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Call to request your free decision guide now. because the time to think about tomorrow is today. >> shepard: the news this hour, the white house considers the suspect from the manhattan bike path terror attack an enemy combatant. andrew napolitano is here. what is an enemy combatant by law? >> a soldier, government or group as to which the congress of the united states has declared war. the last time the congress of the united states declared war was december 8, 1941 in response to the attacks o...

South carolina senator lindsey graham calling on president trump to compare him an enemy combatant. >> i hope president trump will declare this guy a suspected enemy combatant and hold him under the law of war. >> bill: does the senator have a point? well take that up in a moment. reaction from senator rand paul on the foreign relations committee as our coverage from lower manhattan continues. >> one female i saw near the body. she must have seen it actually happen because she just kept screamin...

Administration captured one of the benghazi terrorists and instead of treating him as an enemy combatant and sending him to guantanamo they bring him to washington to be tried in civilian courts. exactly the obama policy. we dont know if they continue to follow the obama policy or if theyll go to what president trump promised, something tougher. >> sandra: his home country is uzbekistan. its ties to terror. we now know this suspect lived in multiple places in the united states. florida, he is no...

Thats the information we want to know. theres media reports indicating his friends and family saw this coming. saw him being radicalized. what do they mean by that? what signs was he showing? that is helpful to us. we want him to talk. as soon as we give him a lawyer, he will be quiet. >> neil: thats the big distinction here. treated as an enemy combatant, you can get information from him immediately before a lawyer would quiet him up and hes not giving anything to anyone. >> absolutely. you get...

We have countries like syria, for instance, its difficult to do that. so this is -- we have to have a full-court press all around. >> sandra: can there be enough or will there be enough political support for this? >> there ought to be in the aftermath of something like this congress get off your d*uf and start doing it. another example. how about a psychological warfare program aimed at showing jihadi foot soldiers the lifestyles of their leaders. we dont want to offend anyone. americans are dyi...

There were any other messages relaid more quietly from the national security team on the topics you raised. this idea of designating him as an enemy combatant which our own pete williams said was a nonstarter, or on the lack of any sign of unity or any attempt at conveying to the terrorists that we will not be deterred. every president that i can think of sends a message to the terrorists by telling their own publics to go about their lives. if we show our fear, change our lives in any way, they...

That protect these to a fair trial, tools that a lawyer has addresses persons, not citizens, persons. this guy is not a citizen. hes a lawful resident of the united states. hes obviously a person. he has the same rights of all citizens except he cant vote or run for office. he has all the due process rights. >> enemy combatant would deny him miranda rights, deny him access to counsel. >> correct. deny him a jury trial. he would be in whatever the heck is going on in guantanamo bay, whether that ...

Military prison in guantanamo bay. it would be the first time anyone committed a crime on u.s. soil sent there. >> president trump: i would certainly consider it. >> press secretary sarah huckabee sanders clarified his position saying he is not advocating sending saipov to guantanamo bay, he would support such a move. he does consider saipov an enemy combatant. this afternoon, he said he did in fact call governor cuomo and mayor de blasio, that was earlier this afternoon. >> bret: the acting u.s...

This is a direct threat to the national security to homeland, it needs to be talked about now. shep? >> shepard: thanks, john roberts at the white house. good to talk to you. it would be interesting and fascinating if we werent talking about the politics of this. since the president is and the white house spokesperson did and talked about labelling this man an enemy combatant, what would that mean? in other words, would who happen if he were treated as a criminal, a murderer in new york city, wh...

Send him to guantanamo bay but should be an enemy combatant for the purposes of getting intelligence. he can still be tried in a court hire, civilian court. once we have the intelligence we need. but as soon as you read him his rights, theyll tell him to lawyer up and stop talking. we need to know what he knows. intelligence is the name of the game if were going to stop these attacks from helping. >> neil: people say going through the normal legal channels affords the same scrutiny, the same pun...