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I dont care if it goes forward for 30 days if they interrogate h him for 30 days but at some point i believe he belongs in the federal court because if he doesnt go into the federal court these terrorists have won and that is what i dont want. >> judge jeanine: you believe that the military tribunal is not the way to go. michael sullivan i will go back to you for another men now. richard reid prosecuted in the federal court. how long was his sentence? >> he received a life sentence. he received ...

Monday. thats still well within a reasonable amount of time. >> okay. but the reason that they want to get at this young man, dzhokhar, without mirandizing him, is to get information that will help ensure the public safety. as more time passes and the public remains safe, there are no more incidents, any volatility, any bombs, any terrorism effects at all, does that then naturally shut down their ability to ask him questions because the public seems safe? >> it could, and thats a valid concern, ...

People. get all the intel you can. then turn him over to the civilian authorities. thats what they advocate. thats not going to happen, the administration has decided. hell be questioned first by this special group set up in the last couple of years in terror cases called the high value detainee interrogation group, fbi, cia, dod. they will question him without giving him a miranda warning. r they dont have a long time to do that, probably no more than a day or so. then hell be begin his miranda...

President? however tinny the words of apology may sound, these fallen idols can barely help themselves. they insist on recapturing the fame and media, once bathing nem fay golden globe. we must let them into our lives again. it is as though they are saying, when we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. >> eric: thank you. comprehending up -- crim dismal or enemy combatant isnt debate over trying the surviving bomb boston bombing suspect is underway. the legal experts will...

After the bombing. so make of that what you will. >> nbcs michael isikoff on the ground for us there in boston. again, on this sunday. mike, thanks. south carolina senator lindsey graham is leading the charge to label the boston marathon suspect an enemy combatant. he explained why on cnn this morning. take a listen. >> when the public safety exception expires and it will soon this man, in my view, should be designated as a potential enemy combatant and we should be allowed to question him for...

Still use that evidence in court. but the period during which you can ask the questions is fairly brief and the nature of the questions you ask has to be addressed to any potential threat, such as, were there accomplices, were there other explosives, that kind of thing. now, as a separate matter, some members of congress, some republicans have said, this is the wrong approach, that they agree he should ultimately be charged and tried the in civilian court. so theyre not saying he should be tried...

Be tried as an enemy combatant. it dates backs to december 31s of 2011, when the president put out a statement at that time saying that it is this administrations policy that they would not pursue any individual to put him into military detention if they are an american citizen. the white house insists and the administration insists and it is their policy that they will pursue this case in criminal court. >> peter alexander from the white house for us on this sunday. peter, as always, thank you....

Is move in the direction of treating this as a criminal case but knowledge that -- lets face it, the politics of what lindsey graham came out and said the other day, the idea of -- this guy -- lets treat this as a different sxas resonates. >> im not sure it is a political question. a lot of the memos written by the obama administration is not a partisan question to me. it is a legal question. think you will see a lot of republicans more libertarian minded raising questions and democrats more -- ...

Ization? i believe we need to obtain these answers if he does not get the rights because even right now there is a public safety exception which will expire in 48 hours but he can lawyer up and stay quiet. >>heather: that happened to the underwear bomber who tried to blow up a train on christmas day in 2009. he was a foreign citizen and he was interrogated for 50 minutes and in ten hours he was read his rights. critics say the intelligence community was unable to mine him for information as to h...

To permit sort of routine intelligence gathering beyond any kind of imminent requirement and thats really problematic. and -- has not been judiciarily sanctioned and should be tested in court. i think that her going for some sort of, you know, hybrid here between criminal process which shouldnt permit this kind of exception and a form of preventative detention borrowed from the -- sort of guantanamo paradigm. thats a very dangerous hybrid that we need to be careful to prevent. >> i mean, it is -...