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The great islamic world. i believe this century is going to see this unfold. >> i think you are right, unfortunately, and i think we need more voices like mike ghouse. mike, the voices are too few, i would argue, and i think people in the islamic community, in the muslim world, are intimidated by the radical voices which are far louder. and your religion is being hijacked before your very eyes. >> it is, but these guys, the majority is rising, the muslims are rising and the radicalization is goi...

They did on that 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 question whether the fbi did enough to monitor him after they questioned him two years ago. >> they investigated it thoroughly and did not find terrorist activity domestic or foreign. >> reporter: as the street where two bombs killed three people and injured more than 200 others is handed over from the fbi to the c...

House has made a calculation the department of justifiable has made a cool could you legs that they can bring this person, im sorry, to justice, and also get the information that may be important to prevent future attacks and also provide answers that may help bring closure to the victims and the families of the victims. you know, there are some challenges, of course, with respect to the designation of enemy combatant. people forget that once that happens, dealing with an american citizen and wh...

Week, i was deeply worried. and i think folks on my staff at ctr were deeply worried this was going to go in a very different way than it ended up going. there was a lot of discussion around miranda, a lot of discussion about enemy combatants. and i think given the heinous crime that happened in boston, that folks like lindsey graham, and frankly the political sideshow that developed around the calls for this and calls for that really did not do justice to the people that are suffering in boston...

Unbelievable heroism on the part of the boston police department, on the part of the first responders to catch this guy and bring him in alive. the purpose of having him alive is so you can ask him questions, so you can understand, for example, where was it that they learned to make what appeared to be very complicated detonator devices for the bombs? whereabouts it they received the financing for the bombs? what was the older brother doing in russia? what were their ties to radical islamic jiha...

In a united states criminal court, in a federal district court. thats what president bush did. thats what president obama did and this fellow is an american citizen. its far from clear that theres any law that would allow him to be tried as an enemy combatant. this is a procedure we know works. people get tried in criminal courts every day. the combatant laws we dont know that one can be successfully conducted. thats lost in a mar ras in guantanamo bay. this case will take a long time, be expens...

Were still trying to figure out what lee harvey oswald was doing in canada. in this case, how do you put it together? the russians knew something was up, warned us something was up and accepted them back into his country. he comes back here again and gets through it all. the older brother. >> realize the fbi reached out to russia and said, hey, can you give us a little background? what else is going on with this guy? what do we get back? nada. the russians owe us something. putin is trying to ge...

Filled and horrific in your crimes, doesnt make you an enemy combatant. you have to be part of an enemy force. i agree with the analysis that being part of al qaeda creates an eligibility. i dont think being part of general hatred of the united states is nearly enough. where i slightly disagree, theres a supreme court decision, the one you were referring to, chris, involving the nazis. one of whom was a u.s. citizen. the crimes were perpetrated to be for u.s. soil. bottom line, this is not a cas...

So we knew time was on our side and we could take it slow. that was to our advantage, and we did take advantage of that. >> chief, thank you, sir. >> sure. thank you. >> and tonight theres a new controversy heating up. the obama administration say the tsarnaev will not be treated as an enemy combatant. what does senator lindsay graham think about that? he joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you? and i understand you wrote the statute. >> right. i have two goals. one is to bring him to justi...

♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e... ♪ hotwire.com >> bill: unresolved problem segment tonight, two very intense questions coworker the at that point cured terrorists now being treated in the boston hospital. should he be given miranda rights and should he be classified enemy combatant to take him out of the civil system as far as interrogation is concerned. white house says it will be a civilian case but should be be? joining us from national tennessee albert toe gonzalez under president bush the younger. so...