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Today. im sure other congressman and women will come out tomorrow saying similar stuff. what could happen politically? could this decision be overturned? >> i think thats unlikely. the way that the executive branch from the president on down from a policy perspective organized this operation, they organized it with the specific purpose of having this guy in federal court. its a uniquely executive branch decision. so its unlikely, there could be a lot of fuss about it. i think in fairness, while ...

Discovered after the fall of the taliban in afghanistan. hes sort of a nonentity. i think one of the reasons hes gone to new york is conspiracy is not necessarily a war crime, the type that would be tried in guantanamo, and courts in new york have 100% conviction rates. so on these kind of terrorism charges, whereas a trial in guantanamo is a very uncertain, convictions overturned, maybe 1% of the people there have been suck s successfully convicted. >> listen to senator lindsey graham. he himse...

Sequestration how much the security costs will be. but importantly in the short term, if this individual got his miranda rights, which im confident he did, because any good lawyer is going to tell his or her client to do that -- then we are deprived of the ability to interrogate this person and thereby perhaps being able to prevent attacks on the united states of america. and im not talking about water booing. im saying the very successful interrogation techniques where we can find out vital inf...

Cross-examining him on that. well find out what is in the statement or most of what is in the statement sooner or later i would isnt. martha: also there is the potential that he could go free. that he could walk out of that courtroom, find him not guilty of that charges, because of the construct of the court and the jury system that that is a possibility. what is your feeling on how people should look at that? >> well, if he was tried in military commissions or tried in federal court hes presume...

Mccain in the house, he was a maverick, in the senate for years, he was a maverick. of anybody in the senate i didnt know anybody better at bucking the leadership and marching to his own drummer. i think its unfortunate, but frankly, it doesnt hurt ted cruz, it doesnt hurt rand paul, it hurts john mccain. and were in a different era, and the questions are legitimate questions, when you attorney general sends a letter up that implies that the president has the right to kill americans who are not ...

They say the former al qaeda spokesman is clearly an enemy combatant and should go straight to guantanamo bay. the white house defends the decision, noting the u.s. has tried other terror suspects in civilian courts in 2009 the president pledged to close guantanamo bay. congress blocked him. the lawyer for bin ladens son-in-law says the suspect is right now being held at the metropolitan correctional center, operated by the federal department of prisons a division of the department of justice. t...

Is saying the rays of osama bin ladens son-in-law proves that no amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring americas enemies to justice. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york says this man has been working against the united states for 13 years. and we now know the ingenls community tracked them through out the mid eels for years before picking him up in jordan. >> the history is somebody that has been active and engaged in al qaeda. as spent some time in iran ...

Campaign spokesperson basically saying, oh i would suggest you have a more responsible father if you dont want to get killed by drones is another? >> it is the one thing i agreed with president obama on his entire first term. if you are an enemy combatant or with somebody in a theater of war that we are at war with and you are on the battlefield, then sometimes you get turned into modern art. >> basically anyone who happens to be near a target is fair game? >> yes. >> when we went in and got osa...

Should should be summerly killed. and we have the kill of writes rights our soldiers are fighting for. and therefore, you can be named an enemy combatant and walked off to prison somewhere. >> greta: what do you think one of your colleagues in the republican party, senator john mccain and senator lindsey graham, they accused you of theaterics or political stunt i think senator mccain used. is this a fair debate and how do you respond to that? >> i think its a good debate. i think theyre on the w...

Take him to gitmo. martha: they could have initially said he was an enemy combatant. >> maybe they did. they certainl there was a period of time at some point where he was not a criminal defendant, we dont know where that is yet and we dont know whether that statement he gave was given pre phra rand today pre miranda. martha: it said an extensive post arrest statement. which would lead me to believe it was with this team, in front of this team. >> my point is that we dont know whether or not he ...