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Even if he is speaking now is doing it from a position of strength. he is now bargaining, he is trying to win concessions and leniency. why does a guy who tried to kill 300 innocents and untold numbers on the ground have any access to any chips with which he can offer which he can purchase leniency on our part? he doesnt have any rights at all. he is an enemy combatant who ought to be interrogated without any quid pro quo. we are in a weak position and we are month late. >> bret: steve, the othe...

Minutes, before he was then taken in for surgery for the burns on his legs that he suffered when the explosive material in his lap caught fire. its also been widely reported, and confirmed by government officials that after that, when the fbi sought to reinterview him, he stopped talking, and that then he was given his miranda warning. now, that has ignited a debate here in washington whether the government is handling this case correctly. about whether abdulmutallab should instead have been dec...

Expecting the budget deficit to drop to 700 billion dollars by the 2013 fiscal year. im julie banderas, now, back to huckabee only here on fox. [applaus [applause]. >> mike: after months of mounting pressure from national and local leaders in the new york community, the obama administration is backing away from initial plans of holding the trial of master mind khalid shaikh mohammed and other terrorists in new york city. so, if the site has changed, where should is be held? my next guest former ...

Planning these attacks. can we immediately begin interrogating that person? is that something for reconsideration? >> look, the first big threshold for president obama to cross is to recognize we are at war. if youre at war, none of the criminal defense rules apply. when youre at war you are allowed to take an enemy combatant, the christmas day bomber is certainly an enemyav6 combatant as is ksh and you are allowed to have them interrogated by the intelligence and military community there is zer...

Actually, if congress took action, went this route, went a route of saying military -- we should have military tribunals for anybody declared an enemy combatant because i think whats happened to the white house is that they have run up against -- the contradictions of their two predictions are blowing up in heir face. they want to look tough to voters because its popular to say these guys are righteous murderers. on the other hand, they want to look like theyre just and fair and rule of law to a...

So thats not an easy question. as for when, remember, first of all, they havent been indicted yet. that has to happen. and then congress has to be notified that their coming. the administration has to wait at least 45 days under the current law before they can bring them here. back to you. >> pete, on another matter, the "l.a. times" has an interesting ticktock this morning about when the decision was made to give the christmas bomber his -- read him his miranda rights and that it was a consulta...

Unlikely. because theyve basically said, we believe this is the right decision, to try him in civilian court. we believe we have enough -- and the question now is not whether they have enough evidence to convict him, because theyre quite confident in that. the question is whether declaring him an enemy combatant, putting him in military custody, could cause him to give them more intelligence. and the feeling ive gotten from the people ive talked to is once he shuts down, hes not likely to open u...

Like you get a one shot at the world, based on your time in the white house, do you believe theyd pick an american city probably over any other city? >> well, it certainly seemed that new york and washington, d.c. were the two targets. >> the only reason i mention that, to my good friends, and they are, who believe americas not part of the battlefield, it sure was on 9/11. the law. if an american citizen goes to afghanistan and takes up the fight against our forces and theyre captured in afghani...

American citizen joining their cause is real. because it has happened in the past. the likelihood of it happening in the future, i think, is highly likely. if an american citizen is attacking the embassy in kabul, can be held as an american citizen, heres a question. can an american citizen collaborating with other terrorists who are not american citizens be held as an enemy combatant? and if they cant, you are incentivizing the enemy to find an american citizen because they have a privilege tha...

Accused of crimes in the united states. i hard to believe that theres a senator in public on the senate floor saying if your accused of a crime and lindsey graham calls you an enemy combatant, he can send you to guantanamo bay, no la no trial. if lindsey graham thinks youre an enemy comban somehow well be under martial law, that scares me to death. scares everybody that believes in the bill of rights. were having that fight because he blocking my amendment that would say no one accused of a crim...