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Day two. we are ready to go. tuesday is the blah day of the week, isnt it? >> definitely not friday. thats for sure. hump day is at least hump day. thursday is friday eve as we like to say. >> it is monday, tuesdays nothing. i say we throw this one away and we have a four-day week. >> works for me. >> thats my proposal. >> diana for president. >> absolutely. we begin with the latest on the suspected terror mastermind anas al libi. he is held aboard a u.s. navy ship somewhere in the mediterrane...

>> elisabeth: exactly. the bottom right photo is what they assumed he would look like, correct? >> brian: yep. the top one is what he did look like. so hes captured. he, according to general mccraven, he could be kept on that ship in international waters and interrogated as long as we want because this guy is an enemy combatant. however, he could be in new york city in a couple of days, which just kills me because we could be getting valuable intelligence from him that could save more american l...

Him back here, and they will try to debrief him. >> if he says i am not talking? >> he says i am not talking. then he doesnt talk. and unfortunately we have dunaway with the cia interrogation where we would have some ways to get people to talk, didnt violate statues, but nonetheless we are coercive. >> didnt we have a cia that will question them? >> i hope so. hope they are there and hope they are doing it, and if he starts to talk, even then in order to evaluate the truthfulness and the value o...

To get anywhere close to the huge body of information this guy has. he should be treated as an illegal enemy combatant, taken to guantanamo bay for a long period of questioning and im afraid were going to lose that. >> one of his counterparts was tried in new yorks so precedent was set and it appears that is the way this is going to. well see how long he is on the ship asking him questions. >> the trouble is we learned that the law enforcement paradigm doesnt work when 9/11 occurred in 2001. thi...

>> you try to de brief him he says i am not talking. >> he says i am not talking then you have to talk. we have done away with the cia interrogation which we had ways of getting people to talk that were perfectly legal that didnt violate any statute. none the less we are coercing. >> dont we have the high value interrogation team cia, dod that will question them? >> i hope so. i hope they are there and thoep they are doing it. there is a limit of how much pressure they can put on him. in order t...

Guantanamo bay prisoner and enemy combatant being released to the general public for being too mentally ill? thats right. a federal judge ordering ibrahim to go free. joining us to weigh in is former pentagon person j.d. gordon. nice to see you, j.d. >> thanks, clayton. >> let me get this straight. hes going free because his mental illness is no threat? hes too mentally ill? >> clayton, the only thing i think thats crazier than releasing him is the prisoner himself. he fought against the soviets...

Because graham says hes an enemy combatant. however, gadahn has only been indicted in the u.s. for treason not for any kind of operational role in al qaeda so whether the u.s. would have any legal basis to take him out in a drone strike is not clear right now. >> brian todd reporting live for us this morning. thank you. still to come in the "newsroom," a neighbor sends a letter to the family of an autistic boy. wait until you hear what it said. well be right back. ry and gifts store. anything ...

We need to fix that. we need to have our partners fighting with us in one joint strategy. so when there is a movement, when there is a group of jihadists, al qaeda in yemen targeting only us and not the government, they need move against them. not a yemeni war with al qaeda, international war with al qaeda. >> i will go back to lisa in a second, do you think it is wise for president obama to consider releasing some guantanamo detainees back to yemen? >> it has to do with gitmo. gitmo is not a wa...

What this guy does. the biggest problem for me is that he knows better. he was a judge advocate general in the military, served his country with distinction as a trained attorney. he knows this is how international asylum and treaties work. he also knew that any time we capture someone in america, they should get their rights and get put into the court system. he was the first guy out the gate in what i would think is a very similar kind of made up standoff where he said, oh, the president shoul...

Rule the forced feeding, iltsel, was legal or illegal but found her court lacked any legal jurisdiction to get involved. any legal jurisdiction at all to end the forced feeding program at guantanamo. she wrote, "no court, justice or judge shall have jurisdictions to hear any aspect of the detention, transfer, treatment, trial or conditions of confinement of an alien who has been properly detained as an enemy combatant." courts are constrained by a lack of jurisdiction to rule on whether or not t...