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Got proper legal representation, down came the shutters. he said no more. do you go with eric holder on this or do you think there is cause for concern? >> no. i think the attorney general is quite right. there was never really a legal or constitutional basis to hold him as an enemy combatant. this is an american arrested on american soil for acts committed in america. thats about as far from the paradigm of a military combatant that as a foreigner caught on a foreign battlefield as you can get....

Very much, america, im a terrorist and youre treating me like im not a terrorist now, and i got a lawyer and my lawyers now telling me that you as americans are paying for, then im not going to talk to you anymore. thats a brilliant move by this guy. theyve also been trained, weaveweve seen through al qaeda and things weve learned about them, they have taught them how to not talk while talking, not giving great information while acting like they are and to hopefully run out the time period here....

An enemy combatant which is exactly what he is, and thats what were seeing from all this information from russia, all the information now we hear from the back and forths with the mother, this is not a normal american. this is not a random act of craziness. this is a planned, orchestrated terrorist attack against american citizens and more importantly than that, he probably knows a lot more about other things that could be going on and other things that could take american lives. thats why you d...

Rights when it comes to guns. isnt he entitled to the very constitutional rights that you hold so dear? >> it depends on if youre pledging allegiance to a terrorist organization and youre working with foreign terrorists and around the world. there is two totally different things here. if youre an american that decides to snap one afternoon and commit a heinous crime, you do fit the mold that you just described, which is youre an american, you commit a crime on american soil. but usually, thats w...

Lets talk about dzhokhar tsarnaev, because i know youve got strong views about this. your views i know from my twitter feed, and if you want to tweet me about it,@piersmorgan, do it now. your view is he should be treated as an enemy combatant. under that, he would have then been interrogated for a lot longer than he has been. why do you believe that? >> because he would have been interrogated longer than he was and as soon as he was read his miranda rights, he was then, what did he do? he shut d...

Listen to what eric holder had to say. >> the decision to mirandize him was one that the magistrate made and that was totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two-day period that we were able to question him under the public safety exception so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. >> now, a lot of people are quite agitated about this, saying that he should have been tried as an enemy combatant or at the very least, the fbi should have had longer time th...

Or in fact hg intentions. however, i think its unlikely that thats going to develop. i think shes probably going to turn out to be more of an intelligence resource than a source of hard information in the case. >> obviously they would love to question her. shes got a team of lawyers representing her. we dont even know now all these days later if shes started answering fbi questions. what does tha say toyou? >> well, the fbi obviously feels that shes a source of legitimate information. theyre que...

The lawmakers -- no, theyre not shifting. lindsey graham said that many times. he said -- >> hes been consistent. >> megyn: lindsey graham said he specifically put the language into the resolution saying if youre an american, you get tried in federal court. but that doesnt answer the question of how you are treated initially upon arrest. >> so if you were going through the federal civilian system, then go by the federal civilian rules. there may be an argument that you could have welled up filin...

As a criminal justice suspect. when we killed those who aid the terrorists on 9-11, we dont go through these inquiries. we dont do that. >> exactly. >> megyn: you aided bin laden, you die. this is a different scenario all together. >> she could be looking at army combatant status because shes not here. if she did not do it on american soil, it favors her to be an enemy combatant rather than the son -- >> megyn: she may be worse off than her son. >> exactly. the sons were here, grown here. u.s. c...

Leads. >> megyn: jay? >> first of all, he should have never filed those charges so quickly because the federal government here, the executive branch is doing an investigation. by filing those charges, youre letting the judiciary come in and take over your investigation by reading the miranda rights. there was a u.s. attorney present, as well as, which is interesting here -- a u.s. attorney and a public defender. so ask yourself this question: two things, number one, if we would have declared him...