is with us today, dana perino, former press secretary for the george w. bush administration. good morning to you. >> good morning. glad to be here. >> lets talk a little bit about gretchens headline and that was the electrifying headline was adam gadahn, the guy who was born in california turned into an al-qaida terrorist and spokesperson may have been grabbed. sou...

Haitian authorities are still holding the group leader laura silsby. this is all related to the efforts by missionaries to take the children out of haiti. some children had haitian parents there. the haitian courts are trying to decide what to do with the groups leader. senator lindsey grahm is holding firm to help. >> khalid shaikh mohammed if not an enemy combatant, who is. president get it from the left. i dont believe he robbed the liquor store. hes the mastermind of 9/11. i will stand by ...

Zoo and would take hundreds of millions of dollars and would be taken to war in the wrong direction and i agree with the attorney general there is a role for civilian courts in this war but, simply stated, if the mastermind of 9/11, khalid sheikh mohammed, who has taken credit for planning 9/11, is not an enemy combatant, at war with the united states, worthy of a military commission trial, who would be? so, if this report is correct, i think, it helps us immensely get detainee policy back on tr...

Senators john mccain and joe lieberman announcing sweeping new legislation that would require material trials for anyone named enemy combatant and deny them miranda rights. such as the right to remain silent. comes among decisions by the obama administration including its plan to try the 9/11 suspects in federal court instead of military commissions. catherine herridge is live for us in washington. catherine. >> thanks, trace, if this becomes law, a detainee designated an enemy cam bat tant coul...

Forum theres going to be a conviction. im confident. the civilian courts have done very well. im looking at the damage to know and looking at this for what it was. this was pearl harbor, that started this war. >> theres a difference between this and pearl harbor, after pearl harbor, we declared war. >> didnt we in iraq? didnt we -- >> no, pearl harbor -- >> thats not to say were not at war. >> pearl harbor, those were soldiers. >> enemy combatant, somebody woke up the president and said we have ...

Want to challenge the detainee and maker of accusations face-to-face. they say theyre not trained to lie once in custody and must be considered in their case. >> chris: on another matter i understand there was a development late today in the administrations effort to hold civilian trials for terror detainees? >> yes, if the proposal becomes law put forward by lieberman and mccain, detainee who is designated an enemy combatant by the intelligence community could not be read his right and given la...

Want to challenge the detainee and maker of accusations face-to-face. they say theyre not trained to lie once in custody and must be considered in their case. >> chris: on another matter i understand there was a development late today in the administrations effort to hold civilian trials for terror detainees? >> yes, if the proposal becomes law put forward by lieberman and mccain, detainee who is designated an enemy combatant by the intelligence community could not be read his right and given la...

You catch and you cant try? what about the 48 people in guantanamo bay that the obama administration says are too dangerous to let go, but theyre not going to go to military or civilian court? what do you do with them? are you working with the administration to figure that out? i think the obama administration has said indefinite detention has to be on the table. how do you do it? >> thats what im trying to work with the administration on. the only way you can hold a person indefinitely without ...

Only salient difference between the cases is that now barack obama is president. . so there must be something wrong. every single person arrested in this country since 9/11 on terrorism charges or evenly terrorism-related charges, every single one has been handled as a civilian criminal. every single one. and of the years thoof elapsed since 9/11. 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 -- what came next, 2006, 2007, 2008. after all of the years since 2001, after all of the years in which every single person arr...

Earn skepticism from others. it turned out to yield a lot of useful information. but republicans are still trying desperately to blame the obama administration for somehow doing this wrong. >> i do see repeatedly examples that there are key members in the administration like eric holder, for example, the attorney general, who still insists on thinking of terror attacks against the united states as criminal acts as opposed to acts of war. >> you mentioned eric holder the treatment of the christma...