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>> he will not be treated as an enemy combatant. we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice. >> there is ample evidence here on the criminal side, a first year law student could prosecute this case. what im worried about is what does this individual know about future attacks or terrorist organizations that may be in our midst? we have the right to gather intelligence. under the criminal system, you should not question someone without their lawyer present. under the l...

Constitutional rights and the tenants of this system. and we need to keep that in mind. we hear nonsense like americas a battlefield so even for u.s. citizens we can throw it all out the window from here going forward because of sudden nebulous war on terror. >> thats the debate, kelly. youve done terrorism cases. when you have senators like lindsey graham saying that the suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant and then "the new york times" comes back with an editorial -- "mr. grahams reck...

The context of intelligence gathering cannot be used against them in a court of flaw a criminal proceeding. thats what the constitution says is that you have a right not to be compelled to incriminate yourself in a criminal proceeding. intelligence gathering thing there are all sorts of ways where you wall off what you get from his intelligence gathering. not poison a criminal case and every lawyer that has looked at this has said they dont need a confession from this guy. they have so much evid...

The culprits. >> yeah, i spent friday looking at a lot of the youtube web sites and so on that had been visited by tamerlan and they were -- they were all jihadists. no question he was spending a lot of time looking at and listening to really highly radical islamist preachers, video that al qaeda has put out and not so private interest. he was talking about this with a circle of friends both at his mosque and in a circle of ex-boxing friends. he was berating store keepers who were muslim for sel...

About 30-days. this is about extending an interrogation not to be used against him in court. >> because he gabecame a naturalized citizen december 11th, 2012. do you think he will take the death penalty? -- face the death penalty? >> the charges will likely be use of weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to use a wweapons of mass destruct. there is the car jacking and the killing of the sflirss as well. the whole idea here is very troubling which is why enemy combatant has to be used. >> th...

Give me the facts, first, what theyll do. >> this administration has made a policy decision here. first, thats number one. secondly, he cannot be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal because that law was changed by the national defense authorization act of 2012 that says you cant do that to an american citizen. what some advocates, republicans, are saying such as lindsey graham are -- we understand, they say, we understand hes going to be tried in civilian court but start the quest...

Videotape that maybe the public hasnt seen about his reaction that was particularly telling that moved the investigation along? >> well, the videotape is not something ive seen. its been described to me in my briefing, but it does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off, put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off, and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion. so pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly, as...

Civilian and military, i support the concept that no one should be required to incriminate themselves while theyre in the custody of the government. that is a long held jurisdiction in the military and civilian setting. no criminal defendant should ever be required to incriminate themselves in a criminal case. every nation at war should have the ability to defend themselves by gathering intelligence. these are not mightually exclusive concepts. i believe our nation is at war. the enemy is radica...

Combatant? that debate has started. give me the facts, first, what theyll do. >> this administration has made a policy decision here. first, thats number one. secondly, he cannot be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal because that law was changed by the national defense authorization act of 2012 that says you cant do that to an american citizen. what some advocates, republicans, are saying such as lindsey graham are -- we understand, they say, we understand hes going to be tried i...