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Currently in the hospital in boston because we will not define him as an enemy combatant. i dont care if hes convicted, i want the information from the guy. thats what its all about. >> he will be convicted. we dont need to worry about that. this president, why wont he acknowledge what is the truth? tell the american people the truth. george bush did. >> i am not usually in a position of speaking for or defending president obama, but im going to in this case. >> oh, boy. we will have a fight her...

Psychological one, no question. and again, john, this is a wholly unique one in that regard. but i think from the medical staff themselves, they take care of the patients and oftentimes they dont even have any interaction, even with the medical staff treating the other patients. john? >> got to do your job one way or the other. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate it. we want to bring in former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzales. he had such k...

Outside this country. >> would you find it unusual -- like you said, we dont know what our government knows and doesnt know in this investigation. but would you find it unusual for us not to know what he was doing in the six months, at least not today? i assume that we have spread out across russia where he was and at least piece it had together by now? >> well, im not certain we have piece it had together. we dont know again how much cooperation there is between the russians and the fbi or othe...

For the u.s. government to bring this person to justice? and also to bring information which may help us prevent additional attacks in the future, and provide some level of closure. provide answers that provide some level of closures to the family. and so apparently the white house department of justice made a calculation that they can achieve both of these objectives by trying in our criminal court. there are some complications if hes designated an enemy combatant for example that is going to b...

Not they should have been given miranda rights, given rights or be treated by enemy combatants. where do you fall in the dispute? >> you need to be careful about protecting the word enemy con battent. that is to say theres a difference between a homegrown self-activated terrorist and somebody who is part of an international. >> al-qaeda or an al-qaeda-like group. what we dont know is was the older brother, damage -- tamerlan, did he have international ties, was he recruited by an al-qaeda group ...

Go to. the other thing is alisa asked her well why did you come to america? she said my husband and i were political activists in chechnya. my husband did something and we had to leave chechnya. its already a family that was politically, you know, politically active and in chechnya politically active means you are trying to overthrow the government or trying get a new government. so they are already a family thats politically activated, and they then become religion us zealots and then jihaddist...

Go to. the other thing is alisa asked her well why did you come to america? she said my husband and i were political activists in chechnya. my husband did something and we had to leave chechnya. its already a family that was politically, you know, politically active and in chechnya politically active means you are trying to overthrow the government or trying get a new government. so they are already a family thats politically activated, and they then become religion us zealots and then jihaddist...

Calling him an enemy combatant as much as possible on the front end so you can squeeze him for whatever information hes got. >> won you expect to have some greater level of cooperation with the russians? if they originally called us and said check him out when hes on your soil, won you think there would be some reciprocity that we would be look working at least with this limited investigation with the russians? >> i would sit expect there is a lot of cross agency cooperation. the russians have a...

Are also made of some of the lightest body armor in the world and they can be used as weapons, too. >> imagine the gun sticking in the window of a classroom. and you knock the gun out of the hand. it is empowerment. its a tool. its something that the teachers finally will have. >> the white board inventor said he made it in response to the shootings in newtown, connecticut. now, heres your "first look" at scrambled politics. senator rand paul is breaking ranks with fellow republicans and his t...

Like you said, we dont know what our government knows and doesnt know in this investigation. but would you find it unusual for us not to know what he was doing in the six months, at least not today? i assume that we have spread out across russia where he was and at least piece it had together by now? >> well, im not certain we have piece it had together. we dont know again how much cooperation there is between the russians and the fbi or other intelligence agencies. but i find it lard to believe...