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>> i think this he can make him talk. i have confidence in our ability to make people talk. >> even an enemy combatant, sean, we arent going to water board this guy. we dont do that anymore. the question is do we mirandize him or dont we? >> thats a mistake, too. we wouldnt have gotten bin laden without waterboarding, would we? >> thats a different question, whether or not torture is -- >> i dont view it as torture. >> wait. >> gave us the intelligence to get bin laden. >> the justice department...

Approximately 30 seconds before the first explosion, he lifts his phone to his ear, as if he is speaking on his cell phone and keeps it there for approximately 18 seconds. a few seconds after he finishes the call, the large crowd of people around him can be seen reacting to the first explosion. he glances to the east and then calmly but rapidly begins moving to the west, away from the direction of the finish line. he walks away without his knapsack. approximately 10 seconds later, an explosion o...

At war with the runs. and another category where you are connected to a foreign group trying to do harm to the united states. you can be taken into the custody by the military for 30 days and questioned and after 30 days you get sent out to the civilian system? >> for in his case he was never eligible for trial by the military. thats different. im talking about gathering intelligence. two systems to play, to prosecute for the crimes he committed and to collect intelligence to to protect me and y...

In the neck, but writing some answers. >> was his brother the primary motivating force for him to become radicalized? why did they end up doing what they did on that particular day? >> reporter: much of the investigation is still focused on his deceased 26-year-old brother tamerlan, examining his life, his recent trip back to russia, as some questioned whether the fbi did enough to monitor him after they questioned him two years ago. >> they investigated it thoroughly and did not find terroristi...

Security -- which, after all, is an arm of the administration -- did in the tsarnaev case. want to play a clip. >> my problem with this administration is their policies are failing. they do not believe that were at war. they ignored signs and warnings from libya. we havent had one person detained as an enemy combatant for intelligence-gathering purposes since hes been president. jon: is this starting to resonate with voters, do you think? >> i dont know yet that weve seen that. but we could see ...

War. the enemy is radical islam, defined as the taliban, al qaeda, and affiliated groups. the question i have regarding this case is there any association between these two individuals and the groups i just named to allow enemy combatant status to be conferred upon the suspect in boston. >> don, you and i were talking about this a lot last week as the investigation was unfolding. >> right. >> what is your reaction to that? >> i -- it seems to be that there is a notion among certain people in con...

There is only two of them now and that would be the taliban and al qaeda. the governor of massachusetts, the head of the state police, the mayor of boston, the police commissioner and the head of the f.b.i. in boston all said he has no foreign connection. >>gretchen: how do we know that yet? >> we dont know it. but without knowing it, there wouldnt be a basis to characterize him as an enemy combatant. the government cant willy-nilly do that and hope the evidence comes down their side. >>gretchen...

Prosecute, mr. goldman is with us. there is enough evidence. this is not about prosecuting this guy at this point. this is about what does he know, who is financing, who is connecting, who else may be involved. is this an ongoing terror plot? are there other cells that are out there and are there any foreign links? this guy ought to be right now be interrogated in a very intense way. >> right. and the problem that weve got here is there is this confusion out there that somehow he is declared, wh...

They did charge him with this complaint filed by an f.b.i. agent who basically wrote a ten-page affidavit summarizing the evidence that they have against him. this f.b.i. agent personally viewed the tapes, looked at the evidence, -- >>gretchen: basically hes charged with having a weapon of mass destruction and killing people. but there was so much controversy in the last couple of days about whether or not he should be an enemy combatant. senator lindsay graham wanted that to gather intelligence...

An enemy combatant and moving him toward a military tribunal. all the supreme court said on that, by the way, it isnt u.s. citizens cant be tried in a military tribunal, it says you get auestion of whether you are an enemy combatant. lets have that hearing. you still get due process. >> and maybe within 30 days they will have an opportunity. >> and if we cant do that because hes an american citizen, i at least want the higher left wing to start referring to fdr exclusively as war criminal fdr be...