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Is the discussion we should have, actually. and i want you back when we have it. we need to get some law professors around this table because i believe that over the -- in this war of terror -- and i think in part, chris, because were muddling through this because this isnt a clean war like world war ii where theres a start and an end. i think were trying to figure out -- still trying to figure out what the rules of the game are. and i think you may be right. maybe bush and cheney went too far o...

Across the country and around the world. our top story, the attorney general, eric holder, pointing to the bush white house as his legal precedent for trying to -- deciding to try the christmas day bombing suspect in federal court instead of treating him as an enemy combatant. now republican lawmakers including arizona senator jon kyl want to know who are the more than 300 terrorists that holder claims were tried in criminal court under the bush administration and why havent we heard about them?...

On national security before there was any public criticism to pee speak of. when you have a white house that is spinning constantly they going to be criticized and deserve to be criticized. >> chris: juan, there is another side to the argument that the white house and their supporters make and that is even if he had been treated as an enemy combatant they argue he still would have had a right to an attorney. they couldnt have locked him away, having been caught in this country, in a dungeon. the...

People who wrote the 9/11 commission and last week, he said that he just didnt think president obama understood terror. to me, that was huge to have a democrat say that. >> well, and the administration continues to tout that during the bush years, we prosecuted two terrorists, moussaoui and reed like they want to do for khalid sheikh mohammed and i really want to take a moment to put that in context. moussaoui was arrested before 9/11. reed was arrested six weeks after president bush first gave ...

Information that we could continue to go on with this investigation. >> yet, you see a terrorism is supposed to be a political expert come out and say that, well, we talked to him for 50 minutes, thats enough. how dare you criticize? >> thats totally wrong because this is not about a political advantage -- here we have an illegal enemy combatant that should not have any type of miranda rights, constitutional rights whatsoever. as a matter of fact, he should probably be sitting down at guantanamo...

On national security before there was any public criticism to pee speak of. when you have a white house that is spinning constantly they going to be criticized and deserve to be criticized. >> chris: juan, there is another side to the argument that the white house and their supporters make and that is even if he had been treated as an enemy combatant they argue he still would have had a right to an attorney. they couldnt have locked him away, having been caught in this country, in a dungeon. the...

On national security before there was any public criticism to pee speak of. when you have a white house that is spinning constantly they going to be criticized and deserve to be criticized. >> chris: juan, there is another side to the argument that the white house and their supporters make and that is even if he had been treated as an enemy combatant they argue he still would have had a right to an attorney. they couldnt have locked him away, having been caught in this country, in a dungeon. the...

Hes enemy combatant and should not have the opportunity to "lawyer up." those sentiments were echoed last night in her speech in nashville before the tea party convention. democrats have been fighting back and now there is a big squabble thats broken out over the last several days between republicans on the hill and the white house. there was a briefing last monday by fbi officials, a closed briefing, a classified briefing, where the fbi revealed that abdulmutallab was now cooperating and talkin...

Dont kill him, were going to detain him anyway because hes an enemy combatant. hes an alien beligerent and the reason we say we want to have a sa r civilian trial to all the world is we want to showcase our system of justice in this country. fair and impartial. but still no trial, no indictment, and if hes not convicted, we will detain him anyway. >> so youre suggesting that this would be, perhaps, the most expensive show trial in history. >> well, what i think -- >> with conclusion a foregone c...

Terrorists are supposed to be put into. we need to, one clarification, and two, to tell the american people there will never be a situation where someone who tries to commit a terrorist act on the united states of america would ever have access to miranda rights and will be interrogated to try to get whatever information we can get to save american lives. >> greta: i am seems you have two choices. either try him as a civilian or charge him as a civilian or consider him an enemy combat tan if you...