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The constitution, there are laws. >> right. you have to remember this guy, dzhokhar tsarnaev, unlike his older brother, whos dead, hes an american citizen living in america and committed a crime in america. so when you hear these senators and congressmen leaping up and down saying we want to have him tortured and we want to have the interrogation lasting for months, youre straying into guantanamo bay territory for someone who is an american citizen. >> this is the conundrum. this is a political ...

Here is the bottom line, people who analyze this stuff for a living former assistant u. >> s attorney. this was about eric holder, the doj wanting to shut down the debate that was emerging in the country about how we were going to treat tsarnaev as enemy combatant who we could question without a lawyer until we had the information we needed or as a regular criminal defendant who is an american citizen who is entitled to miranda shortly after getting arrested. i dont want it that debate. i have t...

Suspects have waived their right to be presented to a judge. once this individual, once tsarnaev was presented to a judge, they have to explain to -- >> i think, michael, that was rodgers complaint, the judge should not have -- >> well the judge has to. he has this individual has a constitutional right. so the only way you can avoid that being explained to him by a judge, is that charges arent actually filed. and frankly, in the united states, in unless youre termed an enemy combatant, theres no...

Without mir ran dieing them. >> you are going to say no they wont hold them for 10 years? they was a hyperbole, but they could hold them for some amount of time and ask them a lot of questions. the reason that is relevant here is there seems to be qeet enough information to convict this guy without what he says in the hospital room. it is just to the guy he hijacked. it is not like we need his statements to convict him. it would be useful to get some national security information. >> but unless ...

Here is the bottom line, people who analyze this stuff for a living former assistant u. >> s attorney. this was about eric holder, the doj wanting to shut down the debate that was emerging in the country about how we were going to treat tsarnaev as enemy combatant who we could question without a lawyer until we had the information we needed or as a regular criminal defendant who is an american citizen who is entitled to miranda shortly after getting arrested. i dont want it that debate. i have t...

And the f.b.i. agents were told, the f.b.i. agents want intel. it can be used in court. the prosecutor wantbes to put the guy away. the kid was admitting all of this stuff but they couldnt use it in court. they are thinking mirandize the guy to get him on the record. >> eric: he is going away forever. it doesnt matter. we had the opportunity to get more -- more -- >> kimberly: intelligence matters. >> eric: he is gone anyway. they might have waited. they didnt need extra information. they need t...

Dont know whether this cooperative attitude that -- displayed to investigators during those two sessions over the weekend, we dont know whether thats going to continue. if he continues to try to be cooperative or his lawyers take a -- the traditional defense lawyer attitude of, you know, prove your case in court, and were not saying anything more. thats the federal public defenders office has not said a word so far how this is going to play out, whether hes going to continue to cooperate i think...

The mouth of this terrorist and cant use him to link together this treasure trove of information and the people hurt the most are the people watching your show and innocent americans all across the united states. that shouldnt be. that is a miscarriage of justice. >> greta: i take it you dont have any -- you agreed that unless he is categorized or determined to be an enemy combatant they were obliged to charge him. the supreme court says you cant hold someone without charges to the u.s. attorney...

Raised by the house intelligence chairman, mike rogers, yesterday. he says that the judge in this case rushed in to mirandize dzhokhar, before the fbi was done talking to him. >> to have the court affirmatively push their way in is, a, i think its wrong, and b, we should have given the fbi the time that they needed, given the circumstances of someone in the hospital, who is in and out of consciousness and on and off medication, for the doj not to push back, the attorneys office. they have a lot ...

That was about to be blown up over niagara falls between new york and toronto. there is a lot of serious matters at hand and we need to think about the safety of the american people. >> greta: just to is summarize and make sure the u.s. attorney did the right thing by charging having no directions by him or her are to do anything to the contrare. >> that is, correct. >> greta: you dont have any beef with the u.s. attorney or the magistrate the beef is with whoever made the decision not to make h...