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Process. >> sarah, the guantanamo bay question. does the president believe this suspect should be classified as an enemy combatant? >> i believe we would consider this person to be an enemy combatant, yes. >> would he maybe decide not to charge him in federal court and use the status of enemy comb combatant and that status but treat him differently in terms of prosecution. >> i dont think thats been determined. well wait until were a little further in the process. >> have you decided to charge h...

Was his brother. >> neil: did video help you with that or did he lead you to that? >> no, video led us to that. he was not -- we never got to talk to him. he didnt talk to us at all. >> neil: okay. curious about those developments. ed davis, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> neil: senator lindsey graham thinks whatever you think, hes not a criminal. hes an enemy combatant. and should be treated that way with gitmo, nothing like a regular criminal. rebecca heinricks is here. what do you throu...

Suggesting if youre from a foreign country and perpetrate and act of terrorism, you qualify as an enemy combatant. this person unlike padilla was not a u.s. citizen but had a green card could change things around. just to reiterate what sarah huckabee sanders said, he would support it. >> shepard: a lot to go before anything like that. john, you began this asking the question about the politicalization of this. >> i remember asking the president about the bump stocks that the las vegas shooter u...

Consider sending saipov to gitmo, were hearing some lawmakers say he should be treated as an enemy combatant. as far as we know he hasnt been read his miranda rights. how long does the government have before they need to make a decision one way or the other? >> the two separate issues here, they dont have to read the miranda rights courts have held in similar cases to be able to question someone and still use the evidence under whats called the public safety exception, judge court made law that ...

Declared an enemy combatant is one that gets made way above my pay grade. this is an office of federal prosecutors. there were a number of federal crimes committed in the complaint that we were able to prove and we brought the charges and we intend to proceed with them. whether or not someone will be designated an enemy combatant or not, thats a determination that will be made elsewhere. i believe in the history if you look through precedents, there can be federal charges in place. someone can b...

They control legal, some are highly involved in drug trafficking activities. so the high military command does not have any economic incentive for maduras government to fall down. actually, the weaker becomes, t influence si influential they become. this is basically confronting an armed civilian population in the streets, as if it were an enemy combatant. more than 110 people killed and so far no signs of any change in sight. >> what about change coming from countries. oil is so important. expo...

Huge bipartisan vote so that every enemy combatant today has a habeus proceeding where the government has to prove by preponderance of the evidence that you are, in fact, an enemy combatant than if they reached that conclusion, you can be held under the law of war as long as youre a threat to our nation. is that a fair summary of where were at? >> thats my understanding. senator, along the way your legislation did prevail in the d.c. circuit and the supreme court. it was a close call. 5-4, as i ...

Huge bipartisan vote, so that every enemy combatant today has a habeas proceeding where the government has to prove youre an enemy combatant and if they reach that conclusion you can be held under the law of war as long as youre a threat to our nation. is that a fair summary of where were at? >> thats my understanding, senator. along the way we, your legislation did prevail in the d.c. circuit and the supreme court. of course it was a close call, it was 5-4 as i recall. >> that proves that five ...

Combatants in the future, high level al qaeda operatives, that were not going to read them their miranda rights. were going to hold them in the rule of war, interrogate them consistent with the laws of the land and geneva convention and try to gather intelligence to prevent the next attack. to my friends on the other side, the world is on fire. and somebody needs to come along and change our legal system so we can better defend ourselves. only god knows how much intelligence weve lost in the las...

Hold even one of our own as an enemy combatant if theyve been collaborate with the enemy. if you get to america, you dont get rewarded. hopefully our laws work here even on our homeland. i think jeff sessions is right and senator feinstein is wrong. bottom line about the job of attorney general. i think jeff will follow the law. no matter what his political opinions are. i have no doubt about that. as to roe v. wade, millions of americans share that opinion. you mentioned a march where thousands...